The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-16
Nasty.
Mr. Nasty Waits for the Letters Of Tilden
and Hendricks He Becomes o Burden to
Bascom-His Final Instructions.

Bascom-His Final Instructions.
CoNFEDRIr X ROADS, }
WICH IS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
August 7th, 1876
The day got back from the st. Loois
convenshun | commeDst preparin for
stumpin toor for our gallent standard-bar-
ers. | borrowed an extra shirt, so that
Good hev one borrowed a valisc to kerry
it in when | wuznt speakin, and also to
give me standin at SIGH hot els, ez the CON-
mittee didn't become responsible for my
board, and Bascom completed my travelin
outfit by coutributin quart bottle Nv the
newest, to be kerried in the valise to be
yoosed when in localities where the neces-
saries Nv life wuz hard to come at.
Ez coodent 60 out instructor NV the
people till | knowd wat my candidates
bleeved in, decided to wait till got their
| letters NV accept lnce. Did that hkkcr stay
in the valise ? Not any. 1t was all gone
| the fust day, and | went to Bascom with
the empty bottle the next mornin.
"Fill il up, G. W." sed l.. II can't go
till hev seen them letters"
"When will they come p askt he
"To-day or Tomorrow" sed |.
"You shood hev kept wat 700 he'd till
the letters come sed he
"Bascom," wuz the response, "likker
like yoors cannot be kept"
And then seein trouble ahead | contin-
ood--
"Promise me that 700 will keep this
bottle filed till them letters come. 1t will
be but little while, and remember, Bias.
com, 700 got the $500 that Tllden, the re.
former, paid for my vote at St. Loois."
81 promise" he groaned.
| .sApd likowica mill bov raaJ on, 4
understood EN-, so that shall not go ou
and spout false dimocrisy."
II PROMISE he groaned agin.
| Day after day passed but no letters came
But promptly every mcrnln' | wuz at Bas-
CONS with that bottle, which he groaning-
ly filed. On the thirteenth day he re
foosed pint blank.
sc. w." said l, sternly, remember
yoor promise. l may be called on any
mint. 1t wuz the foolish virgins what hat
no lie IL ,'.ir Tampa am no foolish Xir
gin. Fill up the lamp for may be called
tonite."
And he filled it because he had promised
But every mornin' he would lift up hit
voice ez l come in, and howl. "Grashu.
hevens amt them letters never comm t.
relieve me Nv this ncumbus ~
At last one mornin' the letters come, ia
the Louisville papers, and Bascom come
over to me happy, oz though great Wal
had been lifted off him.
81 fill the bottle for the last time" Sc,
he gaily, "for 10 i! here be the letters"
l took the papers and red the letters, ant
the next mornin wuz promptly at hiz ba
with the bottle.
GILL IT." remarkt calmly.
"Not any" sed he. "You hev the let
ters."
George Washington b. l replied
"yoor promise wuz to keep this bottle filled
not only till he'd red the letters, but till
understood EN-. hev bin applyin my in
tellek to EN- for ten hours, and ct know
from them letters whether l am to tall
hard money or SOFT emmejite resumpshel
or perpetooal postponement, hope neye
to be postmaster"
Wat did that perfijus wretch do? III
telegraphed that very day to both Tildel
and Hendrix, ez follers:
"Shel Nasty, on the stump, advocat
hard money or soft? Anser to wunst. I'm
portant, to save an innosent dimocrat iron
rooin."
And the ansers come prompt
FROM TILDEN.
"Hard money, Nv course, but soften it
good deal in the west. Strike boldly, how
ever, for reform, and agin the corrupshe
Nv the republican party. TILDEN."
FROM HENDRIX.
"Soft money NV course, but harden it
good deal in the east. Strike boldly, how
ever, for reform, and agin the corrupshe
of the republican party. HENDRIX.
, And so, hevln my instrukshens, ned t
go. l shell, however, before l speek. &c
instrukshens from John Morrissey and Fel
mandy Wood, ez to the best methods u
bripgin about reform, ard Nv fghtin col
, rupshen in governmental matters.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(Which wants to be Postmaster).