The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-29
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Of the Corners and Gets
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CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,
WICH IL IN THE STATE UF KEN,
September IA, 1876.
We he'd a meetin last mite to in
struct the Democratic nominee
for Congress In this deestrik, ez
to wat we nv the Corners shood
expeck NV him in the eleckshun NV
Tilden and Hendrix. His eleck-
shun is certin enuff, ez in this
deestrik we don't allow niggers or
carpet-baggers to vote. All the
whites Wich vote the Republican
tikket is carpet baggers. We
adopted this rool that we mite hev
peece, witch is wat we want in the
south. By simply shootin every
body wat don't agree with 700,
700 kin git a state NV harmony.
onenis of sentiment, that is
trooly deliteful.
The member elect reserved us
corjelly, and welcomed us hartily
in the name of Reform. He sed
that he wuz pledged to the sacred
coz NV Reform, and that he he'd
conseltid Tilden and Hendrix, our
noble standard bearers, and that
he was satisfied that eff them pat
riots Wuz electid the south wood
git that justis that wuz doc her.
He felt cOnvinsed Nv this or he
wood not hev taken the nomina-
shen at all. He wuz ready to re-
seeve statements from the citizens.
Deekin Pogram wuz The furst
to speek. The old saint renarkt
that various people he'd various
idees of wat reform rely meant.
The bible sed, "Many men NV ma
ny minds" and he he'd his mind
ez to reform. In Moo York the
refOrmers wantid the custom hous-
es, and the post offices, witch wuz
well cuff. Here we want the Yoo-
nited States Government to pay
Us the losses we incurred at their
hands dOorin an unhely and frat
ricidle war. That was his noshen
NV reform, and without that it wuz
soundin brass and tinklin cymbles.
Payment of losses to the sufferin
south wuz his noshen NV reform.
He wuz hart and sole in this con-
tiict,i and that he shood fife for
Tilden and Hendrix with all the
ardor that seventy years of tronb-
lie he'd left into him. His bill agin
the government wuz not large
one, but he felt it shood be paid
all the same. When the Fedrels
okkepied this seckshun, a party
of pickets okkepied his farm one
mite, and burnt up seckshun of
fence, for fire, and confiscatid a
parcel of sweet potatoes. He
didn't expect pay for the niggers
Linkin he'd unconstoohnelly rop-
bed him NV. but he shood say that
for that fence and them potatoes
he ought to receive say 5000.
The member sejested that he
he'd better make out a bill for
$4,000. In the reform Congris
witch he hoped wood be electid,
with a reform President at its
he'd, ther wood hev to be a good
deel Nv divvyiR. He the member
wood hev to yoose money literally
in the departments to git the bills
thro, and ther wood be SIGH lob
by Washington never saw, to be
brought up. By maxim the bills
$4,000, the good Deekin wood
probably git his 5000. He thought
the remaining $1,40O wood be
enuff for a reform Congrls.
And akkordingly the Deekin
made his bill over agin for $4,000.
Capt. McPelter presented his
bill for $4,000. While he wuz SER
vim his country, in the Confedrit
army, the federals okkepied his
distillery, and materially inferred
the mashenery, besides feedin ther
bosses lot NV corn witch he he'd
left. Umderstandin ez he did the
necessities Nv a reform Congris,
he wood be satisfied eff he receev-
ed $1,OO0-the balance mite be
deVided ez Their representative
shood deem necessary.
1ssaker GravItt wanted $500
for u lot nv wood burnt by the
fedrel plkkits, and shood therefore
put in his claim for $4,000. He
believed that the reform congris
wuz not only entitled to its Whack.
but believed in maxim it liberl.
The member remarked that he
wuz glad to see the speerit NV lib
erality that pervadid the people
Nv the Corners. It mite look ez
the 1000 to the claimant, and four
thousand for gittin it, wuz ruther
large, but they must remember
that the Reform party he'd bitter
fight on EN-, and that them wich
was spendin the money wood hev
to be Reimbursed out of the fund.
Onr noble reform standard bearer,
Tilden, wuz pourin out money
like water, but coodent be expec-
ted to pay out nv his own pocket
for carryin so many states. There
wuz Ohio, Moo York, and Penn
sylvania, Maine and Moo Hamp-
sheer, all nv these wood require
barrels apcace, and 1t he'd been
decided that the expense must
be made good out nv the southern
claims. This must be taken into
akkount-
BascOm put in claim nv sever
al thousand dollars for injoory
done to his bar-room by the fedrels
csmin within to miles nv the Cor
ners, witch indOost every citizen to
get out nv the naborhood and stay
out four days; and Squire M'Grath
put in his claim for q dozen HOSES
seezed by John Morgan, witch wUz
cleerly COED by tho fedrel inVashen.
Seeing suthin in the claim biznis
put in mine.
"For wat is yoor claim. I ask 2v
WIZ the reply nv the member.
"Sir," wuz my anser, 81 heven't
made up my mind, yet, wat shell
put in claim for, put it down for
$4,000. may put it in for laser
sted feeiins at the triumph of the
federels, somebody may re-
mind me nv some prop
erty nv mine that wuz burned,