The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-06
John and his Wife.

Wife-Well, how did you make out-did
you get that job2 a..t.
John- No, con found it-there were
no less than eight ahead of me, end now
don't know what to do.
Wife-And Pm afraid III lose one of my
customers after this week, for Mrs. jerks
says she thinks she'll manage to do her own
washing until times get better.
John-And it seems to me times ale get
ting worse and harder every day. II |
could only get something to do believe
I'd work for forty cents day rather than
live as we have been living for months past
On dry bread and water nearly all the
time. mean to go and see the chairman
of the county committee and try and secure
job of posting bills and doing such work
as that during the campaign and if l sue
coed can make something now and then
to help us buy bread.
Wife-Now John, | have been thinking,
and I'm almost satisfied that it's about time
to quit that sort Of work-that it would be
better for little while longer to suffer even
more severely, than again to help to keep
up these terrible hard times / have been
thinking
John-But Mary, I'm sure we must keep
up the party, for if we don't work very
hard this time Tilden will run in as sure as
you live.
Wife-Well suppose he does, don't you
think times might get little better then,
for change, you know, couldn't make
matters any worse.
John-Why you talk MS if you'd want
me to vote for regular copperhead p
Surely you don't mean that 2
l,t
gard to copperheads, but if one-half what
we read is true, and more too, it would be
great blessing if just such man as Til
den would run the government and the
times for about four years.
John-And then be branded as a rene
gade, traitor and rebel, and all the Re
publicans going back on me
Wiie-And suppose they call you all
that aud 60 back on you, what of it p
What are they doing for you2 When you
applied for a letter carriers route they
didn't even give your application respect
full consideration, and when you wanted
a job breaking stones on the street, they
didn't give it to you because they knew
you'd vote the regular ticket any how, for
they look on you as simply a faithful party
machine. Now suppose you'd do as George
Benson says he means to do, and Fred Sims
and Jack Dill, and good many others
just come out like an independent man and
vote for the one they call Uncle Sammy
Tilden. And then we'll see whether we
won't have change for the better. am sat
SIZED that these big office. holders who pock-
ct their hundreds of thousands and mil
lions every year are keeping up the silly
cry about copperheads and rebels and war
and all that, just for the purpose of opera
ting on the patriotic feelings and prejudices
of such men as yourself, whilst they attend
to their ourselves, and let the interests of
the working people slide.
John-Why, May, what's got over you
you talk like II regular old school Demo-
crat.
Wife-I'll tell you what's got over us all
under our Republican party rule-hard
times, poverty want, and no hopes for re-
lief as long as the bad men now in office
are permitted to go on as they have been
going on.
John-Well, all this talk won't give me
work-what want is something to do
Wife-And all this slavish and blind
support of party who have brought about
these terrible times won't give you work or
bread, or anything else than want and star
walton.
John-Well, Mary, I'll be switched if /
don't kindo' half b'lieve you are little
bit nearer right than wrong. I'll see
George Benson and them fellows about it,
and see what they are going to do.