The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-09
Nasty.
A Reform Nominee for Congress COnfers
with the Citizens of the Corners, and
ELECTS their Views upon the Subject of
Reform.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
WITCH Is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
OCH 1915

CONFEDRIT N ROADS,
WITCH IS IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY, I
August 26th, 1876,
We he'd meetin last mite to instruct the
Democratic nominee for Congress in this Dees-
trick ez to wat we NV the Corners shood expeck
Nv him in the event Nv the elecshun Nv Illden
and Hendrix. His eleckshun is certain enu11,
ez in this Deestrick we don't allow the niggers
or carpet-baggers to vote. All whites Wlcn
vote the Republican tikkes is carpet-baggers.
We adopted this rule that we might hev peece,
witch IL wat we want in the South. By simply
shootin everybody wat don't agree with 700,
VOC kin git a state Nv harmony, oneniss nv
sentiment that is trooly deliteful.
The member elect reserved US corjelly, and
welcomed us hartily in the name NV Reform.
He sed that he wuz pledged to the sacred coz
Nv reform, and that if he wuz electid the South
wood git justs that'wuz doc her. He felt con-
vinsed Nv this or he wood not hev taken the
nominashen at all. He wuz ready to reserve
statements from the citizens.
Deekin Pogram wuz the fust to speek. The
old saint remarkt that there wuz various idees
of wat reform really meut The Bible sed,
"Many men uz many minds" and he he'd his
mind ez to reform. In Moo York the reform
ers wanted the custom houses and the post
ofises; that wuz well enuff Here we want
the Yoonited States Government to pay US the
lossesiwe incurred at thar hands doorin an IN
holy and fratricidle war. That wuz his no.
sben Nv reform, and without that it wuz all
soundin brass and tinkln cymbles Payment
nv losses to the suffern South wuz his noshen
nv reform. He wuz hart and sole in this con-
flict, and that he shood fight for Tilden and
Ii HI al %tn ordn thnfO IT nnn NC
nv trouble had left into him. His bill agin the
government wuz not a large one, but he felt it
shood be paid all the same. When the Fedrels
okkepied this seckshun party of pickits
okkepied his farm one night. and burnt up a
seckshun of fence for fire, and confiscated
parcel of sweet potatoes. He didn't expect pay
for the niggers Linkin had unconstooshnelly
robbed him NV, but he shood say that for that
fence and them potatoes he ought to receive
The member seiested that he he'd better
make out the bill for $1,000. In the reform
Congris witch he had hopes wood be electid,
with q reform President at its he'd, Their wood
hev to be good deel Nv divyin. He (the mem
ber) wood hev to yoose money literally in the
departments to git the bills thro, and ther wood
be SIGH a lobby ez Washington never saw to be
bought up. By maxim the bill $4,000 the good
Deekin wood probably git his 5000. He
thought the remainin 81, 400 wood be enuff fol
And akkordnly the Deekin made his bill
over agn for 81, 900.
Captain McPeter presentid his bill for
$780, While he wuz servin his country in
the Confedrit army the Federals okkepied his
distillery and materially injured the mashen-
cry, besides feedin to their hossess lot Nv corn
witch he he'd left. Understandin ez he did the
necessities Nv a reform Congris, he wood be
satisfied eff he received $1,000-the balance
mite go to be divided ez Their Representative G
shood deem necessary.
Issaker Gavitt wanted $4,000 for lot Nv
wood burnt by the Fedrel pickets, and shood
therefore put in his claims for $4,000. He
bleeved that a reform Congris wuz not only
entitled to its whack, but he bleeved in makI
1t liberal.
The member remarked that he wuz glad to
see the sperit Nv liberality that pervadid the
people Nv the Corners. 1t mite look ez the
81, 600 to the claimant, and 81 900 for gittin it
WIZ ruther large, but they must remember the
the Reform party had bitter fight on EN-
and that them witch wuz spendin the money
would hev to be reimbursed out Nv our fund
Our noble reform standard bearer, TildeD, wuz
pourin out money like water, but he cooden
be expected to pay out Nv his own pokkit fol
carryin so many states. There wuz Injeany
and Ohio Moo York and Pennsylvany Maize
aud Moo Hampsheer, all Nv these wood re-
quire barrels apeece, and it he'd bin decided
that the expense must be made good out Nv the
Southern claims. This must be taken into &C.
count.
Bascom put in claim Nv several thousands
nv dollars for injoory done to his bar-room by
the Federals comm within Two miles Nv the
Corners, which indoost every citizen to get out
NV the neghborhood and stay out for four days
aud Squire McGrath put in his claim for q
duzzen bosses seezed by John Morgan, which
wuz cleerly kawzed by the Federal invashun
Seem suthn in the elaine biznis put in mine
"For what is yeor claim, may ask?' wu2
the reply Nv the member. ,
Sir" wuz my anser, 81 heven't made uI
my mind yet wat shell put in claim for, put
AAr fnr .pf Co. lor1
ated feelings at the triumph of the Federals
or somebody may remind me Nv some property
Nv mine that wuz burned, tho l hev no recol
1exion Nv ever hevin any. l shell fill out the
garticeiers hereafter; it is not necessary now
The reform party is goin into power-t hesn
bin in power for great many years; it will
come in, eff it comes in at all, by Southern
votes, and they amt goin to scrootlnize the
claim Nv a man. very closely eff they know ht
is q Southern and a troo reformer, petikerlerlS
ez for every dollar they vote they bag seventy
five cents themselves. The Democratic Con
gress last winter made some savins out Nv the
mails and so on, that they mite hev more mon
ey to divide up in the impoverished Soutk anG
/ am goin to hev my sheer, shoor. l hev prom
Used every one nv these people that there
claims shell be paid eff Tilden is electid
and we git the Congris, and that is the
oondishun on which we support him, and
So long ez we kin depend onto hevin claim tt
pay so longIkin we be depended on to supper
Dimocrisy, and wunst in majority everything
will be sz serene ez May mornin. The dino
cratic party alluz wuz owned by the South afort
he war, and the South hez chattle mortgage
on 1t yit. Tilden is jest ez much our man ez ht
WIZ DOOM the fratrisidle trouble, and emmy
Congris witch supports him we kin bet our bot
tom dollar on.
The moment it got noised abroad wat we WI,
considerin, the entire reform popelashen Nv the
Corners came rushin in with claims. Every
man who lost hill Nv potaters, or fence
rail, or chicken door in the unholy struggle
put in his bill, and for couple Nv days it wuz
lively. Ez he'd to make out the bills, owing
10 the inability Nv the reformers to write, !
Jest charged EN- q half dollar piece. wood
hev made good thing Nv it eff the reformers
groanin under the evils Nv taxashen and IRE
deemable currency he'd happened to have he'd
half dollars, wicL they didn't
The loosenis with wich they made out theil
claims astonished even me. Men who hed
never owned even mule put in claims for a
dozen horses each, and claims wuz filed fol
enuH potatoes and chickens to hev fed Ireland
and the Yoonited States for forty years.
The Corners and vicinity will reserve, eff the
Reform party succeeds, nearly a million Nv
dollars witch will put Us on our feet agin, per
tikerlerly ez we don't pay dollar Nv the taxes
fur it.
Now that this is ashoored the Corners will dc
good work for Tilden and reform. Ez Ken.
lucky is certain to go right, anyhow, over a
hundred Nv our stanchest reformers hev volun.
toofou w Ro ofer iutO 1uJedny 10 vote IN Oct0
Der, for the moral effect nv a swee pin trium oh
In that State, that is eff the money is forth
comm to pay their expensis. The Corners will
60 anywhere eff its expenses is paid.
Antissipatin the eeckshun Nv Tilden and the
payment nv the Southern war claims, Bascom
hez extendid our line nv credit at his bar
Thus some good comes out Nv the struggle-we
hev suthin tangible. Heven help on the coz Nv
reform. PETROLEUM V. Massey, Reforner
DON'T MIND THE NOISE OF THE
CONFEDERATES OR COPPER
HEADS. LIE NE HAD DONE SD In