Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-20
Nasty.
A Democratic Nominee ioT Congress Meets
the Citizens of the Corners and G cts Their
Ideas of Reform.


CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, WIoH is IN TIL
STATE Nv KENTUCKY, August rs, 1876
We he'd a meetin last mite to instruct The
| Democratic nominee Tor Colgressin thil
Deestrik, ez to vat we NV the Corners
shood expeck Nv him in the event Nv the
eleckshun Nv TildeD and Hendrix. Hi
eleckshun is certln enuff, ez in this
Deestrick we don't allow the niggers OF
carpet-baggers to vote. All whites wicI
vote the Republican tikkit is carpet
baggers. We adopted this rool that we
mite hev peece, wich is wat we want in
the South. By simply shootin every.
body wat don't agreej with 700, 700 kin
git state OF narmeny, onenis of SEN
timent, that IS trooly deliteful.
The member elect reserved us cor
jelly, and welcomed us hartily in the
name Nv Reform. He sed that he wuz
pledged to the sacred COZ NV Reform,
and that he he'd consulted Tilden and
Hendrix, our noble standard bearers,
and that he wuz satisfied that eff them
patriots wuz electid the South would
git that justis that wuz doc her. He
felt convinsed Nv this or he wood not
hev taken the nominashun at all. He
wuz ready to reserve statements from
the citizens.
Deekin Pogram wuz the fust to speek.
The old saint remarkt that various peo-
pie had various ideas of wat reform
meant. The Bible sed. ''Many men Of
many minds" and he he'd his mind ez
to reform. In Moo York the reformers
wantid the Custom Houses and the
Post ofises, WITCH wuz we'll enuff.
Here he wanted the Yoonited States
Government to pay us the losses We in
CURED at ther hands doorin an unholy
and fratricidle war. That wuz his no.
shen Nv reform, and without that
it wuz all soundin brass and
tinklin cymbles. Payment of
losses to the sufferin South wuz
his noshen Nv reform. He wuz hart
and sole in this conflict, and that he
shood fife for Tilden and Hendrix with
all the ardor that seventy years Nv trub-
BILE had left into him. His bill agin the
Government wuz not large one, but
he felt it shood be pade all the same.
When the Fedrels okkepied this seek
shUn, a parry of pickits okkepied his
farm one mite, and burnt up d seckshun
Nv fence for fire, and confscatid
parcel Nv sweet potatoes. He dident
expect pay for the niggers Linkin he'd
unconstitooshnelly robbed 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 the bill for $4,000. In
the reform Congris, which he hoped
wood be electid, with reform Presi-
dent at it's he'd, ther wood hev to be a
good deel Nv divvyin. He (the mem
ber) wood hev to yoose money literally
in the departments to git the bills thro,
and ther wood be SIGH lobby ez Wash
ington never saw to be bought up By
maxim the bill $4,000 the good Deekin
wood probably git his $500. He
thought the remaining 81, 400 wood be
enutf for reform Congress. 5 Score
And akkordingly the Deekin made his
bill over agin for $4,000. @
Capt. McPelter presented his bill for
$4,000. While he wuz servin his coun-
try, in the Confedrit army, the FEEDER
ais okkepied his distillery, besides
feedin to ther bosses lot Nv corn wich
he he'd left. Understanding ez he aid
the necessities Nv reform Congris, he
wood be satisfied eff he received S., 900
the balance mite 60 to be divided ez
Their representative shood dee II neces-
sary.
Issaker Gavitt wantid $500 for lot
Nv wood burnt by the Federal pickits,
and shood therefore put ia his claim for
$1,000. He bleeved that reform Con-
girls wuz not only entitled to its whack,
but he bleeved in maxim it liberal.
The member remarked that he wuz
glad to see the sperit Nv iberality that
pervadid the people Nv the Corners. It
mite look eZ 81, 900 to the claimant, and
81, 600 for gitt;n it wuz rather large,
but they must remember that the Re-
form party he'd bitter fight on EN-,
and that them wich wuz spendin the
money wood hev to be reimbursed out
Nv this fund. Our noble reform stand.
ard bearer, Tilden, wuz pourin out
money like water, but he cooddent be
expected to pay out Nv his own pokkit
for carryin so many states There was
lnjeany and Ohio, Moo York and Penn
sylvany, Maine and Moo Hamsheer, all
Nv these wood require barrels apeece,
and it he'd bin decided that the expense
must be made good out NV the South
ern claims This must be taken into
akkount.
Bascorn put in claim Nv several
thousand Nv dollers for injoory done to
his bar-room by the Fedrels comm
within two miles Nv the Corners, which
indoost every citizen to get out Nv the
naberhood and stay out for four days,
and Squire McGrath put IN his claim
for dozen bosses seezed by John Nor
gan, witch wuz cleerly COED by the
Fedrel invashen.
Seem suthin in the claim biznis, put
in mine.
"For wat is yoor claim, may ask? ?"
wuz the reply Nv the member.
"Sir," wuz my anser, 81 haven't
made up my mind, yet, wat shell put
in claim for, but put it down for $1O,
900. L may put in it for laeserated
feelins at the triumph of the Fedrels,
or somebody may remind me Nv rsome
property NV mine that wuz burned, tho
[ hev no recolleckshun Nv ever hevin
any. shell fill out the particulars
hereafter; it is not necessary now. The