Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-08
CoNFEDRlT Y RoADs,
wichi in the State NV Kentucky.


to wat we tue Corners shood expeck NV him in
the event NV the elecshun Nv Tilden and Hendrix
His elecksiou Is certain enu ez IN this Deestrlck
| we don't allow the nggers or carpet-baggers to
vote. All whites witch vote the republican tikket
| is carpet-b aggers. We adopted this rule that we
might hev peece, witch il wat we want in the South
BY simply shootn every body wat don't agree with
700, 700 kin kin git state NV harmony, onenlss
NV sentiment that is trooly deliteiul.
4 The member elect reserved us corJelly, and wei
coined us hartly in the name Reform. He sed
that he was pledged to the sacred coz reform,
and that if he wuz eectid the South wood git jsstis
that wuz doc her. He felt convinced NV this OF he
wood not hev taken the nominashen at all. He
wuz ready to reserve statements from the citizens
| Deekin Pogram wuz the fpst to speek The old
saint remarkt that there wuz various idees of wat
| reform rely ment. The Bible sed, Many men NV
many minds and he he'd his mind ez to reform. In
Moo York the retormers wanted the custom houses
and the post ofises that was well cDutf. Here we
want the Yoonited States Government to pay US
the losses incurred at thar hands doorn an TN
holy and fratticide war. That wuz his noshen
| of reform, and without that it wuz all soundin
brass and tinklin cymbles. Payment NV losses to
the sut1erin South wuz his noshen of reform. He
wuz hart and sole in this conflict, and that he
shood fight for Tilden and Hendrix with all the
aroer that seventy years of trouble had left into
him. His bill agn 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 conhscated
a parcel of sweet potatoes. He didn't expect pay
for the niggers Lnkn had unconstooshnelly rob-
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 the bill for 1000. In the reform Congris
wich he had hoped wood be electid, with reform
| President at its he'd, Their wood hev to be good
deel of divvyin. He (the member) wood hev to
yoose money literally in the departments to git the
bills thro, and Their wood be SIGH lobby ez Wash
- Ill Ia. tha
bill s., 900 the good Deekn wood probably git his
$500. He thought the remainin 81, 400 wood be
| enutf for a reform Congris
And akkordinly the Deekin male his bill over
| agin for $4,000.
| Captain McPelter presented his bill for SIS. 900.
While he servin his country in the Confedrt
| army the Federals okkeped his distillery, and
materially injured the mashenery, besides feedln
to their hossess lot NV corn witch he he'd left.
Understandin ez he did the necessities Nv reform
Congris, he wood be satisfied eff he received
ST. Goethe balance mite 60 TO be divided ez Their
representative shood deem necessary.
Issaker Gavitt wantid $4,000 for a lot Nv wood
burnt by the Fedrel pikkets, and shood therefore
put in his claims for $1,000. He bleeved that a
reform Congrs wuz not only entitled to its whack,
but he beeved il maxim it liberal.
| The member remarked that he wuz glad to sec
the sperit liberality that prevadd the the peo-
pie of the Corners. 1t mite look ez tho 81 900 to
| the claimant and 81 900 for gittn it, wuz rather
large, but they must remember that the Reform
party had bitter fight on EN-, and that them witch
| wuz spending the money wood hev to be REIN
bursed outuv our fund. Our noble reform standard
bearer, TIden, wuz pourin out money like water,
but he coodent be expected to pay out Nv his own
pokkit for carryin so many States. There wuz
| Inieany and Ohio, Moo York aud Pennsylvany
Maine and 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 South
ern Claims. This must be taken into account.
Bascom put in claim nv sevral thousand Nv dol
lars for injoory done to his bar-room by the Fed
erels comm within two miles NV the Corners.
witch indoost every citizen to get out Nv the ma
| berhood and stay out for four days; and Squire
| M'Grath put in his claim for dozen bosses seezed
by John Morgan, which wus ceerly coed by the
Federal invashen. Seem suthin in the claim biz
mis- put in mine.
| "For wat Is yeor claim, may ask wuz the
| reply NV the member.
| "Sir wuz my anser, 81 hewitt made up my
mind yet wat shell put in claim for, put it down
for $4,000 may put it in for lasserated feelings
at the triumph of the Federals, or somebody may
remind me NV some property NV mine that wuz
burned, tho hev no recolleckshun ever hevin
any. shei fill out the particeers hereafter it is
not necessary now. The reform party is goin
int power-it hezn't bin in power for a great
many years-it will come in, eff it comes in at all,
by Southern votes and they amt goin to scroo-
| tinize the claim Nv q man very closely eff they
know he is a Southern and a troo reformer, petik-
elerly ez for every dollar they vote they bag sew
enty five cents themselves. The democratic Con-
gress last winter made some savins out the
mails and so on, that they mite hev more money
to divide up in the impoverished South, and am
gon to hev my sheer, shOor. l hev promised
every one Nv these people that their claims shell be
paid eff Tilden is electid and we git the Congris,
and that is the condishun witch support
| him. and amt afrade NV his goin' back onto it..
So long ez we kin depend onto hevin claim to
pay SO long kin we be depended on to support Di-
mocrisy, and wunst in majority everything will
be serene ez May MORN. The dimocratic
party alluz owned by the South afore the war,
and the Sonth hez chattle mortgage it yit.
Tilden is jest ez much our man ez he wuz doorin
the fratrsidle trouble, and emmy Congris witch sup
ports him we kin bet our bottom dollar on.
| The moment it got noised abroad wat we wuz
cons iderin, the entire reform popelashen Nv the
Corners came rushin in with claims. Every man
who lost hill NV potaters, or a fence rail, or a
chicken door in the unhoy struggle put in his
bill, and for couple Nv days it wuz lively. Ez
he'd to make out the bills, owing to the inability
nv the reformers to write, jest charged EN- a
half dollar piece. l wood hev made good
thing Nv it eff the reformers, groanin under the
evils NV taxashen and an irredeemable currency,
he'd happened to have he'd half dollars witch they
didn't
The loosenis with witch they made out their
claims astonished even me. Men who he'd never
owned even mule put in claims for a dozen
horses each, claims wuz filed for enutf potatoes
and chickens to hev fed Irelend and the Yoonited
States for forty years
The Corners and vicinity will reserve, eff the
Reform party succeeds. nearly million w dollars
which will put US on our feet agin, pertikerlerly
ez we don't pay dollar Nv the taxes for it.
Now that this is ashoored the Corners will do
good work for Tilden and reform. Ez Kentucky
is certain to go right, anyhow, over hundred Nv
our stanchest reformers hev volunteered to 60
over into Injeany to vote in October, for the NOR
al effect NV sweepin triumph in that State, that
is eff the money is forthcomin to pay their expen-
SEES, The Corners will go anywhere eff its expen-
ses is paid.
| Antissipatn the eleckshun nv Tilden and the
! payment of the Southern war claims, Bascom has
extended our line credit at his bar Thus some
good comes out NV the struggle-we hev suthin
tangible. Heyen help on the coz NV reform.
| PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, Reformer.