Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-10-06
From the Toledo Ilsde.
Mr.. Nasty HAS SOME TROUBLE WITH HIS FLOCK
ON TIE QUESTIONS OF REFoRM. ETC WHICH
He SETTLES IN HIS USUAL WAY.

CONFIDENT Y ROADS, }
WITCH IS IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Sept. 10Th, 1876. y
1t takes great deal of wear and tear to
| be leedln Democrat, more than feel kin
stand, at my time of lie. per;ikeerly ez
Bascom is watrin his likker more and more
every day. On insult -hent sustengpce it :
impossible to watch the pints and keep
all the sheep safely in the fold. I'm longin
for the eleckshun and inocgerashen Nv that
great refOImer, Tilden, so that in the post
offs kin enjoy the lroOts Nv my laber, and
! by gittin my likker by the gallon, insted NV
in desultory and infrekent drinks. kin be
shOor of both quality and quantity.
My last trouble wuz mv wust. and il took
me an entire day TO get it straitened. Pol
lock and Joe Blgler had got hold of Moo
York Democratic paper, one which he'd
been quotin as authority. and went from
one bar-roOm to another and red it to every
Dlmekrat in the village. They even pene-
trated Bsscom :, and before got in he'd dii-
toosed ther pison IN that sakred precint Ii
contained long articles shown that Tilden,
our standard barer, wuz committed sole
and body, not only to hard-money, and i'm
ejit resumpshen, but that he wuz a refOrm-
or u the reiorminist kind. goin 80 far as TO
pledge hisselt never to pay dollar Nv
Southern war-claims, never TO re-estlblish
niger seryitood. In any form, and never to
applnt to offs any but them tz WIZ iittid
ior It, and sch oz wOodent steel.
They did this while | wax out organizin a
hundred Democrats to 70 over into Inje-
any to vote in the interest Nv reform in
October
When | returned there wuz trouble wuz
surrounded by hundred indignant Dino
q. don a t.afr |
do about it,
- | am for reform. sod Deekin Pogram,
" but am goin 10 be paid for them sweet
potatoes, and them fence rails wich Fedrel
plkkIts seozed.'
- am for reform sed Capt. McPeltor,
" but | want pay for them hor,es wich John
Morgan seezsd, wich he wooden't hev done
but tor Fedrel invaders. wich makes the
Government eleerly responsible for them ,'
- | am for reform, ssd lsSaker Gayitt,"
" but wat is reform to mo ef | can't DC
Collector Nv this deestrick -
Shakin NV EN- fl smiled a sad and pen
siye smile at ther child-like inn0sensc, and
mountin stump. addressed EN-.
" My friends, =" remGrkt, does water
ever git higher than lis iountin-hed? Is
Christian ever better than the Ten Com
mandments? (Then he'd to explain to em
wat the Ten commandments wuz). Did VOC
ever know party TO rise above the source
Nv Its strength? ? It's all very well Tor this
vile sheet in Moo York to talk about hard
money. there. for the bloatd bondholder-
of the Dimocrisy there want 1t, but DO We ?
Not any. We want paper and lots Nv 1t,
and We re a goin' u hty II. Wat kin the
East do about resUomin llcy the Dimoc-
ri>y any strength there? Ji-t enud to hold
h.i 4 ole
President But who elects the Dimecratic
President We w Kentucky, Nv NIrginny.
w Maryland. end " GeOrgy. Massaehoo-
sits wants hard money. but l. our beloved
Iilden going back On Kentucky where he
hez trends Tor the sake Nv Massachusetts,,
where he hem corporal guard
" And sptekIn Wv tie payment " the
claims Of Deekin Pogram and Capt. N Pei
ter. How is the Government agoin to re-
tOOse 1t? Amt We the Dimocrat.c party
We and sen t. We IRON the o0uthefn States?
Wall there be 4 member Nv COngre- eieciid
IN the South whose con-u' yO0ents dIdn {
lose fence rales, and mules and sweet pota-
toes? An. my trends. when Sherman swept
TO the sea, he Gilu' t realize wat Il debt he
WIZ plIln up wlch MS very soJers Will
hev to paw, when We Re!0rmers git control
agin. Possibly he'd them so iers kloVt
that they hcy to pay ior them sweet po.a-
toes. with the costs Nv collection, they
woodeut hev gobbled 80 many Nv en- Oar
representatives viii be safe on ,hi- question,
and e. the Northern Reform Dimocrats Will
git their whack in. they Will be satisfied Nv
the justis Nv the claims Wat else hey we
to consider in the matter?
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