Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-02-17
Massey.
Nasty olives His Idcn OF she
Present status Of AfrAtrs.
Prom the Toledo BlAde.l

CoSrEpnIr Y Ro,ps,
Wien N N TuE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Feb. 3, 1877.
I wuz wunst In favor NV tho Joint
Commishn. and wuz eager to hev 1t.
When IL wuz ez good OF shoor that n
majority nv the Judges wood he Dino
cratic, givin us u majority NV u in the
lot, I bleevd II to DO constooshnel.
When II looked cz tho WI Good get Til
den aud Reform in that way. and make
me shoor NV my post oils, l preferredii
to blood. am not, ez a general thing.
q thirster for gore. ] he'd much rather
hcv Tilden buy his way into the Prcsi-
dsncy then to hev TO iile for IL. When
I think NV his barls nv money. aiL re-
member his skill in distributin NV II, ]
say with the poet
"Therc Is u woopin frncr set.
And surcr then the bayoa't"
Tilden aud Reform hez n better show
with dollars than they ever did with
bayonets. tho I really bleeve that's Dim
ecrat who hez been hungerin for on oils
sixteen yecrs, wood fife for II. ruthcr
than not git it. Shood we ever cum to
the .arbitrashon Nv arms, 1 shell, 81
hev command nv the Tildcn and Reform
forces. mass them all in front NV the
capitle. and hang onto tho other side. so
that they kin all see II. n banner with
this inscription:
"Commisshns for post oflises male
out herel"
Their wood DO sich = rush ~ all the
troops that Good be unconstooshnslly
concentrated in washinton coodsnt with
stand. Artillery coodcnt keep the patri.
ots back.
Dut this is n digrsshn. Wat ! wnn,id
To say wuz, Providence takes better kecr
NV the Republican party than Il does nv
itself. For Jest ~ we he'd II all fixed 10
hev the Commishn npriniid, and he'd
lockwood on hsvin Davis for the fifth
Judge. givin us n majority, that self.
seekin man he'll to 60 and he clectid to
the SENT from lllinoy, maxim II nessary
to hev Bradley in his place. wich is pi'
zen. Aud when Tilden and Reform
begged Davis to decline the SENT and
ve, into the Commishn that selfish man
remarkt he'd see him further fust, and
leaves one hundred thousand Dimocrats
which wants appointments on the ans.
shus sect.
With Bradley on the Commishn, the
Corners is cleerly uvthc opinyun that 1t
il unconstooshnel. Sich n thing wuz
never contemplate by the fathers, 1t
wuz never done afore, and ther amt no
precedent for II. The idee nv hevin a
compcrmisc In wick the Dimocrisy didn't
cit more than twice what they claimed.
is suthin new in Amerikin history.
don't comprehend 1t.
Ef this commishun wuz to give Hayes
n chance, wat did We want IL furp He
he'd 1856 votes, and wat Is the yooso NV
,oin thro all this formality. onless the
obiick is 10 hist him When ! play !
want the keerls properly put up-ef
want TO make a liyin by. work ther amt
no yoose In plsyin II at all. II wrencht
my moral back TO ackssds to n ,iolashen
nv the c~onstooshn when We wuz to maks
suthin by it-but TO violate that sacred
%instroomsnt, and then lose the post
ofises by II, Is too terrible,
The Dirnocrisy mite 81 well prepare
for war to wunst and DO done with il. j
see noihin else. II il impossible that
should live four years longer. and SEQ oil
tho oHises filed with A~blishnists, and
we out NV place, and hcv ON Haunt ther
commishns In our faces and taunt us
with holdin nv EN- by yirchoo nv u coni-
mish wich we urged.
/ am sqal to n great deal nv greef-I
hev philosophy snuif for almost any
thing. l hev dropt a bottle aforc l he'd
moistened my lips at its strength.givin
mouth. aud hey seen its golden contents
dow sadly away on the sidewalk. lost
forever. I hev bustid n jug Saturdy
mite. after all tho groseriss wuz shut up,
and I hev failed TO borrow q dollar wher
| thot / he'd n ded shoor thing onto ii.
All these woes I hev survived, but this
u | cannot. The agony is too long
drawn out. I will not stay in the Cor
ners four years and see q Ralikel Niger
distribbit the papers that comes here,
aud stand aud read lotiry ~circlers to our
citizens. And then when l think that
that man lets the money witch our conf
dent citizens send to l~ottries, 60 direct
to their d~estinashen. swellin the Golfers
nv a pack nv swindlers in Moo York,
instid ~ takin Nv II out, and spendin II
at BAscom's I am driven almost TO mad.
mis-.
Is il to be eIpectid that I nm TO sup.
port u Commishn wich Is shoor to con.