The Portland daily press., 1877-10-27
Nasty as a Workingman.
His Work i'm she Ohio Campaigns.

Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty went to Ohio TO
assist in the election there, and writes to the
Corners expressing his eradication at the
general result and adds
retired that nite ez happy ez lord
and ez comfortable ez a man Good be
witch he'd achieved victory. slept the sleep
nv the man wich hez discharged his dooty and
is tolerable certin Nv gettin his pay for it
e
The mornin sun wuz a steemin thro the win
der Nv my room that blessid WEDNESDAY mornip.
sent for paper and while 1 wuz pullin on
the boots the Dimicratic Central Committee
he'd given me, 1 glanced at it. I wuz anxsbus
to feest my eyes on the triumph he'd achieved
by doopin the stoopid worknmen into runpip a
tikkit Nv their own and THROWN away Their
votes.
Horror
The labrin men he'd swep the county BY
majority nv neerly two thousand
am man NV prompt ackshun in all mat.
tiers Nv principle. may be slack in matters
pertainin to myself. 1 am criminally slow in
In ali matters wich concern merely myself. l
new loitered when invtashuns to drink hev
been extendid to others, and hev sauntered
80 slowly very frequently ez not to git in be-
fore the change wuz made; but in public mat
ters where there is prinsiple involved, no man
kin be more prompt that l.
lookt twice to make shoor that Their WIZ no
mistake about majorities, and tibet the workin.
men he'd RELY kerried the kounty, when I
started to the oils Nv the he'd center There
Wuz nost1me to lose. 1 didn't want to come in
az the eleventh hour. So prompt wuz tibet I
went with wun boot on and no hat I wnz
seven o'clock A. M, and Their wuz no time to
lose. Nv ''-"0 "
Il enrolled myself ez Workman imme-
July, ana wen it wuz tibet wuz ez prompt ez L
m vs. Tot Wtnln mint there cum to tibet
otis thousand Republicans and Dimekrats'
wien claimed the rite to enroll themselves in
the noble army nv labrn men.
They cum from evry direckshun.
liner wuz IN that throng every man witch had
DID Dustld for nominashen in either the Re-
publikin or Dimekratic party for ten wears. the
most promisn assortment Nv heretofore nm
known ottis-seekers witch 1 ever saw. And
every blessld man Nv EN- without excepshep ali
eSnmenst speech towunst and in korus, on
tne rites Nv the down-trOdden labrin man and
all Nv EN- howled the same speech.
saw tnese same men workn zeIuslv for the
Dimekratic or Republican tikkets and afore
the eleckshun they had bin most industrusly
very cheap cigars when they he'd to buy en-
themselves, and very expensive ones when tbav
wuz bought by other people. '
are 700 gCin to take these people imp" T
onisoASu III agony. can't yoo see that Their
amt otfises enuff to 60 around?"
Slf! exclaimed they all, feercelv sin tb;s
molly croosade agin cappytle and for the horny.
mandid tollers, we assert thar is uffises enuff
Tnar wuz about four thousand votes. and We
VINO from circumstances didn't git in soon epuf
to vote will swell the number to five thonssnJ
very GOOD. Let the sherf-elect immeiitly an.
pint Two thousand five hundred deppytles. and
tne treasurer-elect stand up for the rites nv the
iaprin man by appintiDg two thousand fiva
hundred clerks and then keep out Nv the or
ganizashen the bloatid bankers, merchants and
tnen AZ ez own shops and SIGH, so that we kin
YAK Wene, TO pay our salaries. We shell keen
out enuH cappytle tax to support us. Can
pyle hez he'd its sway, SO far-now labor Gums
And they votid to keep the books open till
nine that day, and then close 'em. Their didn't
any more come, thank Hsvin. The marty ia
strong enuff to hold the city, but, mercifnl lev.
ms! onless the sejestion 1 bev quoted is acted
onto, what are they all agoin to do? They Kin
eject council next spring, and that council
KIN vote to pay the labrers $3.50 a day. INIT
vney mo9 take that. Ez they all expect offs,
price? w 0'A0i oni "orA a' any
slm peIthize with 1.-THE labrin man, list afore
Svely elecksh3n, but L think shell cit ont nv
tne oIganlzashun and go back to Kentucky.
Mner euer nam any labor done that hurts
Their is too eager an Approximation nv o4sis 20
make it comfortable for man like mo oud ~ w
ranks Nv the labrin men are ikelv 70 ' he
swelled too fast for my purpus. Wal chonco
is ther Tor one man among five thousand. and
all Nv EN- ez keen ez l am? The e1ao-
shun in Ohio is triumph, but it don't do me-
any good. Their amt nav way Nv reechinp INV
post-ofice for three years, and can't wall. +
snel be In the silent tomb before that and the
worms will be at me. Still. did my dooty,
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Working-man.