The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-03-02
MIR. Nasty Gives His Idea o
Prese mt status Of Affairs.

Judges wood be DlmOcratlc, CIV
in us a majority Nv one in the
lot, / bleevd it to be constoosh-
mel. When it looks ez tho We
Good get Tilden and Reform in
that way, and make me sAOor of
my post offs, | preferd it to blood,
am not, ez a general thing,
thirster for gore. | he'd much
rether have Tilden buy his way
into the Presidency than to hev
to fite for it. When think NV
his barls of money, and / remem
Der his skill in distributin uyit, l
say with the poet
"Ther is a weepin firmer set,
And surer than the bayonet."
Tilden and Reform hez a better
show with dollars than they ever
did with bayonets, tho | really
bleeve that a Dimocrat who heZ
been hungerin for an offs sixteen
years, wood iite for it, ruther than
not git it. Shood we ever come
to the arbitrashen NV arms, ] shell
eff hev command Nv the Tilden
and Reform forces, mass them all
in front NV the capitle and hang
onto the other side, SO that they
kin all soc it, a banner with this
inscription: t.
''Commishns for post oMses
made out herel' at ire
Ther wood be sich a rush ez all
thestroops that ,,cood be uncon-
stooshually cepsentrated in Wash
inton coodent keep the patriots
back,
But this is a digreshn. Wat !
wantid to say wuz, Providence
takes better keer NV the Repub-
likin party than it does Nv itself.
For jest as we he'd it all fixed to
hev the Commishn appinted, and
he'd lockwood on hevin Davis for
the fifth Judge, givin us a major
ity, that self seekih man he'd to.
go and git electid to the SENT
from Illinoy, maxim it necessary
to hev Bradley in his. place, wich
is pizen. And when lilden and
Reform begged Davis to decline
the SENT and get into the Com
mishn that selfish man remarktI
he'd see him futher fust, and
leave one hundred thousand Dim
ocrats which wants Apartments
on the anxshus sect.
With Bradley on the Commishn
the Corners is cleerly ofthe opin-
yum that it is unconstoohnel.
Such a thing wuz never contem-
platid by the fathers, it wuz new
er done afore, and ther amt no
precedent for it. The idee Nv
havin a compromise in wich the
Dimocrisy didn't git more'n twice
wat they claimed, is suthin new
in Amerikin history. | don't
comprehend it,
IF this cOmmisshn wuz to give
Hayes q chance, wat did he want
it for 2 He he'd 1S5 votes. and
wat is the yoose Nv goin thro all
this formality, mleSthe objic is
to hist himS WhenI play ! want |
the keerds properly put up-et II
want to make q livin by work
ther amt no yoose in playin at
all. 1t wrencht my moral back
to akcede to a violashun NV the |
constooshn when we wuz to make |
suthin by it--but to violate that
sakred instrooment and then
lose the post offises by it, tu terri
Bile. & ,s.a. ,..la -, a |
The Dimocrisy mite as well pre-
pare for war at onct and be dune |
with it. ! see nothin else. q ItTis
impossible that | shood live four
yesrs longer andsee an the off |
ses illedwith Ablishuists,- and
we out avo place, and hev EN-
ilaunt their commishns in our ia. |
ees and taunt us with holdin NV
EN- by virchoo Nv a Commishn
wich we urged.
] am eqnal to a great deal NV
greef-l hev philosophy enuf for
almost anythin. / hev dropt a
bottle afore ] he'd moistened my
lips at its strenthgiven mouth, |
and hev seen its golden contents
flop sadly away on the side walk
lost forever. Ihev busid a Jug |
Saturday mite, after all the gro
series was shut up, and hev fail
cd to borrow a dollar where /
thot ! he'd a ded shoor thingon to
it, All these woes they survived |
bat this one | can not. The ago