Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-16
Nasty.
He Assists In the Ohio Election--How He
Got Into the Labor Movement and What |
the Result Was.

ElPCtlOn-.HOW
Got Into the Labor Movement, and what
the Result Was.
Toledo Blade
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS (wich is in the
State NV Kentucky, Oct. Is, 1877
At the rekest of the gileless Richard
Bishop, wich people supposed didn' t
know how to run campane, l came to
Toledo, Ohio, to assist in gittin together
the Dimecratic strength, and asshoorin
the triumph Nv that Dimocrasy NV
wich, so fur, hev bin ardent support
er: And | may say, in parenthsis, that
Dim0crasy hez no advantage over me in
that respeck, for eff | hev bin support
to Dimocrasy, Dimocrasy hez bin sup
port to me.
The eleckshun day passed off and ev-
cry man did his dooty. The result will
gladden. the heart NV the Corners. We
hev electid our Guvner, and we hev Sc
coored majority NV the Legislacher
which gives anuther Seniter Halleloo-
jy.
But the result NV the eleckshun in
the county was astonisher wich [ hev
not bin able to account for yit. The
workinmen NV the county he'd organized
for the purpus NV betterin ther condish-
on. Sum NV EN-, wich RELY do work
hev he'd ruther close time, and hev bin
groanin over ther trubles, but ther are
sum thousands wich don't never work at
all, and lot NV lawyers and doctors
and sich like labrin men, wich alluz do
the most helthy groanin on sich Okla
shuns.
In the intrest NV the Dimecratik can
didates, urgd the labrin men along all
| Good, for nine-t -tenths Nv em wich does
work, and wich, ez we figgerd it, wood
be troo to the movement, blongs to the
Radikles, materially, and we expected to
bring the Dimecratik lams wich he'd
strayd intu these pastors back intu the
fold on the mornin nv the day NV eleck-
shun.
The day passed and evrything looked
lovely. The labrin men wuz out in ther
strength, and we wuz certain that we
he'd drawd enuff votes from the Radi-
kles to inshoor the success Nv our tik-
kit. And that evenin sot down with
the candidates, and menny wuz the
beakers that we quaffed in jubilatin
over the redempshun NV a Republican
stronghold
l retired that mite ez happy ez lord,
and ez comfortable ez a man Good be
wich he'd achieved victory, slept
the sleep NV a man wich hez discharged
his dooty and is tolerable certain NV git
tin his pay for it.
The mOrnln sun wuZ a Streemln thru
the ,winder NV my room that blessid
paper, and while | wuz pullin on the
boots the Dimekratic Central Committy
he'd given me, | glanced at it. wuz
anxshus to feest my eyes on the tri-
umph I he'd achieved by doopin the
stoopid workinmen into runnin ticket
NV their own and THROWN away their
votes.
Horror!
The labrin men he'd swept the county
by majority Nv nearly two thousand! |!
| am man Nv prompt ackshun in all
matters NV prinsipel may be slack
in matters pertainin to myself. | am
criminally slow in all thing wich consern
meerly myself. hev loiterd when in-
vitashens to drink hev bin extended to
OSuClc3 anu uCN oduutCiCNy NCly AAChCuO-
ly, so slowly ez not to git in before the
change wuz made; but in publik mat
ters, where ther is prinsipel involvd,
no man kin be more prompt than |.
lookt twice to make shoor that ther
wuz no mistake about the majorities,
and thet the workinmen he'd reely karid
the county, when / started to the offs
NV the he'd center Their wuz no. time
to loose. / didn't want to KUN in at
the eleventh hour. So prompt wuz /,
that went with wun boot on, and no
hat. 1t wuz Z o'clock A. NJ. and ther
wuz no time to lose.
| enrolled myself as workman i'm
mejitly, and well it wuz that l wus ez
prompt ez | wuz. For within mint
there cum to that offs thousand Re-
publikins and Dimecrats, wich claimed
the right to enroll themselves in the no
BILE army NV laborin men.
They cum from every direckshun.
Their wuz in that throng every man
wich he'd bin bustid for a nominashcn in
either the Republican or Dimekratic
party for ten years, and the most prom
isin assortment NV heretofore unknown
ofis-seekers wich I ever saw. And ev-
cry blessid man NV em, without excep-
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