Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-10-19
Le1rer from Corporal schnaPP.


Letter from Corporal SchnaPP.
GEN. BLowHARD's MIsTAKE-sTRoNG
POINTS OF SPEARS, BEDFORD, Hoss-
LEY, AND OTHER INDEPENDENT CAN.
! DIDATEs.
Mr.. Editor Of the Herald
Didn't old Gineral Blowhsrd put his
foot in /, when be quit the new party
and went back 10 the Dimercrats right
at the time OF success? o, what q
DANCED old fool he is! II he'd just
have stade q day or . longer, he
mought have got TO be Sinitor. But
when he gifts up q good thing, he alters
turns round and spiles 1t. The old
jackass hit the nail square on the he'd
tho, when he made the new party, and
if he had had the pashunce TO write
little he'd been q CRATE man. We only
changed the maine little, SOS to pull
the wool over the DimoCrats ize, and
jist behold how slick we done it.
Firstly, there's Caplin billy Speers,
the long cannidit for the sinit, an / tell
you, Caps as spunkky as a mink, and
hole teem by hisself, he blongs to the
Dlmercrat branch OF the new party,
Then thar's Warren Cowan the short
cannidit for sinit, he blongS TO the
Demercrat branch 10. It's anuf 10 say
of him, that he can blow almost as hard
as old blowhard hissef, Next comes
Jimmie Goodrum for the lowermust
house Of the Legislator. jim don't say
mutcb, but he's 4 sharper. All three
converts from the Dimercrat partie.
Thee last } named from the reglar Dim.
ercrat ticket. q don't think they'll
stick tho) Then comes bill Ederds.
q think they call him. he's o man jist
after my own hart Hes reglar Rad
icle niger Next in ordur Is b. k.
Thomas, a ole yaller man, what squires
II at Bovina sumtimes, A simon pure
Radicle, but like ole blowhard, he's for
fis, an don't give a dam who puts
i'm in or how he gifts thare, so thare' s
mummy to DO made bi it. Then thare's
tom bedford for Sheriff. He's kind
Of a betwixt an betwean sort a fellow.
he's like the inlun sed he was when the
missionary asst him II he was cristion
injun. No; me whisky injun.
Tom, he's a munney injun. If he
eau git the mummy without the offs,
why then the offs may so 10 the devil
for what he cares If not, then he wants
it. Ed Foikes for Assessor; | don't
bleave the ed had anything 10 say in the
matter, but he's good feller, and ever
boldly will vote for him any how.
Martin Keary, for Treasurer, he's what
l call top sawyer IN the radicle PARTY.
We couldn't lave did a better thing
than Citing him in. Last, ba;not least
BY long shot, thar's bill Hossiy. He:
up for sitting on the dead fellers and
Ranging roun and Citing up stray
stock. | go, him intu our party my.
self. jist sed him: bill, that was q
devil OF a licking ole Newt Hall give
you in the primery election for that of.
fis OF yourn. Sez he: it were. Sez |,
! wouldn't stand Il; Id jine the new
party. Sez he, damned II don't; and
In he went.
Now that is what l call q frst.class
| ucketi (tnat IS II lley Oil sucR), D
strate out dimercrats, 8 strate out radi.
cles, an , sorter so SOS, nither l nor
tother. But we radicles got the ded
wood on the dimercrat branch in the
fuglemen Of the party. You see thare's
judge Morriss, be ole radicle. He's
the cheef Engineer. Then folers jack
TinneY q goodun. Ham Carter (Hsm
wanted TO run for the sinit hisself, but
we hole him back at first, but If War
rem Cowan don't stick the judge will
slap ham in his place and lick HIM
bill edwards, bob brown, c. ;. Mar
shall mot Charley K.), sqire hebron,
sidney Brooks, F, j, Belt, and that AK.
celson feller, aud several good fellers
we throde in, tho we know thay won't
jlne US, Ibut we want TO make beave
thay will), makes up the party. Now,
with that ticket, with ole Joshua holdin
the ribbons, he'll trot threw ahed OF
the dimercrats as sure as rollin of q
log. Respectable,
CORPORAL sCHN APP.