Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-28
From the Toledo Blade.

CoNFEDERIT X R0ADs,)
i(Wich is in the State NV Kcntucky.)}
March II, 1877. }
The deed IL dun, the work nv de-
stroy in the Government is finished,
and the Dimocrisy, the degenerii
Dimocrisy sits down and accepts II
without q murmur. Their Amt agoing
to be any struggle for our rites, theT
amt agOin to be any war, nor n0thin.
When Tilden wuz talkin NV Resistance
consOled myself with the idee that
Of l coodent git q Post Offs, mite
hev suttlership, but all that is gone.
All that Tilden and five million dol
lars undertook to do In the interest
NV pure government 10 undone
Hayes 10 President, reform lies low
la the dust, the Post Ohiccs 20 out
nv the reach nv Morrisscy and me,
and are safe in the grip nv the cor
rnptionists. / can't do juaeis to q
subtle IL shant attempt to- To [
so neer to it, and then to. loss It'll But
watts the yoose?
/ am not only disappointed ct the
result, but I am disgusted with them
ez he'd the management nv. affares for
us. The developments that hev bin
made sence the investigash0ns hev
lcommenst don't pleze me ct III. Til
demand Reform IL q cold h1oodid,
mercenary wretch, wich hexAOoined
the Dimocratic party. He don't
| play fare-hc is not an ingenious
man, one in wich 700 kin place con-
fidence. It hcz bin shown that he
spent, all told, five millions NV dol.
lars in tryin to elect hisself and Re-
form to the Presidency. Damnable
exposure! Fearful corrupshen! Wher
hez that corrupshen fund gone to !?
Who got itS Wat waz done with
wat wuz spent at the beginnin, at the
st. Louis Convenshen Ez Reform
Dimocrat demand to know.
The fact IL, that Tilden and Reform
IL fr0d, and thoze witch are yellin
to nominate him in 1880 make o mis-
take. I'llno more nv him. want q
man wich kin pay out more joodishus
and with more discriminashun.
will never go thro' campanc on the
reform idee onless am better pade
for it than wuz in this.
I am disguised with pollytix, any
how, and want to retire. The DIM
ocrisy don't no nothin, nohow,
That il wat kills us. We cum at the
people wrong end foremost. We
show our sore fingers, and make pub
lie exhibishun NV our biles, and
rather glory in the size and nastinis
NV EN-.
Wat we hev to do now is to change
all this. We want to assoom q vir-
choo, eff we hev 1t not. We want to
hunt about keerfully--give CRATE
deel NV time to it-explore all the
corners nv the party, and see ef we
can't find men enuf with decent repu-
tashuns to put forrercd ez candidates.
We want EN- ez sort nv flavorin. ez
deodorizcrs, as it were, to SAVIOR the
rest NV us. Wat we want is to git in,
and the people actilly demand suthin
that don't really smell. We, the reg
lars, won't lose anything by it-these
nice DimOcrats will cum to us in q
month. Their aint virchew enuff in
EN- to resist us. Yoo can't tech pitch
without bein defiled.
Then we want a successhun of dis
asters do0rin the next four ycers, and
WV HuSt uV Atl VIC MIL W uCV Gill;
Hard times is generally charged up
to the patry in power, and makes men
pine for change. A healthy potato
rot would be worth thousands nv
votes to us, aud smashin panic
wood be even better. Wat we want
il a period nv ynniversle depreshun.
We want the mills stopt, prodoose
down to meer nothin, potato rot,
grasshoppers, kolera, and likker to
go up to Is cents per drink. Efthese
Good be supplemental by an earth
quake, hurricanes, yaller fcvcr, vice.
vie in the wheel, cut worms in the
North and cotton worms in the
South, floods and dronths, and yoo-
niversle room and disaster, we Good
elect the next President. Give us all
theze, with q choice assortment NV
other disasters, we shell win, for the
people will be very apt to say that af-
ter all a Dimekratic Administrashen
coodent be wuss. We want room for
a while to make the DemOcrisy en-
doorable. PETROLEUM v. Nasty,
Ex-RefOrmer.