Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-01
Toledo Blade,
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,

Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, }
WIoH is IN THE STATE Uv KENoUoKY, !
Oct. 10, 1877.
At the rekest of the gilelis Richart
Richop, wich people supposed didn'
know how to run cdnipane, came I,
Toledo, Ohio, to assist in gittin togeth
er the Dimocratic strength, and ashoor
in the triumph NV that Dimocracy u,
wich, so fur, hev bin ardent sup
porter. And l may say, in parenthe
sis, that Dimocrisy hez no advantage
over me in that respeck, for eff l hei
bin support to Dimocrisy, DimocrisS
htz been q support to me. ~
The elecshun day passed off, and ev
ny man did his dooty. The result will
gladden. the heart OF the Corners. We
hev electld our Guvner, and we re,
secoored majority of the Legislacher
wich gives Us another s. nator. Hal
leleojy! u
hut the result of the elekshun in the
county was astoni5hef wich l hevn'l
bin atle to accaunt for yit. The work.
ingmen Nv the county he'd organized
for the purpose Nv betterin their con
diss,in. Sum Nv em, Wich RELY dt
work, hev had ruther a close time, and
hev bin groaning over their troubles
but, ther are sum thousands wich dom
never work at all, aid a lot of lawyer.
aud doctors, and sich like labrin men
witch alluz do the most healthy groan-
10 on sich ok kkashens.
In the interest NV the Dimecratik
candidates, L urged the labrin men
along all | Good for ninetenths NV them
wich does work, and wich, ez | figger-
ed it, wood be troo to the movement,
blOngs 30 the Radikels, materially, and
We expected To bring back the Dime
kratiK lams wich bed strayed into thess
pasters back into the fold on the morn.
In Nv the elekshun.
The day passed and everything look
ed lovely. The Iabrin men wuZ out in
ther strength, and we wuz certain tina,
we he'd drawd enuff votes from the
Radikels to inshOor the success NV ouI
tikkit. And that evenin / sot down
with the candidates, and many Were
The beakers that we quafied in jubilatip
over the redernshen uv Republican
stronghold.
Iretired that mite ez happy ez lord,
and ez comfortable ez man coed be
witch he'd achieved victory. / slept
the sleep Nv the man wich hez dischar
cd his dooty and is tolerable certain
nv gettin his pay for it.
The mornin sun was Streamin thru
the winder NV my room that blessed
Wensdsy mornin. sent down for >,
paper, and while 1 wuz pulling on thu
boots the Dimekratik Central commit
tee he'd given me, l glanced at it.
wuz anxions TO feest my eyes on the
triumph he'd achieved by doopin ths
stoopid workinmen into running q
tikkit Nv their own and THROWN away
their volts.
Horror!
The labrin men he'd swept the county,
by q majority Nv nearly two Thousand!
/ am a man nv prompt ackshen in
all matters Nv prinsiple. l may b.
elack in matters pertainin to myself. ]
am criminally slow in all things wich
concern meerly myself. 1 hev loiter
ed when inyitashens to drink hev bin
to Others, and hev sauntered,
very frekently, 50 slowly ez not to gil
In before the change wuz made; but In
public matters where there is prinsiple |
no man kin be more prompt
Than I. .-.---.
Itookt twice to make shoor that
ther waz no mistake about the major. |
files, and that workin men had reely |
kerried the couty when I started to