The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-11-06
ELECTION SKETCHES IN CHAR.
COAL.

10 knows that he knowsit also.
Carly Yesterday morning till late he
gathered about the polls, in knots of
! dozen or two, then in pairs, argu-
ng, discussing, persuading, and
making the polls lively place, re-
'onant with outlaws and ha has as
,uts and retorts were told, or sharp
b.t set them off. There were young
larkies with enough steam TO run n
thirty burr Touring mill, and old
gray headed darkies full of religion,
old plantation lore, and stores of dar-
kie wisdom accumulated under O
pie-crust of homely sayings and
minstrel Snetaphor, with here and
there a spruce, fashionable young |
buck, sandwiched in to give tone to
the groups. They all came to the
polls bristling rs thick with suspi-
cions as porcupine with quilts,
bound to vote dc State greenback
ticket, although three or four lone
some looking ones did sneak in and
vote the Dallas ticket and then
sneaked out and went behind the
fence of the EXAMINER office and
sat down on box well smearcd with
black ink and wept and wept, till
they had repented TO the extent of a
bucket full or two apiece.
Mingling in the groups of darkness
arose such medley as was never
heard since the days of Babel:
"You let a man scratch won an he
scratch MONO, no boss, / goes de
whole hog; shut dem papers up--who
put dem fraud papers in da?-go way
you's working fo' drink of whisky;
no l isn't, rs working fo' general
principles wo'ks fo' principle-de
idea oh scratching one mans name
weakening de ticket--dat don't
/ weaken dc ticket, you fool niggar-
yes il do, votes de whole ticket,
you hear dat racket-yes. yes, dats
right-whar dem dam tickets come
from?-tar dem tickets up, like Tom
Nelson did"
Ten fellows worked about one
poor darby for half an hour to get to
scratch his ticket, flooding him with
reasons enough to run. congress a
year, but without effect. They APP
pealcd to him on every point from
the Testament to the memory of his
dead grandmother, till one-got hin
aside: 'g's always toated fair wild
you, am | say now you scratch da'
name" The darby wavered; {
dozen pencils came out, and shaking
his head all the time, the name was
scratched out and another one writ
ten. His friend saw IL in the box
and then the ungraetful fellow said
"Da, l tole you'd do dat hat houl
ago, you dam fool"
Here, a crowd had gathered abou
solemn old darkey to listen to TIN
law and the prophets. He had |
long nose and age had curved it owe
his mouth so that his eloquence wa
arrested by that organ, and scattered
J in all directions, ~ don't want {,
go wild dat man." he said earnestly
che don't suit me, his ways dom
suit NEEDN'T de burds go togeddel
'cordin' to dere kuller?-blacl
burds go togeddcr, patrigcs go to
gedder, de doves go togeddcr"-"yah
YAH" cried dozen, "birds of n fed
der flock togedder-"sept when dar'
Il wheat stack, an den de whit,
burds come down amongst de blacl
burds," grunted an old patriarch
from Virginia. "Je' dat's um,'
echoed half dozen. 'De pc mig
ger hab tried cherry party" went oil
the first speaker, ode demicrat, d,
publican, dc abilishun, and none oil
dem care for de pc whiteman or d,
pc nigger-I tries de greenbacl
party now-yah, yah!" "dat's 'um,
come from score of throats. 'Don'
you vote that ticket, you've beer
trying TO get little education ant
then when you come to vote you &C
like you have not got half sense
exclaimes the ubiquitous Tom
"No sab, lows no man to scratcl
my ticket" was the cry as the tick
cts were pulled away from the toe
willing pencils. EVERY littl,
flunky that has learned to write Il
going about fixing up tickets. ?
That was Tom again. Tom was ev.
erywhcre; no trick he didn't sec
through. "That's the way ] do with
them,v he cried tearing up batch
with only one name wrong.
"Da, it's done gone" sighed q
fellow as his ticket dropped in tx
box. 'Nebber mind, you'll smell dc
powder from it." was the ready re-
sponse. ''Dam desc democrats, dcy's
sharp as hi; Yves got back into
bondage again." solemnly acclaimed
an aged fellow, "not de same bond
age, but wuss, an its de bondage OBJ
de white man as well as de black
man-why should you except to one
man and reserve anudder-yah, dat's
so, | vote de strait ticket-de white