Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
From the Toledo Blade,

Joon II, 1878,
am back in Kentucky, and shell
stay here. don't want nothin m ore
to do with Democratic politishns, or
Democratic polytix. Ef Bascom will
give me place ez bartender, l will
dismiss the hope 80 long and fatally
nussed nv bein Postmaster, and settle
down for the remainder NV my life,
content. / don't want salary-a per-
manent posishen is all that is necessa-
ry for me. hev no more ambishn-
| almost wish l wuz dead.
We he'd the Radikels in vice from
wich they Good not escape. We he'd
charged fraud onto Hayes, and we
he'd bought up our witnesses. Eff An
derson wuzn't sufiishent we Good hev
he'd jist as many more, quite ez cred
ible ez we wantid. Witnesses is cheap,
and ez our witnesses wuz willing to
sware to anything we wantid, there
wuzn't the slitest difiikilty in provin
everything that wuz nessary. Then
all that wuz wantin wuz to move on
Hayes with An impeachment, and
seat Tilden and Reform in his place.
Then the Post Offices, the Custom
Houses, and the entire patronage NV
the Fedrel Government wood hev
come to US, and there wood hev bin
that peace without wich there can't
be no prosperity.
But wat come Nv it? Just ez this
wuz all fixed, Burchard interdoost q
resolooshen declarin that the objic NV
the investigashen wuZn't to disturb
the title NV the President.
Dimocratic members voted for it
and it wuz past! In the name NV
Hevin wat wuz it fur then? For wat
did go to Washington and spend
my time and Tilden's money, eff it
wuzn't to oust Hayes? For wat wuz
the eyes NV every Dimocrat wich hez
looked longingly on Postofiis and
Custom House these many years,
turned anxiously to Washington
Not disturb his title? Why, that
wuz wat we wantid, and all that we
wantid. We wantid them places,
wich we Good only git thro Tilden,
and wich SO long ez Hayes sets there
wuz not for us. Wat do keer if
Paul plants and Apollos waters eff 1
don't git none NV the increes? The
increes is wat | wuz after. / wantid
days Nv ease and mites Nv delite. /
wantid conciliatiOn and a offs. 1
wantid prosperity restored to ~the
Corners by hevin the Government
disburs more money, and to hev that
money cirkelate among the proper
people. l Iwantid Bascom to prosper.
and the Deekin's few last days to be
contentld. -----
All this is lost by the pusilanimity
NV the Dimocratic members. All
this is gone. They don't want to
disturb the Presidents title! The
investigation is now farce. 1t is a
circus without any ring-master, clown
or riders. 1t is menagerie without
any animals. The soul is gone out
NV it. Wat good does it do to inves-
tigate eff nothin substanshel comes NV
the investigashen?
Wo is met I hev nothin left now
but sooisidesand an untimely grave.
| hev bin livin on hopes ever since
johnson went out and Grant come in,
and hopes hez but little nourishment
in EN-. You kin stand it awhile on
hope, ez you kin on stimulants, but
yoo hev to hev suthin more substan-
shell, or the system breaks. That
substanshel wuz wat the Potter inves-
tigashen promised, but that ia gone,
all is gone. The reackshen is terri
BILE. look at that Post Offs and ex.
claim in the words NV the poet,
"Thou art so neer. and yit so far!'
am done. l don't want nothin
more. Bascom does nothin but look
at his slate, the accounts on wich will
never be paid, and weep, and Dekin
Pogram hesn't spoke an ineligible
word sense the fatle newsstruck him.
There is a gloom settled onto the Cor
ners the like NV wich hevn't seen
sense Lee surrendered. 1t don't mat.
ter to me whether Tilden or some one
else is the Dimccratic nominee in
1880 The disappointment hez SC
weighed onto my mind that long be.
fore 1880 shell be in the silent tomb
and it won't matter to me who sue.
ceeds Hayes. l can't live az l hey
bin, and the sooner l die the better
Dimocrisy amt got no muscle mol
much intelleck. It's fabby. 1t won'1
survive me long.
| PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Despairin.