Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-11-28
The Way Posey County. Rose up
Against The Money Power.

Oil City Derrick: There was
general uprising of Greenbackers in
Posey county before the election, and
the excitement ran high. Almost
every man you met had grown tired
of the way the old parties had been
running things, aud proposed to do
what he could to bring about a
change. "We will submit no longer"
they said, ssto the tyranny Of the mon
ey Kings aud gold Lords, but will
show We are yet free and indepen-
dent people.
The sentiment spread over Posey
County like wild fire, and the enthu-
siasm was something never heard of
before in that latitude Everybody
marveled much. The old parties
were slowed under fifty fathoms deep,
so that even the wailing and lamenta-
ton of their candidates did not reach
the ears of men The new party
brought speakers from near aud far,
and the enthusiasm increased. "Fel,
low citizens !" they would say, the
times are ripe for change. Politi.
clans have run this county long
enough. The people will now take a
hand."At this there would be loud
cheers and general tumult by the peo-
pie aforementioned, which would be
augmented by the "boom- boom
boomerty boom. boom boom" of the
base drum in front of the speaker
stand. When the uproar would
cease, the speaker would continue :
"My friends do not rise to waste
the night in words. You know too
well tie story of our thraldom. We
are slaves. The bright sun rises in
his course and lights race. He sets,
and his last beams fall O. a slave; not
such as swept along by the full tide
of power, the conquerer led to GRIM
son glory and undying fame, but
slaves-slaves to horde of petty
tyrants, feadal despots, gold lords,
money kings, office holders, rich in
some paltry villages, strong in some
hundred spearmen, only great in that
strange spell, name. Cheers.
Each hour dark fraud or open rapine
or protected murder cry out against
them. Cheers. The industrial and
labor classes of this country will SUBJ
NIT to it no longer. Hard money is
the root of all evil and a guilty con-
science needs no accuser Cheers.
want to offer you a word of encour-
agement. | have travelled all over
this broad land, the finest that ever
the sun shone on, and / can truthfully
say that never saw the people more
thoroughly aroused as they are now.
Every man on your ticket will be
elected as soon as the sun rises to
morrow. The ever grinding, grinding
grinding, of the money power has
awakened the people to a sense OF
their danger, and they as one man,
have unsheathed their good broad
swords and leaped into the breach
once more or close the wall up
With our Engllsn DEAD. fHoud up
plause. In slumbers of midnight
the sailor boy lay; his hammock
swung loose by the sport of the wind
The jessamine chambers in flower
Ger the tbatch, land the swallow sings
sweet from her nest in the wall; al
trembling with transport he raises
the latch, and the voice of the loved
ones reply to his call. Cries of "Hit
'em again!" "That's So" etc.
Tho speaker would dive deeper
into the financial question and as
sure the populace that Mary had {
little lamb whose fleece was white
as snow; that the politicians had rur
the machine long enough; that wha
he wanted was more money, an6
that the people had indeed taker
hold of things. The meeting woul(
break up at late hour with three
cheers and royal BENGAL tiger TO-
the speaker and every man on thu
ticket, and three groans for the two
dead parties.
But why continue?
The official reports show that tn
Greenbackers polled two votes il
Posey County.