Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05
GONEEnRIT x ROAns
(Wich is in the State NV Kentucky,
loon II 1873


(Wich is in the State NV Kentucky,
Joon II, 1878.
| am back in Kentucky, and l shell
stay here. | don't want nothin more to
do with Democratic politishns, or Dem
ocratic polytix Eff Bascom will give
me place ez bartender, | will forever
dismis the hope SO long and fatally nus
sed Nv bein postmaster, and settle down
for the remainder NV my life, content
| don't want salary-a permanent posi-
ton is all l need. Board and likker, and
sich clothes ez comfort demands, is all
that is necessary for me- l hev no more
ambishun-I almost wish I 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 Anderson
wuznt sutfishent we Good hev he'd jest
ez many more, quite eZ credible, ez we
wantid Witnesses is cheap, and ez our
witnesses wuz willin to sware to any
thing we wantid, thar wuzn't the slitest
diffikilty in provin everything that wuz
necessary. Then all that wuz want
id wuz to move onto Hayes with an i'm
parchment and seat Tilden and Reform
in his place. Then the Post Offices, the
Custom Houses, and the entire patron
age Nv the Fedrel Government wood
hev come to us, and there wood hev bin
that peace without wich thare can't be
no prosperity.
But what come NV it? Jest ez this
wuz all fixed, Burchard interdoost a res
olooshen declarin that the objict Nv the
investigashen wuznt to disturb the title
NV the President!
Dimocratic members votid for it and
it wuz past! In the name Nv Hevin wat
wuz in for then? For wat did | 60 to
Washinton and spend my time and Til
den's money, eff it wuznt to oust Hayes?
For wat wuz the eyes NV every Dino
crat wich hez looked longingly on post
offs and custom house thes many years
turned anxusly to Washinton? Not to
disturb his title? Why, that wuz what
we wantid, and all that we wantid. We
wantid them places, wich we Good only
git through Tilden, and wich so long ez
Hayes sits thar wuz not for us. Wat do
| keer eff Paul plants and Apollos wa
ters eft | don't git none NV the increes?
The increes is wat | wuz after. want
id days NV ease and mites NV delite.
wanted Cancellation and offs. want
id prosperity restored to the Corners by
hevin the government disburse more
money, and to hev that money cirkelate
among the proper people. wantid Bas-
com to prosper, and the Deekins few
last days to be contented
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 investigashen is
now farce. 1t is circus without any
ring-master, clown or riders. 1t is a
menagerie without any animals. The
soul is gone out Nv it. Wat good does
it do to investigate eff nothin substan-
shell comes Nv the investigashen?
Wo is mel hev nothin left now but
sooicide and an untimely grave. | hey
bin Evin 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 you hev to hev suth-
in more substanshel, or the system will
break That substanshel wuz wat the
Potter investigashen promised, but that
gone all is gone. The reackshen is ter
rible. l look at that Post Offs and ex-
claim in the words Nv the poet,
''Thou art so neer and yit so fart!
I 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 Deekin Pogram
hezn't spoke an ineligible word since
gloom settled onto the Corners the like
Nv wich l heven't seen since Lee sur
rendered. 1t don't matter to me wheth
er Tlden or some one else is the Dino
cratic nominee in 1890 The disappoint
ment hez SO weighed onto my mind thai
long before 1880 I shel be in the silen'
tomb, and it won't matter to me who