Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-08-29


Inauguration Of an era ol justice and
fraternity, than is afforded by these
facts. can be imagined. Do you wish
The Union preserved. Then support
those who would bind II together BY
the ties or fraternal feeling and COM
NOR interest, Is well as by constitutions
and laws. Do you revere justice and
advocate equality Of rights Then sup
port the party on whose banner "Jus-
tice and equality are eindelibiy inscribed.
Do you wish TO see the county strong
and prosperouss Then support the poll
icy that, shedding iss benign influence
upon every part, gives irresistible
strength and universal well being to the
whole"
Newport SeUAB-EEcIisH.--Sarato-
ga is really ten tunes more democratic
than Newport. Newport is the home
OF the New York and Boston flunky.-
A New York flanky Is an idiotic young
swell, who belongs to the Knickerbock-
er Club and who spends his time al
cards. champagne, etc. In the after
noon he toots a tin horn from top seat
in the coaching club. In his conveF-
sation he affects limping, slangy, Eng
lIsh dialect. II is not even pigeon-Eng-
lish-it is squab-English.
II is a positive fact that there is q
class Of brainless young swells growing
up in New York who do not speak the
good old English language as it is
spoken by w. s. Groesbeck in Cincin-
natl or Senator Hendricks in Indiana
polls. The representative Western man
could no more understand these society
Newport idiots when they talk than
they could understand pigeon-English.
Not that they talk anything but twad-
die, for they don't, but because they
leave Off the American r and talk in a
teacup-full Of jumbled-up English slang.
A day or two since one OF these Amer
ican fiunkIes--young Hammersley,
believe-sat behind us for two hours al
the races and talked to defendant ol
John Jay IN about this manner:
Male Idlot-Aw, Mish Jay, joying
the races today
Female 1diot-Yeth; they're awfully
jawIy. amt they. Right fun to bet,
amt its
Male Idiot-Yeth, rather jawly to
bet when you win, you know, but
beastiy, awful beastly, 10 bet and lose,
you know.
Female Idiot-Do yon loses Well,
that want softly iawly. Lost myself
yest'day. Dare say you'll win gain to-
morrow, and then you'll think 1t jawly
fun, you know.
Male Idiot--oi dare say shall; bot
caunt help feelln' beasily bout losin'
vest day, you know. D'you like boat
ing' Think it's right fun---s'ofiy jolly,
you know-and-
And there we sat and listened while
these two flunkies-this male aEd fe-
male flunky-repeated the same slang
by-words, "awfy jawly" 10 times,
fright fun" SO times, perfectly beast
ly" 432 times and 'you know" 194S
times. Now, can stand good square
slang-slang that means something
but this idiotic English slang, which
the New York flunky spins out and
lives on at Newport IS enough TO cause
insanity. | hope the first young idiot
in Cincinnati whose rich father, in an
unguarded moment. lets his half-demen-
ted son go TO England and pick up this
slang-I say, hope this first young Gin
cinnati idiot who dares 70 murder Mr..
Groesbeck's English viii find himself
dangling, shirtless and hailess. from the
middle span of the great bridge.
Squab- English is produced by rolling
up the tongue, leaving out the r, and
pronouncing sure as IL it were shaw ;
pure, as paw rare as raw, etc. The
adverb sure would be compared thus :
Shaw, shawa, shawest; (pure) paw,
pawa, pawest (more) mo. moa, most :
(poor) poo, pooa, pOOest, etc. It's the
negro dialect of England, stolen by
flunky New Yorkers, TO let rs common
people know that the fool who is talking
has been IN England.
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