Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-24
PETROLEUM Nasty
he Campaigns" in Ohio and pray
- Tor q Frost.

PErTUsvILLE, (Which is in the State
of Ohio), August S, 1871 felt it
/ my dooty too heed the Macedonian
cry wich the Democrisy nv Ohio
yelped, 'Kum over and help US r and
L went, to do little mishunary work
in the Suthern part Nv the State, for
that possel Nv Unlimited money. that
harbinger Nv good times, Genl Ewing.
wish l wuz back in the Corners, and
shell git there jist ez soon as the
Sentral Committee let's me leeve this
most thoroughly discouragin kentry.
Eff the rest nv the State is anything
like this seckchun. Ohio is gone up.
Room is before Ohio, and the State is
drivin full tilt onto it. =
| met with no success at all, wieh
wuz not my fault, ez the condishns
are agin me. L wuz never so disap-
pointid in my life. and hope never to
be so agin. -,F
| l expected to find people ready to
receive Dimecratic doctrine. I ex-
ipected to find distrest kentry filled
with farmers bemoanin the hard times
and mechanics layin idle, with Their
families starvin. I expected toyfind q
shoelis, hatlis, coatlis community NV
serfs, with he'd bin ground down by
the money power till they wood be
wiliin to receive and promise of
change with joy and gladnis, I ex-
pected to see factrys silent and
farms DESERTED, shops shet up, and
only nashnel banks and SIGH open.
/ expected to find pale men, weak
eyed with hunger, and pale>faced, de-
spairin wimmen, s-arvin themselves
that they mite keep life into Their an
gel babes.
he'd bin reeain Dimecratic papers,
700 see, about the people bein ground
under foot. and I hied me to Ohio,
with the most joyous antissipashens.
When I stuck Pettusville it occur
red to me that ] must hev got into
the wrong locality. arrived in the
mite, and / notist the landlord w the
hotel weighed suthing over two hum
drcd. and his wife was suthing heav-
Ter, but that didn't effect me, In all
strikly Dimecratic localities landlords
grow fat, no matter who else grows
lean, which they ginerally do. .Itur-
ned in and Rugged the idce to my
buzm that I should hev easy work to
do in that place.
The fust thing I notist in the
mornin WIZ q string Nv teens mile
long, more or less, watin to onload
wheat at the warehouse onthe ralerode.
The men onto the loads wuz about as
hale and hearty set nv fellers ez
/ ever seed. They wuzn't pale nor
wan, nor nothin. They wuz betty
specimens and lookt ez tho they had
three square meals day all their
lives.
To my horror notist that the
shops wuz all open and the mechan-
les all very hard at work and three
factories in the town had torrents
NV smoke bilin out NV their CHM
neys.
Bein entirely shoor that he'd bin
sent to the rite place in spite nv these
discouragin appearances, approached
d farmer wich he'd sold his load and
was jist goin into bank with his
wife.
my friend" sed I. ''yoo are a vic
tim Nv the money power !!
'Wat? wuz his reply, lookin ez tho
I wuz % escaped loonatic. asa
''You are q serf a bondman, and
are held in the iron grip nv the
bloatld bondhoiders, wich is squeeZ
in the life blood out nv yoo.'
sis they?" sed be. Il never thought
Nv that. But kin beet EN-. l really
haven't time to, discuss the matter.
for 700 see, I'm goin to be bonded
bloatholder myself. I hev jist sold
my wheat, and I'm jist going in to
buy bond or two. want to a arts 4
tocracy myself while" q
And he eloodid me, leeyin button
in my hand. ga
-, Repeatin the same remark to an
other he merely remarkt, 80 git out,
700 asst Wheat thirty bushels to
the acre and dollar bushel gold,
/ want great many years more NV
this kind Nv room. Where 700 frum
anyway?
Abandonin the farmers in disgust,
for / got the same answer from all NV
EN-, I attempted TO git in my work on
the distrest merchanics which must
have bin reoined by resumpshen, but