Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-18
MASSEY.
The Dem ,cracy Of the Corners Have
Some Doubts, Which Mr.. Nasty
Dispels With His Usual
Ability.

CONFEDRTT X ROADS (Which is in the
state of Kentucky, July l, 1885, There
hez been altogether too much murmin
among the dimocrisy Nv the Corners to
SCOT me, and determined to bring it to
a he'd The first doOty Nv dimekrat is
to vote the tikkit sot afore him, and eff he
cant do that he amt no dimekrat. The
western landlord who he'd fastious
boarder witch didn't like hash he'd the
proper method. When the boarder put in
a mid protest that he would like suthein
beside hash the landlord pulled out a car
vim knife. and seezin him by the throte
remarkt: "You do like hash don't your
The boarder looked at the knife and con-
clooded that hash WIZ the best possible |
food for him, and order wuz restored to |
wunst.
Precisely so in pollytix Eff dimecrat !
don't like nominashun the caryin knife |
must be appealed to.
Deekin POgram swore that he woodent
vote for Hancock, nohoW. Hancock
| wore bloc uniform doorin the war, and
he (Pogram) he'd suffered too much by the
| subjOogashen Nv the south to support any
man witch he'd assisted in the subjooga
shen.
| Issaker Gavitt woodent vote for Han.
| Il
| hev bin nominated, or some dimekrat
ekally able to open bari or two.
Bascom didn't like the nominashen, for
he he'd ez yit, seen no indicashens Nv any
expenditoors for the coz
Captain MPelter remarkt that the nom.
inashun Nv Hancock WIZ a BETRAYAL Nv
the south, becoz Hancock he'd born arms
agin the central ices Nv southern democ.
risy.
l he'd one reply to make these misgidid
men, witch did. Ez to the bari there
wuz other barls besides TiIdens. Hancock
hedn't much of bari, but he he'd trends
wich he'd, and English he'd one of his own
The Corners musn jump at conclooshuns
The Corners kin wait. The refreshen
shower will come, and the Corners will
git all that it is entitled to. No reform
dimOcratic committe is going into cam
pane without money, and we shell cit our
share NV it 1t is us Nv the Corners who
hez to colOnize the southern counties IN
Inieany for the October eleckshun, and
Nv course Their will be money pervided to
pay our expenses. So much for that.
Ez to the nOminashen NV General Han
cock, wat more Good we want? Wat
difference does it make to us who the
candidate is? Wat we want is results. I
| L
fort and pay what | owe to the citizens OF
the Corners. Wild cheers !
: Issaker Gavitt wants to be collector and
Captain NJ 'Pelter wants a place in the
} reyenoO, and Deekin Pogram wants 10 be
suthin or oher Then the Corners wan s
seceshn erik slack watered, and a raleroad
. connectin it with the Suthen Pacific, and
custom house, and she wants her southern
soliers penshund, and the losses she sus
tanned made good by the federal govern
ment
Eff General Hancock is elected is he
/ agoin to continyoO the niger Lubbock in
the post Offfis? Is he goin to continyoo
" Pollock, the lllinoy disturber, ez collector
i Is he goin to refOoze the Corners the
internal improvements they want? Eff W,
e wich elected him wants penshuns and pay
! for losses is he going to refoose?
Not much, The creature kin never b.
0 soopPrior to the creator. 1t is we wicl
will make him president eff he is presi
dent. 1t is to us that he will owe hi!
{ rise, and he can't go back onto us
I amt bit afrade NV any man wicF
: will take a nOminashen at our lands. A
q northern man that will do that may b.
counted upon to carry out the bargain
8 that gave him to Us, for he hez nothin else
to do. When SIGH man comes over to
= us he burns his bridges and Is ours fol
e keeps l he'd ruther trust him than
southern man, for he heZ everything tt
make by bein troo to us and nuthin to los,
e 700 say we mite hev nominated q
southern soGer jist ez well. Troo but We
could not hev elected him. The n0rtl
o resent that, and we should hev bin no bet
ter off than we are now. But HancQcl
u will git the northern votes necessary t,
q elect him, and ez he will doc our worl
jist the same cz a southern man, wal
8 difference is it to us? [ don't keer wat
q yooniform soljer wore in the war, s.
that he does wat we want him to do now
We want postof1ices, and approprias h
ems, and eff we elect Hancock we git EN-
and eff we don't we don't. Let us be Al
wise as serpints anyhow, jist now. ant
the dove biznis we will consider hereafter
/. The friends took another view NV the
70 matter after my remarks and decided tina
- after all it would be better to support
Hancock corjelly. All NV us agreed to e
= to Inieany in time to vote there in Octo
q Der, pervided all Nv the funds wuz forth
e comm. Issaker Gavitt SEE he will manag
: to git in five good votes, and Capt NJ Pei
:. ter is ekally enthusiastic. The Corners
~ is all rite agin, and the dimoorisy ma,
q look for good report from Inieany.
Of shell organize for that state to Wunst
20 The skies is britenin.
. PETROLEUM Y. Massey with hopes1
d Toledo Blade.