The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-03
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AASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Relates the History Of His
Troubles on Governors Island.

mr.. Nasty Reinter the History oil HIS
Troubles on Governors Island.
GOVERNORS ISLAND, I
(Which Is in the State nv Moo York;
October %, 1880.
1nstid Nv bein in Ipieauy, battlin with
the Dimocrisy agin the triumfant hosts Nv
Republicans, I am here doin more i'm.
portsnt dooty.
A residence on the Island ia, in some
respects, more pleasant than among the
Dimocrisy Nv Inieany, and in others not
SO pleasant.
1 hsv my likker reglar, and all want
nv 1t, for hev free access to the GinraPs
sideboard, witch is good, but there Is draw
bsx. I am reqwired to put on clean
shirt at least every other mornin, and
clean sox is perpetooally reqwired. Gin
raj Hancock is very fastiias about SIGH
things.
My bizuess here is to keep Gineral Han.
cock from talkin TO anybody wich is not
authorized by Barnum, the Dfmekratic
Manager, and to see that all the letters he
writes are submitted to a committy before
they are m allied.
Haucock's bein interviewed, and the
letters he writes hev given MS q power nv
trouble, and lost US many votes, and the
pint Ia TO prevent him from maxim any
more iva ass nv hiself till after tho elek.
shuu.
Wuns eIectid, nv course we don't keer,
but the pint is to get him electid.
Last mite a terrible accident okkurred,
which well nigh lot me my place. l visit
ed the sideboard several more times than
wuz proodent, and bein fuller than q SEN
tinel on the outposts Nv success ought
ever to be, became boastful and improo-
dent. There happened in at the time
half dozen Dimecrats from different parts
Nv the kentry, which wuz bound to see
Hancock. These wuz the very ones wuz
instructed to keep out, but likker got the
best Nv me, and boastid nv my power to
admit or to keep out all visitors.
They tainted me, and remaIkt that talk
wuz cheep, and SIGH, and in moment Nv
idiocy, for which l can't account, l admit
ted em, one 10 time.
The hrst wich went in come out with
hurrah.
~ knowd IT," sed he, ~ knowd It.
Hancock Ia ez good free trader ez want.
| hey 1t from his own mouth. He won't
hey no tariff, but we nv the South may
sell our cotton. where we please, aud hey
our manufactured goods without payin no
triboot to Moo. England or Pennsylyany.
Hooror for Hancock"
Five minits after the next one rushed
out.
knowd it'll knowd 1t. He is ez much Nv
a high tariff men ez want l got 1t from
his own lips. He won't never NEEDLE
with the tariff onless 1t Is to make it
higher and stronger and more protectin.
| got It from his own lips. Horror for
Hancockm
And mint later man rushed out
swearin that Hancock had jist ashoored
him that he wux Greenbacker, and an.
other that he wuz hard money man and
ipfIexibly in favor nv Nashnal Banks, and
finely one come out hoorayin for Hancock
hecoE he he'd declared 10 favor nv a greater
Chinese migration, aud swore that the
Government was In dooty bound TO per.
tect EN- that We mite hev cheap labor. !.
In twenty minits Ginral Hancock he'd
committed hisself to every polittikle prin-
sipls known to modern days, and 1t wuz
made public thro my negligence.
A man can't drink whisky and attend
to biznis. He must give bis hull mind to
either one or tother. Barnum wuI angry
with me, and sed another SIGH skip ex
that and out I'd go. didn't blame him,
espeshly ez these iellers all went over to
the city and doubtlis are BY this time com.
parin notes. Barnum sed Ell he cooden't
get keepers he Good trust he'd lock Ham
cock up till after the eleckshun.
Nevertheless we hev got TO elect Ham
cock. We hev got to. We must. We
wuz most everlastinlY whaled in IpjeAny
and Ohio, but still we kin elect him. We
must elect him, for the life Nv the Dino
cratic party depends onto 1t.
Ell the Dimocrisy nv Kentucky hey to
90 on for four yeers more, subsistin' on
husks, and gettin It's ikker on credit, hall
its yotin strength will hev passed in It's
chips, and gone into the hereafter. We hey
tested our endurance to the last piuts and
the strained bow won't hold out any
aud amt shcor bat that Hancock'i
lice is the rite ope after all. Alter biz
Various utterances vat kin any Dimekrst
! ind in him that they don't want7 y
they want free trade they kin hey i: p
they INCLINE TO pertekshon they kin b
sootid. 81 they want colt money he II