Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23
euIIdozlng a Baptist Preacher.

fThe Utica Observer recites an inter
&ting story of bulldozing in New Yorl
State. 1t appears that Rev. Mr.. A. II
Worden, Of Unadilla Forks, a Baptis
preacher who had long been an activ,
Republican, threw off his party allegi
ance when Gen. Garfield was nominal
ed, and not only declared for Hancock
and English, but put his declaration
into verse, as he has turn that way
and set it forth as follows:
''what fall there was, my countrymen. -
MIDSUMMER MADNESS, Act. LIST.
Where are thy notices, party grand
4 In prestige and in glory,
That erstwhile faunted DER the land
Wove into song and story?
I The eagle, starved in upper air,
On carrion now doth batten.
Content the jackal's meal to share
And stolidIy to fatten.
4 Party that boasts . Lincoln's name,
4 Grant, summer, Seward,
fetsz pssf y-ship slStfts On In shame, sl----
Ruled BY the galley steward,
Conventions now turned to mob
OF demagO& ues and shriekers,
Your only hope a chance to rob,
Your men all office seekers.
Your spoils are stained with soldiers blood,
You ride on Southern chattels,
YOu sink them deeper in the mud,
Yet claim to fight their battles.
o Judas, take your silver back
Ard buy a Cemetery
You've hung yourself and only lack
A decent place to bury.
0 honest party come to grief,
q iogica Christian leaders!
You nominate O common thief
By bursfed-up seceders.
You picket your convention doors
Against the lands defenders,
And pack your hall with bar-room blowers
And colored ticket-venders.
You deck your bier with some rare flowers,
As COnkling, Washburne, Logan,
Amt SchuTz who through his long nose blows
The party's mournful slogan.
The eagle condescends to perch
Upon the steed decaying;
TIE captain waits the doomed ships lurch,
And goes down with it, praying.
Adieu, bye-bye. ia ia, farewell!
Your form was large and burly-
Excuse us, on account OF smell
We bury you thus early.
We wish to open new box
To try a few top layers;
Throw up your hand and count your rocks,
While we call on new players.
Doubtless if Mr.. Worden had penned
Bourbon Ballad" instead of these
omewhat peppery lines, the Republic
ans of Unadilla Forks would have
yoted him a modern Pindar. AS it
vas, they turned upon and rent him.
He was forbidden to preach in a grove
II which he had long been holding
sunday afternoon services, and a fel-
ow preacher obligingly sent him pos
al card denouncing his verses as ''in-
and warning HIM not Ito come
o quarterly meeting." Finally Mr..
got angry at all this and sent
he following letter to the Utica Oh
erUer, inclosing with it the postal card
fOresaid:
UNADILLA FORKS, n. Y, SeptemberS 1880.
o THE EDIloR OF THE UTICA OBSERVER:
As is known to every one trust by this time,
have made up my miud to renOunce the Re-
ublican party and vote a straight Democratic
cket. As a minister of the Gospel, my reas-
ms should be known to all. ] consider Mr.
fairfield a tainted man, to draw 1t mildly. and
lr. Hancork an honest man Again, 1 be-
eve the country Is unsafe in the hands OF he
edltary office-holders, grown up under twenty
ears OF undisputed despotic rule. have ex-
ressed my opinion often, but never in the
ulpit. / wrote some simple verses which 1
'ust embodied in plain language my views:
or this l have been threatened in public and
rlVate. nave Oeeu driven ITOm Iuy Tc2 uIdI
uties, and the mails have been flooded with
curious and obscene letters pictures and
ostal cards. l ask now, in all fairness and
ncerity, if this had occurred in Louisiana
ould it not be called bulldoZn2.
Again, l wouli like to ask IL this ts the
hristian Republican party which l fought
lree years for to keep in power! Is this the
Ioral reform used to shout for in my haley on
itriotic days! Ii my verses were too pungent
am sorry, but as they were truthful l VIII
ot recant one wori. / never held an office In
lie gift of the people. nor ever expect or desire
, bnt / do expect such treatment from Dem
,rats or Republicans as one gentleman or
hristian expects from another. l inclose
Du postal card from brother minister, and
am not indceorous in publishing this. as 1t
as sent on . postal card for the convenience
postal clerks or any wishing To read II.
Yours, A. T. WoRDEy.
As Mr.. Worden's parishioners stand
v him to a man, it is thought i'm Utica
hat the party of Conkling, Hayes and
fairfield (happy familyD will greatly
enefit by the raid upon Mr.. Worden.