Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-07-01

De nooEe OF the noninashun Nv the l!b-
erty -erushin. freedom -strAnglin Garfield wuI
received al the Corners Yesterday afternoon
With persound surpire. Not one Wv US he'd
anticipated it. We he'd expected i; rood be
either Grant, Blame or Sherman. and he'd
spent two days is I.ooisvilc. getiin together
the nrcessar, aboose to he yoosed IN the
ders,rik agin ,hem three men, bu; Gar.ield's
nominAshun makes ,ha, labor all in vane.
can't hee, Garfield by sa,in tha, Grant wul
q hoss-,hcef. or that sherman WAS bank
robbcr, or Blaine q ralerode recter shel
hev to either wait till our committees gi, up
their skandals on Garfield or inyrn, some
nyseK don, keer about !, here in Ken
tucky. for il wood do jest ei we'll to yoose
the Grant matter for Garheld. bu; when 20
over into lnlcAnny WHARF some Of the Dim.
oerisy at lecsi kin reed. il wood be difrcnt
Nv people herr are difhkult to handle. tho
not in the same way When Grants name
~ux fus, proposed | spoke Nv him er bcin
eonnectid with the ~hl.key ring. lmmcji,iy
tn. Corners broke out er one man in cheers
for him. and he'd difiikul,y to keep EN-
from organixin Gran, club on the spot.
They admire \ man Who kin bee, the Guver-
ment in ~hiskey. Dcekin Pogram sed Nv
Gcnral Grant, in Sunday Skool, "He Who
perdoose. cheep ~hiskey is Crater than he
who eonkercth a Confederacy." The old
.ain, is. Nv late, d,oppin into 4 habi, Nv
n,ixin his serip,er. Suthin he never docs
With his likker.
The moose struck US unfavorable. Dee
kin Pogram. arier Askin who Garfield vuI,
sighed. Wat kin be expected Nv a rrpublik
WHARF canal boa; drivers and skool ,eechers
u IL
ocrisy nominated he wanted gentleman, and
DRAWN a still longer sigh and remark in thet
the da, for good old Su,hern gen,ili,y wur
gone and ,hei the Government he'd gone into
the hands Of gru,elin mekanik and skool-
masters. he asked Bascom TO give him cred
i, for drinks all round ~ich Bascom prompt
iy deklined to do. and the deekin so, down
drv- Whipped and disk on,eu,id.
Issaker Gavitt wur Wv the opiuyun thet
ven a party recklissly nominated so korrupt
man eI Barfeld II immejitly corrected himl
well. Garfield. thare xux no hope 70. the re-
publik A candidate for the Presidency
shood receive j; from the hand, of the peo-
pie with pure hands. 1t must come To him
unbo;, and lssaker, pulhn out the las, e5 NV
the $25 he he'd received from Tilden 10 ker-
~ our deestrik. askt the deekin up to take
suthin. The toast wuz: "Tilden and his
bari. May the one Last jest ex long es the
other"
Captain McPelter, wich wuz layin on his
back on Bascomb's long table. remaIkt that
the eleck shun Nv Garfield ment rooin. Ii
wood be extingisher to enterprise, . crush
er TO honist labor and . squelcher Nv indus
try. The csptin wood hev gon on, but
fetehin friteful yawn he remarkt that his
corn vux sufrin fur want Nv labor to hoe it,
and turned over and went to sleep the fies
se,ilin one by one on his noze. Ex be
hedn't any money we let him slumber.
Captain Podgers remaskt thet ef thar wux
one thing above another that he vorshipped
it vus kentry in wich al men he'd ekal
rites. II wux the coYney-stun Nv the repub-
lie and the foundashen Nv the DimekYatic
party. FL fur hisself-
The captin seein suthin in the street
rushed out in the middle Nv his speech. He
returned in q few minits and washed bis
hands in Bascom's sink.
"WAt wux il, eaptin? asked.
."Oh, nothin. II vus that nigger from
LinkenviIle, wich he'd the ordassity to elame
. rite to vote here last eleckshun. swore
Id kill him ef he ever put his nose into this
place agin. Id done il too, only 10 Big
Ter kim up afore | he'd time to finish him.
But he wont never offer vote At these poles
no more"
Feeling that sum formal expression wua
necessary from the Corners ve organized .
meetin. and proposed sum rssolooshens.
orally. In them resolooshens denounst
the Republican party ez one that wuz sap
pin the very foundsshens Nv Amerikin lib
erty, and that the safety Nv the kentry de-
manded that the government NV the kentry
be entrusted to the Virchoo and Intelli-
gence NV the Dimekratic party, Wv wich the
Cross Roads wus . shinin part. l sketched
these rufily With . pencil and sot down to
draw EN- out in full, when the cussid chair
broke under -Bascom's chairs are alluz
brakein-and spransd my wrist 90 that !
Good not rite.
Es an the only Diz,ekrat in the Corn
ers es kin rite, and ez no proud and hawty
Corcashen wood ever ask assistance from
the inferior Afikin, them Tesolooshens vus
not put upon paper, andare lost to the party
forever. IL vus pesvokin, but my life hes
been . succession Nv disappointments.
Es soon es the Nsshnsl Dimskratic Com
nifty abel send ne the nessary dockemsnts
concerning Gas6eld, / abel take the stump
sgin him, perided allus that they send the
s;noos NV war. For vat hin Dimekrst do
without money? l snuG the battle afar oG,
and an glad he fray is as hand. shel liv
in clover I'LL Nove9bsr, anyhow.
~ PErI0LEU1 v. Massey.
(Chanpion.)
P.S.-A cold chill struck the Corners
lass nits vhsa u aoose ssachsd " that