The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-11-18
GRANT IT,, Nov. 10, lse0.

1hANI r.. NOV. Id. iocu.
To the Editor Of Ms Eagle:
The defect NV Hancock an the adopshen
Nv that op!cSeie alncnmint hes brought I'M
tole sorrow an aDgish to the harris Wv many
Wv Grant townships nobil freemen Nv Dim
erkratick descent. For seyril months past we
hev feared that the crooil wimin an temper
ance advcrkates would git the drop oil us an
compel us in the futur to insult our stom-
axes with an oceashanel drink wv water.
Still we he'd lingerin hope that on Eieck-
shun day the great Liberty loving, Whiskey
loving Dlinokrats Il, cansis wood ralie in
the same time We he'd relied on the Patrits
OF Moo york an injeany tew yOonite with the
solid South an eleck Hancock an save the
kentry. But, alass our friends lev hartlisly
forsaken us in the hour NV greatest knced.
The crysis liz upon Us an we're gone. Gone
liz Hancock an his corsits with him. Gone
liz the kentry an likewise the fat Offices
Gone liz our lickker an saluncs, an saune
keepers shct NV us no more forever. Gone il
everything. eepting honir, but we haven't
mutch NV that TO loose. But this duz not in
clOOd all the trubil we hey had Wv late, so
CONFIDENT wuz We that the wisdum and p,-
rity NV Dimokracy wood eleck Hancock an
defect the amenmint. that the mite after the
eleckshun We went tew Nichita, stole all the
enty beer Gags ther WIZ in the town an
brought EN- to Valy Sentur an piled EN- up
afOre JohDy Carpenter Store, he bein the
most radikal Republican an temprancer in
the town. But rite here let me ssait in JUS
It's to ourselves that this iittil murthfui ack
WIZ not dun thru eny mails or i'll fcelin to-
ward Cnkcl jennie eZ indeyidooal but sim
ply to show our disrespec an contemp fur
Republicans an temperancers in Gincril. Be-
sides we thought TO skere them tcmprancers
into the belief that the amensnnt wuz de-
fceted, an some Dimirkrat intendid to start II
saiune in the town ime jeatei:. There IL no
place with my nolegc where Dimkrats
hev felt the want NV salune ez mutch cz ut
Naly Sentur. II is troo W. Good git here at
eny time all the strait whishey We wanted on
the sly at reasinabil figgers, hut II IL hum
bin the pride Nv genooine Dimrkrat to git
his drincks. in by and forbidin wais. besides
Dimirkrat likes to hey mkt drineks, hence
the pressin kneed NV havin public salune
wber we Good take our drincks In a manli
onerabil wal ez well ez gittin sich cz our APP
presheatiye stolDakes desired most But 20
return to my subjec. them tempraneers when
they walked up the mex mornin, didcnt skere
worth cent at the site IVY EN- Gags. on the
contrary the jis tole Uncle jennie to lock en-
up in his seller an keep EN- till the mite w
the Republican jo!iieca.hun which wuz ,ew
cum off the follerin week. ut which time
they wood eloomina;e the town with Bon
fire made NV EN- Gags. But on the mite set
the Lord wuz with the Dimirkra,. for the
first time an bu-tid the jolfecashun by caus-
in it tew rain. Still Uncle jennie holds EN-
Gags all the same, and the good reputashun
nv our party wunt permit us to deman en-
w him, cz we don't kere tcw hey il ginerally
known that they WIZ stole, ought here by
Snitz and Bob Short n few dollars Nv hush
money. which we borrowed from Republic
kins. so that we bev no fear NV them exposin
US. Recolec, Mr.. Editor. this IL priyi; and
coniedcnshal The gratist falin NV the av-
ridge Dimrkrat il his want Of proodenee.
hence we are oftin self-cnBstitooted authers
uy our onhappinis. II the ioy- he'd foliered
my advise an waited pasheutly till the nsos
waz all in from Cansis an the aboli-iun
Stats NV Moo york an injeaHy herd from. We
wood have bin saved the Disgrace nv -ieelin
EN- Gags ez well ez the panefnl hui:iiiesshnn
NV knooip that by onr own onwise aek we
hci placed in the hands NV ongrateiul Re-
pnblikiBs an tempraIcers EN- grand time
orered insigns u, Dinokracy. emblim- nv a
Dimirkrsts proudest hope. Verify a Dimir-
KRAFT il born fun OF tribil. mist fkes, misfor-
chunes Nun are peFfec or happe not wun.
ALAS. the Berd- bev ness. the Fcxis hey
holes In the ground. but the Csnsis DiRif-
KRAFT cant clf oils. neither bowefh how or
when 10 git his fufur driness. We're goin
frum Beer tew Bier. Only fu more dais Nv
an suffrin. Nv poliiikal triii-, ;etnfa-
shuBs an ii.apintment-. and we in company
with the solid south win go hense tew that
Ian wnnr no Republican or fempraHeer VII!
ever desire tew cum.
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