The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-23
NASBY.
uow tbs news ofthe Nomination Of Gar.
fieid was Received NJ the Corners.
CoNIEDRTr \ ROADS,

LOUISVILLE Rltten together H'o
sbOose to be yoosed in the Deestrik Ggin
them three men, hut GAItelds nomlne'
shen makes that labor oil In vane. can't
beet Garfield by sGyin that Grant wus .
hoss theei, or that Sherman wuH bank
robber, and Blaine raleTode wfecker !
shel hey 10 either wait till our committees
yit M their skAndAls on Garfield, or In
vent some myself. don't keer about II
here In Kentucky, for II wood do Jest es
well to yOOse the Grant matter for Gar
field; but when go over into lnleany
where some NV the Democracy ut least,
kin read, II wood be diireEt Ny people
here are difficult 10 handle, tho not In the
same way. When Grants name wus lust
perpoed spoke Of him ez bein connected
with the whisky ring, lmmejitly the Cor
ners broke out ez one man in cheers for
him, and he'd difficulty TO keep em from
orgAniLin Il Grant club on thespot They
admiie man who kin beet the Govern.
ment In whisky. Deekin Pogram Sed Nv
GenetaI Grant In Sunday Skool, ale who
perdooses cheap whisky Is greater than
he who conQueTeth a C0ntederacy." The
old saint IL, Nv late, drOppin into habit
Nv mixin bis gcFipter. Suthin h0 never
does With his likker.
The noOEe stuck us unfavorable. Deck
in Pokram after askln who Garfield wul
sighef, "Wat kin be expected Nv Repub:
lie where canal boat drivers and skool
teachers aspireto high offices? Whoever
the Dimocrisy nominated he wanted .
gentleman, and drawn q still longer sign
and temaTkin that the day for good old
SulheTn gentility WuZ gone and that the
government bed gone into the hands Nv
gToVelin mekanika and skOOlmasteES, he
asked BAscom TO give him credit for drinks
all abound, with |aScOm promptly de-
clined TO do, and the Deekin sol down
dry.lpped and discOntentid.
lssiker GAVitt WIZ oil the opinion thai
when party reCklelsly nominated 30 COZ
rupt man ez BaTheld Il immejitly cor
recte4 HIM well, Garfield, there wuz NO
hopeEor the Republik. A candidate ior
the Presidency shoOd receive II from the
hauds Of the people with pure hands. ut
must come to him unbOughl, and lisa ker
pullin out the last s. Of the SIS he had re-
ceived from Tilden TO kerry our distrik,
askt the Deekin up TO take suthin. The
toast wuz: "T'ilden and his bari. May the
one last Jest Pz long ez the other"
Capt. McPelter, witch was a layin on bis
back on BasCom's long table, remaTkt that
the eleCkshun NV Garfield meant room,
II wood be extingiSher TO enterprise, .
crusher TO honisi 'Rbor and squelcher Nv
industry. The CapIin wood hev gone on,
but ietchin a friteiul yawn he remarkt that
bis corn wux suilrin for want Nv labor to
hoe Il, and turned over and went 10 sleep
The aes settling one by one on his nose
Ex he hedn't any money We let him Stun
Der.
one thing above another that he worship
ed it wuZ kentty in wich oil men he'd
ekal rites. II wuz the cOrnerStun Nv the
republic and the lOundaShen Nv the Dim
ekHtc party. FL for hiseeIi-
The Captln seein suthin in the street
rushed out in the middle NV his speech,
He returned in a few minits, and washed
his hands in BagcOm's sink.
"Wat wuL it, CapIin?" asked.
"Oh, nothin. It WIZ that niger from
Linkenyille, wich he'd tho audassity to
claim a rite to vote here, last sleckshun.
swofe ia kill him Of he ever put bis nose
into this place agin. I'd done i, too
only JO Divler kim up atore he'd time "
finish him. But he won't never ouer d
vote 81 these poles no more"
FeeIin that some formal expression wu1
nessetary from the Corners, we organized
meelin and proposed some resoloo,
shens, orally. In them resolooshens
denounst the Republican party e1 one
that Vuz sappin the very toundashens Nv
AmeHkin liberty, and that the safety w
the kentry demanded that the government
Of the kentry DO entrusted to the virchoc
and Intelligence Nv the Dimekratic party
Nv wiCh the Cross Roads wuz bright and
shinin part. IEketched these rutily with
a pentil and sot down to draw EN- out In
full, when the cussid chair broke under
me-BAscom's chairs arc alluz breakin-
and sprained my rlst so that ] Good moi
write.
Ell am the only Dimekrat ut the Corn,
ers e. kin write, and ez no proud and
hawIy Caucashen wood ever ask assistance
from the inferior Airikin, them resOloo'
shens wuZ not put upon paper, and are iosl
10 the party forever. II WIZ pervokin, bul
my lie heE bin succession Of dtsappotnt
mentP. -
Ezsoon ez the Nashnel DimekratiC Com
nifty shel send me the nesSary docke'
ments concernin Garfield, | shcl take the
stump agin him, pervided alluE that they
send the sinoOs Nv war. For wat kin
Dimekrat do without money. ! snuff the
battle aIar of, and an glad the fray 10 al
hand. shel live In clover till November
anyhow. PETEoLEuA y; Nasty,
P. s.-A cold chill struck tbs Corner
last mite when the moose reached US thai
Tilden wuEn't goin TO run. wat kin We
do in the Corners without his barl? asked
Issaker. And Bascom witch kBowd he'd
git all that wuz appropriated for this seek
shen, wuz In SIGH state Nv disgust thai
the thretened TO shet up at eight O'Clock
Confidence was restored, however, by sub
seuuent moose that he shOOd hev Payne ei
Ohio nominated, and that Payne he'd ever
bigger bari than Iildsn. Then BascOm
smiled agin, aud hope wunst more illum
ined our noses. The Corners don't keel
wich gets the Dimekratic nomination &C
tibet he hez bari and knows how Ia
yoose It. Possibly Payne wood be better
| tuAH 1llutu IOI HC 10 hoW uhah anu nDOI
hev 10 buy US all over. Sich Nv US eE hey
reserved money from Tilden held meetin
aud resolved that wat Tilden he'd paid US
shood not count for any other man. The
new man must commence at the beglnnin,
list ez Iilien did Bascom was so elated
ut this prospeck that he Celled for three
cheers for Payne, and set up drinks all
around. Thus in the general Sahara Nv
my lille there Is occasional oasiSses.
S.-NO 1.-The Corners Is wild with
eggscitement, A man from Louisville ar
rived last night, aud sed that 1t had bin
determined 10 nominate Payne, Nv Ohio,
and tina, he wuE wuth not d cent less than
five millions NV dollars, and was more
liberal even than 1flden. The Corners Is
neetly crazy. We only wish the Conven.
hun wuz further OF, that their mite be
time for still another change. P. V. N.
Tho New York sIRye-drIVrr's whip In the
= ChirAE0 Convention.
sphns Odd, Mas, Republican.
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