The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-23


Kicked
Bustid
All these, and great many more too teius
to menshun, is Dimocrisy.
The East went for us. and the West scooped
us.
The East and the West jined hands agin us.
meetin jist about at Mentor, wich is in the
State NV Ohio
We are hopelis, for English did not open his
bar'l aud Tilden wuz not COW to be MIXED
for another man.
We forged letters,.but they kicked, and we
writ 1929" on'houses in vane
The wind bloweth where it listeth but this
yeer the winds listeth to blow from the North
exclusively.
The North wind is pizen to a Dimecrat.
We didn't care much for Hancock, but we
did want the postofises.
We wantid 'em bad.
Nary Dimocrat now living will ever set his
self in Postoffs,
We wuz defrauded out of them places
We sent enuH repeeters into Injeanny to
carry that State, but after takin the money for
their votes, they votid agin us.
We paid for the repeeters in Moo York, but
after takin our money they got spasm Of de-
cency and votid with our enemies
We waz defraudid because we didn't git
votes we bought with price.
Cussid be the dishonest man who took mon
ey for repeeting 10 times and then did it only
four.
Speshly cussid be he who took Hancock's
money and then went and votid for Garfield
But they did it.
There is no more yuse in KILN niggers to
keep em frum the poles in the South, for the
North can elect without US and it's wasted
powder and shot.
The solid South is to the Dimocrisy ez
tape worm is to a man-it consoometh the BODY
1t nhabiteth.
The niggers will vote nezt yeer, and we shell
lose half the Southern States.
/ wuZ in the cars and sot down beside
man whose red nose proclaimed his pollytix.
1t wuz feerful nose, beekon light.
Groanin, l sed unto him, 90 we wuz
scooped in the eleckshun."
And he lifted up his voice and sed, "What
do yoa meen by sayin zoe wuZ scooped?"
And sed ''The Republicans hev got us.r
And he scofingly sed, "Yoo mistake me,
gentle sir, am not Dimocrat The color
in my nose is biles."
Ez we bet hevey on Hancock, there must
hev ben pile NV men agoin about whose noses
were red not of likker, but because NV biles
In Barnum, wich managed, we he'd purge
and in Hancock, witch we nominated, we he'd
an emetic.
The Dimocrsy Good not stand two sch AZ
lamities and it went under.
Hancock Good not carry the party and Bar
mum both, and he went down.
The Corners mourns becoz its hopes is BIAS
It'd.
Seceshn erik will not be slack-watered, nor
will we hev gorius custum house.
The niggers over at Libertyville will be pro
tected, and we shell not hev EN- for our men
servance and our made servance.
Ell we hev eDy more corn we shell hey to
plow, and soc, and hoe, and reap, or nav the
Niger for doing it, which is Improbable.
The tax on whiskey will be contDyood, and
our entrales will be yit parched.
The Niger Lubbock will still hev the post-
offs, and Pollock will be yit Collector. with
Joe Bigler for his Deputy.
Bascom will close his bar, for he can't run
ON tick forever, and he will foreclose on all
the farms in the naberhood.
Alreddy he hez put up sign "No Trust"
at which we turn sadly away. or wait for the
stranger within our gates to ask us up
Mine ewes are red with weeping, and my
nose is gettin winter.
Ell this state Nv things keeps up, and kin
borrer clean shirt, 1 shall soon pass for Re-
publikin.
Shell 1 jine the Republicans? They don't
want me.
Shell run for elective office? Alasl sich
ez me can't be elected.
/ will go to Moo York, wher John Kelly still
hez power, and serve Tammr1y
Tammany is all that is le.s NV Dimocrisy,
and Tammany is gettin thin.
Their is enuff left NV Tammany to keen me
the few short years shell live.
And when Tammany dies then will die,
and it will be well for Tammany and me to die
together, and be laid in one grave.
PETROLEUM V. Massey.
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