The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-23
The Dimocratic party Is too abort a


both ends.
II is q harlet that dresses too low In th
neck and too short Ia the skirts.
Its weak in the middle and no strength
abideth at the top or bottom.
The Lord Is agin the Democracy.
In vain we prayed for short crops, AM
in vain our supplicatious went up 10
rinderpest and hoofrot among the cattl
on a thousand hills.
In vain we implored for q potato ro
and potato bugs, or anything else tina
would distress the Yank and make hin
howl for change.
In vain we invoked the aid OF the wee
vie and the Hessian fly aud the chinti
bug, and the army worm, that the hus
bandmen should curse the administrator
and turn to US.
Lo, the more we prayed for distress the
more there wuz prosperity.
The crops were good, and the prices
therefore bully, and what kin a Dimekrai
do when there Is no trouble?
Wepreached hard times and they shook
gold and silver under our noses.
We sed 10 the laborer, 10, you are op.
pressed, and he jeered, shown nv US q
savins' bank book.
The smoke nv the furngce was to US the
smoke nv torment.
The clang Nv hammers and the wheeza
Nv the engine wuz our funeral knell.
We sent Blackburn and other briga.
deers to the North. but the people put
their tongues in their cheeks aud wagged
their heads in derision.
We sed 10, we hev yoonyun soldier for
our candidate.
And they sneered, sayin, verify he hez
changed his yooniiorm.
They shattered Greeley, and they hev
cracked Hancock between their thumb
nails.
. We offered EN- free trade and they an
swered, sayin give us tariff.
We offered EN- soft money, but they re.
piled, sayin no soft money In ourn.
We offered 10 take the Government of
their hands, but they sed 1t was dom very
well now thank 700.
Gone Is the Postoffices, and the Custom
Houses shell never know US agin.
Gone is the hope Nv penshuns and the
payment OF our war claims.
Bascom whether heyto shut up shop or
foreclose on our farms.
For his chalk Is out, and talk is cheep,
but likker costs money.
The moonshiners will be hunted In the
mountains and the dweller on the plains
will go athirst
The niger Lubbock will continner in
the Postotfice, and Pollock from 1llinoy
will sit at the receipt OF customs.
And Joe Bigler will yet be his deputy
and vex the people.
Wher shel l fly? Wher is the rock that
shell hide me?
To Moo Jersey2 The Radikels will ker.
ry that.
To Delaware? They are rechin out
their impious hands for that.
To Florida? That will swell the vote
for the ieend Garfield.
To Mississippi? The niger will vote in
that State next yeer, and 1t will be no
place for me.
To Arkansas2 Ez goes Mississippi so
will she.
The Niger will vote, and will ask wages
for his labor.
And his wife will not be ourn agin, nor
daughter.
We shell not sell EN- ez paupers to the
highest bidder, and they will own land,
and mules, and SIGH.
We shel see tkool houses in the South,
and preachers. and other abominashens.
And who kin tell? We may hey Roll
ing Mills and SIGH in the Corners.
For when the shivelry Is busted what Is
10 prevent the Yank with his money from
comm down and possessin the land?
We are helplis.
To beg we are ashamed and there amt |
nothin here to steel.
We Good hev worried along with the
Post Offices but they are gone.
In the valley OF the shadder sit we, and
there amt no ladder by which we can
cline out.
After weeping an hour the meetin dis
persed and reassembled sadly at Bascom's.
"Give US drink, said the Deekin, in q
faltrin voice.
SHOW me your money" wuz the on
feelin reply. ~ had ruther keep the lik.
ker than TO sell It for promises. Gentle.
men, cash Is the rool from this time out"
And ez he wuz inhexible and there
wuzn't dollar in the party we sot parched
to the very entrales.
Issaker Gayitt wuz the fust to break the
silence.
"My line Of policy is clear. Ishel fine
the Republicans and put in for an otis"
1twuz ex Ell the sun he'd risen and wuE
thro the cracks in the ruff.
$50 will H. sed M'Pelter.
And they all sed the same thing.
think myself it wood be the best. 1t
is the shortest way to kill the Republican
party. For the Republican party to take
in tho Corners and SIGH, wood be like a
helthy man takin striknin. Somehow
every organizashen we have jined hez
managed to die with great dispatch.
Possibly this Is our way out Nv the
woods.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY (oppressed.)