The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-04
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The CROSSROADS Statesman Sees No
Ray of HOpes
C0SFEDRIT X RoADs,1
which is in the State NV kentucky,
Feb IL, 1891

CoSFEDRTT RoADs,1
which is in the State NV Kentucky,
Feb. Is, 1881.
The deed is dun, and the Dimocrisy
IS squelcht. | did not hev much hopes,
but | did ruther expeck that there wood
be some kind nv fracas raised which
wood delay the eountin nv the vote. and
that, possibly, some informality wood
occur which wood justify us in declarin
Hancock dooly electid, and, if we didn't
sect him, would give us a eggscoose for
howlin frod for another four veers. and
give the Dimoerisy suthin to stand on.
L he'd hope that our Dimocratic
members wood find some way to raise
rumpus, and derange the bizness NV the
kentry, so that we Good pint to the Re-
publ1kln members ez obstructionists and
disturbers. [ he'd a hope that confidence
mite be destroyed, and hell raised in
some way, that in the glneral derange-
ment the Dimocrisy mite hev some sort
of a show, and that follerin the rumpus.
hard times mite ensoo, hard enuff times
to give us possibility Nv electin jus.
tbs Nv the peese In a Northern State.
But that dream is over. The Demo
cratic members submitted to the will Nv
Republicans as meekly ez lambs They
didn't howl about the constitooshin,
they didn't object to any countin', they
didn't put in no claim nv frod, and they
didn't do nothin. They submitted to
the majority and let Garfield be counted
in without struggle.
This settles the Dimocratic party.
We hevn't the slightest show for next
year, or four years from now. We hev
n0thin to 60 on. Wheat is bearin a
good price, and corn is about the same.
The farmer hez a good marlzit for his
perdoose, and the mechanics hammer is
heerd in the land. Wages are good and
work is plenty. Manoofakters is boom
in, and the operatives are chuckin
money into savins banks, and they hev
money to chuck. There never wuz ez
many railroads bildin, colleckshins wuz
never so good, and biznis is On a solid
basis.
And wat is more disgustin, the money
is good, the people don't kick about re-
sumpshen, but hev all settled down
quietly and entirely satisfied with the
CURRENCY.
Wat is the Dimocrisy goin to do I'M
der these distressin circumstances
Wat kind Nv show hev we when Their
amino disasters to pint to ez the result
Nv Radilzel rool? Wat hev we got to 90
onto? Nothin. Their amt no yoose in
demandin a change when the Workman
hez bank account, and the merchant
amt hankerin for change when he is
sellin lots Nv goods and gittin his money
for EN-. It is we, the Dimocrisy, ez
wants a change, and that Is wat, with
out some providenshl disaster, We shan't
git.
Their is wher the Dimekratic members
wuz remiss in ther dooty. Eff they he'd
made fife on the Presidenshl count.
and he'd throwed the kentry into con-
fOoshn, we should hev he'd suthin' open
to us. They mite hev destroyed conf
dence and checkt enterprise, and made
things onsartin to a degree that wood
hey made trouble in the spring and
throwd a lot NV men out Nv work, and
prest things to degree that wood hev
given us ground to stand on. But that
opportoonity is lost forever, and we are
lost with the OpportoOnity.
Garfield will be President, the good
times will continyoo, railroads will con-
tinyoo to be built, and farmers will hev
a stiddy markit for ther perdoose, and
mechanics and labrers will continyoo to
hev work, and at good wagis, and be
paid in good money, and everybody will
be satisfied.
And, to make it wuss, there hez bin
SO much snow this winter that the
chances are that there will be good
winter wheat crop, which will finish us,
onless weevle gifts into it and the corn
crop is a failyoor.
These things never happin when we
want EN-. To spite the Dimocrisy
make no doubt that next yeer the crops
will all be good, and that ther will be
sum disturbance in Europe which will
make good market for our surplus.
Nacher, ez well ez everything else, is
agin the Dimocrisy F.; why, I hev no hope
even, Nv epidemic next yeer. [ don't
suppose ther will be eny celery in the
North, nor nuthin Nv the sort. We hev
yeller fever at the South, but ez this
seckshun is solidly Dimocratic, it don't
do the Dimocrisy eny good.
Well, kin stand it. Some way will
be purvided for me. My wants are few,
and kin live without the postofice.
Corn-bred is cheep here, and good
nachered strangers come into Bascom's
to keep me In likker. Sometimes when
the roads is bad the intervals atween
drinks is ruther long, but Bascom some
times unbends and asks me, and some
times he gives me refresher, and goes
thru the moshens nv chargin it.
I shell live somehow, even eff the
country is prosperous, and the Democri-
sy are KEEP out ov power. The provi-
dence that notes the fall NV sparrer
will brood over me. Let the kentry
never mind ME, but go on and prosper
Eff the keItry kin stand it / kin.
PETROLEUM V. Massey.
(P, NJ. nevermOre.1