The Red Cloud chief., 1881-10-27
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In common With all other free born
and half white American citizens !
have a kind o. Ultimate hankeTiu arter
Office. in which View. ] am most hap
py to say, Miranda fully III
she didn't concur there would lie war
on the Wabash, sure
Well | had hearn that il was the
intention TO nominate NJ the coTcus
one justice Of the peece in Red Cloud
and one on the south side Of the river,
and thinks / TO myself, says /; Josiah
Bradley If you want Office now is your
chance, aud Miranda fully con,
CURED.
Invent Ia the corcus and common
ced settin of the pins up for a justice
Of the peece nomination and was get.
tin along swimminly bavin sckoorj
the promise of four votes when a mar
with white breeches on and a angelic
smile on his confluence approached
me an says, says he; Mr.. Bradley m a
friend of yourn and don't you eye
doubt it, but il would be sooicidal
for you to sekoor this nomination.
Sooicidal ? says |, why should it be
s~ooicidal? After matoor d~eliberation
1 concluded to try for this nomination
and Miranda fully concurreI. Why
sooicidal?
Then he said, lowerin OF his voice
and comm clus to me, says he; Josiah
Bradley if you should get this nomina.
ton the opposition would turn Out
to the polls and they would pound
your tale as sure as God made little
apples"
| was stunned. | felt a weight op.
pressin of me. / couldn't compre
bend him. My intelleck | thought
was not numerous enough to GRASP
the profound bit of political wisdom
that had been conveyed to me, but
he'd an idee that he meant I'd get
beat, so thinks /, says | To myself
Miranda is a KNOWN woman, I'll ask
her when | get hum.
The announcement had the elfeck
of takiu the wind ou;in my sales, and
before | could rally my scattered in
telleck, both of the justices of the
peece was nominated in Red Cloud, 10
the manifest i~njustis of the people on
the south side who we're anxious 70
use me in tibet capacity.
When the corcus Adjourned to meet
at Sol. Hopper's in ten minutes to
guzzle beer, watch the county officers
play pool and to gloat e my defect
| slid out hum To rest my aiken he'd
in the buzzum of my family and to
draw wat consolation / could from the
quart bottle which | knew rs re-
posin ~serenely on the top shelf.
Wen l got hum Miranda met me at
the door with smiles a beamin
through the -four and SCOT that had
accumulated on her classick face and
seys, says she:
Squire Bradley I'm glad to see you
hum so soon, and sober, too, / declar
squire l."
Squire HI, seq l.
Wat" SEE she.
I'll tell you wat it is. Miranda, says
I, jes as | thought victory was per-
chin on my banner, havin sekoord the
promise of four votes a feend in hu.
man form came to me and says, says
he; Josiah Bradley if you git the
nomination the opposition will turn
out Ell masse and pound your tale
as -"
Pound your wat p says she.
Pound my tale, Miranda seq L.
Miranda is a sensible woman. she
is, and she got at the troO hardness
of it in a minnet, she says. says she,
Josiah Bradley don't you know that
that was done to skeer you often the
track, an then she explained as how
that expression about poundin tales
was a phrase used in Red Cloud
exkloosively, and was meant to con-
vey to the mind of the intelligent can.
didate the fack that he would he
gloriously beaten-sot down on-polit.
ically squelched as it were, an she got
hot an sed tibet if I had the sense of a
government mule | wouldn't be SC
easily skeered, an tibet she didn',
keer if never was Squire, witch ex'
pressions of contempt l shet right of
by risin ~majesticly and passin yunan'
imously the follerin resolooshun witch
has been passed thousands of time 10y
detected candidates, and wich will be
passed agin and agin as long as oppor
tunity occurs for political aspirants tC
have their aspirashuns nipped in the
bud. Here is the resolooshun:
Whereas, it havin come to m,
knowledge through a recent and pain
full experience, thet politics is a farce
and Office a deiushun and q snare-a
ignus fetus, rs it were, to lure the
minds OF the young from their proper
channels, and to lead the middle aged
and old from the path Of trooth and
virchoo, therefore be it
/ Resolved, tibet l, Josiah Bradley
will forever abstain from the CALM
yoke of party servitude and will never
more seek the honors and emolu-
ments of office so-sO-well so long a
there is no hope of success
Aad in the above whereases and
resolutions Miranda fully concurred.
Mournfully yourn,
JOSIAH BRADLEY.
J. Two persons whose names arc