The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
(From the Toledo Blade)
Mr.. Nasty Has Something to Say
Regarding the Conkling Trouble.

irish pdIrlOt NV me, IN HdrlS, must
paws between drinks, to express my
delite at the turn things. is takin in
Washington.
The Harp of Erin's s'loon,' where
hev bin staying for some time, wuz
a seen NV the widest eggscitement
last mite. Teddy M'Grath, witch kin
reed, brot US the nooze that the CRATE
Conkling he'd determined to stick,
and that Robertson's confermashen
ez Collector NV the port Nv Moo York
wood be resistid to the bitter end.
Nobody kin imagin the delft that
peryadid the entire party.
This eends the Republican party
seq Teddy.
This gives Moo York to the Di.
mocrisy,' yelled Tim O'ShaughDessy.
And it elex the next Dimocratic
for the Presidency, and
turns the kentry oyer to the solid
South ejackilatid me, with eyes
sufoosed with emoshun.
And with the Dimocrisy in power
we shell hev onlimitid greenbax,' sed
Patsy M'Ginnis.
And with the Dimocrisy in power
wat chance will the Niger hey Nv
votin p sed Col. McPelter, witch is on
here to see that l actiIly sale for
Europe, and don't git back to the
Corners.
And we shell git the Moo York
Legislacher and not be bothered any
more about wat Tammany does in
the City, yelled Dinnis O'Brien.
And we shell hev control Nv the
Treasury and do the squeezin our.
selves sed red faced gent, witch
wuz drinkin whisky every five min
it's.
And we shell hey a DiIaocratic
Congris, and the appropriateness for
the South that we hey waitid for SO
long, and our Confederit soljers will
hev their pay and penshuns,' sed
Deekin Pogram, who is here to assist
Col. M'Pelter in seem that l git away
in SIGH shape that l don't git back.
And all that the Republicans
made by electin Garfield will be lost
to EN-, and we shell possess the land,
scd a Tammany politishen who jist
dropped in to partisipate in the jolli.
ficasken.
| sot there quietly musin, takin
my drinks whenever | wuz askt.
Crate heyins,' l sed to myself,
what world is this! In the words
Nv the poit -
"Grate God. upon wat slender threds
Hang everlastin things"
Here wuz the Dimocrisy NV the
Yoonited States postrate at the feet
NY its foes. So desprit wuz the out
look that l myself hev consented to
be a eggsile, and abandon the old
ship in despair. There is great ques-
tions involved, witch beth parLies con-
slider vital. Jist at this junctur there
comes up the question Nv the APP
pointment NV collector, and our
foes go all to pieces onto it. Wood
that l Good back out and git back
to the Cross Roads. Eff / kin
tide over the next three years that
post offs is mine shoor. Conklin
won't yield-the Republican party
will split up becoz it seems that Conk'
lin is all Their is Nv it, and our Hea-
vens begins al once. Thus l unused.
Thank God for Conklin.
We immejitly past resolooshens en-
dersin Sen. Conklin, and ashoorin
him Nv the support in this struggle.
NV every enc present. We urged him
to continner the fife agin the Presi.
dent to the bitter end, and to spare
no pains to prevent the confirmashun
NV Robertson and all NV Garfield's
neminashens. and then we went and
took down the portrate Nv Hancock
that wuz hangin on the wall, and
put up one Nv Conklin In its place,
which we hailed with three cheers and
tiger.
1t is very plain to see, and it pleases
nae, that the CRATE Moo York Senator
holds that the Republican party wuz
made for him instid NV his bein made
for the Republican party. It's good
idee. What difference does it make
to him anyhow, what becomes Nv the
niger, the nashnel debt, the tariff,
and SIGH, if he Amt in public life to
be fioatid by them questions l
wunst knowd a reformer who sot
down and cried when slavery wuz
abolished.
why weep?' asked his friend,
'hevn't 700 accomplished the desire
up your life?'
Too troo-too troo, but what am
1 to git to Congris on, now that l
hewitt got no cause? Why cOOdn't
the Niger hev been kept under till l
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