Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-03-03
NUMBER 81
CRUSHED.
The Cross-Roads Statesman Sccs No
Ray of Hope.
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The Cross-Roads Statesman Sccs No
Ray of Hope.
coSFEpRIr RoADs,l
(which is in the State NV kentucky,
Feb. -, 1881.
The deed is dun, and the Dimocrisy
is squelcht. 1 did not hev much hopes,
but / did ruther expeck that there wood
be some kind NV fracas raised which
wood delay the countin NV the vote, and
that, possibly, some informality WOOD
occur which wood justify us in decla-in
Hancock dooly electid, and, if we didn't
sect him, would give us a eggscoose for
howlin frod for another four yeers, and
give the Dimocrisy suthin to stand on.
/ he'd hope that our Dimocratlc
members wood ind some way to raise
rumpus, and derange the bizness NV the
kentry, so that we Good pint to the Re.
publikm members ez obstructionists and
disturbers | he'd hope that confidence
mite be destroyed, and hell raised in
some way. that in the gineral 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 a Jus
It's Nv the peese in Northern State.
But that dream is over. The Demo
cratic members submitted to the viii 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.
Ills settles the DimoCratic party.
We hewitt the slightest show for next
year, or four years from now. We hey
nothin to go on. Wheat is bearin q
good price, and corn is about the same.
The farmer hez good markit for his
perdoose, and the mechanics hammer is
heerd in the land. Wages are good and
work is plenty. Manoofakters is boom
in, aud tlfe operatives are a 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 solid
bsse.
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
amt no disasters to pint to ez the result
nv Radikel rool? Wat hev we got to go
onto2 Nothin. The amt no yoosc in
demandin a change when the Workman
hez bank account, and the merchant
ain't hankerin for change when he is
sellin lots NV goods and gittin his money
for EN-. 1t 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 Dimelratic members
wuz remiss in Their dooty. Ef they he'd
mode tita on the Prwsid4nslal count.
and he'd throwed the kentry into con-
fooshD, we should hev he'd suthin' open
to us. They mite hev destroyed conf
dence and checkt enterprise, aud made
things onsartin to degree that wood
hev 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
stiddy markit for ther perdoose, and
mechanics and labrers will continyoo to
hey 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 failyoor.
| These things never happin when we
want EN-. To spite the Dimocrisy ]
make no doubt that next yeer the crops
will oil be good, and that ther win be
| sum disturbance in Europe which will
make good market for our surplus.
| Nacher, ez well ez everything else, is
sgin the Dino ,risy why. hev no hope
even, Nv epidemic next yeer. | dom
suppose Their will be cny celery in the
North, nor nuthin NV the sort. We hey
| yeller fever at the South, but ez this
seckshun is solidly Dimocratic, it DOM
do the Dimoc1isy eny good.
Well, kin stand it. Some way vii
be purvided for me. My wants are few,
and kin live without the postoffice
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.
shell live somehow, even Of the
country is prosperous, and the Democri-
sly are KEEP out ov power. The provi-
dence that notes the fall nv a sparrer
| will brood over me. Let the kentry
never mind me, but go on and prosper.
EFF the keEtry kin stand it kin.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
(P. NJ. nevermore.)