Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-19
MI. Nasty Has Something to Say
Regarding the Conkling
Trouble.
from the Toledo Blade

native shoars. and makes a Irish
patriot nv me, in Paris, must
paws between drinks, to express
lny delite at the turn things is takin
6n Washington.
The Harp of Erin s'loons,"
where | hev been staying for some
time, WIZ a seen NV the widest
eggscitement last mite. Teddy NJ
Grath, which kin reed. brot us the
fnooze that the CRATE Conkltng he'd
determined to stick, and that Rob.
ertson's confermashen ez Collector
NV the port Nv Moo York wood be
resisted to the bitter end.
Nobody kin imagin the delite
that pervadid the entire party.
This eends the Republican
party" sez Teddy.
This gives Moo York to the
Dimocrisy,' yelled Tim Onslaught
messy.
land it elex the mkt Dimocrat-
ic candidate for the Presidency,
and turns the kentry over to the
solid South" eiackilated me, with
eyes suffosed with emoshun.
"And with the Dimocrisy in
power we shell hev Unlimited green
bax," sed Patsy M'Ginnis.
"And with the Democracy in
power wat chance will the niger
hev nv votin - sed Colonel McPel-
ter, which is on here to see that |
actilly sail for Europe, and don't
Git back to the Corners"
"And we shall 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 which
WIZ drinkin whiskey every five
minits.
And we shell hev Democratic
Congris, and the appropriations
for the South that we hev waitid
for so long, and our Coniederit sol
jers will hev their pay and pen
shuns," sed Deekin Pogram, who
is here to assist Colonel MPelter
in seein that | git away in SIGH
shape that | don't cit back.
"And all the Republicans made
by electin Garfield will be lost to
EN-, and we shell possess the land"
sed Tammany politishen who jist
dropped in to partisiphate in the
iolliticashun.
sot there quietly musin, takin
my drinks whenever | wuz askt.
"Grate hevins," | sed to myself,
"what a world is this. In the words
Nv the pilot:
"Gratc God, upon wat slender threads,
Hang cverlastin things
Here WIZ the Democrisv Nv the
loonlted States PROSTATE at the
feet nv its foes. SO desprit wuz
the outlook that | myself hev con-
scented to be eggsile, and abandon
the old ship in dispair. There is
great questions involved, which
both parties consider vital. Jist at
this junctur there comes up the
question Nv a Collector, and our
foes 90 all to pieces onto it. Wood
that | Good back ont and git to the
Gross Roads. Eff l 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 Conklin is
all Their is nv it, and our Heaven
begins at once. Thus | unused.
Thank God for Conklin.
We immejitIy past resolooshens
endorsin Sen. Conklin, and ashoor-
i'll him nv the support in this strrg-
Gle nv every one present. We
urged him to coptinner the fife agin
the President to the bitter end, and
10 spar no panes to prevent the
contirmashun Nv Robertson and all
nv Gartield's nominashens, and
then we went and took down the
portrate nv Hancock that wuz
hangin on the wall, and put up
nv Conklin in its place, which we
hailed with three cheers and a
tiger