The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-04


the wink TO me, for several others was
standin cInse by, and raisln' his voice.
they do tell me that RUSSELL is got Ten
nessee in Rage You bet, sails !,
Solid as rock +; won't loose vote-all
fat, sir Jones, sails he, that is your
work -you are trum. But takin me
off a few steps, and lowerin' his voice to
a conhdenshal tone, sais he, How is it
Sais I, am pursuin orders-a holierin
for Russell, but am gwine to vote for
Hawkins, but the Rige is almost solid
for Bate. The woniin is all fools about
him, and my wife in particlar; but /
am doin my level hest, and / do think
if Hawkins is elected the firm of H., B.
and F. .ort to do somethin for me (you
see [ name 'em accordin to the capiol
each one puts into the business, Haw-
kins, Beasly and Fussell.) / have al:
most had to part with my wife on ac-'
count of my supportin the firm. Well,
sails I, l can't say as to that. Lets go
up to the Maxwell House bar aud wet
the 4-mile plank That, you know, is
/ the negotiation bar to wet the plank at,
. one of the owners bein' almost our only
candidate for the legislator in this coun-
ty, not bein able so fur to get any body
else to run. All rite, sails |, so up we
went, and he took me into a splenden
place-fns counter bottles, glasses, an
lookin' glasses, SO you can see yourself
drunk. called for Sour, but he took
it Strate. Sais he, Sones that wont do,
, when you wet the plank never adulter-
: ate-take it like true temperance man
as medicing, and without Establishments.
Well, sails ], am a Sky Blue, and
/ won't Isplit the party ike them 200
: Bate men did in June convention, SO j
tuck it strate, and I hadn't more an
cotch my breath before in come another
) Sky Blue, and | had to wet the plank
with him. and then another ontwell
was as drunk as billed owl, and didn'i
care for nuthin' and the fust thing
knowed | was at dog town Hollerin
: for Hawkins. l was very drunk, but
t as l got near home | Knowed thai
! would not do, so l just drove up singing
as loud as could Good bye my Lover
Good bye" l seed Betsy when she
come to the gate, an no sooner an she
, got thar, she said, why Ebenezer Jones
: you are drunk. sails /, winkin one
eye, | should say so my love. Sais she,
Ebenezer Jones you drunken brute git
rite outen that wagon and take yourself
z off ontwell you are sober-you are set
f tin rite straddle the 4-mile plank now
} amt you. Sais I, Betsy you don't I'M
!. derstand, this here whisky which is in
me | drinked in Town, Incorporated
town in Nashville at the Maxwell House
bar-a victim the 4-mile plank to keep
her from sinking and a droppin out the
4 platform, what you drink in incor-
porated town don't count, its only in
the country that the plank operates
j the Sky Blues wet her every day-at
the Maxwell House bar its part of the
canvass you know. Well, sails she, Eb-
lenezer Jones its wrong to get drunk
either in the town or country, it makes
a man fool and brute-you this min
nit Amt as much sense as that old mule.
i sails [, Betsy thar is whar you are outen
/ it again-Ebenezer Jones fool-why
fCetsy they are talkin about runnill me
for Congress on the RUSSELL platform
lust to chaw Caldwells man for him
Joe Dillin cant do it but / kin do it,
and do it every time. Oh yes, sails she,
fright now you have got sense to give
away, you know it all, all you need now
is fencin in and you are finished. None
of the Vanderbilt professors could learn
you anything-tha is your Maxwell
House whisky talkin. But sais she,
/ whari is the money you sold them apples
and butter and things for. SAILS I Bet
sy here is 60 cents-left-you know be-
ina leader / had to fling out and wet
| the plank too--and I do believe that
every Sky Blue IN Nashville was thar
and it took it all but that to pay fur the,
drinks. Look here, .Ebenezer Jones,
sslis she, none of your 40 cents repudia,
ton and Hawkins fxin up about this
Pll have it all, dollar for dollar, if
have to sell the shirt often your back
for it, That is the way with heap of
you Sky Blues as you call EN-, they new
er pay their own debts an try to make
people think they are honest by preten-
din to be very particular about the
State honor. All right, sails j, Betsy,
since you class this as State debt proper
land with that she walked into the
house and left HE sittin in the wagon
a hollerin for the 4-mile plank and Fus-
sell, and one time forgot and hollered
for Hawkins, the head of the firm, Just
after which [ heard a rock whistling
over the wagon, SO I stopped that. |
amt been to the house yit, havin slept
in the stable for the past two nights.
How | am to fix up with her I don't
know, but | must do it somehow when
| do ]. will let you hear from me.
se3 Respectfully yours,
asa ia sr EBENEzER JONES.
P. SCan't you get the Sky Blue
Committee, if there is any such thing,
fur l could not find it, to pay that mo-
ney to Betsy-I spent it victim the
plank and for the party. If they repu-
date it | shall sue The firm of Hawkins,
Beasley q RUSSELL for the amount, $500
Yours, T.. j.
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