Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-08-23
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NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Goes to Ohio to Help HOad-
ly-The Disastrous Result.
CoNFEDRIT y ROADS,
Is In the State nv kehtnrkYl 1

Corners | concloodid to 90 over int
OHIO to do sGthin toward helpin th
sturdy DimOerisy NV the pivotal Stat
in kerryin it this Fall. Bascom wa
willing that l shoOd go, ez every mint
spend away from the Corners lesSeni
the amount that he charges to me flu
Iikker. and l felt that | must go to hell
to bring the moss bax of Ohio back tt
their allegiance. Our candidate ia Ohi(
hez record that needs good of ex
plainin to the average Dimocrat Like {
kickin gun, ther is great danger in Judge
HOadly's rear. The best reasons for vo
tin agin him kin be found in his OWE
speeches Nv 10 years ago.
The fust pint struck was Peisrville
in the Southern part NV the State.
wuZ reserved with open arms, az every
troO apOssel of Dimoci icy is in that sort
Nv village. The place is very like the
| Corners, the biZRis cOnsistin mostly NV q
grosery or two, and the inhabitance be-
in, ez rOol, statesmen whose wives dc
the heft Nv the work while they are de-
visin ways and means to pay off the
Nashnel debt, leenin agin sign posts or
sittin cOntemplatiyely on dry goods
boxes whittlin the rosy hours away. In
sich places Dimoerisy alluz runs ram-
pant. There il where we git our heavi-
est majorities.
The yoosual meeting wuZ called, and
after conference with the principal
grosery keeper it wuZ desided that |
shood speek on the Infamous Scott law,
| which taxes the 'slOOn keepers 5000 for
the privilege Nv gettin mortgages upon
their nabOr's farms. l accedid to thsir
request, for ther aint anything which
kin so STIR tbs blood wv the avrige DIM
Ocrisy ez law which tends to embaI-
rass the dispenser NV the elixir Nv life
and hamper them In any way.
1t wuz good meslin. There wuz
present all the citiSens Nv the village
and all the farmers from the kentry ad-
jacent, and l he'd good hopes NV sowin
seed wich would bring forth harvest in
October.
l fortified myself with fax and fggers
and opened out on to EN-.
"Feller citizens" commenced. Dim
ocrisy is the champian Nv hooman rites
that is for wife men,.
"Rah!" yelled the meetin in chorus.
"Dimocrisy holds that every man hez
the sole rite to controle hisself, and that
any law wich SeZ wat man shell or shel
not do is d Infringement on GOd-given
rites"
"Rahw
"a Republican Legislachaser last win
ter committed outrage on the Dimoc-
risg. 1t passed the Scott law. Wat is
the Scott law, my friends? 1t is a law
wich imposed a tax onto the keepers Nv
wet groceries, 500 for the sellin NV
beer, and $500 for the sellin NV other lik-
kers, wlch is just eZ necessary ez beer
for the for the SuStenance NV the hoo
man family"
The awjense groaned in kOrus.
"Wat is the result? Under Dimekrat-
ic rool the s'lOons went Oh quiet, doia
ther legitimit biznis. No tax collector
come around to disturb em, 700 Good all
cum In when yoo pleased and git yer
sustenence, and things wuz happy and
pleasant. Wat is it now? Their is 80
s'loons in this county, and the Repubh
kin fiends hev taxed em 5000 each, wich
they hev paid. There is to-day $4,000
IN the county trezry,wich bev bin wrung
cut Nv their biznis, and
Up psprung an old farmer from an ad-
jinin township.
do l und rstand," sez he, "that the
Scott law hez collected $4,000 from the
s'loon hiznis ?"
That's the size ov it" Sez |.
docs that money 60 to payin the tax
es NV the county?"
ut do" IIeplied; $4,000 wrung from
the s'looLs s."
"Ef iggers don't lie, that's about one
fifth NV all the taxes the county hez to
pay. My taxes afore this wuz 800 q
yeer, and next year l shsl hev only about
$50 to pay, which is 20 per cent off"
And then this mercenery old wretch
yelled
"'RAH FOR THE SCOTT LAW"
"Yoo mustn't 'rah for the Scstt law"
[ yelled to the infatuated loonatics.
"You aren't here to 'rah fur the Scott
law, but agin it. We are goin to vote to
repeal the Scott law"
l mite sZ well hev talked to the north
wind. Every blasted taxpayer in the
aWjence jined him, and they all got to
their feet and remarkt in korus that per-
sonal liberty wuZ d blessed thing, and in
any struggle for tn maintenance Nv
persenel liberty they'd seLd substitoots,
with muskits on their sholdeIs, eZ will
ingly eZ they did for the maintenance
Nv the YooDyun, durin the late fratrici-
die struggle, but ineZmuch eZ they Good
get all the likksr they mite want at the
regler price. five cents fur beer and ten
cents whisky strate, they couldn't see
how personel rites was interfered with
at all. But the maxim the s'loons pay
one-hfth of the taxes wuZ a sweet boon
wich coodent be too hily commendid.
And instid Nv passin rescloosheuS con-
denim the Scott law, blast me if they
didn't pass one endOrsIn it.
1t was in vane | attemptid to stem
the tide. 1 he'd prevusly insstid that
Judge H0adly was committed agin the
law, and the only way 10 do away with
it waz to vote for him, aud SO they pass
ed resolooshens endorsin Jedge Foraker
ez man Nv carikter, wich was orna J
ment to the State, and in spite Nv all L
Good do they adjourned with three
cheers for him.
1t is said, but it is so. Poor weak
humanity can't hold to a prinesiple when
it cOntiix with interests. | aint shOor
but we shel hev to git cur State Com
nifty together and put supplemental
plank in our platform endorsin the Scott
law and claimin that we are the orig- |
natOrs of it.
We are aIluZ several months behind |
in getiln forred. We shOod hrv caught
OrtO this sOsIeT. Come to think NV it, |
a savin NV one-ffth NV this taxes is |
ruther big thing for the taxpayers. and
now that put my gigantic intelled on.
to it, really don't see what special in
terest the man wich drinks likker hez
in the man wich sells it. shell 60 back
TO Kentucky wher ther is no sich non-l