Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-10
Massey PBILosoPHIzEs ON THE ne
CEssITY OF VOTES.

5lstin that yo0se my innocence 20 compel
the Demokratic managers nv the Ohio cam
pane TO 90 slow on the ikker question,
and to do with that ez we do with every
thing else, straddle ez it were. Wat these
tender-feet seem to be afrade NV is that ez
the DimOcrisy nv Ohio are eommittin
themselves squarely to the CRATE principle
of free whisky, it will hev tendency to
drive off the decent members nv the party,
and thus enshoor our defect.
| am out NV pashence with these thin
skinned fellers, wich belong to our party
without comprehension it's nacher, carac.er,
disposishen, purposes or ends.
The man wich writes this nonsense don t
know nothin about Dimocrisy or hooman
nacher. He hez never taken comprehen-
sive look at things, and don't know nsthin
ez to the makeup NV mankind. shell
perceed to instruct him.
To begin with he shood know that seven
tentns Nv mankind is bad in greater or
less degree, that the devil hez a warranty
deed on four-tenths, quit-claim to two
tenths, and mortgage en- another tenth.
Them il wich he hez a present or pros
pecsive interest are very largely III ma
jority.
Now ez the Dimocrisy wants votes for
the sake nv the postOtfisss that follows vic
tory, wat is its dooty? Is it to cater to
the wishes Nv the seven.tenths or to the
desires nv the three tenths
the Republican party is devoted to wat
it calls prlnsipies. 1t hez some distinctive
lees, and it's leaders hev alluz bin aft cted
with the lunacy NV tryin to make wat they
call hoomanity, better. Consistently it
embraces in its organizashen the three
tenths that they arrogantly call the good
citizens, them witch is willin to stand de-
feet for an lice. They hev the old Ablish-
msts, them loonatix witch yeers ago turned
their bax upon postoffis and willinly en-.
doored rotten eggs and lynchln for the sake
Nv freein the niger, and atterward insisted
on givin him the ballot the same ez the
white man. In the intrest Nv Amerikin
labor they went to the wall for yeers OPP
posin free trade, never thinkin that they
mite hev luxariated upon English money,
En- We wuz dom, by takin the other tack,
and now they hev put themselves in oppo-
sishen to the freedom NV likker on the
skore that whisky is destroyer and beer
a liver congestor and kidney enlorger, and
that free trade in it fills the jales and the
poor houses.
Dimocrisy hez other views. A Dime
kratic leader gifts his steer from the census
reports and the soshel statistics.
10 all matters in which ther is profit
men dig down and never dig up. When
you want oil you bore for it, and you like
wise dig for GOLD. The great mine Nv votes
ia downward, not upward, becoz common
schools, even in Ameriky, have never done
their perfeck work, and while gin mills
and eer-shops are open seven days nv the
week, and sixteen hours Nv the day,
churches are only open on Sundays, and
then only fur few hours. The servants
of the devil are industrious, much more
than them which serve the Lord.
This bein the case, wat is the dooty Nv
the leaders of the Dimocrisy, or ruther,
wat IS Their intrest, Intrest is, with US,
dooty. Cleerly to go wher ther is the most
votes. lei relijun and SIGH he'd the most
votes in control it wood be our dooty and
interest to cultivate that eend of the pope
lashen, tho we should hev to be recon.
structid to work in that direcshun with
any success.
l have notist that Dimocrisy and relijun
don't work very well together. When a
Dimokrat gifts to warm clean shirts reg
lerly, slluz consider he's on the high road
to Republicanism, and the site Nv Dime
KRAFT IN a prsyer-meetin would fill me with
alarm.
Oar best holt is the gin.mills and beer
shops. We hev alluz had EN- and alluz
will Indeed don't know ez we Good tear
ourselves loose from EN- eff we tried. It's
toss up whether we hev them or ehey
us. Wat wood the Dimocrisy nv the crate
ha fha ctn
mills Wat wood we do in Illinois eff the
gin. mills shood be shut up in Shecago !?
Wat wood we do anywhere without this
allyf
With the gin-mills with us, we hev a
percentage on the Republicans that is
terrific. A wholesale merchant or manu-
factrer in Moo York won't vote but wunst,
even if we let him vote at all-our GIN
mill gradooates vote ez many times ez may
be necessary to roll up the majorities we
want. It wuz the gin-mills that wuz Boss
weeds best holt in the good old days
when he ned Moo York, and it is our cheef
dependence everywhere. The strength NV
the Democracy may be estimated by the
aker. It takes so many akers Nv sod corn
to make a Dimekrat, and our majorities
may be estimated from the smoke that
goes up from the distilleries, and the num-
Der nv bars over witch the produck is dis
Ielsed.
My Chic friend is all wrong. Every
thing seeks It's level. A man can't lift his
self by the straps NV his boots, nor kin 700
put moo wine into old bottles Wat we
v ant Is majorities, and ther amt no yoose
in wastin time on reasonin men and sich,
for them is not in the majority. Every
body hez 3 stumik, but very small por-
shen Nv mankind hev intelleck. The Re-
publikin party appeles to the intelleck Nv
one class. Ef that class hez inhooence
snuff 60 corral the votes, they win, and
we can't help it. But stumick is our de-
pendence, and we can't very well go out Nv
the stumick bisnis. We hev the gin mills
sekOor, or ruther they hev US we hev
SIGH Nv the nooly landed emigrants ez amt
pertikler whether they are natcheralized or
not, lIat afoTe they vote; we hev the
money Nv the British manufakters to yoose
agin our laber, and we hev SIGH niggers In
the South ez are nervous about standin
before the muzzle Nv q shotgun, and we
shel hev sll Nv that class Nv niggers in the
North ez want ofises witch they hewitt got,
beside other simler elements Nv strength.
| hev alluz insistid that we made CRATE
mistake IN opposin the Chinese, and per-
dict that the time will come when we shell
insist on givin him the ballot. He don't
drink hkker, it is troo, but he does smoke
opium, and opium smokin will fetch man
down to the level of votin with us ez
shoorly es whisky. l hope to see the day
when, with reference to the Chinese vote,
we shell insoFibe on our banners, "Persnel
Liberty and Free Opium y jist ez now we
hist the cheerin legend, "Persnel Liberty
and Free Whisky"
Fl it wuz worth our while to consulate
the hkker interest for Their votes, why not
the opium elements for ther votes
We hey got to depend upon these classes
and Their amt no yoose Nv monkeyin about
other people. Ther is no more power, so
tur ez votes is conserved, among our
pekoOlyer people, in bottle Nv moo likker
than Their Is in an open Bible. a sanded
hoor with pine tables and beer onto EN-. is