Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03


asked Tilden for cash contribooShens for
the campane | wuz met with a chillin
lrefoosal. The Reform ticket kin kerry
Kentucky enyhow." WIZ the chillin re
sponse;; -and my money must go into the
doubtful States
Injeany bein doubtful State, 1 went
over ther, and threw my sole into the
work. [ got the posishen Nv dlsburser IN
Congressional deestrict, and when the
! eleckshun come | yOtid six times, gittin
my three dollars per vote with the rest
NV EN-.
In my dream Tilden was elected on the
/ Reform ishoo. and then come the milen-
mum. We didn't pay much attenshun
to questions NV public policy, but we did
make cleen sweep NV all the Republican
oils s-holders We spared notbin. One
armed soljers wuz throwd out Nv places,
eZ well eZ wimmen wich held small post
Offises.
THERE wUZN'T A OEFIs,
30 matter how small, wich we couldn't
find Dimekrat willin to take. There
wuz wher we commenced the work NV
Reform.
Wv course l got the postoffis at the
Corners. The nigger Lubbock wich he'd
held it since Grants first inoggerashen
wuz relegated to his shoe bench, and |
wuZ installed in his place. The salary
wuzn't large, but there wuZ perkisits.
didn't have the handlin NV any letters
containin remittances for noOsepapers,so
| got no revenoo from that. The Re-
publikins in this vicinity, eZ soon ez L
wuz installed, mailed ther letters con-
tainin money for nOosepapers at other
offises becoz eZ they remarkt, they he'd
been introdooSed to me, and the Dimoc-
risy don't take no noosepapers. This
source of revenue wuZ cui off entirely.
But ther wuz other things which did
pay. reserved on an average six let
tars day addressed to the Loeseaper
and other lotteries, and them capcherd.
| believe that games OF chance is i'm
moral. Shood 1 encurridge my people
in this wickednls? No, and to cure em
opened the letters and didn't let em
know l he'd the money, hopin that after
trying sevrel times for prize and gittin
nethin, they would desist. There IL
many ways Nv
SERvIN THE LORD,
and hev my pecoolyer way. And it
wuZ with grim satisfacksheD thet |
opened Bascom's regler remittances to
Moo Orleans for lottry tickets, and went
over and paid him for bis likker in the
same.
l quit goin to Baseom's almost alte-
gether. preferred to sit in my offs, by
open winder, thro which could see
the smoke Nv McPelter's distilleIy risin
gracefully to the hevins, and send my
first assistant out, whose salery l col
lected NV the government, givin him my
doc bill therefor, for my likker. 1t wuZ
easier sendin him out for my drinks than
to go myself, and much more dignified.
Deekin Pogram had got to be collector
vice Pollock. removed, and ez we he'd
got an appropriashen for slack waterln
Seceshen erik, with all Nv US in the con
trak, and likewise an appropriation for
Il moo postoffis, Bascom wuZ reseevin
cash for bis likker and the Corners wuZ
happy.
That wuz my dream eZ dozed in my
chair at Rascon's. Wood that the dream
he'd contipood. But it did not.
IwAZ AWAKENED
by the firin of guns, and from force OF
habit contraktid when | wuZ in the
Louisiana PeIikins, the minnlt l heerd
he sound l instinclively started to run.
Comm to myself, and rememberin that
the war was over, / sot down agin.
What sounds reached my ears! 1t
wuz Pollock and Joe Bigler and hun
dred niggers on the Square hoorahin for
Blaine and Logan! That wuz no dreem.
The Republican convention had met and
did its work, and these disturbers he'd
got the nooze. And they wuZ organizin
Blaine and Logan club rite under our
noses, anG n hey hev got too strong to
be skeert my snUiguns, it isn't at all on
likely that they NAV kerry the county.
Sadly l asked Bascom for sutbin' aid
tirmly he refonzed. 81 don't believe,
sed Bascom, "that you will ever git that
postoffis, and therefore, hencefOrth, for
you, likker is cash on delivery, or min
it afor delivery"
And just then Lubbock, the Niger
postmaster, past by, and he leered into
my face with four-years more express
sion in his face that wuZ sickenin-it
waZ feendish.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
(DespOndent)