Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-07

kastically, "what is yoor relijun?"
81 hewitt got much," sighed Josef
pensiyely. what hev is mostly
summed up in this: labor yigrusly
every day with myself not to be
quite as mean ez / know how TO be.
shell be there.
The mite cum, the horn was tootid,
ard Deacon Pogram, Issaker Gavitt
and myself took one sustainer to help
us thro' the hour and a half we
| should be in the meetin and depriv-
ed NV sustenanee, and then went over
/ TO the meetin house.
1t was a cheerful site. Mirandy
Pogram, assisted by the other Demo
kratic ladies NV the Corners, he'd got
out the flags and banners we have
yoosed ever sence 1861, and he'd fes-
TONED the walls with EN-. Their
wuz the good old banners under
which we marched to defect under
Seymor and Mcclellan, and Greedy,
Tilden and Hancock, with the same
inscrlpshens on EN-. "Death to Alb
olishnlsts! , "Shell White Wimmin
be Compelled to Marry Niggers?"
"WhIte Husbands or Nonew s'Shel
the Niger, witch is Beest, Contain
mate the Poles Beside the White
Man?" ''Honor to the Confederit
Bravesw "Them wich Vote ez Lin
kin Voted are ez Bad ez the GoriIler
Hisself!" and various other notices
NV like nacher.
And on the wall in the place Nv
honor wuz the identikle rifle with
wich that old saint, Deekin Pogram,
bushwacked Federal pikkits at mite,
after he he'd bin sellin em water
melons all day The Corners prize
that rifle, and it is alluz decorated
when we hev Dimocratic meatins.
One advantage NV bein n Dime
KRAFT at the Corner is we dom change
at all. The banners we marched
under i'll 1861 do jist ez well for us
now, for we are constantly ftin the
old tite over agin, and alluz will till
deth do us part.
| assoomed the chair and Issaker
&Avitt took the secetary's table, ea-
ofiSh0, and | made the speech ez
yoosual.
commenst an elaborate discushn
Nv the platform NV the party, and
wuz gittin on very well till | cum TO
the tauff plank, when 10 BigIer riz
ald interrupted me. | knew the cuss
wood do it, and my hart went down
into my boots.
81 beg pardon" sed Josef, "for in
terruptin the elokent speaker, and
wooden't do it, only | desire to assist
him in eloosidatin the eggsact meen-
in Nv the platform over witch | un-
derstand ther hez bin sum trouble.
EFF ther is anything on earth wich
shood be cleer and well defined, so
cleer that he who runs may read, it
is the platform NV principles NV a
CRATE party. 1t shood be so cleer
that the humblest intellek shood
know eggsackly wat is meant by it,
and wat them witch stand on it pro-
pese to do about it.
''Io the end NV havin a plane and
cleer interpretashen NV this tariff
plank, okkurred to me, when | wuz
over to Secehunville, to go to the
highest authority an the subjick,
wIch is MIR. Bamum, the Chairman
NV the Nashnel Dimekratic commity.
IF any body on earth ought to know
wat the platform means 1t is Barnum,
isn't it?"
The meetin all yelled "Yes!" when
Josef went on:
81 may eX well menshun that / as
soomed the name NV our esteemed
friend Issaker Gavitt, and t9legrafed
/ thus.
"'To VIM. II. Barnum, Chairman NV the Nash
mel Dimckratic COmmity-
"'Duz the Dimekratic platform mean per
! teckshun or free tracer
"'ISSAKER GAVTrT, ManyoofakTer.'
"The anser reserved wuz entire
~ satifaktry. 1t red thus
d" TO Issaker Gavitt Manyoofaktrer-
1.-The tariff plank in the Dimekratic platform
meens tariff reform with a tendency to per-
| teckshun TO AmerIin labor by imposin heevy
]
/ Briton Bare down heevy ON the perteckshun
| tendency among Noor operatives.
W, II. BARNUM, Chairman.
Issaker, witch hez a small interest
in rollin-mill, riz to his feet and
yelled, 81 knowd it Nv corse we
want tariff reform, but the platform
is all in the direkshun of perteck-
shun. Hoorayw
81 shood also state" continued
Josef, ''that when ] returned to the
| Corners l telegrafed wunst more to
Mr.. Barnum, to be shoor that | he'd
not misunderstood him, DOLLY |
yoosed the name NV our ekally es-
teemed friend, Deekin Pogram. This
wuz my second dispatch:
"'Wat is the cggsact meanin nv the tariff
plank in the Dimocratic platform; ask ez a
/ suferin Dhnckatic agricultoorSt in a tarmin
Spty shun "'DEEKIS SETH pOGRAM.'