Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-11-27

BASCOM PUTS FRESH BARREL ON TAI
JOE BIeLER MAKES A SPEECH.
Toledo Blade
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, }
(Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky,
Nov. 6, 1884.
Never sence the fust battle of BuI
Run, when it was represented the Fed
rel Army had bin entirely destroyed and
tha4 the Contedrits wuz in possession Nv
| Washington, wuZ there sich feelin Nv
absiu0t joy in the Corners ez Wensday
mite, when we reseeveJ the glad intelsi-
geHce that our noble standard bearer ,ex-
Sheriff Cleveland, bed been electid.
| The effect wuz electrikle. The over
joyed DimOcrisy howled. Issaker Gayitt
tootedsthe horn wich we use, OWN to
the fact that the money fur . bell wich
wuz sent US by the Moo England Church
Extension Society happened to come To
me ez the pastor, and Bascom KNOWN
10 it made me apply a half Nv it to the
lid widashun Nv bill at his bar, and the
other halt lost that mite at a game Nv
sen>up with Dekin Pugram. However.
the horn does very well, eZ it is one Nv
CRATE power and remarkably soft in tone.
We wood hev he'd speeches. but Bas
com. wich is ass wuZ so full nv JOY
lhet he spilled the hull thing by remarkt
i'll that his wife and son, Jeffson Davis,
wuz putting fresh bari on tap, and that
the Corners wuZ welcome.
Good the citizens endoor stayin the
meetin house under these circumsLanc. s?
No indeed There wuz wild rush for
nj. ha bo nj rtln i'm
and the mite wuz given over to sich re
jOicin ez seldom falls to the lot Nv man.
AT about in The evening, l wuZ pull
ed out Nv my chaTe and stood up on a
whisky harl for speech. he'd skasely
commenst when l wuz rudely pulled
down. 1t wuz the feend, Joe Bigler,
who remarkt that he felt very much
like maxim a speech hisself, and when
in The mood NV discbargin hisself he
didn't want no interrupshen.
My friends" be commenst, Il am
with you to-nite to rejoice with 700
over the grand results Nv the eleckshun!"
"Yoo rejoice with usl" eggsclamed
the surprised meetin. why, you are a
Black RerublikiRI"
"Truo," he replied, too troo, but still
rejoice. | confess that havin fami
ly l hedn't the nerve to vote fur Cleve-
L nd, but nevertheless rejoice that he
is eltctid."
"Give us yer reason" shouted the eggs
cited multitood.
Il hev reason, and it is good one.
kin git along under any sort Nv Gov
ernment; but gentlemen, | hev children.
L hev bin nightly concerned eZ to wat
will becOm Nv them when l am gone,
and consistently want to see how much
NV strane Gov eminent kin bare and
survive. The reason why l sm glad
Cleveland is electid is that ef this Cow
ernnent kin stand four yesrs Nv sich a
man, and them wich will be behind
him. it will endoor forever. for certainly
We kin never possibly git anything wuss.
Ef the people want man wich Good
rite that letter to Mrs. Beecher, and be
ruther proud Nv it, there amt no dam
ger Nv ther ever bein anything but re-
public Oh this coneinent. Eff it stands
that strane 1t will stand anything.
II rejoice becoz it is the carryin out,
in one sense, Nv our system. 1t is our
proud boast that any one may aspire TO
the Presidency. The eleckshun T0osdy
shows that that is no vane boast. Any
body. say anybody, after this may as
plre to the Presidency, ef sich man ez
Cleveland kin git there.
"I'rejoice over the eleckshun Nv Cleve
land becoz it WAS to be eggspected that
sich d man shood, by some inscrutible
decree Nv Divine Providence, be eleva-
It'd to the Preside ncy. and l he'd rather
the calamity would happen when 1 am
alive to endeor it, than to have it fall |
upon nv innosent children. | kin stand |
it. for l hev knowd greet. l hev seen |
sich men eZ Pierce and Bookannon Pres |
ident, and know what to expect. But |
with my innosent children it Is different, |
and want this calamity to come while |
| am alive and can sort o. comfort and |
sbeeld em. Gentlemen, l Am sick, but |
this feerful disgrace he'd to come some
time. am glad it hez come now"
Then Josef stawked out Nv the room.
and we resoomed our rejDicin. Bas-
CONS one barl didn't last long. Inez>
much ez it wuz a certain thing that the
Fedrel offises wood soon be ours, he felt
it safe to extend credit to sich ez wood
neterally fill them places, and we order
ed recklisly. | Amt shoor how much |
am in, uor is Bascom, for he badn't time
next mornin to fgger up the books, but
| think must hev ordered at least $50
wuth myself. The credit system is dam
9erous, for it is 50 easy to order wien
700 don't hev to pull the money out NV
your pokkit and pay.
| don't keer, however. The post offs
is mine, and when | am drswin my sal
ary xiii pay him OFF by installmence.
The festivities wuZ kept up till day
lite, and the heft NV the Corners slep on
his floor, wut little sleep they got. 1t
wuz glorious celebrashen Nv u glOri-
GUS event. Half the tOasts that wuz
drunk wuz to the ProhibitiODists Nv Moo
York. whose zeel for st. John enshoored
the election NV Cleveland, and struck a
deth-blow at the Temperance faUati-
cism wich seriously threatened Us even
in Kentucky. Out Nv the five barls Nv
whisky coBsoomed, three Nv em wuz to
our Prohibishen friends. The Prohibish-
nists and the rum mills Nv Moo York
did the bZnis.
My heart is overiowin. 1t. is the fust
gleem NV sunshine l hev seen for twen-
ty-five yesrs. Halleleojyl
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