Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-20
.sYV nv,
ed the surprised meetin. ''Why
700 are black Republican,

| 700 are black hepubllkln!"
"Troo," he replied, "too troo; but
still rejoice. | confess that havin
family | hedn't the nerve to vote
fur Cleveland; but nevertheless re-
joice that he is elected"
"Give us yer reason" shouted the
eggscited multitood.
81 HEv A REASON
and it is a good un. | kin git along
under any sort NV a government;
but, gentlemen, | hev children. |
hev bin mitily concerned ez to wat
will become NV them when | have
gon, and consistently / want to see
how much NV strane a government
kin bare and survive. The reason
why | am glad that Cleveland is
elevted is that Of this government
kin stand four years NV such a man,
and them wich will be behind him,
it will endoor forever, for certainly
we kin never possibly git anything
wuss. Ef the government kin en-
door under the Presidency Nv man
witch measures sixteen inches across
the base nv his head, and that head
surmounted with a six and fourta
hat, and man who buttons his collar
before he puts it on, and then to
save time slips it over his head, why
then we may die confident that the
government kin never be destroyed
Eff the peple want man wich hez
every vice that cusses poor hooman-
ity, and not only hez EN-, but is
rather proud Nv EN- than otherwise,
a man wich Good rite that letter to
Mrs. Beecher, and be rather proud
Nv it, Their amt no danger NV ther
ever bein anything but a Republic
on this continent. Eff it stands that
strane it will stand anything.
81 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 ToosDY
shows that that is no vane boast.
Anybody, / say anybody, after this
may aspire to the Presidency, eff
SIGH a man ez Cleveland kin git
there. shood like to hev pintid
out to me man meen enuff not TO
git there. A CRATE many men hev
bin sent to the penitentiary too soon.
Their will be walen and weepin and
nashin NV teeth in them places when
CRATE many men heer uv this, aud
think that Good they hev lodged
convickshun they might be wher
Cleveland Is now.
81 rejoice over the eleckshun NV
Cleveland becoz it was To be eggs
spected that sumtime III the history
of the Republic SIGH man shood,
ty som inscrutable degree Nv Dr.
vine Providence, be elevated TO the
Presidency, and | he'd rather the Ca
lamity wood happen while | am
alive to endoor 1t, then To have it
fall upon my innocent children. /
KIN stand it, for | hev known great.
| hev seen SIGH men ez Pierce and
Bookannon President, aud ] know
what to expect. But with my Juno.
sent children it Is different, aud
want this calamity to cum while |
am alive aud KIN sort % comfort and
sheeld 'em. Gentlemen, ! am sick,
but this feertul disgrace had to cum
sum time. | am glad
IT HEZ COME Now"
Then Josef stawked out NV the
room and we resoomed our rejoicin.
Basc0m's one bar'l didn't last long.
lnesmuch eZ 1t wuZ cerlln thug
that the Fedrel otiises wood soon be
ours, Ne felt IL safe To extend credit
to sich ez wood Heturally fill them
places, and we ordered recklisly. |
amt shoor now much | am iii, nor
Is bascoIn, for he hadn't tune the
next mornin to fgger up the books,
but l think | must hev ordered at
leest $50 with myself. The credit
system is dangerous, for it Is easy TO
order when 700 don't hev to pull
the money out nv yer pocklt aud
pay.
| don't keer, however. The post
offs is mine, and when l am droin
my salery | kin pay him OFF 10y in
| stallmence.
The festivities wuz KEEP up till
day-lite, and the heft of the Corners
slep on his floor, wat little sleep
they got. 1t wuz glorious cele-
brashun NV a glorious event. Half
the toasts that wuz drunk was to the
Prohibishunists NV Moo York, who's
zeel for ST. John enshoored the cleo
shun NV Cleveland, and struck deth-
blows at the Temperance fanaticism
wich seriously threaten us even in
Kentucky. Out of the five barls Nv
whisky consoomed, three Nv EN- WIZ
to our Prohibishun friends. The
Prohibishunist and the rum mill NV
Moo York did the biznis.
My heart is overhowin. 1t is the
/ fust uloan, Of cunahina I hav sppn