Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-11
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Wr. Nasty Answers Numerous Cor
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From tho Toledo Plada

respondents.
From the Toledo Blade.
CONFEDERIT X ROADS.
witch is in the State Nv Kentucky,)
August 81, 1884.
hev reserved sum thousands Nv let
tiers from my Dimocratic friends from
all parts Nv the kentry, witch, ez | cannrt
find time, or postage stamps. to answer
persnelly, | do thro the meium Nv the
publiz press
! wood seiest thet Dim0crats which
git ther friends to write me queries on
D0itikle matters, ShOod enclose a stamp
or two to enshoor an early reply. Bas-
com don't use stamps, but he kin sell EN-
to Pollock and Bigler, and the iron mill
over on the Run, and he Sez he will take
en- Nv me fur drinks, for to go to the
trubble Nv turnin Nv EN- into money is
better than to charge up wat [ cunSOom.
Hereafter no letter will be answered
witch does not cOntane at least one five
cent stamp. [ kin yOOtilize EN-, ez
BaS ON heZ agreed to make one five
center the price Nv one suStaner, | layin
down the stamp jist afOre he sets out
the bottle, to prevent mistakes. Mr..
BascOm hez d strong desire to sell his
iikker but he lacks faith in hoomau
nacher. He wants cash afore he sets
the bottle out, witch is generally incon-
venient, ez the man witch hez the iiveli-
est thirst is the identikle Teller wat never
h:-z the cash. Thirst and cash seldom
goes together. Thirst is no res peCter Nv
persons. 1t comes alike to him that kin
Fay for asswagers and him witch cannot.
Credit is the main-stay Nv indiviUies ez
well ez Nv states. But Bascom is not a
politikle economist and don't understand
the principle Nv things.
But to my answers:
Young DIMoCRAT, P0seyville, Inieany,
Fur Jim Blame to hev his son go about
visitin Boards of Trade, and SIGH, and
gettin his name into the noosepapers is
takin a unfair advantage Nv our noble
standard barer, ex-Sheriff Cleveland. 1t
is not shivelrous. Grover Cleveland hez
a son, it is troo, that is. he is PERSONNEL
to hev wun. though he seq it isn't GER
tain, percisely, ez witch Nv the four it's
father RELY wuz. Anyhow, Sheriff
CIevelands son isn't Nv that pertikeler
kind the father Nv witch wood keer to
hev goin about the kentry clajmin to be
his son. OWN to the unfOrchnit circum-
stance that he wuz born when ex-Sheriff
Cleveland WIZ giddy, wild yooth Nv
only forty-two Summers and about the
same number Nv very hard Winters, and
he wuzn't percisely married to his sons
mother. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
doesn't mind little thing like that, and
in the interest Of purity, ignores it, but
he isn't eggsactly quotable authority on
SIGH delikit matters. He knows how it
is hisself, and his word don't count.
While ex-Sheriff Cleveland is undoubt-
edly innocent in this matter. Marian Hal
pin is undoubtedly guilty. Apply to this
case the same rool that Plymoth Church
did to Mr.. Beecher.
STUM-sPEEKER, Smithville, Injeany-
From wat [ know Nv the kentry 700
live in, shood advocate Tariff Reform,
with decided leenin to Perteckshun. /
think 700 hey coal in your visinitY, and
that yoor voters are largely interested in
manufaktrin. Eff [ am kerrect that IS
wat 700 want to do. Eff, on the other
hand, [ am not kerect, and you are pure
ly agricultrel, and yoor people are not
pertiklerly intelligent insist that Dino
crisy means Tariff Reform with decided
leanin toward Free Trade. You know
wat yoor people want. Constroo the
platform to SCOT EN-. The platform wuz
made to be cOnstood; construktid, in
fact, so that Henry Watterson and Sam
Randall can both stand on it.
J. l., Missoory Wat part Nv
Missoory are you in? Eff 700 are in a
seceshn naberhood insist that Hendrix
wuz out and out seceshnist, and read
his speeches durin the war to your aw-
jinces. Eff you are in Yankee nabor
hood insist that he wus merely an up
holder Nv the constooshnel rites Nv the
south, out WIZ as loyal as anybody, on
" differin with the best Linkin ez to
methods Whether you reed his speech
es doorin the war to your awJinces or
not depends entirely on the kind Nv peo
pie VOC are talkin to- However, insist
upon reform strenuously.
STRIKT PURITY, Kokomo, Injeany.-
Ex-Sheriff Cleveland hez no past, but