The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-04
UNDER risE NEW REGIME,
Nasty Tolls How the Faithful aro to I
Provided For. %

S"soy LSlis it0W the Faithful Rr0 to b
Provided For.
CoSrEpEEir Y ROADS, !
(ifich is III the Suite NV Kentucky,
December !, 1854. }
The Corners Is enraged at the report
which joe Bigler cirkclated %announsir
tho de,erminashen NV President Ueye.
land to observe absurd Civil Scrvis Rools
and reloosin 10 remove lsadikel Fedrel
o%flsholdefs, ccptin inr coz, tho effect Nv
wlch wood hc to keep tho Niger Lubbock
1.-THE Post Oils, and Joe Biglcr and Pol.
lock the lllinoy store keeper in tho posi-.
sliens ny Rcvenoo and Custom house Col
l%ectors, blitin the hopes NV the oa37 patri.
OTIS wich labored xelus'y fur CLEVELAND. and
Reform, ut the Corners.
The meeting WIZ %yoonanimous on ono
pint, and that wuz that wat oilises ther Is
sl.ood be immejitly turned over to the
faithful and zelus nimocrisy anyhow, to
which Deckin Pogram assellted. but with
a previso. EcI
"TIcr is sntlin more which We hev q
rite todemand, scd he, "and which 1 shell
demand in thunder tones. There Is but
three principle oliscs, and pethapstwenty
subotdinet places undsr en- ut the
Corners. wicli must, or ut least shooi, 70
tothe ninocrisy, cz II reward for thrr
onrcmitiin !abors in the coz NV Reform.
we deserve them ot!iScs, for who swal.
Tered the pill w Matiar llalpin, or who
consented to assosliasi.en with Beecher
more gracefully than We?
"The oiises that is" c%ontinnered the
Deckin, "pervides for say twenty.three
NV the 22S7 Dimekrats nv the Corners, the
county and moonisipple oifises for say 20
more making round numbers 80 that are
hSed. Wat ARE 700 g0in to DO fur the re-
mainin ISL? How do yoo perpose to take
keer Nv them? Every Dimocrat in the
Corners worked fur Cleveland and Re-
form, and every wun Nv en- is entitled to
cons'detashnn. True, they hev different
degrees Nv ability, but then there's are DIFF
terent degrees NV otiises. The struggle
wuz fur ollises, and us tAer WIZ n yoouar-
unity In labrin fur the coz ov Reform, SO
l 1ollS. thcr is . yoonanimity in gittin u
reward fur it.
wat is to be done fur the 1877? Only
wun thing kin be done. Fifty otiises
amt enuit TO 90 around among 2237. !
kin solve the problem Will, wun hand
tied behind me. We hev got to hev more
otflses creatid, so that every Dimokrat kin
hev one. Possibly it would anser to hev
say l25 oiilses creatid, for it wood reqwire
at least so groseries like Bascom's to sup.
ply that number Nv pimekrats in reject
Nv regler salaries
AT this pint Bascom interrupted the
venerable Deekin.
"1per:est, yelled Bascom' "asin emmy
proposls!iun to establish any mora groscr.
les at the Corners. I hey stood behind
my bar for q long and weery yeers, ex-
tendin credit to u thirsty DimocriSy, VA
TN and hopin that the millennium wv a
Dinocratic President mite come. It hez
cum Mt last, and now | am coin to reap
wher | hev sowed. I4want my Just re-
ward. | want the 1871 addishunal oiFises
created, bnt / also want the privilege NV
supplyin them with likker, FUR CASH..
want the luxury OF settin out a bottle,
afere | tic, witt. the certainty uvbein paid
cash fur likker, and not bein compelled to
listen to the disguslin monotouy Nv list
mark 1t down e L want all the places
made thet tits .possible, but ez I hev been
sowln tur "a yecrs, l want four yeers Nv
reap. "a many olti ses cz VOC please, gem
t'emen, but no more rroseries."
II amt p%ertikelerI!" replied the Deekin,
II only made the secession to relieve the
President"
Then | upspoke:
My ~friends,"I remarked, "we shell
hev no trouble. We kin git moo places
created, but tl,er are other things than
places. There is q moo Custom House to
build, and a combinashcn will Git the con.
trak, and tler will be an army Wv labrers
TO be employed"
Then tlier, arose SIGH q storm CT I never
heerd. They SHOUTED III korus:
"Labrers indeed! What do we want
Nv labor? We Good hey laberd cz well
under a Republican President ez under a
D!mocratic. Wat VT want is oils wic!,
don't require laber. We want more
offises I"
FINELY it ww decided to demand the
cresahun NV enutf otIises to give every
man NV em a place, and the meetin adj
jonrned satisfied.
Ei Cleveland ~disappoinIs It's I'm agono
cas-. hcv given my word that this
siIel be done, and done ez early in the
spring as possible. On the strength NV
thl promise Bascon hez extended six
months credit and the Corners Is toilabiy
contcnt!d. We shcl hewitt all rite this
winter anyhow. and the spring will take
keer Nv itself. / hev lived all my life on
the basis Nv hevin tho fncher take keer
ny itself, and1 spose l will alluz hev to.
Wat she! try to cit will be a a%ppropri.
as!iun Tor n 0 Custom House and an
o:her fur s~lack.wntrin Scclesin erik.
Tier will be; fur the Custom llonsc the
iirm contrackin for tho work, n soopcr-
vis!n arkitcct, ten or 4 dozen ~sub.soopar-
vIs'n arsitects, time-kcepers, oyerseers,
&c, and about The same forsc for the
Slaci-water job. There will be enutf
sooperior ~posishens to yoose up the 237
rsgter white voters, and we slel import
Italian laborcrs 10 10 the work. I sejested
that we shood employ tho niggcr5 NV the
Corners fur the labor, but Bascom OBJ
icctid. The ~nicssrs dou't drink, cz Il
r0o!, and Bascom gifts notliin out nv them.
BE very properly e1pex that all the sala.
ries paid and the sum totle NV the two ap.
propriashuns will 90 thro his hands.
Ell we kin cit these appropriateness
passcdthis winter we shell be all rite.
Otherwise l shell be in II tite place, for in
antissipaghen uvthe comm milliuiunf all
work hez bin suspended. :.
PErRoLEUM Y. Nasty.
Postmaster wich is to be-