Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-18
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Calls a Meeting, and Then
Attempts 10 address tt.-Joe BiIger
Forces Himself TO the Front and
Makes the speech RaimseIf.


Toledo Blade: CONFIDENT X ROADS
witch is in the state NV kentucky, Joon
l21, 1SS4.-I considered it necessary to
call the Dmocrisy together Last mite to
the cend NV corcertin n4ethods NV CON
ductin the next campane. IneZmuch
ez the salvashen NV the Corners, en- well
ez the kentry, depends upon the defect
NV Blaine, I concluded to act upon the
principle that eternal vigilence is the
price NV liberty. In the Interest NV re
form and pure government we must de-
feet Blaine, and to defect Blaine we
must kerry lnjeanny, and TO kerry Inje
amy | determined to git ready the men
we shell send from Kentucky into lnje-
amy to vote, and hev 'em in readiniss
to go 81 soon ez we know that the price
per head hez been put up in hard cash.
We are patriots, but we alluz want TO
know, first, whether our candidate hez
bari, and, second, whether he is going
to put il on tap.
Therefore / called meetin that Unite
set the ball rollin and commenst to
address it myself. / opened elokently ez
follows:
Fellow-citizens "To begin with l shell
hev to explane-"
That wuz all Nv that speech witch
ever delivered. That audashus wretch,
Joe Bigler, forced his way thro the
throug, and ascending to the pulpit
rekested me to set down, witch l did.
When he requests l alluZ do
"Feller-ciuzens, said Josef, "the
word explain, witch our subsidized friend
yOosRd, reminds me Nv an anecdote.
There wuz stuttern man witch he'd
wife, and The wife went away from
home to visit her mother, to be gone
some two weeks She he'd just got to
the depot to take tho trane when she
remembered suthin witch made it nes-
sary for her to return immejitly TO her
peaceful home. She entered the front
door and diskivered her husband on the
stares kissin her servant gal. This wuz
twenty years ago. The gentleman wich
suffered wuz narratin the Gffectin in
sident to his friends recently, and he
remarked. And j-j-j-ist t-t-t-think Nv
t-t-the o-n-r- reasonb- b-blen-e-e-ss Nv W
w-w-w. omen! 1t t-t-t-took me f-f-f-
fifteen yeers to explain that
My friends. democracy hez very
similar experience. Originally he waz
welded to the G.ddis NV Liberty and a
very prom;sin' couple they waz. But in
| Calhoon's time the Goddess caught him
| kissin the old harlot Seceshp, and he
hez bin thirty odd years explainin'
that.
"Scasely waz that fixed up when he
went gallivantin' off after Slavery, the
elder sister NV Seceshn. and made war
upon Mexico at her biddin'. He hez
bin over thirty years explainin' that.
"Onct more leavin' bis lawful bride he
| took an excursion into Kansas. and wuz
KEEP mity busy for several years explain
! in that.
Then Slavery and Seceshn jined
\ hands ia 1851 and attempted to murder
his spouse, and he followed en- blindly,
| giving EN- all the help he could. He hez
! bin explainin' that for about twenty-four
yeers.
From 1865 to 1878 he made a vigerus
effort to save the life Nv both the old
hags, and he hez had his hands full ever
since to explain that.
"Forgettin' his martial VOWS he after
wards assaulted his wife's fust cousin
the Nashnel Credit, asd insisted upon
fiat money and killing off speshy pay
ment, and he hez bin eXplainin, that
ever since.
He prosecuted every nnjsst war we
hev waged, aud opposed the only Just
one we ever had, and he hez bin explain
in both uvem ever since.
"He rushed off ITO repoodiashen NV
a honest debt, ond he hez bin explainln
that ever since.
HE hovled for speshy when we ought
to hey good paper mummy, and howled