Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-03
CONFEDERATE Y ROADS,
(Which il in the State nv kentl1el, {


ocracy hez bin weighin onto the
Corners for sum weeks We are in
rather a peko0lyer way here, and
require suthin more than COMMON
tiles differently organized. Bascom
hez mortgage on everything witch
Deekin Pogram, Issaker Gavitt and
Kernel McPelter hez, and ez fur
me | owe him for sevrel yeers' sup
plies, but hev to hev jist az much NV
his goods ez tho | wuz a Vanderbilt.
Stumick IS stumick, and a Post
master out NV biznis hez the same
gnawin therein az tho he wuz sittin
quietly in his offs and DRAWN his
salary regler.
Bascom's interest in poIitix lies
cheehy in the fact that the Dimoc
risy NV the corners will hev whisky,
and, ez they won't work, there is no
way NV payin fur it except they
hold the offises, and the interest nv
the rest nv MS is in holding the
ofliSes, not so much with a view nv
payin wat we owe ez hevin our sup
plies in the fucher regeler and not
precarious. We want to rest mites
quietly
The niger, Lubbock, which holds
the Post Offs, and Joe Bigler, witch
is the Collector, don't drink likker,
SO they are no good to Bascom nor to
us.
In view nv the differences NV opin-
ion wich threaten the success NV the
Dimocrisy, we held a meetin last
mite to draft series Nv resoluoo-
shens setting forth wat we deemed
wuz right and wuz not, to enshoor
the elecshun NV Dimekrat Presi-
dent and the consekent relief Nv the
Deekin, Bascom, Issaker, Kernel
McPelter and myself.
| called the meeting to order and
asked for sejestions
Kernel McPelter, witch is tryin to
sell a part of his farm for iron
factory, remarkt tibet, to enshoor the
success Nv the Dimocrisy, a strong
posichen shood be taken in favor
NV perteckshun to Amerikun in
dustry.
Deekin Pogram riz immejitly, and
insisted that, instid NV Perteckshun,
the party shood take strong ground
in favor NV absloot Free Trade.
Ez the two wuz about to engage
in a atercashen that wood endanger
the harmony NV the meetin, | stopt
Gun.
"Gentlemen," | remarkt, ''the har-
mony NV the party must not be dis
turbed by any such trifiln matter en-
a tariff. We want Pannsylvany and
Ohio, and eff we declare for free
trade we lose EN-. We want lllinoy
and Wisconsin, and if we declare
fer perteckshun we lose them states.
The tarif, gentlemen, IS q question
that Shood be lifted ont ~ potjtjc."
Issaker Gavitt ariz and moved ez
the sense NV this meetin that the
asker NV the dimocratic legislacher
NV Ohio in passin a civil rites bill,
glvin the niggerS the same priv
leges ez the whites wuz not dino
cratic, and shood be frowned down.
Bascom riz and remarkt that
Issaker was a dam fool. "The dim
ocrisy NV Ohio wantid the niger
vote. Ez a nigger's money at his
bar wuz ez good ez white mans.
He moved that it be declared the
sense nv this meeting that the shoot
in NV uicgers at Danville, Va, and
Copiah county, Miss, was infamus."
FL these two wuz liable to lock
horns, | riz agin.
"Gentlemen," said l, "the har-
mony NV the dimocrisy must not be
disturbed by any SIGH trifiin ques-
ton ez to whether a rigger shell ride
first-class in Ohio, or be shot in
Mississippi We want the niger
vote in Ohio, where we need it, and
we don't care d 500 markee about 1t
in Mississippi, where dimocrlsy hex
control NV shotguns. We turn over
the Niger to the several States ne
niger question is one that shood
be lifted out NV poitlX."
Tie deekiu murmured suthln
about dimocrisy meanin opposishun
to nashuel banks, when Kernel Pei
ter, witch hez q cuzin who is presl-
dent uv bank, and from whom he
bomers occasionally, riz to oppose
him and they WIZ goin to hev
shindy.
/ riz Wuust more.
"Gentlemeu," sed /, "the question
Of cuuaucv operates in some seek
shuus for MS and in some agin us.
Ez we want oil seckshuns, can't you
see that the question Of currency,
litn .1s otho,. fyO viph hey come