Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06

us; Their wuz the Tresury at Wash
inton loomin up in the distance,
with its Golfers overfowin, to be
seezed and distributid; ther wuz
places without number to be filled, |
and a Congris wich Good make ez
many more, so that all NV us witch |
deserved place by reason NV activity
in the canvass Good hev place.
That prospect hcz bin blited. The
offises are there, the promised land
is afore us, but Grover Cleveland is
the deth that hez stricken us just ez
we are in site NV it. l look over into
the Joodee NV offishel place, and
helplis on my back, gnash my teeth
in impotent rage.
am dyin in site NV the Promist
Land.
For eight long months I hev
waited for my commishn and it
Lcometh not, and wat is wuss, / am
langlshin in a Basteel fur attemptin
to assert my rites. l did help pitch
the niger out NV the postoffis on his
nose, and l am proud NV it. Wat
rite hcz he there? Is he a Dino
crat? IIez he votid the Dimocratic
tlkkit from Jaxon down to date,
sumtimes three or four times at an
eleckshun ? Did he serve in the
Confedrit army? Did he cripple
the Fedrel authorities by persistent
and successful bounty jumping?
Did he vote three times for Grover
Cleveland, in Indiana, BARN his own
expenses there and back ? Hez he
ever shot a niger or northern
carpit Dagger thro the kidneys fur
attemptin to vote the Radikel tik-
kit? In short, is he a Dimocrat :?
Yet he holds the offs to witch | am
Untitled to, with the consent NV the
President.
"Grover Cleveland is perpetratin
this outrage onto the Dimocrasy in
the name NV Civil Servis Reform.
Hezn't lie sense enuff to know that
he can't play any SIGH nonsense and
stay inside the Dimekratic party
Don't he know that water can't
never rise above it's level -? Hezn't
he sense enuff to know that party
can't never be any better than its
membership p? Is he going to make
sinners do the work NV saints and
hev EN- smile while they are doin it:
How wuz it that Coal Oil Payne
Good buy up a Dimocratic legisla.
cher eff it wuzn't that the Dimocrisy
send men to Legislachers which XIII
be bot? Does he expect Tammany
to go into struggle fur hevin the
offisis in the hands NV honest men
In short, does he expect to gathe
figs from thorns, or to hev karki
give out the oder of kolone? Eff he
didn't expect to do ez the Dimoc
risy wantid him to, wat did he &C
, cept a nominashen at Their hand
fur? Don't he know that a Presi
dent can't be better than his party
Doesn't he comprehend that when
! President gifts better than his party
t he gifts out NV it and slides over int
t suthin else? Grover Cleveland
+ electid by Dimocrats, is trying t.
be ez good ez though he he'd BIZ
electid by the Republicans, wic1
G won't do. / protest agin his tryi
+ to put us into clean shirts. The
don't set well onto us.
Platforms ? Who keers a dar
!, for a platform, anyhow? Wv cours
we he'd to put them things into tn
e platform, but wat Dimocrat spose,
they ment anything? No Dime
I kratic platform is bindin after til
= eleckshun.
81 hev bin led up to a site NV tn
c promist land and |, like Moses, al
n, dying with the vision in my enral
re chered eyes. ] am in baker
with a muzzle on. | am in a ba
room, famishin With thirst, wit
V nary money or credit to procoor
&c asswager. / mite liken myself
es Tantalus, only | don't keer abol
re water | am Sysiphus, with Il
at stone jist at the top NV the mou
- tain. | am a dog on wheel, ALT
- treddin, but never gettin Their.
cs short, Pm moss backed Democrt
ne witch wants a offs. l am Nose
d. No. 2.
70 "My friends, I thank 700 fur yo
kindnes in lessenin the load NV de
nc wich hez bin oppressin me, but
shood be moro obleeged eff 700 woo
ne discount your credits fur cash.
es will accept most any terms"
a The moment / began to talk I
~ cash advances the crowd melt,
ell away into the darknis like frost
IL Jooly, and wuz alone. The Corne
nut is ez cold ez a stun when it comes
W. maxim cash advances. Howevt
j. they can't let me starve, and Bi
com manages to keep me irrigat
ne in tolcrable way.
NV PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
,lv Discouraged. !