Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23

HK ANxoUNcKs Hrs NEW DEPARTURE IN A
LITTER TO TIE TYRANr CLEVELAND.
CoxFppERIr 4 RoADs.

CONFIDENT 4 ROADS.
(Which is in the State nv Kentucky.
There is . depreshun in the Corners which
10 suthin friteful. There 10 feelin wich 10
gstherin strength and intensity. and vat the
result will be the Lord only knows.
hev left Issaker Gavitt and Deekin Po-
grum to take keer Of themselves, and hev
taken . moo depsrcher. Self-preservation is
hevin's fu.t law, and must selfpreserve.
l HEv TURNED MUGwUMP!
1 Yesterday addresst the follering letter to
the tyrant Cleveland 1t went agin my game,
but he'd to do it,
To His Eggsleney the Pendent
beg yer attention to the follering fax. l
am at present incarated in . Basteel At the
Corners fur having attempted to enforce nv
rites by pitchin the Niger wich now holds the
postofis here out onto his nose. onto the side
walk. 700 will understand that am an ap-
plicant fur the postonis at this place, wich
posishen adorned under the late lsmented
johnson, wich wuz succeeded by the brootal
Grant, wich histed me.
1t has been generally sposed that l am
offensive partisan, but l make haste to deny
it. vorid fur 700 fur president last fall.
It's becoz I admire your sterling integrity,
your frmniss and power Nv will, and your
gineral f.niss fur the exalted posishen, and
Cd, becoz fully coincide with you in your
nosbuns Nv civil servis reform, and desired
to do wat Good to purify and bring about
necessary reforms in Amerikiu pollytix.
While did all that honest man Good do
to bring about your eleckshun, and to block
the nnhallowed ambishun Nv that p,litlkle
skemer, Blame, want it understood that l
didn't do it ez a partisan. have alwuz bin
dimocrat. in gineral way, tho IVA very
mild type. hey been hankerin fur years
for opportoonity to get rid even Nv q sem
blance NV democrisy, and to that end, that
mite be 4 reformer and no dimocrat, the very
morning that heard the moose NV yoor NOM
ination borrowed clean shirt, washed my
feet and otherwise disguised myself.
The ONLY regret that he'd in votin the Tx
kit wich 700 headed, wuz that Hendrix Nv
Injeany, man which bleeved in the erronhus
maxim, ''to the victors b'long the spoils,"
wuz on the ticket with 700. However, had
to swaller him in order to vote fur 700, fur
wich | entertain an esteem wich | hewitt
words to cypress. The ontimely death of
Hendrix leaves 700 free to do as VOC please.
onembarrst by spoilsmen, onto which, while
regrettin his deth, congratyoolate VOC in the
interest of our common kentry.
In the interest of civil servis reform l re-
kest the removle Nv the gentleman now ok
kepyin the p0stoffis at this place. and my ap-
pontment in his sted Mr.. Lubbock hez
held the place fur "a yeers, and ez q matter
Nv course. in that time he must hev become
corrupt 1t amt in the nacher Nv things that
he Good be otherwise. He hez never bin Nv
any youse to the Corners, ez the entire emol-
NV the offs he hez selfishly put into
a house in which he lives, instid Nv spendin
it ez the rest Nv the citizens do, in Bascomb's
wich is the headquarters of the civil servis re-
form element. He is also an offensive parti-
san. Niger ez he Is, and KNOWN he's a mig
ger, he he'd the audassity aud temeritv to
come to the poles and offer to vote fur Blaine,
and wood hev votid he'd We not sent him away
with broken he'd. He refoosed to give q
dollar to assist in .endin lot NV US Kentucki-
ans over to Injeany to vote fur VOC. and hez
conducted himself in all respecks in a way
that demands his immejit remove. Wv
course we can't have offensive partisans in
offs so long ez we are the administration
l wood saw, in proof NV my entire devo-
shun to the prirsiples wich me and George
Wilyum Curtis hhv allus advocated, that af-
ter votn fur 700 l immejitly whooped around
and votid the entire republican tikkit last
spring and this fall, ez l conceive Mug
wump to be one wich never votes twict alike,
80 that he may be sure Nv being rite half the
time. When q Mugwump holds to one party
more than wunst,he becomes
an offensive partisan and ceases to be Mug
wump. shell probably vote the democratic
tirkkt next fall and the republican the next
80 ez to be consistent.
trust 700 will make this appointment ez
soon ez possible, tor the people are sendin
money lively to the Loozeaner lottery. and
every minnit remain out Nv the postoffi. Is
losin me heavily
With sentimence Nv profound respeck,
ETC.,
(Abashed, but hopefully
PETROLEUM NAsBY.
Iwept when sent this letter. Things hez
come to apurty pass when in order to git an
spntment under Dimekratic President, one
hez to speek NV Niger ez a gentleman,
and otherwise apologize fur bein dimekrat.
But sent it and await the result.
p. S i he'd hardly got this to the Pres-
dent into the postoffis afore heerd tibet
lssaker Gavitt and Dekin Program he'd eech
written one jist like it, both denyin tibet they
wuz offensive partizans. Probably the hull
party will be doin the same thing, so the
forse NV mine will be broken. Mankind hez
more dooplissity than eny NV the rest Nv the
hooman family.