The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-06
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Enunciation Of President Cleveland's
Policy Regarding Negro onice- Holders.
[From the Toledo Bladel
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS,
CWich B In the State NV KentuckyD
April 20, 1886.
This world is holler sham, and I
wood be satisfied eff cataclysm ok
kurred this mint wich wood wipe it
out completely. Eff it isn't one thing it
Is suthin else.
President Cleveland announst last
week that wher niggers wuz in offs in
the South he shood remove EN- II they
he'd bin dishonest, but he shood not ap-
point white men in their places, but
ruther give the posishens to sich niggers
ez he'd demonstrated ther honesty and
ftnis by supportin him.
Joe Bigler seed it afore did, for /
wuz out in the kentry when the paper
come, and he immejitly went with it
over to Bascom's and red it to George
w. The feend remarkt to Issaker
Gavitt and Deekin Pogram, wich wuz
sittin ther, that this enunshiashun
iwoodent affect them, ez the places they
wuz after wuz filled with white men,
and white men wood be appinted when
they wuz removed, but he continyood:
''This cooks the Parsons goose. The
post-offis here is filled by nigger,
Lubbock. Lubbock hez hin honest
enuff, so fur ez we kin sc,, but he votid
fur Blaine, which is prin,a fdShe evi-
dence that he isn't fit fur the posishen.
He will be removed ez matter Nv
course, but his place will be filled, ac-
cordin to the President, with Dino
cratic Niger Ez ther amt but one
sich. Androo Jaxon Pogram, Nv course
he will be the man. Deekin, con-
gratoolate yoo. You may never hold
q Fedrel offs yoorself but one with
yoor blood in his vanes will"
The feend he'd jst got thro with this
orashun when | entered. and steppin
briskly up to the bar sed 'ez yoosual,
G. W."
Their wuz coldnis in the air Nv that
room witch wood hev friz Bascom's best
whisky. They avertid ther heads from
me ez tho ! wuz Gorgon.
mot quite ez yoosual," wuz Bas-
CONS chillin response. 'Ther is q
change taken place. Yoo will git yoor
likker hereafter, commencin now, jist
after yoo pay fur it."
"Pay fur i'll Wat do yoo meenp
When His Eggslency, the President,
makes his appointments, and / step into
Jim Lubbock's shoes, 700 will be paid. I"
Bascom never chaged q muscle, but
handed me the paper. red the words,
and overcome, fur wunst, fell faintin to
the floor.
When / cum to, which they all per-
mitted me to do without renderin me
any assistance, wat met my eyes? Joe
Bigler he'd gone out and found Androo
Jaxon Pogram and organized him into
q perceshn! lie he'd got a banner
paintid fur him onto wich wuz in
scribed:
The KULERED DEMOCRATIC PARTY wv
THE CoRNERs!-P CLEVELAND REC
oGNIzEs THE RITES wv THE KULERED
MAN-EF ONE KUsERED MAN GOES. OUT
ANOTHER GUMS IN. CIVIL SERvIs RE-
FORM.
And he he'd filed this disgustin mig
ger up with moo whisky, and he he'd
given him bass drum, wich he poundd
with one hand, firin off saloots with a
revolver in the other. And in this alb
surd shape he paraded the streets Nv
the Corners, and FINELY pulled up in
Bascom's.
Then the iron entered my sole. Bas-
com, Deekin Pogram and Issaker Gavitt
helped him to git of the drum, and they
sot him down, and Bascom asked him
to take suthin. and remarkt to him that
when he wantid anything to call fer it,
and that it Good stand till he got his ap-
ointment, and in the meantime TO make
hisself at home; and the nigger did
make himself at home, fur he called fur
drinks fur hisself and fur the Deekin
and Issaker, and they clinked the
glasses, and then the Deckin called fur
o round and then Issaksr.
Ef that niger had bin Emprer NV
Rooshy he coodent hev bin treetid with
more considerashun by these incoAsist-
ent men. Jist becoz stoopid President
Is goin TO give him o postroliis, they
afiilyate with him, fergettin his blood
and the degiedashun Nv his race,
Bascom that he may corrall his salery,
and the other two becoz he will hev
the meens to pay fur ther likker.
woulden't demeen myself by drink
In with nigger. Arid ez wuz, re-
strained myself. Iwuzn't asked.
This thing is goin on to this mint
Androo Jaxon Pogram is settin in my
cheer, drinkin my whisky, or ruther the
whisky that would hev bin mine, and
gittin all the credit he wants, on the
strength Nv the appintrnent he is goin
to git, and the rest NV the Dimocrisy Is
cottonn TO him. Joe Bigler comes and
condoles with me, remarkin that no
matter, that / hev the conshusnis Nv
heyin done my dooty.
am livin on sich chance drinks ez l
Kin rope out Nv strangers, and life with
me hez becum nitemare. The end Nv
II will be shell be found one Nv these
iine mornings in Seceshn erik Water,
not whisky, will be my death. Androo
Jaxon Pogram, Niger, postmaster at
the Corners and Dimocrat In the Presi-
denshl cbarel Chaos is come agin.
Why wuzn't Hendrix made President
and Cleveland Vice-PresdentP That Is