Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-08-27
Presidential Procrastination.
Massey COMPLAINS OF CLEyELAND's SLOW
NESS.
Confedertt Y Roads,
witch Is In the state NV Kentucky

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witch Is in the state NV Kentucky.
Jooly .6 ISIS.
In the interest ofcivil seryis reform, Dee
kin Pogram, Issaker Gavit. and myself hev
watched the postofis ten hours each day for
two months eggspectln every mail TO re-
eeiye our commissions. Ii didn't make much
difference to me whether loafed about the
postotfis or anywhere else, but it hez bin the
room Nv Issaker and the Deekin. Neether
w EN- hev hoed ther corn or dun partikle
NV work. Their wives hev put in their time
lively in the feeds and they will make a
part Nv crop, but it will be mighty small.
Sch is the effeck of presidential pro-
crastinnashun on the industries OF the KEN
try.
Last night our eXpeciashens wuz very
strong. We all seemed 10 have a present
men, that the evenin mail would bring Us the
long -looked-fur dockyments so that early in
the moruin We Good pereeed TO hist out the
yooserpers wich hev been yoocerpin for
twenty -four years. and install ourselves in
Their places. Bascom wuz under the ;nfoo-
ence and wuz smilin and afable, even go
ing to the extent Nv sskin me 10 take suthIn,
wich is a correct barometer Nv his frame Nv
mind.
We felt the more sekkoor fur We he'd two
weeks before sent fresh batch Nv docy-
mence TO strengthen the departments. We
had no trouble to prove Bigler and Pollock
offensive pariIzans, fur they he'd votid the
Republikin tickit every year from the close
w the war. We watched Lubbock, the mig
ger postmaster. and proved him still more
offensive partizan. He never vo,id the Re
pubhkin or any other ticket, for beIn' mig
ger, for him 10 hev offered a vote at the
Crossroads would have earned him broken
head, bat We showed he never spends cent
At Baseom's, goes TO bed at Q o'clock, and
takes Republican noosepaper, and wat is
worse reads j, hissef Fl that don't make
him an offensive partizan don't know wat
does. Il wuz time that these docymence
shood have an etfeck, and We wuz confident
they wood.
The mail arrived. but no commishns. wen
our barometer Immejtly dropped. But lid
git suihin in our Louisville paper wich fn-
ished US. 1t wuz the crooel announcement
that the president had gone to the noun
talns Of Northern Moo York. to be gone two
munths
To be goSe two munths' Wat am | to do
fuI two munths? can't folcr the dispenser
~ patronage 10 the Adirondax. can't
penetrate them vast forests 10 shove nv pc
ushun al him. kin manage to make
Washington on the cnmbluasnen plan, walk
IN and bein kicked off francs. but the Adj
rOndaX IS impossible. Tie amt a goin up
there TO put his name To commishuns-in
fact. the noosepaper plainly states that he
goes 10 the remotes; forests Nv the North 10
escape the imperoonities Nv them wich
placed him in his high po.isheu.
The eticck upon all Of u ~uz ie,chin in
eggstrrme. Bascom turned 10 his desk
took out his ledger, and turned over the
hundred OF more pages which contanes my
account and looked a, me pensivey aud set
down and weI'. Deekln Pogram got up
and walked the floor, moanin ike one Who
refused 70 be oomtorted. and lssaker placed
his elbows on his knees and buried his face
in his hands and wep; profoose.
Jst then Who should come in but Joe Big
Ter. Pollock. and the Niger Lubbock. all uY
EN- on broad grin but BigIer. This feend
shoWd Us the paragraph and said he wuz
disappointed. He had hoped 10 be reeey-
ed sooner, but va, could be do2 Doo'v 10
his kentry compelled him 10 hold on till he
WIZ removed and his successor applnted.
He regretted il, but doo,y afore everything.
ana be shood hold on. Bascom heeved
bottle at him, and they retired laf-
fin.
Il hez bin the rool " my life never to
question the doiHs w the dispenser NV pa
tronsge. but my outraged soul must CRY out
al this. bust. Wuz 1t to hey presldeu; 20
TO the Ad.rondax afore sguin my commishn
that ! rallied the dimoknsy Nv lnjeanny, vo-
Tia there tw.ct myself, and oontrlbbitin ny
my slender meens to fund fur transportin
kentuckians into that state Wuz il fur
this that ! organized the groceries and seen
10 the dis,rib4shen w Akker in southern
lnjeanny and Ohio? Wuz il fur this that
fur forty long yeers, IN season and out Nv
season. have .abored fur dImooTisy Wuz
Il fur this tia, crossed Lake Ere in an
open boat 10 avoid ser, in the Fedrei ar
my, and afterward permitted myself to be
drafted in the Coufedrasy
Fl hey no voice in the administrator
my sufnus aud sacrifices hey each ton
que. And vet the president-a dimocraiic
president goe- 70 the AIirondax, and
leaves my pe'-hen unheeded
am in terrible state Bsscom imme-
july served motifs onto me that | Good not
ney drop ceptin for cash, positively this
time wIthou; reserve. He he'd follered *
n!sfa,uses long enufi Appointment, wuz
Elusive, but iIkher w4z stern reality. He
pade cash for lkker and mus, hev cash 10
return. When he seed a commlshn dooly
egg,ecootld. with the seal Of the post offs
department onte It he wood give credit, but
not til. then.
That mite went to bed parched and arid,
and ! awoke the next mornin feeiin that
was a ho.ler moekery Wood that We had
reversed the tikkit and made Hendrix presi-
dent and Cleveland vice
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