Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-10-23
THE TALK OF TWO TENANTS.
well, Bill, the Squire was down
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well, Bill, the Squire was down
TO see me last night
'What'd he have TO say, Henry 2
'Oh, he said he'd come to hear
of my crop; but he soon got to
talkin' of the election. He said he
couldn't see how any man in his
senses could vote for Wise against
Lee, and said he was r'apy shocked
to hear | was gOin' to-
'What'd You say, Henry ?
Il says Squire, says ], hav ever
| tried to influence yeur vote 2
No, says he, of course you never
Well, says /, don't see why you
should feel such shocking interest
in my vote when Pve shown such
little in yours. Says !, we are
both free men, and Fitz. Lee may
be your choice and Wise mine, and
still there amt no harm done
atween us, says L.
'I'll be dog if you want talking
the thing right, Henry
20 yes; you see like the Squire;
he's a good enough kind of man,
but he always wants his way in
election times, and this time I'm
goin' to switch off little
well, did he say ANYTHING else'
YES he talked lots about Ma
hone, and how the Democrats now
had control of the country, and
said 1t was the worst time in the
world for a laboring man like me to
leave the party
'Says !, Squire, party or no par
ty, I'm tired of the treadmill you
fellows have had us on ever sence
the war. Says |, you've had us
hollern' and whoopin' mad over
the revenue and the niger, and
I've done found out thar want no
sense nor truth in it-and says |,
you know yourself that your son is
holding a blamcnation fat Office in
the revenue service right II W.
Bully for that, Henry ; you
were singing him the keynote TO
the bonnie blue flag then &! What'd
he say to that 2
'Well, he kinder wiggled lie
said he knew it looked inconsistent
in him, and his son, too, as much
as they had cussed the revenue,
but that Ran. Tucker said they'd
made a mistake, the Democrats
didn't want the revenue abolished,
and it wasn't gOin' to be, and that
they might as well get the money
out the Office as any other Demo
craft
well, Henry, why didn't you
ask him if that's what he wanted
you to vote for Fitz. Lee for-iust
to keep the BourboDs and their
sons in the very Offices that they
had cussed ont the Republicans for
holdingp
81 wish | had. But | told him
this: Says |, tharfore Squire, since
you've fooled us and bamboozled
us, Pm goin' against you all this
load of poles, say what you will
for | candidly believe the party
that's runnin' Wise is the best
friend to the people, while the party
that now backs you and Fitz. Lee
too is nothin' but the politicians,
and the only thing they're good for
is to help themselves and their
friends by fooling and humbugging
the people
Yes, Henry, and you might
have told him that we'd nov had
the Blair bill in force that was
passed in the Senate by the Re
publicans if them same Democrat
politicians in the House hadn't
been so busy fixing up the Presl-
dents Cabinet, and arranging the
offices for themselves au0 their
friends /; that they never cared a
snap for the peoples interests, and
let that bill die a slow, still death
on the calendar
And, Bill tell you If moth
ing else was the matter, how in the
world could these Bourbon poll
ticians, who call themselves Demo.
Gratis land great cTackee. amt
seen a sure enough Democrat since
my old granddaddy died afOre the
war, aged 81, expect us people to
vote for old Parson Massey after
they have abused him and viliiied
him to us as they have And how
he no more of a man than to be
running hail fellow well met on the
same ticket with them No, sir
none of that in mine
You're right, Henry. Well,
good day.
Good day