News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-22
NASBE-
The Trouble with the Democracy at
the COrners-A Perfect Deadlock.

NASBT-
The Trouble with the Democracy ut
the COrners-A Perfect Deadlock.
CONFEDRTT X ROADS, D
witch is in the State Nv Kentucky.)I
January 10th, 1885.
The question NV the fedral OtfiSUS is the
one which agitateS the Corners Just now,
to the eXcloOsiOn Nv everything else.
Everything in the shape Nv laber is sus-
pendid, the entire energies Nv the citi-
zens being concentrated on this one piUt.
BascOm, Deekin POgram, ISsker Cav
tit, Kurnel McPelter and me had con-
sultashen over the matter, and we final
" decided upon aplan which we thought
would settle the question forever, and
ease down the public mind onto it. |
originated the skeem.
It WuZ plain that every man in the
Corners wuz determined to git one NV
the three pOsishenS witch are to be filled
bv cutting orr the heds Nv the present
incumbentS, eXceptln the post oils, to
witch everybody comedies that heV tn,
sole rite. BaScOm remarked that lie
wood like to fill one Nv the places hiSself,
! fur the honor Nv it, but inaSmuch ez he
wood gobble all the salaries witch wood
he pade to him fnr whiSkey, anyhow, he
| Thought that he Good afford to foregO
| the honor, and therefore he WOodent be
candidate. -,
The moment he sed that l seed lite.
6 We hev EN- now," sed L. There is
eggsackly 237 dimeeratic votes in the
| Corner. Let us ishoO call fur meet
| in Nv the dimecratic electarS Nv the Cor
ners, and decide this matter by ballot
Wat good wood that do? ?" asked the
deekin. - Every man NV EN- wood vote
| for hisself, and there we are agln. Wat
better are we off then than noW?"
I'VE will wait and see the glory Nv
the Lord. Put yer trust in me ana
will put 700 thrOo," l sed.
Therefore we annOunSt that on the
next ThurSdy, wich wuz just week
ahed, the dimOcrisy Nv the Corners wood
meet and cast their ballots for proper
persons to fill the posishens Nv p0st-mas-
ter colel<ter ny internal rev2noa- and
collekter NV customs ). that whoever re-
ceiyed a majority NV the votes cast for
eeeh place should be yOonanimusly re-
commend by the entire dimocrisy for the
pOsiShens named.
This wuz satisfactorily. ez it appeared,
and the elecShun wuZ held. Deekin PO-
gram, Issaker Gavitt and Kernel McPel-
ter met at BascOm'S the mornin Nv the
eleckshun, and | give EN- direcshuns.
. 1t will result this way. [ shell be
elected yo unanimously to the post-ot1iS,
lOl Ulldb pOSlSuSI1 ID yOOu1fCI COL-
coded to me. Every other dimecrat In
the Corners will vote for hisself. Now
wat we want to do is for all Nv us here
to vote for one man, and we hev EN-.
There is present here five votes. Ef we
five concentrate on one man it Will JlSt
make majority Nv four for the man we
vote for, witch is majority. See? We
hev EN- and we can't complane."
The ballots WuZ cast and cOuntid out
nd no IIIct Xyot W. n0llyIl9- |
It'd onto.
Every man in the Corners he'd jist one
vote fur the different places, except the |
deekin for collector of revenOo, and Is |
saker Gavitt fur collector Nv customs. |
They he'd five eech, givin EN- eileen ma
jor;ty Nv four over any other Wun can |
didate. Then l spoke to EN- ez follows |
Fellow dimocratS, we hev agreed to |
abide by the result Nv this ballot, and |
the ballot hez been he'd. Itappeers that |
every dimecrat in the Corners hez pre-
cisely one vote for eech Nv the various |
posishens, except me witch is chosen |
yOonanimuS, and MeSSrs Gavit and PO- |
gram, they hevin five eech. Me, Gavitt |
and POgram are, therefore, yoOr candi- !
dates fur them posishens, and it is |
hoped that Their will be no kickin. |
NOthin is so disagreeable in dimecrat-
ic caucus ez kickin. The voice Nv the |
PCOp1C bC 1CSpCSOCO ttINl GIlC NOlCC
Nv the people is fur these two gentle
men by majority Nv four. We shell |
therefore prepare the necessary dOcu
ment to be sent to the ueXt president at |
Albany, and we eXpeck that every dim
ecrat at the Corners will sign it just as
cheerfully ez tho he had bin the one Sc
lectid.''
Then Their wuZ row, the dimenshuns
Nv Wlch | never saw exceeded in the his
OcrISy rIz, eech on his respective hind
feet, and remarkt he'd be dam if he'd
sine any SIGH thing. The caucus he'd
bin packed and ther he'd bin bargain and
sale. Their WuZ no reason why five men
should git together to elect each, and
they wood not stand it.
Wat will you do ?' l asked.
s. We won't stand it " they replied,
and they left the house.
Wat did they do? Every blasted one
Nv EN- wrote out a petiShen neccomend-
in hisself fur the place he wantid, de-
nounSin the ackshen Nv the elecshun eZ
a frOd, and swarm that he wuz the
choice Nv jist ez many of the dimocrisy
eZ any other one. .
But wuz not at the eend Nv my re-
sources. had athunderbolt in reserve.
went to the most noisy Nv the lot and
to EN- that it wuZ all well
enuff to git the appointment, but that
after the appointment it would be found
necessary to give bonds witch he'd to hev
on EN- the names of property owners Nv
SuffiShent wealth to make the gOYermint
5ekOOr.
Where Good they find bondsmen? Ez
q. w. BaScOm he'd bin Sellin likker in
the Corners for quarter NV a century,
ne he'd absorbed the entire capitle NV the
Corners, and he Wuz the only man in the
WhnCQ wood n |
bond. WuZ he not committed to Gavitt
and the deekin? Had they not better
ook into this view Nv the case a tri1e,
lfore takin desprit steps agin the peece
Of the Corners?
This wuz to yoose avulgarism, cork i
er. The lice NV giVin bonds he'd never
okkurred to EN-. They turned pail and
ndulged in profanity witch wuz shockin
% heer. Bonds A dimekratic admin
straShen to require bnOds They
'posed that civil servis reform meant
he givin Nv the offises to men without
ponds, truStin entirely to Their material
'ectitood.
They ded never thot Nv this, and they
Euz harty in dammin a government
yich require bonds Nv offs holder.
Watts the yOOS of hOldin offs, if we
ant make nOthin by defaultin ?' they
lsked. wat have we bin labrin fur
limokrisy, all these years, if we hev to
i've bonds agin takin watever comes
ntO our hands On politix, anyhow? n
Wat the upshOt of it will be remains g
o be seen. The Corners is deprest, !,
yich wuz showed by sevrel nv EN- goin u
o work Yesterday. They dam civil ser Il
is reform, they dam the offices, and $
UNI heritics wish they he'd votid fur =
3lane.7 Eff they can't hev the places,
hey remark, the'd ez soon see Blame t.
lected ez Cleveland. But we hev the Y
'laces fixed for the present. n
PETROLEUM V. Massey. a