Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-21
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that an ante dIiuvian, pre-Adanlito
curiosity would. at p. H., address
the people on the leading Issues OF 40
years ago. fsT
The fossil Democratic candidate for
congress from the 9th distr:ct, emery
ed from the parental wing OF orr es-
teemed contemporary about : O'Clock
p. r., and with the eioquence Of 4
Cicero CT Demosthenes. harrangGe,i
the rabble in the following strain
Gentlemen and ladies, democrats,
republicans, greenbackSrS, aEti-Mc-
nops, prohibs, aboiitionists, free soil
ers, wings, Jacksonian and jefferson
ian democrats, / present myself TO
you in the name Of the great g.l,l
glorious Bartholdi stalue. am Coz.
G(u)ile. from Ellsworth county, Adr-
sas, and am known rs candidate foi
every party except the republican,,
and that did not exist forty years ago
and so don't know much about it.
Well, You see tins tiai.aal shirt; don't
laugh at it, for ii is TO catch yotes.
1t worked well VIXEN ran for towI-
ship trustee down in Ellsworth cCun-
t. p Years ago, So | Try the dodge
again. want youto understand that
i am square On the democratic plat-
form OF 1871 We showed the whig
par5J n.,ter fought like a Trojan,
and now am rewarded | feed it III Y
duty 70 give The Niger i little tat
fy. The republicans, yoa know, elect
ed two successive terms big black
''nigger.'' Great Caesar! didn't We
democrats howl at en- then. Right
on top of this they wouldn't run him
a third term. Third termism amt
popular in Kansas, So the 9. o. p.
nominated gallant Irishman as aud
itor of state i'll place Of the ''nigger. :
Suthing had to be done; so Tom Fell
Ion threw sop to the niger" and we
democrats want to pretend we like
him, though you all do know he's q
stencil in the nostrils of every demo-
crat. The racket don't work very
we'll. The republicans throw up to us
how the ''nigger' can't vote down
south, and its hard to meet that at
tack
Las session congress raised hell
with the soldiers. Cleveland used
the vetoes made by the department
clerks, and it don't pan out. So l
favor what the republicans proposed,
to pension every honorably discharg-
ed northern soldier. I love you oil l
soldiers. and I'll promise you all un-
der heaven. Cause why? Old Grow
err will veto every bill. That's the
dodge. The silver 5ill, I'll let that
go. Cleveland is owned bosy and
soul by Wall street, and don't favor
the west. The bond question-you
know congress had to pass resolutions
compelling Secretary Manning Il take
in the bonds. Manning is C..eseicn.;'-
Fight bower. ana will PLAY New i iA
into the democrats hands.
The ts,riil l ain no greenhorn.
endorse the democratic way of strad
ding it You may think it strang;
that / dwell on things so old and ef
fetc. but belong to the old demo
cratic school. That is we follow III
the wake of republican doctrine, lnt
after they try anything and make /:
success of it, we just pop up and claim
it as our doctrine By this meas ",
don't have to originate anything. :inC
don't run the risk of ever being wrong
Now then. about the electoral cole e
| am gong to raise Old Nick Will
tha. ar Institution. Oliver 3. PAYNE
GOT into the Y. S. senate with gar
ments dripping with oil from the Stan
dard oil company. Then too, al
'.niggers" down south would vote wit,
us or be shot. as is done nowadays
Dear friends from all parties, 1 an
going to congress and clasp the god
dess Of liberty, and knock down tn,
statue of Gen. jackson, round W
Mahogany hall, and plant Col. Gull,
ON Mount Washington.
/ 1 thank you, gentlemen and ladies
| for the profound attention you have
paid to these old stories and politica
buncombe and bosh that / have de
livered myself of. Vote for me, and
you will vote for q man &c years old
a man who was school director &c
years ago, and who champions amy
thing to get thar, Eli.
NOTES.
There was rapturous applause from