San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-07-22
The Quiltin' Bee.
For the FREE PRESS.

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| A lot of us wimen met to help Miss
Tompson quilt. had determined I'd not
say q word about politics, for 1 knowed II
was resky subject, but in spite of all my
manuverin' the political ball was started
rollin'.
Miss Featherhead came rushin' In and
said, "NIiss Tompson, you must excuse me
fer bein' late, 1 got to readin' about the
wickedness Of them Knights of Labor.
Why, they wont'er kill everybody, take
everybody's property and have all things in
common"
Mrs. Lofty said: "Most of the newspa-
pers, religious and otherwise, are givin'
some vigorous licks at the Labur party"
1 remarked: eyes, and givin lovin' pats
of encouragement to monopoly. We'll, l
suppose even if the are not paid for doin' it.,
it is easier to swim with the current than
agin it,"
Miss Slocum lowed rs fer her part she
thought the soldiers and the laborin class
ought to be satisfied if enybody was, for she
saw in the papers that big lot of Congress-
men wanted to pension the soldiers and all
their kin, while another lot said it was un-
Just to the laborin' class not to remove re-
strlctions from trade, while all the rest said
they needed perfection; from the shines
they had been cutten up she thought the
people needed to be perfected from them.
said: "And / see that organ of one of
the political parties says there are many
honest men in either house of Congress and
the few ant been there long enough to learn
the tricks O. trade"
Miss Brown: "I'll be mighty glad when
the ides of November comes, because Mr..
Brown says they will stop all the fussin'
everything will be real lovely then"
1 lowed that then there would be only o
Survival of the fittest" and the millennium
would commence, but was mighty fraid
there was too many of US that would be
considered the ''fitest."
Miss Lofty remarked that she thanked
heaven for two things, one was that nobody
had ever called her anything bnt demercrat
and the other was she had some, it might
be mighty little, but it was some, reverence
for sacred things.
replied reverence is a mighty good
thing when it ant over done, and 80 abody
had clear conscience it do not make no
difference what they are called.
Miss Smith said her cry should be till
she died, "cling to the party, sink or swim,
right or wrong" and that we should look
on the Demercrat party as parent, yes, q
tender, lovin' parent.
1 asked her which wing she was a goin'
to cling TO, that there was two wings to
both political parties, and the leaders of
each ought to tell tho people where to take
hold when they wanted TO cling, and that
the Demercnt party was MORN one parent,
it was ruther on the order Of the Shines
twins.
had begun 10 feel purity warm aud when
old Miss Liilepste said, Il don't know
nothin' about politics and don't want TOO,
5Ir. L;tflepate says no honest man ought TO
have anything 10 do with them they are 50
corrupt" Tst biled oser and riz to my
feet and sAid. 1t shame for a citizen
Of the United States to tax 50. sbHrely
meas highest earthly duty consists in try
ug to baili up ana Sustain a pare govern
neat and they vi be dom that With
yeugaBoe 70 sand nloof and abandon the
rsins q gOEernnett 70 corrupt men. Who
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