The Red Cloud chief., 1886-01-01
+" PoLITIkLE coNToRspUNISI


Mr. xsshy Reviews tie rrsssdeas's Mo-.
ssge. Gees On - Consider what Meg.
vsop Il ssd Attempts % Explain Hin.
IFroiA the Toledo Dlade.l
Il BAsrEE,.
Gor taiin posseshun Nv the Post-oAJ
CoSvEDEriT X ROADS. \
WIch u In the etste Nv Kentucky
December u. Isoa
Their amt no sich thing ez q Dime.
kratic party no more. on.y IN name. 1t
Is troo that We elected a sposed Dino
crat President. but wat hev We got for
it, hev red the message Nv Grover
Cleveland. q man witch 'twere base
fattcry to call migrate. wuz never SO
thunderstruck in my life ez when l
peroosed that dockymcnt, so much so
that when the Corners cum, On Drasse,
to the front NV my cell 10 hev it red TO
EN-. l RELY hedn't the power 20 do it.
Here WIZ a Dimecfatic President actil-
" advoka,in a high %pertective tariff, or
dcprecatin any movement onto the
present tariff, wich is the anne thing;
and heer wuz a Dimocratic President
actilly insistin on that most fcendish Nv
all traps witch the Dimocratic party
ever fell into Civil-servis reform.
But that amt the wu,t nv IT. Here
WIZ a DimOcratic President wich actil-
" and without reserve, INSISTED that the
of.ise, shell not be given out ez rewards
fur politihle scrvis, but suthin witch he
calls ..litnis' shell be taken into ac-
count
am prepared now 10 heer the horn
NV Gabriel any mint. | am not per-
tikelcr, now. how Don Azracl waves
his dark wings over me-. l hev my
baggage checked fur the onsartin here
after. When a Dimckrat cnunshatcs
sich doctrin. it is high time fur Il old
moss-back like me, 10 git reddy 10 90.
Life hain't got nothin more into it fur
me, and my Resin place shood immc-
jitlv be the silent toom.
Their amt no more Dimocrisy. We
hcv bin swaliercd up by the Mug
wumps. They are runnin the glorious
old organizashun, and they hcv even
me under controlc.
l sposc / shell hev to become a Mug
wump, myself. or die in prizn. Ispose
when | walk out NV this cell into the
free air NV the hevins l shell hev to set
up in Bascom's ez "A Mugwump. |
heer myself now tryin to eggsplane to
the good Deekin Pogram how it is that
he and | shOOd elect Cleveland. and
Pollock still be Collector and Lubbock
still i'll the post-oilis. l hecr myself
egg,planin to him wat a Mugwump
RELY is: that II Mugwump is a man
wich is to pollytiX wat a wild-eyed Moo
Englanier is to philosophy. That ez
the Moo E~nglandcr after the on
attainablc and dives after the on
~fathouablc. SO a Mugwump is 4 polit-
ikle philosopher witch wants to drag
the kentry from the isn't to the is, and
then take il back again. | shell hcv to
instruct him that To be a Mugwumr,
wun witch is a Dimocrat must vote the
Republican tikkit. still SWARM that he
is a Dimocrat but oppoSin all that he
bleeveS in fur the sake NV Reform, and
IF he is a Republican he must vote the
Dimocratic tikkit fur the sake NV Re-
form. swarm all the time that he is yr
Il Republican. | shell hev to make the
poor old mar witch never vOtid any
thing but Il DimOcratic tikkit in his
life. and never put one in the box till
he he'd sum one wich Good reed look it
over to see that there WIZ nary a
skratch onto it. shell hev to beet it
into this innoscnt old seed that. bein a
Dimocrat, he must vote the Republican
tikkit this year. and the DimOcratic
tikkit the next, and so OH. becOZ when
4 man votes the same tikkit twict in
consekootivcniS he becomes corrupt
and can't be a Mugwump ut all.
The Mu"wump NV to-day is the In
dependent NV yerrs gone by, wich alluz
bleeved m way and jist Ell alluz votid
the tother.
However. to do this is the only way
to oils jist now, and | don't know ez |
keer. 1t will b. ruihcr rcnchin on the
Deekin. but kin stand il. | hev IN
dulgcd in a good many moral "ymnas-
Tx. and | amt a"oin 10 allow any lit
tie thing like this to check me in nv
career. IF MugwumpiSm is the way
to post-oilis. then | shell be 4 Mug
wump. even if l hev to 90 To Moo York
- find out wat Il Mu@wump rcely is.
Ef the President kin ask anything NV
me that | can't perform. ez the price
NV the place. l shood like TO sec him
try it. Any fate is better than the life
/ hev bin lcedin. and l don't know NV
anything that I can't stand for the few
yecrs l hcv to live.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey.