The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-01
4 We 1ale on thezo, NE are gone, an gone

II we faie on thezo, VIC are gone, an gone
beyant redcmpshun.
So the time ariyin fur us to start, we
throwcd q boss blanket on the prize
newell an we started, Flick a-ridin be-
hint. We went round bi hiz house an
got o cupple ov botels ov Ticker, which
we thot wood ad q leetle tone an karak-
ter to the okashun. click ust to be q
dimocrat-that's how he KEN to hev
the Ticker.
We arriv at the skule house in gud
shape-Elick wa a-feelin particularly
hapy under the eggsileratin %inlooence
ov the Ticker an the undulatin perklivi-
ties ov his eend ov the mewel. He sed it
reminded him ov the time when he wuz
q inlooenshul dimocrat. Imajin my
elashun when 1 seed the house waz full
to overflowin, and every 1 scanned egar
an willin to hear me expound the trooth
an axcept whatever fax l could produce.
yes" I ejackelated to miself, 81 will
accept a furren mishun," an here 1
lived thru another short but very happy
period which wuz soon to be busted az
you will see by the sekel.
ImejeatIy on arrivin / perceded to biz
ness, fuss explainin the objeck ov the
mectin an a tellin ov them how the prize
mewel wuz to be disposed ov, which wuz
well received, and then / percedcd with
mi speach, a fue extracts ov which l will
give you az tina ockur to me at this
writin. Among other things / sed, "You
will notes, ladies and gentlemen, that the
progress ov the republican party hes bin
marked with CRATE events. 80 year ago
you could kount the milunairs In theze
United States on the fingers ov l hand,
now tina are more oomer thar the hares
on your he'd. Who made en-, 1 ak you?
Who made EN- but the republican party?
An agin, not less than fifteen year ago
you could scacely find a band outside ov
a county seat or the largest towns, an
now you kin find EN- at most every cross
road. All this hes bin brot about hi our
wise legislashun. No other country on
earth kin sho az CRATE a record az this.
What better condishun ov things than
this wood you want? What wood you do
when you wanted to borrow money If it
wuz not fur the bank? All you hev to
do when you want money is to go to the
bank and give en- a mortgage on what
stuff you hev got. You are put to no
truble, tina do all the work, SIGH as writ
in up the mortgage and deductin the in
terest and commissions an if there is
dHYouliH CoHiil W YOU, YOU blG IL rlIc
there in cash. That's what we put EN-
there fur, to help the farmer out In times
of need" An commenced to wind up
Of a sayin, ''dident we fife the war? We
were there from beginin to eendin.
Dident we free the slaves? an diden,
we'--here ole Seph Billions broke in an
busted up the meetin. He sed. "Sa
Wedge, we done big things, dident
'wc?' I happened to no you durin the
war, you leetle dried up, boleged, off
skowerns ov kreashun. You wuz
drafted ar a deserter, an your dad hired
a substitute fur you, an you stole bosses
to pay fur it.. Drive him outen the
house!" he yelled. just then some ono
hit MI On the he'd with a fork handle
an mi memry ov what happened artcl
that is a leetle cloudy. l am now caryin
one eye in a sling. Soon az I git sound
agin l will write you sum more.
YOurn fur revenge,
SYLVESTER WEDGE, Hon.
P. S. hope to git that Hon. at the
other ecnd of mi name soon.