The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-04-08
HE TELLS ALL HE KNOWS.
A "Dlmmycrat" Takes 18th } Repub-
lican" Into his Contidencs.

DEER SURF am a dimmycrat
frum way back and the fust end NV
mi name is Git Thar.
Now. Mister Editer, ! don't mind
tellin yu, but We ar IA goin to win
this here fife, an don't yu forgit it:
fur yu see, tn begin with, We hav
CRATE advantage OWN tn the fact
that we ar not hampered with skru-
piles NV emmy sort az we ar commit
ted tn the sole idee NV gittin the
offises.
Our trump card, Mister Editer,
has alters bin tn git the pepel dis
contented. We tel the pore devels
that tina ar plundered, robbed and
spit upon by this yere cussed Abo-
lishen government, an that things in
gneral ar a goin to the d,mntion
bow-wows, an yu see in this Wa W,
git them worked up into II frame Nv
mind over woes that ar whOlla i'm
agenary an then we sadcl the blame
onto the black Republicans, an et
the Teller happens tn be emery
kus that would rob hen rost on Il
very trihin provacation an wood do
wat was wanted fur II reasonable con
sideraton, we git him evri time an
his vote counts. See!
Ii IL awl very wei tn talk about
Am,ricy fur Americans an awl thai
sort NV thing. but va HAY observed,
no dout. Mister Editer. that the
party belong tn hazzent bin throin
AVA emmy surplus ENERGY on the
thing peepel call patriotism. We
ar content tn let uthers du the
gushin over the American egel All
awl SIGH nonsenz az that, for yu
must no that turky buzzard il a
plenty good enuff bird fur us, if We
can only git the offises.
Neither ar wo u settin up mites
these times pintin with pride tn
emmy thing our party haz dun in the
last thirty yeers.
/ hav bin a lo0kin over the reck-
erd an find that when we 60 to take
credit fur emmy thing our party haz
dun, we hat to 60 bak tn tie good
ole daze Nv Jefferson an JaxOn, so
far back in fack that thar il no liv-
in witness before we git onto ground
that il safe to travle on.
We hav not dun ,ennything tn be
proud NV az party fur the last gen.
Grafton or to, but az l said | am
dimmycrat an don't keer kuss SO
We git thar.
Our cheef biznes in the boldly
pollytick haz bin tn do the buckin
an tn keap the luther fellers frum
doin ennything ez much ez possibel.
Hill IL mi DO ideal NV statesman.
He wud fill the bill egzackly az he
nose what the boys are after.
Why jist see what we did yeers
ago when the McKinly bill wuz
past. We told all sorts NV things
about what it wud do an altho We
diddent believe Il word NV it our
selves, we made the farmers and the
laberers believe it. We jist simply
got up an howled an RACED cane GIN
orally, an we Civ EN- halleluyer
frum the jump, an az we did the
loudest yellin and the hardest lyin
of course the peepel behaved us an
voted the dimmycrat ticket as tina
Ort tn.
1t wuz a revelation tn us-we
discovered that the peepel engoy
bein humbugged an we ar goin tn
du it agin, see if we don't.
Az sed in startin, we amt ham
pered bi considerations of what the
peepel call the publick welfare.
We ar controlled wholla bi expedi-
ency and ar consequently free tn
adopt emmy sort NV policy that
promises to ketch the biggest string
NV votes. In fact Il don't mind
tellin you) it haz bin owr policy
ever sense the kussed black Repub-
liChuIS SOb COitlOl VI Ou Jul UCSt
tn embaras their Abolishun govern
ment and discredit it befor the eyes
NV the hole world. Yu will remem-
Der we tride tn hav the bonds repu-
dated in sixty-ait an in seventy-2
we WIZ a nussin nv the rag baby
and so on down tew the present
when we hay awl along bin edecatin
the peepel up tn the cheep silver 8
idee.
Owr plans. it IL tru, hay ginerally
miscarried, but We ar gittin
smarter than we wuz. Thre-4s NV
our statsmcn and IA larg MAJORITY
NV our newspapers hav bin advocatin
FIRE silver an educatin the people tn
beleave in it, an just az the black
Republicans thought tina wuz agoin
tn git w whar the wool IL short we
awl tn wunst jst simmered down
all NV sudden like, fur the big
bosses say it IL a dangerous thing
tn advocate ennything just before
on olaotiou Xu Goa thia silvar