The Louisiana populist., 1894-10-05

IehOncinN. L tJlu CHI IL WIZ Iur
tarruff reform. i sed it wuz
aginst the nigger. never did tel
az menny lize be 4 in aul mi life.
l dun it fur the good Nv the party,
and moar espeshually fur the sal
cry thot l wuz going tn git. And
now whair am | at Defeated in
the Nous NV mi friends. l have
told so menny lie that the Popu-
lists wont ever hav emmy confdents
in me agin. / kant look an honest
dog in the face. Oh, viii did du
it ! Viii did sell my nobel man
hood fur the bair hOap NV offs Z
Viii dident / demand the offis in
advance ! But I'll git even with
that dad-gummed crew yit. Tha
voted the dogs agin me in the pri-
maries and tha'll see the day when
tha'll bee glad tn hev them dogs to
lik taeir politikal sores. Tha de-
seeved NEE and maid HE deserve
the peopel, now let them look tn
SEE the peepel undeseeved. Tha
held me up to let me drap, now let
them look tn THAR own p,litikal
karkasses.
Hereafter I'm with 'em, but Dll
beea thorn in thair side. 1t will
talk me the balants NV mi life time
tn undu the hsrm l hev dun. You
kin set Ii a goin but you never
kin ketch it. Nv kOrse sich lie az
| told woodent deserve emmy boldly
whOo Good reed. But unfortunate
ly so menny Demikrats kant reed
and tina wont believe emmy thing
ennybody else sez but Demikrat
whoo IL runnin fur offs.
l sed the Demikratick party wuz
in faver NV free silver and the dogs
knO that it wuz the Demikrats
who demunetized free silver. l
told the people that the Demikrats
wuz opposed tn nashnul banks and
the burds kno that tina own hat of
the banks and the Republicans the
uther half and both Nv 'em air in
faver NV continuin THAR bizness at
the old stand. l sed tina wuz op-
posed tn issuin moar bonds when
the fakts liz tina wair ishuin mOar
bonds. That wuz az bairfaced a Ii
az told. sed tina wuz in faver
NV ekonomy when it wuz fakt
which every intelligent man knode
that tina had voted fur tu raze THAR
own salery bi hirin sum uther man
tn du their hizness at publick ex-
penses fur 800 per munth, and hi
voting tn Civ themselves extra
mileage when tina aulreddy got 8
times az mutch fur travlin ex-
penses az it kOst them. But what
| halt about it IL that neerly every
Demikrat believed what l told
them when wuz runnin for sher-
ruff, becoz tina went THAR tn believe
what / sed and tina dun it. / kant
see now how l will undeseeve 'em.
If 60 bak and tel 'em the truth
tina will sa / am a trater and will
rotten egg NEE. If Populist
tells 'em the truth tina sa he IL a
krank and a liar. If he offers tn
show them the reckOrds tina shut
THAR ize and GERS and wont see it
or heer it. l don't know emmy
Demikrat whoo viii tel 'em the
truth. 1t looks like tina belong tn
that klass NV which the scripture
sez: ''Tha shall believe a lie and
be damned" Things air gittin in
q bad shaip. Thare wuz a time
truth wuz the korner stone Nv De-
mockrasy. But now if Demikratic
candidates told the peepel the
truth we coodent eleckt dog pei
ter. The man whoo kin maik the
peepel believe the most lie is kon-
sidered the ablest and truest Demi-
krat and gifts the biggest salery.
Lyin IL not one Nv the lost arts
restored, but it haz never attained
sich perfeckshun az it haz in the
ranks NV the Demikratick party. |