The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-27
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A VIRGINIA FINANcIER.

JEEF DAvrsvILLE, VA, Awgest the Goth.
MrsrUR EDDITUI: We air all for FREQ Silver
hereabowts, every muther's sun of US. JEFF
Davisville is yonnannimuss on That er pint.
We want everything free-Frec Silver Free
Traid, Free Terbacker Free Speach, and Free
Dawgs. We wuz oppozed to Free Nggers, an
ct ez hard ez we Good fur yeres agin it, But
niggers is alluz an exception to everything.
Nuthin' you say applies to them, except cuss
words. Howsumever. we air not bothered with
Free Nsgers in this lokality. Whenever wun
of US ketcbes niger in this naborhood We
yank him up an make him hoe corn and worm
terhacker for US. II be burst AK fur pay we
passes the word round that he's sassy" an
it's death fur niger to git a reputation fur
ben' sassy.
You will notice that the sensus-taker didn't
report no moro niggers in jeff Davisville pre-
sinkt than there wuz 10 yeres afore, which wuz
none
We air solid fur Free Speach here-that is,
Free Speach fur Free Silver A Teller with
stoar cloze-who pretended to be buyin tan
bark, but who we kno wuz hirelin ov the
Wall Street sharks, an Gold Bug in disgize-
tried to tell the boys that there wuzn't no sch
thing ez the Krime of 20. But after the boys
throwed him in the rnill-pond he lowed that
there might have been something onreglar
that yere.
But what / started to rite yon abowt wuz
finanses. Yore plum rong, and 1 Good convins
you ov it eff ! had you down here whair We
Good recon with you. We amt much on reedin
an ritin-Ime the only wun in the settlement
that kin spell korrectIy-but we kin argy
fnanse better'n emmy community i'll the State.
We held meetin last month to consider the
fnanshul question and rafferty, Bryan's nomina-
ton, and you orter heerd the boys hoiler and
applawd when eggsplaBed to EN- that Is to
meant that whair we'd bin gittin 81 load for
tan bark we'd git SIC when Bryan wuz elected.
Jim Hoskins, who keeps the stoar at the JEFF
DavisviIIe Corners, wuz wun on EN- which
hollered and applawded loudest. an when he
got q cbans to speke he said that d be the
gratest kind of thing fur the country, fur
he'd git 16 times ez much fur his groseriz, an
axes an pIug-terbaeker, an SIGH.
wuz chairman or the meetin', an ez soon
ez Good git my breth ! ruled Jim out of order,
an told him very sternly that he mustn't make
no SIGH mistakes; that 16 to WIZ only fur the
benefit ov poor people, who worked with their
hands. and didn't apply to bloated kspytaIisss.
who kept korner-groseries an lived often the
sweat ov other peoples brows. Then the boys
holIered still lowder. and klapt their hands. /
motifs that Jim hezn't been argying fnanses
much sence, but he's pushin' the boys terrible
hard to pay up what they owe him, an he amt
tsustin' no more. He SEE not q plug o ter
hacker, nur pound @ coffee, nur yard o kali
ker shall 20 out O his stoar unless he hez tam
bark, or ginsang yoot, or hoop-poles laid down
afore him fur it.
But Jim hez got to be mighty keerful. Us
proud-spirited Virginians air not to be crushed
under the iron heel ov kapyttIe, even eff Jim is
| lars.
Yores fur Free Silver,
POKE BERRY CoLLARD.
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TWO UNUSUALLY GOOD CAMPAIGN SONGS.
Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren has turned
| her faciIe and accomplished pen to the writing
| Of campaign songs, and. contributes the two
| following unusually fine and stirring ones to
| THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. The first can be
sung to the well-known tune Of the old ballad
of Lord Lowell" The second suits almost any
college glee club air:
SIR BRYAN.
(Air: Lord Lore-)
| Sir BRYAN he stood in Madison Square
| A. osnbiug the locks Of his matted hair.
| Aud his lady she stood, without any fear.
| Where she could whisper right into his
| Chorus: Right into his ear. ear. ear.
\ - NJ Iob
| Talk up and talk loud for old Uncle Sam,
| And ride your hobby hard you can.
| Shoe him with silver, and be o big man..
| Chorus And be big man. man, man.
The Brynns they mounted their "milk-white
steed."
| But whip him. and w hin him. he showed speed;
With Democrats here. and Popocrats there.
| 1t seemed TO them both that they rode Shank's
|
| Chorus: They rode Shank's mare, mare mare.
"on, or to the White Housed" the mascot she
| cried.
| With Mckinley ahead, on Il nag that is sound.
| While are but riding crazy go-round?"
| Chorus: crazy go round. round. round.
] -Hadeteine Tinton Dahrgren.
! HCRRAH FOR M'KIyLEY.
| Now McKinle is up, and Bryan is down,
| Loud shout the glad tidings all over the town
| That gold is standard. and may il abound,
| For safe is our honor, our credit is sound.
| The Democrats slil' MT. and the Popocrats can't
| Make sixteen to one for in spite of their rant,
The Republicans know exactly what's fair,
| No matter THAT humbug the Bryan men dare.
| His bags full Of silver let Bryan fast hold
We vote for Mckinley. whose worth Is pure gold
! With Popecrat frog fast stuck in his throat.
! Poor Bryan's speech failed. and was not got by
rotc.
| Hurral, for Mckinley and National fame
| Aud down with all shams. whatever their NAME
| Like the roar of the cry the brave and the
| strong,
| Hurrah for the right and down with the wrong!
| Madeleine Vinton DaAlgrea.
| x@x
Ne,p York Tribune: He is TO longer the Boy
| Orator of the Platte, but the Boy Reader oil
| Platitudes.
Neu York Journal: At the close Of his Ad
ministration Mr.. Cleveland will be prepared to
write book OH Some Crises 1 Have Fished
| Through"
| WHAT LANGUAGE DID CHRIST sPEAK7
! The Literary Digest, after studying the evi
| dences presented by numerous eminent schol-
ars, comes to the conclusion that Christ spoke
| the GaIileau dialect of tho Aramaic language
| Long before Christ's time the ancient Hebrew
had ceased to be a popular language. 1t was
| only we'll understood by the learned Jews, and
| the writings in it were expounded by them to
| the people. The AEamaic WA tongue which
/ had been developcd among che Jews by their