Mower County transcript., 1902-10-08

Clodu up @1,OOU pTOuCS III lew mOlLQS.E
], tell you those eastern fellows that are
sittin' down on tariff revision will find
a bombshell or torpedo or volcano un-
der 'em to wake 'em up one of these
odd days. Us chaps up in, Minnesota
and the northwest are dead for revision
and we're goin' to hav it if it takes all
summer. =. ..'.',. ..S : ~ ~
Some Of the boys call Farmer Ben a
hardhead because he stays by the G. O..
p. principles so persistently that you
couldn't, pole him off with a elm club.
L tell you the only way to hav parties
that amount to more than shucks is to:
stay by the old banner and follow it
all the road. If I'm a hardhead, I don't
see anythin' to be ashamed : of. I'd
rather be that than renegade and a.
jelly6sh and political weathercock. ;.
Folks don't hav to get unabrigded
dictionary to find out where Farmer
Ben stands on politix, any how.
There's one thing I am teetotally agre-
ed on and that is that favors and plums
and perquisites and honors and her
iditaments ought to go to the old wheel
horses thatz hav stood the brunt and
heat Of the hard battles and not to
novitiates and bolters and party rend-
ers. 1 don't believe in takin' advantage
Of the loyalty and devotion and
stability of the old regulars that hay
alwus been depended on, and leave 'em
out because they are sure to, stick by,
and reward the smooth bounty jumpers
who hav done their level best to dis
rupt and overturn and demoralize.
Why should .Tawney civ: the best
things ID this deestrick to those, that
worked like mules with money and
chinnin' and band wagons to skin him
and hang his hide on the political fence
in November2 Stay by your political
friends for those are the fellows that
hav: stayed by you: I don't go much on
the political prodigal act. =: = -: = !
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The. old G. A. r. boys are meetin' in
Washington this week: in their annual
encampment and there are lots of the
boys together once more this side Of
the bivouac of the dead. swappin' war
stories and reneWin' friendships and
acquaintance. W hat q army that was
that saved the country il the sixties.
The boys was from every rank and
nationality and eddicati dition
but they didn't know any difference in;
in the ranks and the comrade that
couldn't write well enough 70 make
his chirography legible to>the gal he
left behind and the college graduate
drank out of the same canteen,- ate
hard tack and sowbelly together, and
cooked their black coffee in tincan
over the same fire. The camp life was
great leveler of rank and wo be to the
bigheaded officer that tried to feel
! above the high private. Do you know
that l wake up in the night and think
over those old days on southern fields
and the realities come back SO plainly
that l often liv 'em over again? L
calkerlate that there amt any thin
that brings closer ties than the war ex-
periences and dangers. I'd like to be
down on Pennsylvany avenue and see
the boys march this week like they did
when mustered out in '65 but can't
But here's God Bless You to every
one and may the unreasonable service
they rendered to their country never be
lightly appreciated.
Want that dramatic and brine
startin' scene in Iowa conference the
other day when a preacher that had
been hauled UP for not liVin' with his
wife brought in his papers and threw
'em down and turnin' to his spouse said
"W oman, behold the wreck you hay
caused'? I tell you woman is the
maxim or unmakin' of a man every
time. I don't know any. thin about
the merits or the demerits Of the case
above mentioned. ;Peraps if the .wo'
mans side was showed it mite look diff
ferin'. But I tell you there amt any
thin worse this side Of Hades than
scoldin', naggin', faultfndin', gruff,
talky, peckin' woman. Why, mar
died up to Austin few years ago thai
was fairly nagged and. talked to deati
by one of these longtongued wome1
whose lingual apparatus was hung il
the middle and just seesawed night ant
day, year in and year out, until tn
lspoor man actually gave up the ghos
: and expired to get relief. I5don't won
l1derj that some men take to drink t
!, drown their troubles from ]incessan1
:, unremittin' ding. dong Of tongue slash
in. Talk about perpetual motion,
: some of thn uossinv women amt dis