The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor: 1885Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
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The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor: 1885
Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
American wit and humor; Diary fiction; Newspapers -- Fiction
Sublime adored one--By the immortal sunflower you ware in
your hallered buttin-hole, and the admyrashun you bear your
asthetick frend, vote for Mr. Gilley for Guvner, cos the
delercate purple tint of his perfume absorbent, is quite
too, too, and his long and shaggy Bur-muder-oniyun cullered
locks are jest too delish-us, and placed in the guvermentel
cheer, will do much towards educatin the common hurd, to a
appresheashun of our assthetick tastes. Besides that, I
think the other Candydate, is too much of a 'orridley
'orrid, common cad. If you will do this much for me, I will
meet you at the stage dore, tomorrer nite.
Yours, utterly in luv,
Lillyun Russell, Dudine.
Then I sent out notes to all the Bank Presidents and clerks, and nost
everyone I culd think of wot had the handlin of other peepels munney.
They wus short and sweet, but sum how they brot out a orful lot of
voters. The notes red like this:
If you kno wots good for you, you'll vote for Joe Gilley for Guvner.
Remember. From one who knos you as well as you kno yourself.
All the Methydists got notes from the Conferense Committee, sayin that
they'd discovered that the Republican candydate was a rank infydel, and
advisin them all to vote for Mr. Gilley, cos he was goin to donate a big
pile of munney to furrane mis-shuns.
Every member of the Society of Hen Pecked Husbands, wot is very strong
in New York, was requested by a letter sined by the President to vote
for Mr. Gilley, cos he had it from good authority that the other feller
had greed to order the legislate to pass a bill legalizin the wearin of
the pants by married wimmen.
Then I sent out a circular to every dout-ful German voter, tellin them
that the Republican candydate, wen he was a boy, had licked a duch
boy biggeran him, and called him a puddin'-hedded, pot-stummicked,
pretzel-thievin' son of a beer drinkin' and sour krout etin' duchman,
and the time had cum for the Gurmans of New York to rebuke at the polls
such a flaygrant insult to the most useful and respeckterbel standby's
of the Nashun, the German cityzens.
I never seen enything do better in my life. With the excepshun of the
few votes wot the Republercans had fore I got my wurk in, mine captured
the hull cities of New York and Brooklyn, and the beer and wisky
wots ben sent to rural districks, will giv us the hull State by a big
majority. Wen I get big, Mr. Diry, I guess I'll hire myself out for a
perfesshunal pollytickal wire-puller.
CHAPTER XXIII.
A GLORIOUS VICKTORIE.--THE LICKED CANDYDATE GENERATES BLUE
SULFROUS AIR ON ACCOUNT OF THE ACKSHUN OF HIS PLEGED
SUPPORTERS.
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