Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Had Enough of the Office. [ARTICLE]

Had Enough of the Office.

The following resignation of a country Judge was recently sent to the Governor of Arkansas: “I have got enough of this blamed office. I took this here place expectin’ to be respected, but mud has been flung at me ever since. The temperance people and the still-house folks have been pullin’ at me all the time, an' finally, when I concluded to go with the still-house folks, the temperance people vowed I didn’t have no sense, an’ was an ole fraud; jes’ like a man didn’t have a right to do as he pleases in this here free country. Well, they kep’on aharpin’ an’ aharpin’ till I ’lowed that mebbe I was wrong, so turned over to the temperance people. Then the still-house folks !gun ter howl, an’ swore that I wuz a fool an’ a thief, nohow. So, you see, I don’t know which way to turn, an’ I wanter say right here that you may take the blamed office yourself.”— Arkansaw Traveler.