The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-10-27
An apple Better, SpecuIa,iou

A good story is told at the expense Of
several OF the candidates Gg Office be.
fnre the recent Locofncn County Con.
ventinn. 1t seems that country-ma
near the town had the good fortune to be
chosen one of the delegates of his town.
ship and IN pursuance of ancient demo-
cratic usage sat his wits to work how he
could best raise the wind, without ap-
Pearlng to be actually bribed. A lucky
thought struck him. He had Just boiled
large quantity of Apple Butter and
few days befnre the meeting of the
Convention he loaded up a number of
earthen pots filled with..this popular sauce
and left for Reading. Arrived in town.
he was soon pOunced upon by hungry
office hunter of his acquaintance who
was busy buying over the delegates. -
Our hero wac approached in tine usual
way-'Give me lift this time, and will
not forget you hereafter but the apple
butter man was not to be bamboozled nv
promises, which experience most proba-
bly, had taught him were never fulfilled.
Pointing out his stock in trade he remark
ed:
Il have some nice apple butter, and as
my motto is.to encourage those who en-
courage me, will thank you to look at
it before answer your question:
oh. certainly-just happen to want
apple butter!' said the candidate, remov-
ing the cloth. Very fine article, this
what's the pricel continued he. by no
means indisposed to encourage heme
manufactures. provided he could thereby
secure a vote in the Convention.
Five dollars a pot, seeing it's your
replied the apple butter man, with pc
culiar twinkle of the eye.
Hum! Apple Butter has rizr exclaim-
ed the candidate.
Yes!-Glorious effects of the Tariff
of '46!-But if you think it ton high you
may have my vote on Saturday in the
bargain.
The money was paid and the apple
butter transferred. The office seeker
ran over his list ofdelegates and marked
opposite the apple butter mans name
good for one,' aud set out to buy up 9TH
er delegates.
The speculator succeeded so well that
the delegate, in his character of apple
butter merchant resolved to call upon all
his democratic friends, out for office end
approach them in the same way. In a
very short time he had disposed of some
twenty or thirty pots, at prices from 50
to $40 each, netting altogether a very
handsome sum by the speculation.
But the Lest ofthe story remains TO be
told. 1t turned out that the apple butter
delegate had been dealing with half a
dozen candidates for the same office, and
as he could only vote for one, of course
four fifths of his best customers were
most gloriously humbugged.
The apple butter transaction we are
assured on Locofoco authority, is actually
true. 1t leaked ont thro' one upon whom
the saw was play ed, and who considered
it quite too good a joke to keep himself
Many other charges of bribery and
corruption have been made, and if half
the stories are true that have been whis-
pered by the locofocos themselves, the
proceedings in the Locofoco Delegate
Convention were of so outrageous a
character that the wonder is any respec-
table man is willing to endorse them by
vote. But the mass of the party know
nothing of the rascality of their leaders
and no wonder, when it is remembered
that they sit with closed doors, besides
being all equally stepped in rascality, no
one could enter into an exposure without
crirninatino himself = Re11;Dp .L0ur