Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-08
"Wat is cooponds ~ asked Deekin

cooponds wuz, and went on.
''rhis Wall street inflooence wood, my
brethren. hev corrupted the Democrisy.
Wall street came into Tammany Hall
and wanted to control our ackshen. But
we wuzen't to be purchist The more
Wall street offered to enslave the Demo
cracy, the more yoor representatives
gloryin in their manhood, spurned ther
profered bribes. We went there deter
mined to emancipate the yomanry NV
the country from the bonding of the
bloated bondholder-we went ther pied
ged to Pendleton, the young eagle NV the
West pledged to tender the bloated
bondholder the same dirty rags wich he
paid for his bonds pledged to pay the
bloated bondholdor, if we paid them
ANYTHING, greenbax f,r his bloated
bonds or nothin. We went ther deter
mined to annillate this yer Seymour
and his bloated support ters
"Rsh for Pendleton !'' sung out the
crowd.
"Threc groans for Seymour, the bloat-
ed bondholders' agent"
Both cheers and groans wuz given
with will and l preceded
"My friends, you nev'll know wat we,
the peoples defenders, he'd to contend
with. The bloated bondholders he'd
| monev-we he'd none. They were deter
mined to fasten the yoke on your necks,
we were determined to hist it off. They
were determined to hev Seymour with
all Wall street at his back fastened onto
Won to grind you into dust, but feeln
that if he shood be nominated we Good
never support him, we riz in our mite
and mantully compelled en- to withdraw
this man and give us the peoples choice,
Geo. III. Pendleton, the eagle ofthe-"
At this pint Deekin Pogram's son
GamalieI wuz seen putin down the hill
ez fast ez his mule Good git. Joe Bigler
notist him fust and rushed out NV the
crowd to intercept him. The boy he'd a
nocspaper in his hand wich Josef took
from him and rushed to where wuz
standin on the he'd NV bari.
"IIere's the last Louisville paper" sed
Josef unfoldin it. 'Shel read it %
"Reed reed - yelled the crowd
"Giy us the neoze NV the downfall NV the
bloated bondholders -
'Before l reed," 'sed Josef, glancin at
the headins NV the TELEGRAPH collum,-
give three NOR cheers for Pendleton
and the grccnbax. Hip, hip"
"Rah !'' cheered the crowd.
"Now three groans, and let them be
good ones, for Seymour and his cussid
doctrine which will grind us into the
dust under the heels NV Belmont, and
aid the turrin capital isits by payin the
bonds in gold!''
And they groaned as heartily ez they
chcered.
eve as Democrat" continyood Josef,
''hev sworn by our altars and our fires,
never to support for any offs, any man
who would pay a debt injured by
unccns itooshnel government in a m-
constitooshncl war in anything but the
debased currency wich that unconstitoo-
shnel government ishood."
"Never! never! we sware ~
every good" said josef, "this paper
witch hold in my hands conveys the
affecting intelligence that on the twenty |
sixth ballod Governor Horatio Seymour,
NV 4NOO L vi W uL HOuiludStQ,- anu tlsLO
Frank Blair was nominated Vne-Presi- |
dent by acclamation. Ez Seymour is
opposed to Pendleton's greenbax policy,
| spOse, NV course, the Corners will re-
poodiaie the ackshen NV the conven-
shin"
And with laff witch wuz devilish in
the extreme Josef left the stand
Tho ronot;,, hr,,i.a nm -, N ,nu, Tho |
Corners felt that they he'd bin imposed
upon and he'd | not got out NV the way
l mite hev bin personally injoored.
D The Deekin, Bascom, Kernel McPelter,
Issaker Gavitt and | met in the post
offs after the excited crowd he'd disper-
sed and consulted. We WIZ in rather
a tite place. Relying on the strength
NV our candidate, we he'd gone too far i'll
denouncin the Others tho for that matter
wat Good we do =? The two policies is so
cussed opposite that we can't support
one without denouncin the other 1t |
wuX decided that we support the ticket. |
We felt it wuz SAFE. Seymour, if he is !
electid, can't discriminate between his
in the distribooshen of the
post offises, and after all that is the reel
question al ishoo. After givin the sub
JIG more matoor considerashcn, we
come to the cohclooshen that the credit
and standin nv the Government demand
ed the payment WI the Nashnel indebted
ness in gold, and that anything short OF
that would be repoodiashin.
81 WONDER" sed ], "that any honest
man-apy man who bleeYes in mantanin
the credit NV the Govern
ment, shood think for a moment NV pay
i'll the debt in anything but .wot wuz
hard gold" AT
n meetin the next mite to ratifi Seymour's
| sed this over agin, and
asked EN- eff any Democrat who remem-
bered the glorious fte Jackson made for
hard money, wood consent for moment
to multiply irredeelnable paper curren-
cy? No! Let us ez our glorious stand
erd bearer Seymour has So boldly per-
claimed, let us pay our debts in Demo
cratic money goddard, shinin yaller
gold. Three cheers for Seymour.
And they cheered as vigorously as
ever heered men cheer. Ther amt no
trouble in managing the Democrisy.-
All they want is to have it settled what
thew are tn hurrab for and they hurrah |