Nebraska advertiser., 1868-07-23
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It is very amusing to read in the
: New York Journals how the Western
delegates took the nomination of Sey.
fmOur. 1t seems that the centre OI
interest was tie Fifth Avenue Hotel
where the PendletOnians hung out
= From the different accounts of the
Reporters, we learn that the frank
outspOken and manly representatives
; Of the northwestern democrats, who
from the first had entertained an in
stinctive apprehension of the wiles Of
| Tammany Hall and the Manhattan
Club, and had looked on all the splen-
dOrs and beguilements of the met
ropolis as so many allurements and
snares, were suIky, dissatisfied END
lhumiliated at the result. 1t only
needed the presence of a New York
Democrat to excite them to express
their sentiments in terms which lost
in elegance and gained in force as the
night advanced and as the bowls OF
consolation had more manifest effect.
i One of the Iowa delegates, of re-
l markable duency of speech, and in Q
state Of pleasant exhilaratiOn, gather
ed crowds around him wherever he
went. He said that when the Iowa
lmember of the National Committee
returned from the meeting at which
/ New York was selected as the place
for holding the convention, he told
! him: L can predict exactly what the
result of this will be. The Northwest
ern delegates will take the long and
| dusty ride to New York, and find the
Manhattan Club ready to welcome
| then with the most exquisite courtesy
| The Manufacturers and the Tammany-
| ties will dine them and wine them;
! take them to the Park, to the Black
/ Crook or the White Fawn' or Hump
| ty Dumpty,' and swallow them
WhOle.u
Stanging near the speaker was an
immense good natured Ohio man, who
was swaying about either from over
excitement or some other cause, and
strove inarticulately to express his
| assent to the speakers views of New
| York politicians. To the Buckeye
the Iowa orator turns and says, good
! humoredly: "OhiO, let's you and /
come down here and see if we can
learn how to make money without
working for it. After we've been
here six months We'll go back to our
| States and teach the Buckeye and
| HaWkeyes how to run Conventions"
To which Ohio replies: '!These York
ers think all of us west Of the Alleyh-
anies are suckers The PendietOn-
ians around soTrOwfully assent, as
though they felt that this was correct
Judgment.
The same speaker in another crowd
begins to mildly doubt SeymOur's
success, but soon has a hornets nest
around him, andis "bluffed' dya red
shirted representative of the Sixth
ward, who offers to bet $500 on his
Seymour. The IOwan looks at the
Sixth warder, suggests that he has
not the appearance of mOneyed man,
and declines to bet with irresponsible
persons, but eXtricates himself from
the effects of the damaging confession
by eXtempOrizing a highflown eulOgy
of New York's "favOrite son." con-
Guiding with the sad reflection that
in these degenerate days so great tai
ents and such brilliant virtues could
not be appreciated, and by expressing
his fear that Seymour, like Webster
and Clay, viii for this reason fall short
of the Presidency.
In the hotel another disappointed
delegate, from Ohio, made himself
almost as prominent as the IOwan.
A short, lean, W-cOmpleXiOned,
intense looking man, iustenough per-
meated with cOrnjuice to be sadly
earnest and entirely unreserved, the
crest fallen man held forth by the hour
to an attentive crowd. His words of
earnestness and truth.
The Ohio delegatiOnand the other
Northwestern delegations came to
New York he said, presenting the
name of George II. PendletOn as their
unanimous choice, in good faith, and
expecting to be met with good faith.
Mr.. PendletOn was the candidate, not
Of the politicians, but of the people,
and the delegates who gave him up,
basely betrayed the people. They
have been bought since they came
here.
Nomatter what the price was-wheth-
er it was five cents or five hundred
thousand dollaTs-the New Workers
had the money and paid it. These men
have got their reward but let them
meet their constituents! The Indiana
men who went for Hendricks, know
ing llldC he was uS6u as Il CaUSpaW,
will have a nice time when they get
home; and the Missourians will get
coats of tar and feathers. Hendricks
has killed himself eternally. He
won'tb Governor. He never will be
Senator again, and he can'tget elected
constable by the party he has sold.
1--WE have been tricked and cheated
at every turn, and 90 home with sad
hearts" "But,n says a New York
Democrat, "some of us had to give up
our preferences, and you Ohio men
ought to yield cheerfully to the will of
majority" "Well /" says Ohio ''that's
so, but its a hard case. L shall sup
port Seymour, but / can't work for him
as I would for the choice of the mass
of the democracy, George FL. Pendle-
ton" And so the Ohio man defect
edly ran on, more in sorrow than in
anger, varying his denuciations of
New York schemes and northwest
ern dupes and traitors, but adhering
to the mournful theme with dogged
pertinacity.