The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-30
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WITCH is in the Salt NV Kentucky, 90
.rIaIt 70 Sl1 70 N3i1 June Is, 1868 -,
The selectin NV delegates to the Moo
York Convenshun hez bin, ,botherin US
in sevral ways for sevral weeks past.
No one wnntid to go, and it was yoo7
.- panimusly decided by all that ef the
Corners was representa- at all, must
be the man.. I objected, Tor their aint. no
profit in SIGH trips. Ordinarily could
sipAa check my expenses. Hotel keepers are
but human, and hev never yet failed
s-4s5 to stick EN-, but with Democratic con-
venshun in full blast it wood be hope
less enterprise. With ten thousand like
me, all goin on their cheek, wat wood
Their be for met With ten thousand
hungry, thirsty, empty pocketed soles
wat could do? Therefore Good not
ex 20. I wrote 70 "A. j. to knowssef he
wood allow per diem, transportation and
milege to delegates, to wich he ansered:
,sra .'Sir-For wich candidates do yoor
delegates perpose to voter .sr
,sssgssg This crooel epistle settled me. l
coodn't go ther pledged to him, becoz
eff he shoodent be nominated wat wood
become NV my Post offs? Wood his
successor continyoo me in place, who
he'd bin active in support NV another?
90 Finally the day for our convenshun
came, and we assembled. Bascom wuz
nominated, bnt he declined. Deekin'
Pogram wuz offered the honor, but he
,oda declined and so did McPclter, Issaker
Gavitt, Podhammer and the rest NV EN-.
We passed all the first day in tryin to
get one who wood stick, but all in vane.
~ Mite came--we adjourned till nine the
next morning, when we resoomed our
unsuccessful endeavors to persuade each
other TO 60 to Moo York. Another day
- sa wuz thus fruislessly spent and still
other and another--the last Ieavin US no
nearer our haven than the first.sa And SO
a week passed. We met every mornil,
cosxed, begged. and swore at each other
till mite, only to meet and go through
the same formula the next day. 1 felt
that onless suthin wuz done, the Corners
wood 60 nnrepresented.
On the eighth day, at about ten in tue
nornin, Deekin Pogranl's youngest boy,
q fair haired lad OF fourteen sum ers,
u who resembles the Deekin TO degree
.,i49es quite complimentary to his mother, came
in with the Moo York Day Book, witch
the Deekin takes but never reeds. TheI
Deekin tossed it over to Bascom, who
opened it, and red a mint, when his
wsa face changed instantly. s.Hell." sed he
to himself, and then he aroze 80: sa'
"Mr. Cheerman,' sed he, "to end this
Improbable session, / wood say that
hev reconsidered my discrimination. l.
will go to Moo York"
-zaa aafsfrhe Cow enshun was thunder struck
Wat did it meant The Deekin seized
" 1.-The paper, and glancin over its columns,
y - read painfully mint, and sed he wuz
-haaao surprised at Mr.. Bascom's asshoorence.
esa4s5o II shel be delegate myself" sed he.s p
". .s5- Y BY this time McPelter read it,, and /
got it and read this paragraph: tas
as i bas.Let the Western Democracy beware.
9s~ They must come on the Fourth, pre-
pared to encounter bribery and corrup-
saf shen. son Belmont and the Wall street
clique tev raised $1,6O0,000 to beyoosed
in the purchase of delegates to defeat
Pendleton." z7sY
The Deekin protested agin Bascom's
gOln ~ 90 can Z De 81 area, shrleKe0
he. "Who will run the dizziness in yoor
absence? Is ther a man in the Corners
''ia4 700 dare trust inside yoor bar o mint
rs No, I will go."6.ast s97.rsa svsa s-s
..s.y7g "Not So" shrieked McPelter, II will
-s.6 go ez delegate. I hev borne the heat
and burden NV the day. wuz with For
.--A rest, and now tibet Their is a chance to
asazss chance to make ::suthin-thet is, now
asva ID tibet ther il q posishen NV prof-wich il
q 5a9 to say honor, I want it, - - 40 9
issss Isaker Gavitt, with face pale with
disappointment, tibet he he'd not taken
it when it wuz offered him, swore tibet
eft the Gavitt family wuz to be over
looked, why the sooner Democrisy wuz
49, buried the better. sis fas zvalasarfF
y Somewher in the course Nv my readin
si cum across an account NV the trouble
800 tibet wuz perdoost in NEUROLOGICAL
g heaven by some cuss who tost in a gold
en- apple, labelled ''to the fairest, = or
words to tibet effeckt The announce
-a ment that Belmont he'd million and a
half to invest in delegates wuz the gold
en- apple witch set us in q uproar. Ev-
erv cuss in the convenshun wanted to be