The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-06
From the Havana Journal
PLAY OF ANDY JOHNSON.
BY FRED. MERRYMAN.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION

and seats around the Rinq.
New York City, July 4, 1868.
Enter Democratic Delegates around til
: Rim Swearing and fighting. especial
around the liquor stands
Enter Ring Editor of the N. Y. World
leading Chase and Judge Field, of Cali
fornla, neatly dre>sed, yoked together
with the Democratic breeching on.
Ed of World: These Presidential ra
GERS are the latest d amocratic i'm portation
from Republican Liberia daughter
CEase's heels have been pared off hal
an inch; (Cries, Good his shins are done
mp with the ''no coersion" banner The
Wilmot Proviso Corner Stone has beer
taken from Fields shoulders These IA
GERS have been groomed by skillful Dem
ocrats, aud are in excellentrunning order;
they have no intense desire to be put up
on the course, and are warranted to catch
the Republican negro vote. Kisses They
look three ways for votes, and will turn
political corners quicker and easier than
any racers on the continent.
Ben. Wood: Can they spell negro with
two gees? Shouts. bully for you.
Ed World: They can do that-they
have prae ticcd on it two months. Voice,
You be id
Chase: (Spells) Mig ger (pronounces
Negro. Shouts: Good; we'll done bully
for you
Brick Pomeroy enters the ring offers
Chase and Field whiskey, who shake their
heads He examines the inside of their
coats.
Poneroy: These racers are cheats and
frauds; they refuse whiskey. Voices
They don't know how good it is Their
coats are double the inside is nothing
but abolitiof, cloth; and their coats are SO
constructed they can be worn either side
out y voice, Just as | expected [ can
smell the niger on them; I'll have
nothing to do with them Grant can
beat them out of sight. (Shouts: That's
So.
Fernando Wood Test them with
niger.
/ (Fallandigham enters the ring with
the negro that gave Chase the silver pitch
er for defending fugitive slave at Gin
cinnati.
Negro: ITO Chasel Massa, don ye
know me? Chase snuffs, shakes his
head and kicks Use de colored gemman
what glib you de silver pitcher at Clncin-
natl
Chase: don't know you sir. You be-
y
great favor by leaving this ring for few
days.
Negro: Looks at Field. Yeu is de
man that Massa Lincum made Judge for
carrying de Wilmot Proviso Corner Stone
[ knowns you like book.
Field: Keep away from me; I've
turned Democrat You are nothing but |
a niger [ deny | was ever acquainted |
with you.
Vallandigham These racers have some |
good points, but | doubt their honesty. |
Their training has not been long enough |
or severe enough to qualify them to stand |
the dirt mire and drinks, Democratic /
coursers must endure.
Clymer: Chase has been training him |
self for the Presidential race these II |
years.
Ed of World: Our Presidential racers
must have Republican help-also negro |
votes. or they will be distanced in two of |
every three states the course crosses. We
must run Chase, or Field, or we Il loose
the race (Shouts: Then we Il lose it
Tom Seymour of Con, to Ed. World
Take out your racers; they were Lincoln
war steeds, and will never do for Demo
Gratis. CHEERS.
Exit Ed. of World with Chase and
| Field
Enter ring Secretary Wells with Sew
ard.
Fernando Wood. That's the ''Irre-
pressible conflict Take him out, away
with him.
Montgomery Blair: He'll never work
true in the democratic harness. (Sey-
mour' friends throw stones at him.
Wells: Hold! This racer has changed
his nature and his name. He is now called
the great conservative jumper"
VaHandigham He was spawned and
wind broken in the abolition harness.
He's not the horse for democrats to run.
Cries Take him out He's for Grant.
Exit Wells & Seward.
Enter Ring-John A. Green, leading
| Horatio Seymour, elegantly dressed with
silk stockings on his feet
Andrews of Va: That's the courser
that was true to his friends and was here
in July 1868. Immense cheering by
Seymour's friends.
Tilden: He has declined to run
Ben Wood: That's his habit. He's
only tooling he'll run. Cries; That's
A Soldier: He would gladly run, but
he's afraid of Grant.
Tom Florence; Suppose he is afraid cf
Grant, you ought not to say tit will
lnlure our party.
Belmont; We've brought HIM in just
to show him. LGreat applause by the
liquor dealers, shouts; he's the boss for
us: Wen bet our piles on him.
McCook of Ohio: He would fain &C
cert the nomination.
Jim Brady: He was for more vigor-
Gus prosecution Of the warm 1862. His
SEES; shouts its false its false.
Mayor Hoffman, His more vigorous
prosecution Of the war meant over the left
| Cheers The democratic motto was, not
another dollar or another man tor the
prosecution of the infamous war against
our southern brethren.
Deafening applause The crowds
around the liquor stands drink Seymour S
health, and give him nine cheers and a
tiger.
Exit Green, leading Seymour, amid
the most tumultuous cheering, which
Seymour recognizes, by frisking, dancing,
snorting, jumping and trotting.
Union Soldier Grant scomingl Grant
coming! Great sensation: Cries: O.,
dear O, dear
| Capt Rynders; He's dangerous to
democrats He may draft Us for the
Union Army
Jim Brooks: Wen never serve in that
army.
Tom Seymour: Well go to Canada be-
fore we Il fight for the Union. Great APP
plause.
Woodward: For Canadal For Canada
| Shouts. We'll col and a rush Is made