The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-07-02
THE TRIBUNE.
NASBY.
The Trouble that Occurred AT the Cor
Y. ners in the Selection of Delegates to
the New York COnyenti0n--HOW the
Faithful were Drilled i'm their Eutr.

r"itHAul HcTc DfHieu In their EUty.
- From the Toledo Blade
PosT OFFIs. CoNFEDRrr X RoAps. !
tWlch Ism the State Nv Kentucky,
So - june Is, 1858.
The selectin Nv delegates to the Moo
York Convenshun hez bin botherin US in
sevrrl ways for seyrrl weeks past No
: one wantid to go, ard it wuz yoonani-
mously decided by all that eff the Corners
wuz representa- at all. must be the man.
l objected, for ther amt no profit in SIGH
trips. Ordinarily, l Good check my ex-
penses. Hotel Keepers are but human,
and | hev never yet failed to stick EN- !;
but with a Democratic Conyenshun in
full blast, it wood be hopeless enter
prise. With ten thousand like me, all
goin on their cheek, what wood Their be
for me? With ten thousand hungry.
thirsty, empty pocklted soles. what Good
LIDO? Therefore, | felt that Good not 60
| wrote to A. j. to know ct he wood al
low per diem transportation and mileage
to delegates, to wich he ansered:
SIR For wich candidate do yoor dele
gates perpose to vote"
This crooel epistie settled me, coodent
go there pledged to him, becoz eff he
shoodent be nominated wat wood become
Nv my Post Otis? Wood his successor
ccntinyoo me in place. who he'd bin active
in support of another?
Finally the day for our convenshun
came, and we assembled BascOm WuZ
nominated, but he declined, and so did
McPeter. Issaker Gavitt, Polhadmer and
the rest Nv EN-. We passed all the first
day In trying to get one who wood stick,
but all in vane. Mite came--we adjurn-
ed till nine the next m0rnln, when We re-
soomed our unsuccessful endeyors to
persuade each other to go to Moo York.
Another day wuz thus fruitlessly spent,
and still another and another-the last
leavin us no nearer our haven than the
first And so a week passed. We met
every mornin, coaxed, begged and swore
at each other till ute, only to meet and
go through the same formula the next
day. | felt that unless sumthing wuz
done, the Corners wood so unrepreSent-
ed
On the eighth day, at about ten in the
mornin. Deekin Pogram's youngest boy,
a fair haired lad of fourteen summers,
who resembled the Deekin to degree
quite complementary to his mother. came
in with the Moo York Day Book, wich
the Deekin takes but never reeds. The
Deekin tost it over to Bascom, who open
ed it, and red mint when his face chang
ed instantly Hell - sed he, to him
self, and then he arose:
MIR Cheerman, sed he, to end this
improbable session, | wood say that |
hev reconsidered my determinashun. |
will go to Moo York -
The convenshun wuz thunder struck.
Wat did it mean? The Deekin seized the
paper, and glancing over its columns, red
painfully mint and sed that he wuz sur
prised at Mr.. Bascom's ashoorence. Il
shell be delegate myself sed he.
BY this time McPelter read it, and |
got it and real this paragraph:
''Let the Western Democrlsy beware.
They must come, on the Fourth, prepar-
Belmont and the Wall street clique hev
raised 81. 500, 900 to be yo0sed in the pur-
chase Nv delegates to defeat Pendeton.
The Deekin persisted agin Bascom's
goin.
You can't be spared shreeked he.
"Who will run the biznis III your alb
sence2 Is Their man in the Corners 700
dlce trust inside yoor bar mint No, L
viii go
"Not so, shrieked McPelter, II viii
GO ez delegate. | hev borne the heat
and burdens nv the day waz with
Forrest, and now that ther is chance to
make suthin that is. now that there Is
posishen Of proot-wich is to say honor
| want it.
ISsaker Gavitt, with face pale with
disap pointment that he had not taken it
when it wuz offered him, swore that ct
the Gavltt family WIZ to be overlooked,
why the sooner Democrisy was buried the
better.
Somewhere In the corse IVY my readln,
| come across an account nv the trouble
that wuz perdoost IN a NEUROLOGICAL
heaven by some cuSs who toSt III golden
apple, labelled ''to the fairest, or words
to that effeck The announcement that
Belmont he'd million and half to IN
vest i'll delegates WIZ the golden apple
wich set us in a uproar. Every cusS IN
the Convention wantid to be delegate
immejitly, and the result wuz the, entire
bilin come to blows | he'd the NORTH
cashen Nv seem Bascom with his fingers
clutched in the neck-tie of the venerable
Pogram Issaker Gavitt and McPelter
wuz similarly engaged, while wuz a dom
nv level best to restrain Podhamer from
massacreein nue.. Had not Joe Bigier
and Pollock arrived opportoonly, the en-
tire Dmocrisy Nv the Corners wood hev
bin wiped out on the spot.
1t wuz finally settled by THROWN dice
for it, -wich rool ought, by the way, to be
adopted BY all Democratic bodies every
where. Randall and McCulloch hev
praeticed it with distinguished success IN
making their appointments. Say Their
are twenty applicants, or, to get nearer
the trooth three hundred, for any gwen
place. Very good, The head ny the
department ascertains first ct they are all
DEMOCRATS Then three hundred clerks
are detailed. each clerk representa- APP
plicant, aud they throw dice, the lowest
retirin every throw, until one Is vlctorl-
Gus, and the man representa- HIM gifts his
place 1t saves vast amount OF labor
in the eggSamlnashuu NV certlhkItS NV
carakter and fitnis etc; and besides, Its
imparshel All the appointments are
now made in that way at Washington.
We adopted this devise, aud wuz
made delegate and Pogram alternate, the
agreement hein that whatever we GIT over
expenses wuz to be divided ekaiiv. Then
a holy calm succeeded the storm NV pash-
en- witch he'd ragged. We go, NV corse,
uni instructed, fer obvious reSens. III we
wuz instructed wher would be the objeck
nv our our golnI lit Is not Slch that
Belmont will 80 fur.
The uncertainty va the result NV the
Convenshun [ i say uncertainty, fur who
kin tell witch candidate hez the most mon
ey?) hez occashened me vast amount
NV trouble. [ hev bin laborin assidyusly
to git our people into frame Nv mind 10
be enthusiastic over the nominee, no
matter who 1t is, or wat platform he is
put onto To bring this about hey he'd