Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-07-02
from the Toledo Blade
NASBY.
The Trouble that Occurred at the
Corners in the Selection of Del
egates to the New York Con-
vention. - How the Faithless
were Drilled in their Duty.

Posr OFFS, CoNFEpRT RoAps3
(Wich is in the Stait nv kentucky0 (
t June 16 1868
The selectin NV delegates to the
Moo York Conyenshun hez been
hotherin us in several weeks past
No one wantid to go. and it was
unanimously decided by all that eff
the Corners was representa- at all,
| must be the man. ! objectid, for
ther amt no profit in such trips
Ordinarily Good cheek my expen-
ees. Hotel keepers are but human,
and l have never yet failed to stick
en- but with a Democratic Conven-
shun in full blast it wood be hope
less enterprise. With ten thousand
like me, all agoin on their cheek,
wat wood ther be for me? With
ten thousand hungry, thirsty, emp'
ty-pocketed soles wat Good I do
Therefore ! felt that | Good not GO.
| wrote to A. J. to know eff he wood
allow per diem, transportation and
mileage to delegates, to which he
ansered
"Sir-For wich candidates do
yoor delegates propose to vote? p
This crooel epistle settled me. !
couldn't go ther pledged to him
becoz eff he shoodent be nominated
wat wood become of my Postoflis
Wood his successor continyoo me
in place, who he'd bin active in sup
port Nv another?
Finally the day for our conven-
shun came, and we assembled. Bas-
com wuz nominated, but he declin'd,
Deekin Pogram wuz offered the hon
or, and he declined, and so did Nc.
Pelter, IssalIer 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 endeayors to per-
suade each other to 60 to Moo
York. Another day wuz thus fruit
lessly spent, and still another and
another-the last leavin us no near
er our haven than the first. And
so a week passed. We met every
mornln, coaxed, begged and swore
at caah other till mite, only to meet
and go through the same formula
the next day I felt that onless
suthin wuz done, the Corners would
go unropresented.
On the eighth day at about ten in
the mornin, Deckin Pogram's
Youngest boy, Q fair haired lad OF
fourteen summers, who resembles
the Dcckin to a degree quite com
plimentary to his mother, came in
with the Moo York Day Book, wich
the Deekin takes but never reeds,
The Deekin tost it over to Bas-
com, who read n mint, when bis
face changed instantly "HelIr y
sed he, to himself, and thea he
aroze.
"Mr Cheerman,' sed he; 'to
end this improbable session, /
wood say that | hev reconsidered
my determinashcn. will 60 to
Moo York"
The Conyenshun was thunder
struck. Wat did it mean The Dee
kin seezed the paper, glanced over
its columns, read painfully a mint
and sed that he wuz surprised at Mr.
Bascom's asshoorance. 81 shel b(
a delegate myself sed he,
BY this time McPeter read it.
and l got it and read this para.
graph
"Let the Western Democrisy be
ware. They must come on the 4tl
prepared to encounter bribery ant
corrupshen, belmont and the Val
Street clique hev raised 81, 100000
10 be yoosed in he purchase Of DEL
egatos to defedt Pendlcton.'
The DeeIin protested agtn Bas
CONS goin. "Yoo can't be spared,
shricSed he, "Who will run the
biznis in yoor absence? is there
q man in the Corners you dare trus'
inside yoor bar a min t. No, viii
60
"Not so, shreekod McPelter, q
will go cz delegate, hev borne
the heat and burden NV the day
wuz with Forrest, and now tha
there Is q chance to make suthin-
thatis, now that there is a posish
on nv prof--which is to say honor
| wantit,"
Isaker Gavtt, with q face palt
with disappointment, that he has
not taken 1t when it wuz Offered
him, swore that Of the Gayitt fami
| " wuz to be overlooked, why tht
sooner the Democrisy waz burieC
the hetter,
Somewhere in the course nv my
reading, cum across an aceoun
nv tho trouble that wuz perdoost il
q NEUROLOGICAL heaven, by sum cusl
who tost in a golden apple, labeled
ito the fairest,n or words to tha
effeck. The announcement tina
Belmont had a million and a half t
invest in delegates wuz the colder
apple wich set lis in an uproar-
Every cuss in the couyenshun want
ed to be a delegate immejitly, ant
the result wuz, the entire bildin cum
to blows. | he'd the morhdcasher
NV seein Bascom with his fingers
clutched to the neektie Of the ven
erable Pogram; Isakor Gavitt ant
McPelter wuz similarly engaged
while l wuz a doin my level best t
restrain Podhammer from massacre
in. me, Had not Joe Bigler an(