Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-06-12

Posi- OFIs. CoNrmEEIT y ROADS .
l,yich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky, |
Nav p. 1865. |
Iwuz at Chicago one day, and that one |
day satisfied me Ny ears wuz stunned with I
roars for Grant whichever way | turned my /
ewes l saw nothin but Grant badges and |
Grant medals the bands wuz all playin the |
Star Spangled Banner and sich, and even the |
street organ grinders he'd attooned their Tyres |
10 the same Ablishun melodies.
On my arrival askt yishus boy, wlch
knowd was Dimekratic, from the tact that ms
little shirt wood hev hung out Nv his little
rants eff he'd he'd any shirt, ef he Good show
me where the Ablishun Convenshun wuz
holdin itself
81. It's in that yer bildin,' Pintin ez he spoke
10 a ruther gorgus editce with a steeple to
it.
7 entered it and wuz surprised, not only at
the fewness Of the delegates on the floor, but
at their pecoolyer appearance. They wuz
an solemn lookin chaps, with gold specta-
lies. black coats, high foreheads, and white
neckerchers. e. Is this, thot to myself,
O.. the uniform delegates wear at Republican
cOnvenshuns
~ -AANAAA
sido me. and in an under tone askt wich wuz
abed on the first ballot, Colfax or Wade?
.. sir sed he, - are YOU johnson Post
master?'' ,,,
d" am, '' sed l, defantly. How didst de
termine that pint?''
:. By your breath, sed he. 50 Yoor mis-
taken in the place, my friend. This is
Methodist Conference.
That wikked and perverse boy hedintensh-
nelly deceived me.
Unable to obtain admission into the Opera
Uonse. | whiled away the rosy hours visit
N the delecashen rooms. The lngeany dele
,-asben offered me water when | intimated /
Vas atbirst. The Ohio delegashen knew me
ON tb. site and rekested me to dust, and the
Californv delegashen, NV wich l expected
be+ter tfings. he'd the impudence to offer me
,rine Vine wine to feed sch a nose ez l
carry ab0ut. Wine to satisfy the craylns
s;.b . stunick e. mine, Faugh And
the man who did it he'd bin IN Calltomy
twenty years
retired into a friendly hostelry kept by Den
his O'Shaughnessy, and at his hospitable bar
s9laced myself with three fingers Nv hentuc-
Ky sustenance. 80.
There Wuz no enthusiasm among the citi-
zensuv Chicagowhichl materially fell among.
The s'lo5u keepers. which in remembrance
Nv the Demokratic Conyenshun NV 1904 had
made extra prepau7huns, was gloomy, sad
and di-arronted. These places, garnlsht
f,r the occasion. wuz sad and lonely. There
,ruz an entire absence Nv that gentle gurgle
vvicb To me is 80 pleasin there wuz none Of
the pentle noses and faces lighted up with the
radiance born NV tho bari wich am so ac
ccstomcd TO- No, Chicago Is no place for
me.
Its the last Republican conyenshun shel
ever attend. The idea Nv confer nee sIttln
in the same city with convenshen The
idea NV mingiin politics with religion Ill
there be conferences in Moo York in Jooly?
Nethinks not. onless indeed my church shood
decide to hold one.
ON INV rcturn we wus a settin in Basc0m
a discus-in nominashens Dekm Fosram
vcuz INDIGNANT. .'GOOi heavens ,' sed ne
with horror in his sainted face, "kin it be
that men rro'ess nashnel views wood offer
sich am insult to Kentucky ez To nominate
-ioh n man eZ Grant. who, sword IN hand,
ievastatid her fertile fields and piled the
bodies Nv her nootral sons who resisted his
advance mountains high Kin it be that -
Easy. Deekin. replied /, ''stiddy std
dv Don't take posishen rashly. 1t ain
ilnrr5lable that we may hey % nominate
Hancock OF some other soler. In that event
but I've said enof.
"Wcu. nc all eyenee. sed the Deekin,
Its "a most hoomilatiu thing to have thrown
in our faces "a infamous uroposishen to pay
a debt injured in infamous attempt to sub
i5ogate us-to pledge yur labor to pay debt
unconstitootioually injured, and un-"
e. Dcckin. -ed /. '' yoor zeel I DO admire.
but voor reelv indiscreet 1t may Dee found
necessary in order to carry 400 York to nom
mate Belmont Is man, who will be pledged to
rbis very thing. Go a little slow.
.. Wei however that may be, its burn
I'm shame To throw into kentucky- face
,bolishist-two inuy EN- in iact-and-
.. Deekin q spoke tins time severely,
e.. voor very indscreet to-day. It's possible,
and NAV saw probable that that noble pat
NOT Cheef Justice Chase, who hez bIn a
lriteful ablishinist, and who, ef he runs, Will.
ior obyus reasons, make Us sgaller at the be
ginnin, porsheu NV his heresies, may be our
candidate Say nothin, Deckin, that yool
hey to take back
Feelin that rite here wuz a splendid chance
for an improyin discourse on the nacher OBJ
iicks and aims Nv Democracy, opened out
onto en-.
:. Dimocrisv. | remarkt, Sc II distin-
a.uisbed chiefly for Its elasticity in adaptin
means to ends. One would suppose that
POST Offs is it, cheef end. l. ono sense 1t is.
Dimocrisv Is willing to sacrifice anything
which il hez for Post Offs. 1t mite raise
Deekin Pogram's ire 10 sejcst the nomnashen
ny Hancock. on akkount uy his slawterlns,
or Belmont's candidate, on akkount Nv his
insistin on layin of the Nashnel debt, or
Chase's who hez bin in his day suspected Nv
bein tainted with Ablishinism. But my
brethring let it be remembered that success
j. the main ohiick. Success is wat Bascom
wants, that /, bein cOntiny0oed in offs, may
heY the means to pay Cor the likker | con-
SOON. and avoid the necessity uy ben contin-
yooallv rekesteG 10 chalk it down, which
practis he esteems disgustin and one which
Greatly increases his labors Captain McPel-
ter wants success that he may continyoo to
hey Assessors. Collectors and Reyenoo officers
with which he kin divide the profits Nv the
s. tax on the whisky he makes, and Deekin
Pogram wants success that he may hcy his
niggers agn, or at least that he may hey the
privilege Of hirin EN- for SlI per month, de-
ductin % cents day for each days absence,
without no Burrow oiiiser or other military
satrap hangin about to mOlest or make
afraid. Success Is the main pint, and If
Hancock is tic way, walk ye in it-ef Chase
OF Seymour is the way, walk ye ditto, 10