The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-02

BAbeS 10 tMe new 1OTA COn ven
liOm-BHOw the Faithful Wer,
Drilled im i'm their DMty.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
June Is, 1868.
The selectin NV delegates to the No,
York Convenshun hez bin botherin u
in sevral ways for sevral weeks past
No one wantid to go, and it wuz 700
unanimously decided by all that eff tn,
Corners wuz represented at all, mus
be the man, | objected, for there aint
no profit in sich. Ordinarily, / GOOD
cheek my expenses. Hotel keepers are
but human, and | have never yet failet
to stick EN-, but with Democratic
convenshen in full blast it wood be ;
hopeless enterprise With ten thou.
sand like me, all goin on their cheek
wat wood ther be for met With ter
thousand hungry, thirsty, empty-pock.
tied soles wat Good l do9 Therefore
felt that l Good not go. / wrote tc
A. J. to know eff he wood allow per
diem, transportashen and mileage to
delegates, to wich he ansered:
"SlR-For wich candidates do yoor
delegates perpose to vote?"
This crooel epistle settled me.
couldn't 60 there pledged to him, be-
COZ eff he shoodent be nominated what
wood become NV my Post Offs? Wood
his successor continyoo me in place,
who he'd been active in the support NV
another?
Finally the day for our convenshun
came, and we assembled. Bascom wuz
nominated, but he declined. Deekin
Pogram wuz offered the honor, and he
declined, and so did McPelter, Issaker
Gavett, 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 mornin, when we resoOmed our
unsuccessful endeavors to persuade
each other to go to Moo York. An
other day wuz thus fruitessly 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 mite, only to
meet and go through the same formula
the next day. | felt that, onless suthin
wuz done, the Corners wood go unrep-
resented.
On the eighth day, at about ten in the
mornin, Deekin Pogram's youngest
boy, fair haired lad of fourteen sum-
mers, who resembles the. Deekin to a
degree quite complimentary 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 opened it, and red
mint, when his face changed instantly.
"Hell!" sed he, to himself, and then
he aroze:
''Mr. Cheerman," sed he, "to end
this Improbable session, l wood say
that hev reconsdered my determina-
shen. will go to Moo York."
The Convenshun wuz thunder struck.
Wat did it mean The Deekin siezed
the paper, and glancin over its columns,
read painfully a mint and sed that he
wuz surprised at Mr., Bascoms asshoor-
ancc. Il shell be delegate myself"
sed he.
By this time McPelter read it, and I
got it and read this paragraph:
''Let the Western Democrisy beware.
They must como on the Fourth, pre-
pared to encounter bribery and corrup-
shen. Belmont and the Wall street clique
hev raised 81 500, 600 to be yoosed in the
purchase 40 delegates to defeat Pendleton."
The Deekin pertested agin Bascom's
goin. "Yoo can't be spared" shriekt
he. "Who will run the bizness in yoor
absence? Is ther a man in the Cor
ners 700 dare trust inside yoor bar a
minit7 No, will CO."
"Not so, shrieked McPelter, 81 will
go ez delegate. hev borne the heat
and burden Nv the day-I wuz with
Forrest, and now that there is chance
to make suthin-that is, now that ther
is a posisben NV prof-thst is to say
honor, want it."
Issaker Gavitt, with face pale with
Disappointment. that he hednt taken it
when it wuz offered him, swore that ef
the Gavitt family wuz to be overlooked,
why the sooner Democrisy wuz buried
the better.
Somewhere in the course NV my
readin, cum across an account nv the
trouble that wuz perdoost in mytho-
logical heaven by some cusS who tost in
golden apple, labelled "to the fairest,"