New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-28
By this time MoPelter read it, and got it

encounter bribery aud corrupshen. Bel.
mont and the Wall street clique hev raised
ST. 100000 to be yoosed in the purchase Nv
delegates to defeat Pendleton.n
The Deekin pertes ed agin Bascom's goin.
'Yoo can't be spared, shrieked he. Who
will run the biZnis ia yoor absence! is
ther man in the Corners 700 dare trust in
side yoor bar mint? No, will 60"
s'Not so" shrieked McPelter. II will go
ez delegate. hev borne the heat and bar.
den Nv the day. wuZ with Poorest, and
now that ther is chance to make suthin--
that is, now that there is posishen Nv prof,
witch is to say honor, want it.h
Issaker GHyitt, with a face pale with DIS
appointment that he hadn't taken it when
it wuz offered him, swore that eft the Gayltt
family wuz to be overlooked, why the
sooner. Democrisy wuz buried the better,
Somewhere in the course nv my readln'
| come across an account NV the trouble that
wuz perdoost in NEUROLOGICAL heaven by
| some cuss who tost in a golden apple laoel
| led Ito the fairestn or words to that eheck,
! The announcement that Belmont had mll'
| lion aud half to invest in delegates Wuz
the golden apple wioh set us in uproar'
| Every euss in the convention wanted to be
delegate immejtly, and the result wuz,
the entire bilin come to blows. he'd the
| NORTHEASTERN NV seein Bascom with his
| fingers clutched in the necktie OF the veneer
able Pogram. Issaker Gavitt and McPelter
wuz similarly engaged, while ! wuz dom
my level best to restrain Podhammer from
massacreein me. Had not Joe Bigler and
| Pollock arrived oppnrtoonly, the entire
| Dimocrisy Nv the Corners wood heV Din
| wiped out on the spot.
1t wuz finally settled by THROWN dice for
| it, witch roOl ought, by the way, to he adopt
| ed by all Democratic bodies everywhere
| Randell and McCulloch hev practist it with
distinguished success in maxim their apmnt-
ments, Say thrr are twenty applicants, or
| to get ueerer the trooth three hundred for
any given place. Very good. The head Nv
the department assertaius first eff they are
all Dim0crats. Then three hundred clerks
are detailed, each clerk representa- appli'
cant, and they throw dice, the low st retirin
every throw, onti one is victorious, aud the
man represented by him gifts the place. 1t
saves vast amount Nv labor in the eggsam-
iRashun NV certificates Nv carskter and ht
mis-, &C., and besides its imparshal. All the
appointments are now made in that way at
| Washinton.
We adopted this device, and / wuz made
| delegate aud POgram alternate, the agree
ment bein that whatever we got over eX
perses wuz to be divided ekally. Then a
holy calm succeeded the stCrm Nv pashen
| witch he'd ragged We go, Nv coorse, uuin
structed, for obvus reasons. Ef we wuz in
| strucled wher would be the Ohjick of our
goin? 1t is not SIGH that Belmont Will go
fur.
The uncertainty NV the result NV the
| convenshen Il say uncertainty, for who kin
| tell wich candidate heZ the most mOueYO
| hez occasioned me avast amount Nv trouble.
hev bin laborin assidyusly to git our peo-
| pie into frame Nv mind to be enthoosiastlc
over the nominee, no matter who It 49, or
wat platform he is put onto. To bring this
about hey he'd EN- in front Nv Bascom's
every mite for a week training NV EN-. L
ranged them in a row. and takIn my posi-
shen in front, give the word like meiishy
| otfiser. 500
"Attenshen ~ seq I. "Ror for Chase and
/ Morissey Together"
''Ror for Cha but ther they broke
down.
"Parson, p said Deekan Pogram, 81 can't
| Give me week or two to practis alone by
myself, and possibly l can make it, The
spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
Issaker Gayitt pertestid. II kin,n sed he,
possibly go Chase; but spozin they put
Sumner on the tikket with him Sumner |
won't 60"
so Won't do sed /, sternly. "'Ror for
Chase and Ameriky for white mem"
"jRor for Chase, Brick POmerOy and ekal
suffrage"
"'Ror ~ shouted they commercially.
'"Ror for Chase, A. johnson, and Mayor
Monroe!n
"iRor ~
error for Chase and Repudiashen."
"Will that be the slogan if Chase is nom
mated ?" asks the Deekin.
at will--down here. 'Ror ~
"lRor !" yelled they all
"Ror for Chase, Fernando Wood and
death to niggers.n
"'Ror ~
"1Ror for Chase and Fred Douglass
"Rorl n
"'Ror for Chase, Pendleton, and no tax.
sshen for unconstooshnel debt =
"RoT for Chase, Hancock, and restorashen
on our plan.'
"Ror ~ IA. ...ra. .-- --r- ID
"'Ror Tor Hendricks, Chase, and general
amnesty ~
"'Ror ~
VERY good y sed |, encouragingly. ''Very
| good, yoor fexibility is more so than
l opposed. Remember. my brethren, eff Chase
does stick in yoor throats at the beginnin,
that the Chase yoor hollerin for aint the
Chase 700 y0ost to d--n, Remember that
that partikeler Chase died some time since
(" He went out and heznit bin heerd Nv
since. He was metamOrphosed like grub.
/ he shed his Ablishinlsm and the noshens
wich impelled 700 TO hate him, and ez he
comes to us. he is nv us. We hev bin re-
crooted in that way for some time. Their
I htut Dut OnS ElCotuCuSJt uattriOOHlt anu
we're t0llably apt to git, sooner or later, all
them who git Their eye fixed on that place,
but are onE6le toput any other partuv Their
bodies Their Let us watch and pray. Elk.
ercise daily on all these candidates and all
these platforms, for the good Lord who
alone foreknoWs the decisions of petit
| Jury. only knows wich nv EN- we shea be
compelled to hooray for. Let us aceustom
ourselves 10 all, that we may enthuse at the
beginning and strike terror TO the hearts NV
our foes.| And ! dismist EN- with my
oiesslnss e = 8if as 20 sftIsI sase g asta
/ 20 Hunst went home and burned all my
old speeches and sermons on the Niger,
destroyed remorselessly all the banners and
notices wich he'd any reference to the Ethi-
opian, and otherwise cleared The decks for
aekshen. We mag heT 10 20 into the fte
with Chase end negro outrage. / want TO
commence early so as 70 git niggerphoby
completely out Nv my aystem. Us ruther
renchinis these politikle gymnastics, but /
am ekal TO this or any emergency. -
4 PETROLEUM ". Nasty, PM,
(Which ID Postmaster.)
TExAs CAFTLB--Four to elk steamboat
loads Of cattle from Texas are landed week
i y at Cairo. Illinois, averaging Eve hundred
head to the load. From Cairo they are
shipped b. rail 70 Chicago, thence to East
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