The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-11-07
From the Toledo Blade.
Nnsby ut Rochester.

Nasty at Rochester.
What the ContederH X Roads En- Post
master sa'c at the Tammany Safe
Contention.
CoNrEDRlT Y RoADs.
(WIcn Is IN TIE STATE OF KENrTcKY),
October II, 1871.
| am in the sore and yeler leaf, and
hev seen much of politics, but never in
my life did | ever see q convenshun 80
beautifully managed ez the late Demo-
cratic Convenshun at Rochester, Moo
York. | waz thore by speshel invitation
Nv my old friend Dennis O'Shaughnessy,
Nv the Sixth Ward, Moo York, who,
since l left the Harp Nv Erin Soon has
improved wonderfully in a worldly pint
Nv view. lie was then hod-carrier by
profession and a repeater by practice
He attracted the attention Nv Mr.. Tweed
by his zeal in votin and his bravery in
knockin down opposishcn voters, and
was NV course rewarded. He is now
Assistant Inspector NV Musket triggers
NV the Ninth Regimental Armory, at a
salary Of $500 per month, Skool Inspec-
ter in the Sixth ward, at salary of S40O
per month, and Thirty Assistant
Law Adviser to the commission for con-
demnlng private property, for streets and
SIGH, at salary Nv three thousand dollars
per year, besides which he hez a tenth
interest in the contract for keeping the
glass in repair of the two back winders
Nv two Armories, out Nv which he made
$4,000 in the first six months. He was
tn hev he'd the contrack for the two front
winders in addition, but the raid the
people made on the Ring busted that.
He hez, however, invested largely in city
lots, and wears kid gloves and diamond
ez big ez peachstone. Dennis said that
eff the Internal Amerikens and Germans
kin oe beat down and the control of Moo
York left with the Irish, where it be-
longs, he will be tolerably well off in
year or two.
Dennis, being Nv consequence in the
party wuz, Nv course, in the private
counsels Nv the managers Nv the State
Convenshun, He and Tweed, Sweeny,
Mayor Hall, Keyser, Garwin, and the
entire convocashen was at Rochester
though nobody knowed it, They went in
a speshel private car, and he'd private
rooms at the Osborne House, with
private wire runnin directly to the hall
wich the Convenshun was held. II wuz
the most impressive scene l ever witnesst
one witch these old eyes will probably
never look onto agin. Their in an esy
chair sot one man directing his delibera.
shens Nv a convenshun uu the great State
Nv Moo York-one brain thinkln for o
thousand-one hand guidin a thousand.
He directed the Convenshun to cheer
when Seymour's name wuz announst ez
delegate, and they cheered-he directed
EN- to reject the Tammany delegashun
from the city, and they wuz rejected
he directed EN- to do everything that
wuz done and they did it.
"My great sir" sed I, in establishment
at the power he welded. "why don't you
90 over to the hall and direct the Con.
venshun ?'
"My gentle Sir" retorted he, with
bland smile, ez he dictated message d..
rectin Nv the Convenshun to cheer when
the rejection of the Tammany delegates
was announced, "my dear Sir, | AM
THERE There's q hundred Nv ma throats
shoutin this minit-there's a hundred
Nv my hats a goin up to the ceilin this
minit-there's two hundred Nv mig hands
a clappin vociierously at this mint.
There's great many Of me in that hall"
After the adjournment of the Conven-
shun for dinner, the Chairman NV the
Committee on Resolooshens came into
the room to submit the resolooshens they
had prepared, that they mite be shoor
they wood meet Mr. Tweeds IDEAS. The
great man read EN- attentively and hand
ed NV EN- back.
They won't do" sed he sententiously.
In what respeck are they faulty p,
asked the Chairman, obsequiousy.
"Woodent it be well enough" sed
Tweed. with smile still more bland than
the first, "woodent.it be well enough to
put in a resolooshen denouncin corrup.
shen, in general terms, Nv coorse, spec-
fyin partikerierly, however, the especial
corrupshen of the Nashnel Government,
and that NV States witch is under Radikal
control 7" -.-,..H-
The sublimity NV SIGH sejeston comm
from Tweed struck the Chairman all nv
heap. .-.Hs
Certainly will, eli 700 wish it," sed
he, but l sposed-that is, my idee wuz
in a general way, 700 know, that the
least sed about corrupshen, in view NV
well, l am jist now holding a place
witch pays somethin like ten thou-but
never mind, it shell be DONE"
Then agin,' said Tweed, smilin still
blander and with the faintest sejestion NV
wink in his left eye. 81 would sejest
that you sejest that you pledge the Dem
ocratic party to honest and economical
expenditoor Nv the public funds"
The Chairman turned pale with sur
prise, but he conceded. Everybody coin
cides with Tweed.