The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-09

lar. Nasty at the New York Democratic
State Oonvention--The Part MIR
Tweed Took In lt-HoW the Puppets
From the Toledo Blade.l
CoNFEDERIr x ROADS, ]
(WHICH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY !
October IA, 1871. J
| am ia the sere and yaller leaf, and
hev seen much nv politics, but never
in my life did ever see aconvenshun
so beautifully managed ez the late
Democratic Convenshun at Roches.
ter, Moo York. I wux there by
special invitashen nv my friend Don
mis- O'Shaughnessy, Nv the Sixth
Ward, Moo York, who, since l left
the Harp nv Erin s'loon, hez i'm
proved wonderfully in a worldly pint
nv view. He waz then q hod-carrier
by profession and repeater by prac-
tice. He attracted the attention Nv
Mr.. Tweed by zeal in votin and his
bravery in knockin down opposishen
voters, and wuz Nv course rewarded.
He is now assistant inspector Of
musket triggers Nv the ninth regi
mental armory, at salary Nv $500
per month, skool inspector in the
sixth ward at q salary Nv s400 per
month, and thirty-second assistant
law adviser for condemnin private
property, for streets and sich, at a
salary Nv $4,000 per year, besides
which he hez q tenth interest in the
contract for keepln the glass in re-
pair nv the two back winders NV two
armories, out of which he made $1O,-
900 in the first six months. He wuz
to hev he'd the contrack for the two
front winders in addition, but the
raid the people made onto the ring
busted that. He hez, however, in
vested largely in city lots, and wears
kid gloves, and diamond ez big ez
a peach stone. Dennis sed that ef
the Internal Amerikens and Germans
ken be beat down, and the control nv
Moo York left with the Irish, where
it belongs, he will be tolerably well
off in year or two.
Dcnnis being Nv consequence in
the party, wuz, NV course, in the pri.
vate oouDsels nv the managers Nv the
State convenshun. He and Tweed.
Sweeney, Connolly, Mayor Hall,
Keyser, Garvey and the entire con-
vocashun wuz at Rochester, though
nobody knowed il. They went in
speshel private car, and he'd private
rooms at the Osborn House, with
telegraph wire running directly to
the hall into which the convenehun
was held. 1t wuz the most impress
sive scene / ever witnesst on wich
these old eyes will probably never
look onto agin. Their in an esy chair
sot one man directin the deliberxshens
NV q convenshun Nv the great State
NV Moo York-one brain thinkin for
q thousand-one hand guidin q thou
sand. He directed the convenshun
to cheer when Seymour's name wuz
announst ez q delegate, and they
cheered-he directed en- to reject the
Tammany delegasben from the city,
and they wuz rejected-he directed
EN- to do everything that wuz done
and they did it.
"My great sir" sed !, in astonish-
ment at the power he welded, "why
don't you 60 over to the hall and d.
rect the convenshun ?"
"My gentle SIR" retorted he, with
o bland smile, ez he dictated mes
sage directin NV the convenshun to
cheer when the rejection Nv the
Tammany delegates was announced,
"my dear sir; / AM THERE
There's q hundred nv my hats agoin
up to the ceilin this minit-there's
two hundred nv my hands claupin
vociferpusly at this mint. There's
great many of me in that hall"
After the adjournment ofthe con-
venshun for dinner, the chairman nv
the committee on resolodshens came
into the room to submit the resoloo-
shens they had prepared, that they
might be shoor they wood meet Mr..
Tweed's ideas. The great man read
ON attentively and handed NV EN-
back.
"They won't do" he said senten-
tiously.
"In what respeck are they faulty?"
asked the chairman, obsequiously.
"W ooden't it be we'll enough" said
Tweed, with q smile still more bland
than the first, "woodent it be well
enough to put in q resolooshin de.
nouncin corrupshln, in general terms,
NV course, specifyin partikelerly,
however, the especial corrupshen Nv
the nashnel Government, and that of
States which is under radical con-
trol?"
The siblimity Nv sich sejestion
comm from Tweed struck the Chair
man all Nv a heap.
"Certainly, will, eff 700 wish il" !"
sed he, .but l eposed-that il my
idee wuz-in ageneral way, 700
know, that the least sed about cor
rupshun, in view uv-well, ! am jist
now holding place which pays suth-
in like ten thou-but never mind it
shell be DONE"
STten agin," sed, Tweed, smilin
still blander and with the faintest
seiestion OF wink in his left eye. 81
would sejest that you pledge The
Democratic party to a honest and
economical expenditure Nv the pub
lie funds 2"
The chairman turned pale with
surprise, but he concluded. Every.
BODY comedies with Tweed.
"And while 700 are At it," contin
ued the great chieftain with q smile
the blandnis Nv wich can't be de
scribed, oyoo he'd better put in res
olooshen denounsin the proAigacy u,
the management Nv matters in Not
York city, but maxim it. mind yoo
ez the legitimate result Nv Radica
legislashen iour years ago. Draw
up this resulooshen SO cz to mako !
plain that it's me yoor drivin at with
I out exactly namin me-"
"Don't go on, my friend, sal,
Tweed, smilin smile wich fer bland
mis- excelled the most delishns Joo
, morning, '.it's much better to he
the corrupshen denounced by us tha
: the enemy, pertikelerly as we kno,
more definitely about it. And
, wood seiest that you hev q resolot
,, shen boldly challenger ccmpariso
! between the Republican and Demt
cratic administrations NV tho stat