Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-11-04
Naslpy at Rochester.

foIAIE CON NENIlON.
From the Toledo Blade.
Confedrit Y Roads,
(Wich is in the State of Kentucky,)
October, IA, 1871.
am in the sere and yaller leaf, and hov
seen much of politics, but never in my life
did | ever see q convenshun so beautifully
managed ez the late Democratic Conven-
shun at Rochester, Moo York. l was there
by speshel invitashun NV my old friend
Dennis O'Shaughnessy, Nv the sixth Ward
Moo York, who, since | left the Harp NV
Erin Sloon, has improved wonderfully in n
worldly pint of view. lie was then a hod-
carrier by profession, and a repeater by
practice. lie attracted the attention NV
Mr.. Tweed by his zeal in votin and his
bravery in knocliin down opposishen voters,
and wus of course rewarded. lie is now
Assistant inspector NV Muskct Triggers NV
the Ninth Rcgimental Amory, at IL salary
of 5000 per month, Skool Inspector in the
Sixth ward, at a salary of S400 per month,
and Thrty-second Assistant Law Adviser
to the commission for condcmnlng private
property, for streets and sich, at II salary
NV three thousand dollars per year, besides
which he hez tenth interest in the con-
tract for kecpin the glass in repair of the
two back windcrs nv two Armores, out NV
which he made $4,000 in the first six
months. He wus tn hey he'd the cOntrack
for the two front windcrs in addition, but
the raid the people made on the Ring bust
cd that. lie hcz, however, invested large
ly in city lots, and wears kid gloves and a
diamond cz peachstonc. Dennis said that
cf the Internal Amerikcns and Germans kin
be beat down and the control NV Moo York
left with the Irish, where it belongs, he will
l,n i,,l l,lt- ,vnll of in, n ,-no, ,r t,vp
Dennis Dcin Nv consequence in the party
wuz, nv course, in the private counscls NV
the managers NV the State Convenshun.
He and Tweed Swoony, Mayor Hall, Key
ser, Garwin, and the entire convocashcn
was at Rochester, though nobody knows it.
They went in II spcshel private car, and
he'd private rooms at the Osborne House,
with private wire runnin directly TO the
hall into wich the Convcnshun was held.
1t wuz the most impressive scene | ever
wltnesst one wiCh these old eyes will pro-
badly never look into agin. Their in an
csy chair sot one man drcctin the deiber-
ashuns NV a convenshun Nv the CRATE Stait
NV Moo Yorke-wun brane thinkin fur
thousand. lie directed the Conwenshun to
chere wen Scymour's nayme wuz announst
ez n delegate, and thay cheered-he dercct-
cd EN- to reject the Tammany delegashun
from the city, and they wuz rejected-he
directed EN- to do everything that wuz don
and they did it.
''My great sir" sed l, in astonishmcnt
at the power he welded, "why don't you
90 over to the hall and direct the ConWcn-
shun ?''
MY gentle Sir,n retorted he, with a
bland smile, cz he dictated a message di-
rectin NV the Convenshun to chere when
the rejection of the Tammany delegates
was announst, ''my dear Sir, an there
There's hundred Nv my throtes shout
in this mnit-thcre's a hundred NV my
hats Ioin up to the sclin this mint
there's two hundred NV my hands clap.
pin vociferously at this mint. Theirs q
CRATE many of me in that hall.n
After the adjournment of the Conven-
shun for dinner. the Chereman NV the
Committee on Resolutions came into the
room TO submit the rcsoooshuns they had
prepared, that thay mite be shoor thay
wud meet Mr.. Twccd's ideas. The CRATE
man red en- attentivcly and handed Nv EN-
back.
"Thay won't du," scd he sentcntiousy.
''In what respek are they fatty ?" asked
the Cheerman, obseqiously.
'Woodcnt it be we'll enough" sed Tweed
with smile more bland than the first,
''woodent it be well enun to put in reso-
looshen denouncen currupshun, in general
turns of corse, specifyin partkelarly, how
ever, the speshel currupshun nv the Nash
mel Government, and that Nv Stats witch is
under Radikal cuntrol ?"
The sublimity Nv sich a suggestion COM
in frum Tweed struck the Checrman all NV
hCcp.
Certainly I will, cf you wish it, sed
he, but spOscd-that is, my idea wuz-in
a general way, 700 know, that the least
sed about corrupshun, in view uv-well, |
am jist now holding n place wich pays
sumthin like ten thOusand--but never mind
it shall be DONE
"Thcn agn," sed Tweed, smilin still
blander, and with the iaintest sejestion NV
Il wink in his left eye, Il wood sejcst that
you pledge the Dimekratik party to huncst
and ekonomkal cXpcndtur NV the funds ~
The Chcrcman turned pale with surprise,
but he coincided. Everybody comedies
with Tweed.
"And, while you are at it," continued
the crate Chieitian, ''you had better put in
n resolooshen denOuncin the prOtii.acy nv
the management Nv matters in Moo HOurk
city, but maxim it, mind you, cl the legiti-
mate result of Radikal legisashun fore
yeers ago. Draw up this resolooshen so as
to make it plane that it's me yure driven
at, without exactly namin me-"
'Why, what shall We"
'Don't, go on, my friend" Sed Tweed,
smilin smile which fur blandnis cXccllcd
the most dcishus JoOn mornin, "its much
better to hcv the corrupshen denounst by
us than by the enemy, partikolerly ez we
know more definitely about it. And | wood
sCiest that 700 hev rcsnlnoshen, boldly
challenger comparison between the Re-
publikin and Democratic administrations
nv the Stait and city Governments, and
(here he smiled with II blandness wich was
heavenly, e2 lac fingered most gigantic
diamond, on the little Iinger of his left hand
and slipped glass of champagnc) any little
thing wich you Kin throw in "a the neccs-
sty NV return 90 the simplicity nv our
Puritan fathers wood bc wcll"
The ChCrcmau was too affected tO say "A
wurd, but lac made the necessary notes, ain
castin look NV nstonishmeut at the crate
ness nv his checf who sat there smilin
blandly, retired from the presence.
But the crate mans work was not yet
done. lie promptly telegrat every promi-
nent Dimclntic editor aud politishun in
the Stait To dcnpunnr him IN the biltercst
forms and then trlliu the Convention ,yhn