Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-26

wiser 10 the commission Tor c0ndemlng pri-
waite property, for streets and SIGH, at a sal
airy NV three thousand dollars per year,
besides which he hez tenth interest in the
contract for keepin the glass in repair Nv the
two back winders NV the two Armories, out
Nv which he made $4,000 in the first six
months. He waz 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 a peachstope. Dennis said that eff the in
fernal Amerikens and Germans kin be beat
down and the control of Moo York left with
the Irish, where it belongs, he will be toler-
ably well off in year or two.
Dennis, bein NV consequence in the party
wuz, NV course, in the private counsels NV
the managers Nv the State Convenshun. He
and Tweed, Sweeney, Mayor Hall, keyser,
Garwin, and the entire convocashen wuz at
Rochester though nobody knowed it. They
went in a speshel private ear, and he'd private
rooms at the Osborne House, with a private
wire runnin directly to the hall into wich the
convenshun wuz held. 1t wuz the most inn
pressive scene ] ever witnesst; one wich
these old eyeswill probably never look onto
agin. Their in an esy chair sot one man di
recting the delibrashens NV convenshun NV
the great State of Moo York-one brain think
in for thousand-one hand guiden thous
and. He directed the Convenshen to cheer
when Seymour's name wuz announst eZ a
delegate, and they cheered-he directed EN-
to reject the Tammany delegashun from the
city, and they wuZ rejeoted-he directed EN-
to do everything that wuz done and they did
it.
''My great sir" sed |, in astonshment at
| the power he welded 'why don't you go
| over to the hall and direct the Convenshun?'
| 'My gentle SIR" retorted he, with bland
smile, ez he dictated message dlrectln NV
| the Convenshun to cheer when the rejection
| of the Tammany delegates was announced,
my dear sir, | am there, There's a hun
| dred Nv my Threats a shoutin this mint
| there's hundred NV my hats goin up 10 the
| cellin this minit-thcre's two hundred NV my
| hands clappin veeiferously .. this mint,
| There's a great many of me in thar hall.
After the adjournment NV the Conysnshun
| for dinner, the Chairman NV the Committee
| on Resolooshens came into the rooHn 10 sub
NIT the resolooshens they he'd prepared that
they mite be shoor they wood meet Mr..
| Tweed's iiees. The great man read EN- at
tentively and handed NV EN- back.
They won't do" sed he, sententiously.
''In what respeck are they faulty?" asked
the Chairman, obsequiously.
"Woodent it be well enough" sed Tweed,
with smile still more bland than the first,
.'woodent it be well enough to put in reso-
looshen denouncin corrupshen, in general
terms, wv course, specifyin partikerlerly,
however, the especial corrupshen NV the
Nashnel Government, and that Nv States
which is under radikal control?"
The sublimity NV SIGH sejestion comm
from Tweed struck the chairman all NV a
heap.
Certainly will, eff 700 wish it, ''but
sposed-that is, my idee wuz- in general
way, 700 know, that the least sed about cor
rupshen, in view uv-well, l am jist now
holding place wich pays somethin like ten
thou-but never mind it shell be done"
'Then agin," said Tweed, smilin still blan-
der, and with the faintest sejestion ov a wink
in his left eye, 81 would sejest that you
pledge the Democratic party to honest and
| economical expenditoor NV the public funds y
The Chairman turned pale with surprise,
| but he conceded Everybody comedies with
| Tweed.
| "And while you are at it," continued the
| great chieftain with smile, the blandnes NV
witch can't be described, ''yoo he'd better put
| in a resolooshen denouncin the proiigacy Nv
the management of matters in Moo York City,
but maxim it, mind 700, eZ the legitimate re-
suit NV Radical legislashen four years ago.
Draw up this resolooshen so ez to make it
plain that it's me yoor drivin at, without ex-
actly namin me-"
w ny, WIdt Slieii we
'Don't go on, my friend" sed Tweed,
smilin smile which for blandnes excelled the
most dlishus Joon morning, sits much better
to hev the corrupshen denounst by US than
by the enemy, partickclerly ez we know more
definitely about it. And l would sejest that
700 hev a resolooshen, boldly challengin a
comparison between the Republican and
Democratic administrations NV the State and
city governments, and (here he smiled with
a blandnes witch wus hevenly, ez he fingered
a most gigantic diamond ON the little finger
of his left hand, and slipped glass of cham
pagne) any little thing wich 700 kin throw in
ez to the necessity Nv a return to the simplic-
ity NV our Puritan fathers wood be WE'LL
The Chairman wuz too affected to say
word, but he made the necessary notes, and
castin one look Nv astonishment at the great
ness of his cheef, who sat there smilin bland
ly, retired from the presence.
But the great mans work wuZ not yet
done. He promptly telegraph every promi-
nent Democratic editor and politishun in the
State to denounce him in the bitterest terms,
and then tellin the Convention who TO nomi-
nate and wat else to do, went home.
There is a greatness and grandeur in this
man witch l can't sufficiently admire. Some
men wood be so pulled up with the possession
NV the twenty-five millions witch he hez made
to insist upon the endorsement by the party
through which he made it, but not SO with
Tweed. There amt no vanity about him. SO
long ez he hez the control NV the party he
don't care a cent whether he is publicly recog-
nized or not. Ez he remarkt to me eff the
way to my continuashen in power is in de-
nunciashen Nv me, very good denounce me.
kin stand it, l amt the first man who, to
get on, hez trampled over the dead body NV
hiz reputashen. I'd jist ez soon pull the wires
behind the curtain eZ to manipulate the pull
pits in front Nv it. l amt agoin to let person.
al vanity stand in the way NV the grand sue
cess I'm hoping for nextyear I'm rather
heavy load for the party to carry jest now,
and I'm going to relieve em-till after the
Presidenshel elecshun'
Then saw wat motive wuz actooatn the
Amerikin Napoleon, aud l wuz agin lost in
wonder. Whoever the democratic nominee
is, he will simplybe shadder, Nv wich Tweed
will be the substance. Tweed will be the pow
er behind the throne, witch is greater than the
throne itself. And what glorious prospeck
opens to us Think NV a democratic President
in 1878, with Tweed behind him Think NV