Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-09

took IN 2t-HOLo Tue ~ uppeSo DeIo O"V'''0"
and scho ae0rked them.
Confederit x Roads (which is in the
state Nv kentucky, Oct. IA, 1871. L am
in the sere and yallar leaf, and hsv seen
much NV poly but never In my lie
did ever see a convenshun so beautifully
managed ez the late Democratic Conven-
shun at Rochester, Moo York. 1 WIZ
thar by speshul invitsshun Nv my old
friend, Dennis O'Shaughnessy, nv the
Sixth ward, Moo York, who, since L left
the Harp O. Erin s'loon, hez Improsd won
derfuly, in a worldly pint NV view. He
wuz then a hod-carrier by proHesshun,
and a repeter by practice. He sttr acted
the atteutshun NV Mr.. Tweed by his zeal
in votin' and his bravery in knockin down
opposishen voters, and wuz of coarse re-
warded. He is now assistant inspector
NV musket triggers nv the Ninth regi-
mental armory, at a salery of $500 3
month, skool inspecktor in the sixth word
at salery of $500 a month, and thirty
second assistent law advisor for eondem-
in private property. for streets and sich,
at a salery Nv $4,000 per year, besides
which he hez a tenth interest In the con-
track for keep:n the glass in repair nv
the two back wipders Nv two armories.
out of wich he made $4,000 in the fust
six months. He wuz to hav had the con-
track for two front winders in addishun,
but the rade the people made unto the
ring busted that. He bez, however, in
vested largely in city lots, and wares kid6
gIovs, and dimond ez big ez q peach
stone. Dennis s aid that if the Internal
Americans and Germans ken be beaten
down, and the control Nv Moo York left
with the Irish, where it belongs, be will
be tolerably well off in a year or two.
Dennis being nv consequence in the par
ty wuz, nv course, in the private csunsels
nv the managers Nv the State convenshun.
He and Tweed, Sweeney, Connolly, May
or Hall, Keyser, Garvin, and the entire
wuz in Rochester, though no.
body knowd it. They went in a speshal
private car, and he'd private rooms to the
Osborn House, with a telegraph wire run
min directly to the hall in witch the cen
yenshun wuz held. 1t wuz the most i'm
pressive sight l ever witnesst: one witch
these old eyes will probably never look
onto again. There in an easy chair sot
one man directiu the diliberashuns nv a
nv the CRATE state Nv Moo
York-one brain thinkin fur a thousand
one hand guidin a thousand. He direct
ed the convenshus to cheer when Sew
mour's name wuZ aunounst 81 delegate
an they cheered-he directed them TO re
iect the Tsmmany delegashun from the
city. an they VIM rejected-he directed
en- to do all that wuz dun, an they did it.
my great sir sed I, IL astonishment Al
the power he WELDED, why don't 700 20
over to the hail and direct the conveu-
shun ?
MY gentle SIR retorted he with a
bland smile, 81 he dictated q message di-
rectirg the convenshun to cheer when the
rejection Nv the Tsmmauy delegates WIZ
'lnv der sir, AM THERE u
There's a hundred nv n1y bats agoin up
to the ceilin this minit-there's two hun
dred Nv my bands clsPpin vociferusiy
at this mipis. There's a CRATE many Nv
me in that hall.
After the adjournment nv the conven-
shun for dinner, the chairman the
committee on resolooshens scame into the
room to submit the resolooshens they hid
prepared, that they mite be shoor III
wood meet Mr. Tweed's ideas.
great man read EN- sttentively g. ,.-i NJ
Nv en- back. II H'hNS 80
They won't do, be So ,.,.,
he chairman ebssc .ney faulty Z asked
.Woodn't il he 1uiously.
u-;.b or,;1o well enough said Tweed
rst .Boo5 still more bland than the
raonIC emit it be well enough to put in
,ens .oshen denouncin corrupshin, in
! raj terms, Nv cou rise, specifyin psrtik-
erly however, the espeshel corrupshiE
NV the nashpeI COVE rnment, and that NV
states witch is under rsdikal control? p
lie subiimlty Nv such sejestion comm
rom Tweed struck the chairman all NV
heap.
Certainly will. ef you with it, sed be.
but sposed-that is, ny idea wuz-in
general way, yoo know, that the least
ed about the ccrr upshen, in view Nv
Well l am jist now holding n place WITCH
'ays suthin like ten thou-but never
mind, it shell be { ONE
Then again. i'd Tweed, spilin still
'landerer and 'th the finest seiestion nv
wink In his left eve, L would seiest
hat yoo PLEDGE the Democratic party to
honest ap d economical expenditoor NV
he public fnnd,r
The eh 4irm+n turned pale with sur.
rlSe' hr he cein cided. Everybody coin
ides 18th Tweed.
AZ id while 700 are at it, continued the
reat chieftnin with a smile, the hl4ndnis
" W Ich cant be described, you he'd bet |
or cut in q resoloeshen denounsin the |
II Ehigacy nv the management, nv mat. |
re- in Moo York city, bat maxim il, mind |
90, ez the leg itimate result Nv Radiksl |
egislashen fou yeers ago. Draw mp this
esolooshen so t z &c make it plain that its
ne yoor driyin at, without exactly namin
ne'
why, what 81 el we
Don't ge on, my friend sed Tweed.
milin smile with for blsndnis excellad
he most delisht's Joon morning. 'It's
luch better to hnv the -corrupshen de-
nnnst by us than by the enemy, partik-
leriy u we know more definitely about
. And | would jest that you hev a
'9olooshen, boldly chall 9ngin a Compare
N between the Republican and i, mo.
hhc administrations of the state and
ty government; and IN sre he smiled
tth b'4ndnis witch wuz he4verly, ez he
oxereS most gigantic die rlond on the 4
'ue hhser of his left hand md sipned
}. ~ 81 champasne) any lIttl,> thing WITCH '
'u Rim throw In 81 to. the netsessity Nv
!, turn to the simplicity Nv orV PoritsRj
theirs, wood be WELL
The chairman wuz too aEfa,,
ord, bnt he made the e. toy Y,
d csstin' one look nv .asaarg notes
q greatness nv bis q ,s,on;, hroent :,
,iiin' blsndly. re.;, eef who Sat tbor.
But the greasr I'd IRON, ~ ,,,esaroa
ne. He prom s,,s woTL -, ~.
: go. pity telegraph ever, prom
SUSIE fatic editor and politis hen in
ma o denounce him in the bit teres,
and then tellin' the convs 7tiop
20 nominate and wat else to do, rent
!, ineIe is greatness and grandeur in
ms man which | can't sufficientIv al.
n nire Some men would be SO puffsd un
s : ;,,i tne possession NV the twenty. f Oh
unions which he hez made 81 70 ;ns;,t