Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-05-22
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May IN, 1872.
wuz not originally delegate TO the Cincinnati
Convenshun witch is 10 say | wuz not appintec
ez delegate. We he'd meetin at Bascoin's u,
me and Deekn Pogram, Kernel McPelter, lssakei
Gayitt, and one or two other Republicans hut Il
wuz dcsided not 10 send delegate.
he'd, tho, some hopes of the conyenshun. III
Adams, Davis or Brown Good be nominated II
wood I've good thing for us Adams Is ruthei
too spectacle man Tor n first-cass Dmocrat
but he is still a Dmocrat and the Dimocmti,
conyenshun wood hcy accepted him Davis and
Trumbull amt Dimocrats eggsackly, but all the
roads out NV the Republican camp lead 10 ours
and ez they hov taken that pertikeery natrin one
ambishun, we Good trust either Nv them. | wu7
anxus TO see one Nv these three nominated, and
wood hey counted it a big thing for Dmocracy
Good il hev been done.
wuz surprised at the feclin manifested There
wuz denunsiashun NV the tyrant Grant, NOR,
deep and ieryid than had heard since the fall
Nv Nicksburg. There wuz torrent nv abOoss
henpsd upon offs seekers, offs holders crrup.
shun in the civil seryis, appointments NV relative,
10 offs and SIGH, wich pleased me | lined In il
heartily. and wuz immejitly asked By delegate
whose nose recommended him to me to-wunst
wat State wuz delegate from. | ansered that
wuz citizen of Kentucky, but delegate
that we sent no delegates.
That don't natter" scd he, his nose gloir
with zeal, -" we wuzn't any Nv Us sent-we come
You shall be a delegate
And afore ! cood decline the honor he he'd an
Illinoy delegate ticket in my hand and when
sed wuz for Judge Davis innexby, he asked
me 10 take suthin. Now, ef thar is anything I'm
pertiklerly distinguished for its acceltn 10 take
suihin, and that delegate alacrty in askin, Good
only hey bin exalted by my aIacriiy in acceptin
lie wuz Davis man, too, and ! promptly Dor
rered twenty dollars OF him. Ea whisky wu7
free, that wuz enutl ~ u,ke me home and suthin
to pay Bascom on account.
The m.rniu Nv the first day the delegashen
from the dcestrik helpt 10 represent met. There
wuz twenty delegates present, and more earnest
vet NV men | never mingled with. Five NV EN-
wuz ex-postmasters who he'd bin appnted by the
sainted johnson, and most OutmgcDusly dismisst
by the despot who is now President two nv EN-
were ex-cOlectors, three ex-assossuts and the ten
remaining wuz bilin with indiguashen becUz
the Offices in their respective towns wuz filled
they swore, with the most unfit men in that seek.
shen.
d" Rather than have the country and the seryis
rooined," said one, " wood hev accepted the
Post Orfis myself | wuz solissited by my fell
low citizens ~ serve EN- IN that capassty. but
no. A military friend Nv Grants, who had served
under him, wuz appinted. Wat kin he expected
Nv SIGH an Administration Faugh 90
The other ton, | asceraned, had bin appli-
cants for posishens, but somehow didn't git en-
They were very certn that unless there wuz an
immejit change there wuz nuthn ahed but room.
There cum in alterward an e1-nember Of Con-
grcSs, who he'd bin detected for rcnominashun
two years ago and his denunsinshun OF oils
holding wuz aaectn in the extreme
We finally got 10 biznis. One delegate moved
that ex-Collector JaNkins act ez chairman This
prodoost a fearful upruar. lmmejitly six or eight
Others wuz nominated.
=" Don't vote for Jawkius, whispered one Re
former d" he wants prominence that he may
control the appointments in the decstrik, and he 4
brothers and brothers-in-nw all over it,
DON'T vote for that id Smithors," whis-
pcred another 81" he wants u be assessor ~
To my utter astonishment | diskiyered the
slarmin fact that eyry Rcfurmer ia the delega.
shun bed suthin in his eye, The caucus wuz 6.
nally organized by compromise, and a man wul
elected chairman who cOldent possibly want moth.
in, ez he hedn't the tinanshel standing 10 his re.
spcctive community 10 give bonds for anything
lie he'd come 10 Cincinnati ON free pass fur.
ni-hed hy committee, and his expenses paid
which ez he remarkt ez he hedn't anything to d,
at home, wuz cheaper than staying there lie
remnrkt 10 me that he thought he shoOd 70 into
the Reform Delegate bznis EXCLUSIVELY.
The preliminary biznis Nv the Convenshur
wuzn't eny easier sailln than the caucuSes
There wuz n fearful diversity nv opinion ez o
wat wuz first to I've done. He'd il been LETT viii
Brown and Schur2 and few Others. ca VIC d. in
regular Dimocratic Cunyenshuns, it would he,
bin easy enuH, but there wuz a dozen or more
lunatics who supposed that the movement wuz il
dead earnest, and who had idees to promulgate
They made trouble, but we soon got rid Nv EN-
To give the Conyenshun character we compelled
Senator Fenton 10 leave for his home, in No,
York, and to hey it managed properly Franz
Blair wuz tclegrephed for. Then the buznis Wi
actOOaly commenced, and wuE in high feather
1t seemed moral certainty that either Adams OF
Davis wood I've nominated, and wat a glorious
nuaua1 Tho dom. oil
Tor EN-, and--wcll, | woodent hev give CQnied
rit ten cent scrip to hev bin ashOOred Of my Post
Orts in March next.
The platform wuzn't e. much up a stumbliT
block ez supposed it wood be- The protection
lists, tor the sake Nv harmony, gave up their pro
teckshun idees, the iree-traders their free trade
the paper money men were perfectly willin {,
adopt the hard money the0ry-the hard money
advocates declared themselves satisfied with a pa
per money plank the anti-hank men conSentiC
10 banks, and the bank men were perfectly wlif
70 have EN- abolished. The amnesty men he'd M
dslrauchisers wuz perfectly willin to 60 the en-
tire swine on amnesty, Wat they all wantct
wuz reform and purity 10 the Civil Service They
all wanted to cleanse Augean stablesto hev
change-t0 restore the Government 20 its ancien
purity On this Pint Frank Blair and Tweed
wuz especially pertinashus, and on the necessity
Nv change in the Offices NV the country there wal
unanimity which never saw exalted.
But at this pint the unanimity ended In the
caucus every delegate wanted 10 he Chairman
and IN the Conyenshun every leading ReiUrmei
wanted to be the candidate Tor the Presidency
Every man NV elm he'd gone at reform by getting
upa fackshun for hisscf, and | discovered thai
they Good no more mix than oil and water Re
former Davis hated Reformer Trumbull with q
feryency that wuz only exalted 10y the hated Re
former Adams bore TO Reiormer Brown. There
wuz six parties Nv en- Adams Davis rrumbull
Drarn 'urtfp md flha in
furious, and my kittle NV fish wuz kickt over in
less than q mint. Trumbulls supporters swort
that they'd never consent to hey the appointment.
In the hands NV ez corrupt man ez Davis. Da-
Wis friends swore yehemently that they'd sooner
hev Grant than hey SIGH demag0gue ez rrum-
bull control the patronage. Curtin wuz de-
nounced ez ambishus skemer. Adams wui
damned en- cold FLOODED arstocrat Brown wul
stgmatzed ez the most shameless demagogue on
earth, and so on, while Greeley wuz loOkt upon
ez beamin old lunatc, with nothin especially
dangerous in his lunacy cept to himself At
tempts was then made to trade, but they al
failed The delegates knowed Their men thor
oughly, and they wuz afraid TO trust each other
nnd for two long days Their wuz the hottest Ugh
ever saw. The trouble wuzn't so much il
maxim charges agin each other-it was in tn,
fact that each man he'd proof in his possession
that his charges agin the others wuZ true.
1t was very plain on Friday mornin that nethe
Brown, Curtin, Adams, Davis or Trumbull GOOD
be nominated and the convenshun was likely d
break up in row, But Frank Blair wuz eka
TO the emergency. The moment he saw how
things wuz, he ordered Brown to bargain will
the delegates 10 give Horace the first place on tn,
ticket and he take the second 1t wuz the sam,
tactics which had succeeded so well in our Iii
nois caucus. Greeley wuzn't Nv enough accoun
TO be in anybody's way, and on that account h
wuz the mst available man the Stockholders ~
the TribOon wantid him nominated that he nigh
be compelled to sell out his stock and leave tn
concern Blair wanted him nominated becoz
he should happen 10 be electd he Good contro
the. patronage lhro his cousin, Gratz Brown AM
eli .he Dimocrisy should not accept him he Woo
probably draw on ennf Republican votes to cleo
our nominee, and the other delegates wantd hin
nominated that they might hey a decent excus
TO get out Nv the whole thing. They saw in tn
lafi it wuz certain TO raise, cover under whic
they Good git back TO their old quarters. Tn
reform candidates 30 hated each other that eac
voted for Greeley to spite the other, and tn