Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23

caucusSes. There wuz fearful diversity
NV opinion eZ to wat wuZ first to be DONE
He'd it been left with Brown and SchurZ
and few others, ez we do in reglar
Democratic Convenshuns, it wood hev
bin easy enuff, but there wuz a dozen or
more lunatics who supposed that the
movement wuZ in dead earnest, and who
he'd Idees to promulgate. They made
trouble, but we soon got rid NV EN-. To
give the Convenshun character we COM
PEELED Senator Fenton to leave for his
home, in Moo York, and to hev
it managed properly Frank Blair wuz
telegraphed for. Then the biznis wuz
actooally commenced, and | wuZ in high
feather. 1t seemed moral certainty that
either Adams or Davis wood be nominal
ed, and wat a glorious prospect opened.
The Democracy wood adopt 'em, the Re-
formers wood all vote for 'em, and-well,
| woodent hev give Confedrit ten cent
scrip to hev been assured of my Post
Orihs in March next.
The platform wuZent ez much Nv
stumbling block eZ | supposed it wood be-
The protectionists, for the sake Nv har-
mony, gave up their proteckshun idees,
the free-traders their free trade, the paper
money men were perfectly willin to
adopt the hard money theory-the hard
money advocates declared themselves
satisfied with paper money plank, the
anti bank men consentid to banks, and
the bank men were perfectly willing to
have EN- abolished. The amnesty men
had no objection to permanent disfran-
chisement, and the disfranchisers wuz en-
tirely willing to go the entire swine on
amnesty. Wat they all wanted was re-
form and purity IN the Civil Service
They all wanted to cleanse Augean sta
/ h1ac-tn how q Rhanna-tn tha
| Government to its ancient purity. On
| this pint Frank Blair and Tweed wuz es
| pecially pertinashus, and on the necessity
Nv change in the offices of the country
there was unanimity witch / never saw
exalted.
But at this pint the unanimity ended.
In the caucus every delegate wanted to be
Chairman, and in the Convenshun every
leadin Reformer wanted to be the can
didate for the Presidency. Every man
NV EN- he'd gone at reform by getting up a
fackshun for hisself, and / diskivered
that they Good no more mix than oil and
water. Reformer Davis hated Refor ner
| Trumbull with fervency that wuZ emily
exalted by the hatred Reformer Adams
bore to Reformer Brown. There wuZ six
parties Nv EN-, Adams, Davis, Trumbull,
Brown, Curtin and Greeley. The can
vassin wuz furious, and my kittle NV fish
wuZ kickt over in less than a mint.
TrumbulPs supporters swore that they'd
never consent to hev the appointments in
the hands NV ez corrupt man eZ Davis.
Davis friends swore vehemently that
they'd sooner hev Grant than to hev
such a demagogue ez Trumbull control
the patronage. Curtin wuZ denounced ez
an ambishus skemer, Adams waz damned
ez a cold-blooded aristocrat, Brown
1 ctfe zad m hn oh
less demagogue on earth, and so on, while
Greeley wuz lookt upon ez beamin old
lunatic, withssnothin espeshelly dangerous
in his lunacy cept to himself. Attempts
wuZ then made to trade, but they all fail
ed The delegates knowd ther men thor
oughly, and they wuZ afraid to trust each
other, and for two long days ther wuZ the
hottest fight / ever saw. The trouble
wuZn't so much in maxim charges agin
each other-it wuZ in the fact that each
man he'd proof in his possession that his
charges agin the others wuz true.
1t wuz very plain on Friday mornin
that neither Brown, Curtin, Adams, Davis
or Trumbull Good be nominated, and the
convenshun wuz likely to break up in a
row. But Frank Blair was ekal to the
| emergency. The moment he saw how
things wuz, he ordered Brown to bargin
with the delegates to give Horace the first
place on the ticket and he take the Sec
ond. 1t wuZ the same tactics which had
succeeded so well in our Illinois caucus.
Greeley wuzn't NV enuff account to be in
anybodys way, and on that account he
wuz the most available man; the stock.
holders NV the IriJ0On wantid him
nominated that he might be compelled to
sell out his stock and leave the concern
Blair wantid him nominated becoZ if he
should happen to be electid he Good con.
troll the patronage thro his cousin, Gratz
Brown, and eff the Dimocrisy should
not accept him he wood probably
draw off enuff Republican votes to elect
our nominee. and the other delegates
wanted him nominated that they might
hev a decent excuse to git out NV the
whole thing They saw in the laff it wu7
certain to raise, a cover under wich they
Good git back to their old quarters. The
reform candidates so hated each Other
that each voted for Greeley to spite the
other, and the thing was did. Horris
Greeley is the nominee Nv the Reformers
for the offs Nv President Nv the Yoonited
States.
There wuz various opinyuns e1pres
NV the results. One delegate remarked
that he wuz in the fix that the man wu1
who wuZ bit by a rattlesnake, and who
swallowed a gallon Nv corn whisky tC
cure it. He got well NV the bite, but hi
died Nv the whisky. He wuz bitten by
corrupshen and took a convenshen 4
cure it. He mite get well Nv the corrup
shen, but he shood certainly die Nv tn,
convenshen.
But some good will come NV it. Gree
ley hez been dyin for sich nomination
all his life and he'll stick to it with
tenasity NV Democratic postmaster. HI
will, NV course, git some votes-enougl
possibly to defeat Grant and give us
Democratic President Thank Heavel
lite beams onto us The Democrac,
will march to victory in eny event. 1 an
tull NV hope.
shel go home immejity and ther
await events.
, PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
CWich wuz Postmaster.)