Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-13
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
MR.. NAsBY's EXPERIENCE AS A DELEGATE.
Cincinnati, which is in the State NV
Ohio.) May Z, 1872.

Cincinnati Convenshun, witch is to say /
wuz not appinted ez adelegate. We he'd
a meetin at Baseom's NV me and Deekin
Pogram, Kernel McPelter, Issaker Cav
lit, and one or two other Libral Repub-
likins, but it wuz desided not to sen a
delegate.
[ he'd, tho, some hopes Nv the conven-
shun. Eff Adams, Davis or Brown Good
be nominated it wood be good thing
for US. Adams is ruther too spectacle
man for first class Democrat, but he IS
still Democrat, and the Democratic
convenshun wood hev accepted him.
Davis and Trumbull amt Dimocrats
eggsactly, but all the roads out Nv the
Republican camp leads to ours, and ez
they hev taken that pertikerlarly fatrln
one, ambishun, we Good trust either wv
them. / was anxus to see one Nv these
three nominated, and wood hev counted
it a big thing for Democracy Good it hev
been done.
| wuz surprised at the feelin manifest
ed. There wuz a denunsiashun Nv the
tyrant Grant, more deep and fervid than
[ he'd heard since the fall NV Vicksburg.
There wuz torrent Of aboose heaped
upon offs seekers, offs holders. corrup-
shen in the civil servis, appointment Nv
relatives to offs, and SIGH, w1ch pleased
me- jined in it heartily, and wuz i'm
mejitly asked by delegate whose nose
recommended him to me to-wunst, wat
state | wuz delegate from. | anserd
that wuz citizen NV Kentucky, but no
delegate-that we sent no delegates.
THAT don't matter" sed he, his nose
gloin with zeal. ''we wusn't any Nv US
sent-we come. 700 shell be a delegate. :"
And afore | Good decline the honor be
he'd an Illinoy delegates ticket in my
hand, and when | sed | wuz for Judge
Davis, infexibly, he asked me to take
suthin. Now, eff there is anything I'm
pertikerly distinguished for, its acceptin
invitashens to take suthin, and that del
egate's alacrity in askin, Good only hey
bin exalted by my alacrity in acceptin,
He wuz Davis man, too, and [ prompt
" borrered twenty dollars Nv him. En-
whiskey wuz enuff to take me home, ano
suthin to pay Bascom on account.
The mornin of the first day the dele
gashen from the deestrik | helpt to rep
resent met. There wuz twenty dele
gates present, and more earnest set W
men | never mingled with. Five NV Ell
wuz Ex-Postmasters who he'd BIN appint
ed by the sainted Johnson. and most out
rageously dismisst by the despot who i
now President two Nv EN- were Excel
lectors. three Ex-Assessors, and the tel
remainin wuz bilin with indignashel
becoz the offices in their respective town
wuz filled, they swore, with the most I'm
fit men in that seckshen.
Rather than have the country room
ed sed one, Il wood hoy accepted tn
: Post Offs myself. | wuz solissited b
my fellow citizens to serve EN- il tina
: capasity, but no. A military friend u
t Grants, who dad served under him, WI
appinted. Wat kan be expected Nv sic
an administration Faugh !"
The other ten, | assertained, he'd bi
q applicants for posishuns, but someho'
4 didn't git elm. They were very certai
t that unless there wuz an imejit chang
there wuz nothing ahed but rooin Their
t cum in afterward an ex-member NV Coz
: gress, who he'd been defeetid for renon
e inashen two years ago, and his denul
t siashun Nv offis-holdin was affectin in til
It extreme.
n We finally got to biznis. One del
e gate moved that ex-collector Jawkins a.
y ez chairman. This prodoost fearf1
# uproar Imejitly six or eight othe,
2. wuz nominated.
It Don't vote for Jawkins, - whispere
/, one Reformer, she wants prominenC
+; that he may control the appointments
|, the deestrik, and he's brothers and brotl
Y ers-in-law all over it. %
# Don't vote for that id Smithers,
i whispered another, she wants to be a
: sessor."
o To my utter and entire astonishmen
II | diskiyered the alarmin fact that evel
i Reformer in the delegashen he'd suthi
e in his eye. The caucus was finally o
y gained by compromise, and ma
5e wuz elected chairman who cooden't pc
sibly want nothin, as he hadn't the 6na
shell standin in his respective commun
ty to give bonds Tor anything. He he
st come to Cincinnati on free pass fu
TT nished by a committee, and his expe
m ses paid, wich, ez he remarkt, ez
le hedn't anything to do at home, WI
IS cheaper than stayin there. He remar
e to be that he thought he should go in
he the Reform Delegate biznis exclusively
he The preliminary biznis of the Conve
/ shun wuzn't eny easier salin than Il
st caucusses. There wuz fearful dive
70 sity Nv opinion ez to wat wuz first to
a. done. He'd it been left with Brown al
F. Schurz and a few others, ez we do
TT reglar Democratic Convenshuns, it wo