The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-04-04

uoOO LOri. SlSpeu L. III dstohlst-
ment. Emanspashen. Ekal Rites, lu!-
parshei Suffrage, and the payment w
the Debt. Why, gentle sirs, | mite ez
we'll put on clean Shirt and be q Repuf-
likinto wunst, for ez near ez [ kin see,
the matter w clean linen-is all that we
shell differ in. I cant do it-reely eau t.
Think uv Kentuck k7-think of Southern
lnjcany and 1llinoy-tiink NV the Irish
# Moo York-think NV me -
The Chairman with smile. the bland
ness of wich | never saw exalted, pressed
me TO take one mure drink, wich [ did.
lie then remarkt that IN tie present
state Nv affairs Dimocrisy eoodent be ex-
soctid to be one aud the same everywhe,
TO reach success, wich is Post Offices, it
was compelled to cultivate an elastissity
nfreifeshen wich allows adaptin itself to
any kind Nv circum stances. 1t wuz wv
| aecessity one thing in one place and an
other in ancther-jest as the pekooliar
pekooliarities Wv the people manifested
themselves. Ef the people Nv certain
locality wants one partikeler line NV po-
lisy, it is the hizniz Nv the Dimocrisy to
promise it-ef another seckshen desires
a line Nv pelisy precisely the opposite,
why the Dimocrisy must promise that al
so. Sich proceedins will, know, make
h / u, oba
ter. 1t is staggerer to see our friend
Nasty defendiu niger votin, but hev
hopes Nv seeiu Tweed, and Sweeny, and
Schurz, aud Greeley all workin togeth-
er on platform uY opposishen to cor
rupshen. W hen success ahez crowned
our Efforts when there is a Dimocrat in
the place Of butcher Grant, DImocratic
Congress and Dinlocratic legislacher, and
sich, then-well, let the fucher care for
herself. The pint now Is success. But
he resoomed, coniin to things practikle,
"take another drink.
[ took it, whieh made nearly a gallon
that | had absorbed. Wv co.rse l con-
sented to endorse the platform adoptid
by the convcnshen, and commenst my
work the next evenin. My first appoint
ment WIZ in sekloodid village, in wich
the Dimocrisy are largely in the majority
and consikeEtly are more enthusiastic
and aggressive than they are where they
are we1ker. he'd large meetin, and
it ought to hev been success, but they
hadn't read the platform and knowd
nothin NV it. [ he'd it afore ME, and
opened with vigorous eulogy Nv Eman-
siashen. and uuz folerin NV it up, in
sistin that the conferrin Nv the ballot on
the mig .er wuz a most just and proper
thing to do, when | wuz grectid with a
storm of hissis.
"Hist the cussid Ablishnist off the
stand /" shreeked the enraged masses.
Kill the niggsr lover!'' shouted a
And the Chairman Of the mcetin. 4
large and muscular man. did deliberately
.seeze me by the cote collar and lead me
to the froat of the stage, and with one
well-directed kick, shoot me iuto the very
middle Of the aujence, who fell upon and
beat me in the most bro0tsl manner
Some Abhshnists took care Nv me that
mite, or I shood hev died They bed
heerd my speech, cz far ez | got with it
and sed to me that the idea NV Radikle
gettin into the Dimocrstic camp the way
[ he'd done wuz bold one, but rather
resky.
| sought ont the Dimncrisp the next
mornin and bowed en- my crenenshes.
They recognized the signatoers w the
Committee, aud were williu enuf to ad-
nit their gen1oineness, bCt they insisted
that | was eli her drunk or crazy te tai
such talk at a Dinocrstic meetin. and
advised rue to git out Nv that as soon ez
convenient. ...-...
l did it. I shell go back to Kentucky
immejitiy. | don t like tho way things
is fixed in Connecticut and I'll none Nv
1t. When man, sent out by Dino
cratic Committee, and talkin from plat
form adopted by the Dimocratic Conven
.shen, comes out Nv Dimocraiic meetin
one mass wv lirid orooses and drencbt in
goar, 1t is time that suthin be did. Sich
things don happen at the Corners, aud
there | shell go, leaving Connecticut TO
her fate. hev learned, o, exactly
the amount necessary to bring a Ken
tucky Democrat to the level of his Con-
necticut brethern One gallon and per
haps pint, unwatered, is the precise
quantity. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
ES (Which wuz Postmaster.