The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-31
MIR. NASBY's CONFERENCES.
CnNFEnERATE Y, ROADS.

un bctwixt the Democracy aud tn
Liberal Republicans, that they nigh
march to victory without question.
didn't like to leave the Corners
The spring time he come agin, gentle
Annie, and it is pleasant here. Th'
trees is out in blossonm,t the little bird
is liftin up their voice harmoniously
the weather is warm enuf to go bare
footed, and the stoop in front of Bas
CONS is never 50 pleasant to slecl
upon cz now. The warmth dispose
VOC too slumbcr, and the flies ain
come vet to murder it. Likker taste
ez well in Kentucky cz anywhere il
Joon. But wen did | hesitate to g
where dootycalls? ] went.
The county hez alluz been Repub
likin; tha; is, Republican by, perhap
200 majority just enuf to let on
people get a site of the promised lan'
without ever cnteringit. The Liber
al movement took so well that it be
come certain thing that ef the Dem
ocrats and the Republican boltcr
Good only pull together, triumph wa
ashoored. But 4 thought to mysel
this can't possibly be. 1t will e,
well enough till they come to makil
a platform, and they'll split into frag
ments. There is too hefty a differ
ence atween the Ingeany Dimocra
and Rcpublikin-a difference base,
on principle-to admit NV hope tha
they can ever pull troO together. Blu
| determined to do my best ant
smoothe things 50 ez to make agree
mcnt cz easy cz possible
/ advised, to wunst, that informa
consultashun be held, and that sl
men from the Dino
cratic party, and six from the Repub
likin party who had gone over Il
Greeley, should he appointed, and
to fix everything connect.
ed with the campanc. The caucu,
wuz held, and the following wuz then
az wuz appointed to arrange the de
tale: az
Democrats = Smith. Brown, o.
Shaughnersy, Peters Blodgett.
Liberal Rcpublikins-.Ioncs Thomp
son, Adams, Doddcr, Potter anC
Muggins.
These gentlemen met the same af
tern0on NV their appointment, and
acted as a sort NV umpire. that ther,
might I've order and system observed
Mr.. Smith, Dem, remarked tina
the fust thing in order would be t.
fix the platform NV principles in sucl
a way that both wings NV the new
party Good stand onto it. Without ;
platform TO stand onto, no Democra
Good 90 into any campanc with an
feelin NV safety. He wood propOs
the discussion NV the different ishoo
before the people 1t wood be ncces
sarv, uv course, 20 whittle down II
one spot, and swell out in another
to git the principles adapted to tn
slitelv diverse idees NV men VIII,
hadn't kept step together, ez it were
and he wood sejest that Iooniversa
amnesty be first DISGUST.
"Now,o sez ] to myself, "thc frs
installment NV trouble is onto Us.
But it wuzen't. -s
The other eleven had bin vawniny
fearfully doorin this orashun, but the,
each choked off their respective yawnt
long enough TO exclaim in korus
"0h, blast your I0Oniversal Am
ncstv There amt no doubt but W,
shcl all agree on that pint ! Go on :"
| wuz delited to see them ruff pint
got over SO easy.
"What shel we do with the suil'rag,
question asked Mr.. Smith.
"Blarst the suffrage question 2" OK
claimed the eleven with one voice
I'VE shel hev no trouble with that.
"The tariff"
"D-n the tariff :" shreeked tn,
sturdy eleven, "therc can't possibly
be any trouble about the tariff. no
will there be any difference NV opin
yon regarding Nashnel banks, Civi
Servis, Revcnoo, or anything else
We shel agree on all nv that. Pas
it." o.
Thank heaven" | thot, "they sc,
the necessity Of success, and are tract
able. There amt nothing else tha
can make trouble"
They all yawned terribly. Their
was an anxious silence fur about
minut, which Mr.. Peters (Dem., fin
ally busted.
What We want to know" sed he
"is who shell we nominate for sher
iff?"
Mr.. Jones Glib. Rep.) sed witt
much warmth and feelin' that hi
friend had urged him to accept tina
place, and he he'd, after much solissi
tashon consented to take it.
Mr. Peters remarkt in a sarcosti,
tone that Mr.. Jones he'd bin, if h
could tax his work for it, solissited by
his frsends NV the Republican part,
to take that position for ten wears, bu
rz his friends wuz composed princi
pally .av himself, his father, one sol
and brother-inlaw, he he'd never tool
1 very much. He wood see the co
ishen in Tophet afore he wood con
sent to see it.made The vehicle for car
yin played ont abiishnists. "I'l
never eonsent,' sed Mr.. Peters excl
-edly. Ito see the best offs in the
county filed by arotten decayed rem
egade. ] want that offs myself"
1mmejitly Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Pc
-ers were settlin their personal differ
ences on the floor, in the manner for
which southern Injeany is celebrated.
Mr. Thompson, .(Lib. Rep sed the
naic word" d"Auditor ~ immejitly Mr.
Brown Dem. sed that that place he
led considered hizzen to which Mr..
Thompson replied that Mr.. Brown
yuz only in this movement becoz the
egler Dimocrisy would never nom-
nate him fur nothin.