Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30
Nasty.
The Cincinnati Cenvention-Mr. Nasby's
Experience as a Delegate.
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Cincinnati Convenshun, witch is to say
wuz not appointed ez a delegate. We
he'd meetin at Bascom's Nv me and
Deekin Pogram, Kernel McPelter,
Issaker Gavitt, and one or two other
Libral Republicans, but it wuz desided
not to send 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 a Democrat, and the Democratic
convenshun wood hev accepted him.
Davis and Trumbull amt Dimocrats
eggsackly, but all the roads out Nv the
Republican camp lead to ours, and ez
they hev taken that pertikelerly iatrin
one. ambishun, we Good trust either Nv
them, | wuz anxious to see one Nv
these three nominated, and wood hev
counted it big thing for Democracy
Good ii hev been done.
I WIZ surprised at the feelin mani
tested. There wuz a denunsiashun Nv
the t, rant Grant, more deep and fervid
than l had heard since the fall Nv
Vicksburg. There wuz torrent Nv
aboose heaped upon offs seekers, offs
holders, corrupshen in the civil servis,
appointment NV relatives to offs, and
SIGH, wich pleased me. | .jined in it
heartily, and wuz immejitly asked by a
delegate whose nose recommended him
tome to-wunst, wat State wuz adelegate
from. | anserd that | wuz a citizen
Nv Kentucky, but no delegate-that we
sent no delegates.
"That don't matter" sed he, his nose
gloin with zeal 1--WE wuzn't any Nv US
sent-we come. 700 shell be a dele
gate"
And afore l Good decline the honor
he he'd an Illinoy delegates tickit in my
hand, and when | sed | wuz for Judge
Davis, infexibly, he asked me to take
suthin. Now, eff Their is anything Pm
pertiklerly distinguished for, its accept
in invitashens to take suthin, and that
delegates alacrity in askin, Good only
hev bin exalted by my alacrity in accep-
tin. He wuz Davis man, too, and l
promptly borrered twenty dollars Nv
him. Ez whisky wuz free, that wuz
enuf to take me home, and suthln to
pay Bascom on account.
The mornin Nv the first day the del
egashen from the deestrik l helpt to
represent met. There wuz twenty del
egates present, and more earnest sci
Nv men never mingled with. Five Nv
EN- wuz Ex-Postmasters who he'd bin
appointed by the sainted johnson, and
most outrageously dismisst by the des
pot who is now President; two Nv EN-
were Ex-Collectors, three, Ex-Assessors
and the ten remuinin wuz bilin with
indignashen becoz the offices in their
respectiv towns wuz filed, they swore
with the most unfit men in that seek
shen.
"Rather than have the country ano
the servis rooined," said one, 81 wood
hev accepted the Post Offs myself.
wuz solissited by my fellow-citizens te
serve EN- in that capassity, but no. A
military friend Nv Grants, who he'd
served under him, wuz appinted. Wat
kin be expected Nv SIGH an Administra.
ton! Faugh y
The other ten, | assertained, he'd bin
applicants for posishens, but somehow
didn't git EN-. They were very certain
that unless there wuz an immelli
change there wuz nothin ahed but room
There cum in afterward an ex-membel
NV Congress, who he'd been defeetid fol
re-pominashen two years ago, and hi
denunsiashen ov offis-holdin wuz affect
in in the extreme.
We finally got to biznis. One delegat,
moved that ex-Collector Jawkins act e
chairman. This prodoost fearful up
roar. Imejitly six or eight others WI
nominated.
''Don't vote for Jawkins," whisper
ed one Reformer, she wants 1oromin
ence that he may control the appint
ments in the deestrik, and he's broth
ers and brothers-in-law all over it,"
"Don't vote for that id Smithers,
whispered another, she wants to be as
sessor."
To my utter and entire establishment
7 diskivered the alarmin fact that evr
Reformer in the delegashun he'd suthil
in his eye. The caucus wuz finally OF
ganized by a compromise, and a NAL
wuz elected chairman who coodn't pos
sibly want nothin, ez he hedn't tn
fnanshel standin in his respective com
munity to give bonds for anything. II
he'd come to Cincinnati on a free pas
furnished by committee, and his ez
penses paid, witch, ez he remarkt, ez b
hedn't anything to do at home, WI
cheaper than staying there. He re
markt to me that he thought he shoe
60 into the Reform Delegate biznis ez
clusivly.
The preliminary biznis Nv the Con
venshun wuzn't eny easier sailin thai
the caucusses. There wuz a fearful d
versity Nv opinion ez to wat wuz first t
be done. He'd it been left with Brow
and Schurz and few others, ez we
in reglar Democratic Convenshuns,
wood hev bin easy enuff, but there WI
dozen or more lunatics who suppose
that the movement wuz in dead earnes
and who he'd ideas to promulgate. The
made trouble, but we soon got rid U
EN-. To give the Convenshun charactt
we compelled Senator Fenton to leay
for his home, in Moo York, and to he
it managed properly Frank Blair WI
telegraphed for. Then the biznis WI
actooally commenced, and wuz in big
feather. 1t seemed a moral certaini
that either Adams or Davis wood
nominated, and wat glorious prospe
opened. The Democracy wood ado
EN-, the Reformers wood all vote for er
and-well, / Woodent hey give a Co