The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-31
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swine on amnesty. Wat they all want
ed wuz reform and purity in the Civil
Service. They all wanted TO cleanse
Augean stables-to hev chsnge-to
restore the Government to its ancient
purity. On this pint Frank Blair and
Tweed wuz especially pertinashus, and
ON the necessity of change in the Offices
of the country there wtz a 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 Retormer wanted TO be the
candidate for the Presidency. Every
man NV EN- he'd gone at reform by get
ting up a fackshun for hisself, and |
diskivered that they Good no more mix
than oil and water. Reformer Davis
hated Reformer Trumbull with fer
vency that wuz only exalted by the
hatred Reiormer Adams bore TO Reior'
mer Brown. There wuz six parties NV
EN-, Adams, Davis, Trumbull, Brown,
Curtin and Greeley. The canvass'n
wuz furious, and my kittle NV fish wuz
kickt over in less than mint. lrum-
bulls supporters swore that they q
never consent to hev the appointments
in the hands Nv ez corrupta man ez Da-
Wis. Davis friends swore vehemently
that they'd sooner hev Grant than 10
hev such demagogue ez Trumbull con-
troll the patronage. Curtin wuz de-
nounced ez an ambishus skemer,
Adams wuz damned ez "a cold -blooded
aristocrat, Brown wuz stigmatized ez
the most shameless demagogue on
earth, and so on, while Greeley wuZ
lookt upon ez beamin old lunatlc,
with nothin especially dangerous in
his lunacy cept to himself. Attempts
wuz then made to trade, but they all
failed. The delegates knowd Their men
thoroughly, and they wuz afraid TO trust
each other and for two long day 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 pos.
session 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 row. But Frank Blair wuz
ekal 10 the emergency. The moment
he saw how things wuZ, he ordered
Brown to bargin with the delegates 10
give Horace the first place on the ticket
and he take the second. 1t wuz the
same tactics which had succeeded so
well in our Illinois caucus. Greeley
wuzn't Nv enutf account to be in any
body's way, and on that account he wuz
al ,lnI 10 h.ac LII oil
ers of the Iiiboon 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 elected he Good control
the patronage thro his cousin. Gratz
Brown, and eff the Dimocrisy should not
accept him he would probably draw off
enutf Republican votes TO elect our
nominee, and the other delegates
wantid him nominated that they might
hev decent excuse TO git out Nv the
whole thing. They saw in the laff it wuz
certain to raise, cover under witch
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.
Reformers for the offs NV President Nv
the Yoonited States.
There wuz various opinyuns exprest
NV the results. One delegate remarked
that he wuz in the fix that the man wuz
who wuz bit by rattlesnake, and who
swallowed gallon NV corn whiskey to
cure it. He got well Nv the bite but he
died NV the whiskey. He wuz bitten by
corrupshen and took convenshen to
cure It, He mite get well NV the cor
rupshen, but he shood certainly die NV
the convenshen.
But some good will come Nv it..
Greeley hez been dyin for SIGH a nomi-
nation all his life and he'll stick to it
with the tenacity NV Democratic post
master. He will NV course Git some
votes-enough possibly to defeat Grant
and give us a Democratic President.
Thank Heaven a lite beams onto lis
The Democracy will march to victory in
eny event. | am full Nv hope.
| shell 90 home immejitly and there
await events.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
witch wuz Postmaster.)