Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30

Wuz enIlroly Wlllln TO 90 bHo eHtlre
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 change-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 wuz 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 Reformer wanted to be the
candidate for the Presidency. Every
man Nv EN- he'd gone at reform by get
ting up fackshun for hisself, and I
diskivered that they Good no more mix
hated Reformer Trumbull with fer
vency that wuz only exalted by the
hatred Relormer Adams bore to Refor-
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 a mint. Trum-
bulls supporters swore that they'd
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 to
hev such demagogue ez Trumbun con-
troll the patronage, Curtin wuz de-
nounced ez an ambishus skemer,
Adams wuz damned ez a cold-blooded
aristocrat, Brown wuz stigmatized ez
hn he, on
earth, and so on, while Greeley wuz
lookt upon ez a beamin old lunatic,
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 days Their
wuz the hottest fight I 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 a row. But Frank Blair wuz
ekal to the emergency. The moment
he saw how things wuz, he ordered
Brown to bargin with the delegates to
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 enuff account to be in any,
body's way, and on that account he wuz
the most available man the stockhold-
ers of the Triboon 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, Grat7
Brown, and eff the Dimocrisy should not
accept him he would probably draw OF
enuf Republican votes to elect OH
nominee, and the other delegates
wantid him nominated that they might
hey decent excuse to git out Nv the
whole thing. They saw ir 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 tc
| spite the other, and the thing was did
Horris Greeley is the nominee Nv the
Reformers for the offs Nv President Nv
the Yoonited States.
There wuz various opinyuns expresi
Nv the results. One delegate remarked
that he wuz in the fix that the man WI,
who WIZ bit by rattlesnake, and who
swallowed gallon Nv corn whiskey tx
cure it. He got well Nv the bite, but ht
died Nv the whiskey. He wuz bitten BY
corrupshen and took convenshen t
cure 1t. He mite get well Nv the cor
rupshen, but he shood certainly die u,
the convenshen.
But some good will come Nv it
Greeley hez been dyin for SIGH a nomi
nation all his life aid he'll stick to i
with the tenacity Nv Democratic post
master. He will Nv course git som
votes-enough possibly to defeat Gran
and give US a Democratic President
Thank Heaven a lite beams onto US
The Democracy will march to victory il
eny event. am full Nv hope.
1 shell go home immejitly and ther
await events.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
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