Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-09-19
WHOLE NUMBER 282.

| animal, IL eVaQ0Q Cno pursuit ana is now
at large. That there was an animal of
this description in the bag has been
evident all along, from the movements
of Morton, the letters of old Joe Ledlie,
the circulars of Postmaster Edmunds,
and the general fact that, if the dele
| gates, SO called, had'not had help from
the Grant campaign fund, they would
not have had money enough to pay the
| expenses of the affair; but the public
now has had the first opportunity to get
! a good look at the animal. The injunc.
ton of Wilbur F. Storey, to "keep
damphools off the convention" has ev-
identity been disregarded, and so the
cat got out of the bag.
The farce at Louisville began with
violence and ruffianism. It's chief
fugleman began with fist-fght at the
Calf House. George Francis Train,
who certainly had as much right there
as any one else, had to get out of the
crowd to avoid personal violence. The
Labor Reformers were unceremoniously
elected. The gag was applied to all
delegates who were suspected of pre-
ferring Greeley to Grant, and among
them was Fisk Conrad, of Tyrone, Pa.
Fisk Conrad did not relish the opera
ton, and in revenge he united the bag
and let out the cat. The Developments
which he has made concerning the
Pennsylvania delegation will apply, in
the general facts, to all the delegations,
and tell the story of the Louisville
fiasco clearly anu completely. ALI of
the Pennsylvania delegation, except
one of whom intended to vote for the
nominees of the convention. Their
transportation to Louisville was paid by
the Grant party,-Fisk Conrad himself
procuring tickets for six, in the Office
of the Grant State Central Committee
at Philadelphia, upon the order of
Sypes, Chairman of the Bourbon State
Central Committee of Pennsylvania.
The order was accepted and cashed by
Mackey, the Grant State Treasurer,
who has been convicted, in completely
with Yerkes and Hartranft, the Came
ron candidate;for Governor, of speculat-
ing in State funds. The band of music
that accompanied the delegation was
banner which the Bourbon delegation
bore did service in the Philadelphia
Convention in designating the seats oc-
cupied by the Grant delegation. This
disclosure throws flood OF light on
many details of this convention.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
CARD FROM FISK CONRAD.
The following card from Mr.. Conrad
tells the story in full:
To the True Democracy of the United
States: Representing the Seventeenth Dis
trict of Pennsylvania in the convention
assembled in the city under the call of Blan-
ton Duncan, I made several attempts to-
day in the convention to be heard. This
was denied me, and in the most discourteous
manner by the President, who himself oc-
l.. 1.al,
conade about Dickens Dolly Warden. Ny
object was to expose the treachery of the
CANT ron Hartranft thieves of my own State. |
The Pennsylvania delegation was composed
of all Grant men excepting myself, not one
of whom ever intended to vote for The nom
inee of this convention. Their transporta-
tion to this convention was obtained and
paid for by the Grant people. Ny own and
those of five others, each representing Dis
trict in Pennsylvania, procured in the Of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, corner of
Eighth and Walnut streets, over we'll
known tailoring establishment. For this
transportation had order from Sypes,
Chairman of the Bourbon State Central
Committee of Pennsylvania. That order
was obeyed by the State Treasurer of Penn
sylvania, Bob Mackey, who is well-known
as one of CaEleron's subjects. The band of
music that accompanied us was furnished
and paid for by the same Grant people, and
our little banner that was carried by George
Mountioy is the same that designated the
seats in the Radical Convention of the 5th of
June of the Pennsylvania delegation that
nominated Grant, and which was presided
over by Thomas Settle, the rebel of North
Carolina. This is the sum and substance of
what intended to say, had the President
allowed me to proceed, and now assure all
of my Democratic friends who may chance
to see this communication, that what L have
stated here are facts, all of which l am pre-
pared to prove. W. FISK CONRAD.
Seventeenth Congressional District of Penn
sylvania.