Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-11

From the Toledo Blade, January g.
CONFEDERIT X ROADS,
witch is in the staff NV Kentucky
December %, 1871.
The hopelisness NV electin a Dimekrat
| President by Dimikrats alone wuz appa-
| rent to all the gigantic intellecks Nv the
party, over year ago. A conference wuz
Tweed, Hall, Connolly, and Sweeny, rep
| resentin Moo York, me and Garret Davis
| representa- Kentucky, the,,Blairs represen-
| tin Missouri and so on. We decided then
| that the Dimocrisy shood appeal directly
| to the people to yOOnite with us to beat
Grant. General John &. breckenridge de-
| sired that the issue be made fairly between
Grant and Despotism on the one hand,
and the People and YOonyun on the other.
| He wanted the issue to be Grant, Despot-
ism, COrrupshen on the one hand, and the
| People, YOOnyun and Purity on the other.
| That wuz wat Tweed wantid. With
| sich q ishOo ez that, he felt that he Good go
afore the people and make SIGH q fife ez he
| never made afore. General Breckenridge
| accepted this amendment gladly. He felt
| that the corrupsion NV the present Ad-
ministrashen, ez well ez its attacks upon
| constitooshnel liberty, he'd bin stencil in
| the nostrils Nv the people. 1t was resolved
there and then to make the fife in this way
and upon this basis, and the meetin adj
jOurned.
Some months after the conference, Mr..
Tweed, for obvius reasons, dropped out Nv
the management Nv affairs, and the Dim
ocrisy was left, RELY, without head. But
[ felt that the programme laid down was
the proper one, and | determined to make
tour thro the Northern States to ascer-
tame how much strength we Good depend
upon gittin from the Republicans. 1 jist
got home from that trip Yesterday, and the
followin eXtraX from my diary will show
how successful the raid wuz:
Smithville, n. Y.-FOund one man, J.
c., who was strongly in favor reorganizin
the parties on new basis. Had groaned
over the corrupshen Nv the Republican
party for years. He'd bin a member NV the
party from its organizashun, but owing to
the prejOodisses Nv the members thereof in
his county he'd alluz bin debarred from
holdin offs, up to the year 1866. In March
NV that year, President Johnson made him
Collector Nv RevenOO, which offs he held
with profit to hisSelf till that ojus tyrant,
Grant, wuz elected. Their wuZ some triflin
irregularities in his accounts, and he wuz
dismissed and supple tool Nv tyranny APP
pointed in his place. His bail was Outra-
geouSly soOd for his defalcashun, and had
been crooelly persekootid ever since was
an earnest believer in Civil Service Re-
form, and wood jine heart and sole in this
movement. Nv course he would want his
old place back again, in the event of sue
cess, and when he gets it, shOOd favor a
law maxim it perpetooal. Shall want
money from the General Committee to use
among shaky Republicans.
JonesbOro', Ohio.-FOund Mr.. M. l.. in
grocery, with his feet cooked up onto a
counter; wuz disguised and heartsick at
the profiigacy Nv the present Administra-
ton, and saw no hope of any change for
the better until presents party lines wuZ
bustid; hoped the new organization wood
not overlook the claims nv men hv talent
and genius ez completely ez the party now
in power hez done; his friends had urged
him time and again to the present tyran-
nical Administration for various positions,
from Minister to Venezuela to the post
office in his native village, all Nv witch the
military tyrant now at the head NV the
Government he'd persistently disregarded.
Felt that there must be change or that
ruin wuZ inevitable; wuZ in favor Nv the
new movement, STIMULATING, Nv coarse,
that he shOOd hev his chOis Nv the offices
in that locality.
Brownstown, Illinois.-P. B. contest
that the postOffis in his native village he'd
bin the heighth NV his ambishen for
twelve years, and ez he he'd never bin able
to get it under Republican rool, he wuz
willin to iine the new movement eff that
wuZ promist him. Hez brother-in-law
who did want to be collector, and possibly
he Good be indoost to go in also. He is
doubtful, however, ez he hez lately exper-
fenced religion. Will try him any how,
ez it isn't certain that he heZ bin sOundly
converted. The promise Nv the place may
possibly fetch him. Ez for him. corrup-
shen of the present administrator was
too glarin to permit him to stay mint in
the party which supported it. He wanted
it to be understood that he wuz to heV the
post offs.
Noblesville, Indiana.-Got together a
meetin Nv the leading Dimocrisy and the
dissatisfied Republikins-ten Nv the latter.
One he'd bin histed from the post offs, and
the other nine had applied for it in vain.
There was much enthOosiasm at the be-
ginnin, till the question happened to arise
ez to the distribushen Nv the Offises in the
event NV success. The ten disgustid Re-
publikins insisted that they shood be given
to them, ez without their assistance
the DimOcrisy couldn't do nuthen,
and the Dimocrisy insisted that eff the
Republican renegades wuz to heve the Of
fists they didn't care tinker's cuss wheth-
they did anything or not. EFF Republic
kins is to hev the places anyhow" yelled
the DimOcrisy all in a kOrus, "we'd rather
it would be the decent ones" Meetin
broke up in a row. Paid my own exposes
out of that town.
1 break off my diary thus abruptly, for
these are specimens NV the whole. / found
in each town visited Republicans willin
to join us, but there wuz aluz two troubles
in the way:
l. They wuznt never the kind NV men
we wanted.
2. They all want just exactly what We
most desire, and without which triumph
is yooselis for us, viz: the Offisis.
EThey are alluz men of that pekoolyer
caracter who hev to be carried, when wat
we want is men capable Nv carryin us. I
am fearful that the experiment won't win,
and that after all we will hev to settle
back into our old party lines and be whal-
ed again as usual.
PETROLEUM Y. NASBY,
witch wuZ POstmaster.)