Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-15

moral certainty Dat eiiheF Aaams or Dai
va wooi he uouihatsi and a. = gioT'ousl
pros2cctopeDss. Tks Dsuosrasy sooi
Lon, en-. the Rciormers wood all vote
Tor en. anl-well I woodnt hev give
/ Coufe,lri, ten cent scrip TO hey bin ASHFORD
Of my Posi Ola, in March, Bext.
|NNU f t~ IsaIN |.aNN
The platform wuEn'' ez much IVA stun
bin block ca l supposed il wool be. The
bprS,esiismsis. Tot the. sdkeiuv hhrInony'
sars.ap-iheir-p roisekshEH idses. the foees
traders their free.iradg, the paper money
uleu were perfectly willing 10 adopt the
hard money theory-lhe hard money adj
voeate. deciuroi themselves Satisfied With
paper money plsnk; the ah,i-bauk men
consented TO banks. and the bank men
we're perfectly willing to have EN- abol'
ished. The amnesty men bed no object
ion TO permanent disfrauchiSemonl aud tho
dislraaehisers wuz entirely within to. 90
the entire swine on amT 10 Y. Wat they
all wanted. wuz reform aud purity in the
Civil Scryis. They all wanted 10 cleanse
Aegean stablrs-io hev chauge--to re-
store the Government to its ancient purity.
| On this pint Frank Blair aud Tweed wuz
especially pertinushus, aud on the neces-
sity NV change 10 the Offices of the coun-
try, there WIZ a unaniinity wien | never
saw exalted.
But at this pint the unanimity ended.
In the caucus every delegate wanted to be
chairman aud in rhe convenshun every
leadin reiormer wanted TO be the candidate
tor the Presidency Evry man NV them
he'd gone at reform by gcttin up fack-
shun for hissclf, and diskivefvd that they
Good no more mix than oil aud water. Re-
former Davis hated Reformer Trumbull
with fervency that wuz only exalted b. the
hatred Rciormer Adams bore to Reform
cr Brown. There wuz six parties Nv them,
Adams. Davis, Trumbull, Brown, Curtin,
and Greeley. The canvassin wuz furious,
and my kittle NV fish wuz kickt over in
less than mint, --Trumbull's supporters
swore they'd never consent to hcv the app
pintments in the hands NV ez corrupt
man ez Davis. Davis friends swo.o yc-
hcmuIty that they'd sooner hcv Grant
than to hev sich a man ez Trumbull con.
troll the patronage. Curtin wuz denounced
ez an ambiShus skeme Adams wuz damed
cz a cold-blooded aristocrat, Brown wuz
stigmatizel cz the most Shameless dcma-
goguc on earth, and so on, while Greeley
wuz lookt upon ez beam;n old lunatic,
with nothin espeshelly dangerous in his
lunacy cept to himself Attempts wuz
then made to trade, but they all failed.
The delegates kuowcd Their men thorugh.
ly, and they wuz afraid to trust each 9th
er, and two long days Their wuz the hot
test fight ever saw, The trouble wuzn't
so much in maxim charges agin each other
1t wuz in the fact that each man he'd
proof in his possession that his charges
agin the others wuz true. 1t wuz very
Iplain on Friday mornin that neither Brown
Curtin, Adams, Davis or Trumbul Good
be Illuminated and the convenshun wuz lik-
| ly to kreak up in 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 Civ Horace
the first place on the, ticket and he take
the second. 1t wuz the same tactics witch
he'd succeeded so we'll in our Illinois eau
Gus. Greeley wuznt Nv enufl account to
be in anybody's way, and oG that account
he wuz the most available man; the stock
holders NV the Triboon wanted him nom
mated that he might be compelled to sell
out his stock and leave the concern: Blair
wautid him nominated hecoz If he should
happen to be elected, he Good control the
patronage h his cousin, Gratz Blosn,
and eft the Dimocrisy should not accept
him he wood probably draw off euuff Re.
publikin 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 laif it wuz certain to raise, a cover
under witch they Good git back to their
old quarters. The reform candidates so
hated each other, and the thing was did.
Horris Creole y is the nominee NV the
Reformers Tor 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 u rattlesnake, and who swal-
lowed u gallon Nv corn whiskey to Gu .e it.
He got well NV the bite. but he died NV
the the whiskey. He wuz bitten by cor
rupshcn and took coevenshen to cure it.
He mite get well NV the corupsheu but he
shood certainly die NV the copyen,hen