The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-18


lets now in them were In them when
Mr.. Edmunds delivered them. You will
observe (holding up the envelopes) that
one is franked by Senator Harlan, of Iowa,
and the other by Mr. Foster, of Ohio. l
will read you the first paragraph of the
pamphlet the envelopes cover. 1t is ms
follows
"DEAR SIR-Will you be kind enough
to place this circular in the hands Of NC.
tive democrats in yoBr county, who Will
at once commence an organization for the
purpose of supporting the principles OF
our party, ms they will be proclaimed by
the convention ut Louisville, September
g."
1t Is a long circular, and is signed Blan.
ton Duncan. His circulars were printed
BY the administration, ut the government
printing Office folded by government
officers, ranked by clerks who forge the
names of senators and members by con-
tract and circulated by pos,mas,ers. All
/ that could be done on paper was thus
! done for the Louisville Grant show by
| government clerks and dependents. But
| there were other and mightier duties 10
/ be performed TO make the show prosper.
| 1t must have money, it must have banners,
! il must have bands, it must have trans
portation, and it must have bummers
! hired to swsgger and swear that the de-
mocracy cant be sold out TO Greeley.
| Laughter 1t required Grant quarter
master, IA eommissary officer and pay
master.
Notwithstanding General Cameron's
unsophsticated habits and tastes touching
| quartermasters, paymasters and baggage
| masters [shouts of laughterl he was Sc
lected TO run the several departments of
this state. lie called Revenue Officer
! Errett. the chairman OF the Cameron
| Grant party of the state, and gave him
general command, with instructions TO en-
lis, all stragglers about every camp, and
to send them free TO Louisville. Mr.. En-
rett answered his chief that tickets cost
money, and he had not the cash just at
hand. He reported that he had delega-
ton mustered in for ten days, and as long
thereafter as pay and rstions could be
kept up [laughterl, but that they must
have transportation. 1t was promptly
furnished by Cameron. A relative Of
President Grant engaged band, and all
went to Louisville merry as q marriage
bell. Laughter
The convention at Louisville opened
rather inauspiciously. Instead of begin
ming with prayer M Is usually done, Mr..
Banton Duncan opened it with n bar
room brawl in which he probably would
have whipped the other fellow if the other
fellow had not very promptly whipped
/ him. Shouts of laughter. And while
the chivalrous Duncan was accepting u
hoggisg in Louisville, one of the hopeful
brothers-in-law # the president opened
the ball at the other end of the line by
clubbing an editor who was bowed by the
irosts Of sixty winters. Renewed laugh
ter. The preliminary skirmishes being
over the immortal Duncan called his war
riors into council, and informed them OF
their duty. He told them how much he
had not received for not selling out &c
/ Greeley, and how many millions it would
require to transfer his Falstafiian army I,
either side.
A Virginia antediluvian, who had beer
tenderly rocked in the resolutions Of SO
presided, and the programme was pro
ceeded with, according to contract, u
rapidly as could be done, with some ap
pearance Of deliberation. Now and thel
delegate who had been captured and en-
rolled without bounty [laughterl woul'
attempt to speake his own thoughts, bu
he was out OF order. Train flashed upol
the gathering like u full moon upon a pill
Of stale mackerel laughter and, not be
ing commercial in politics, he WAS drive
from the body.
Finally, the ticket contracted and pal
for BY Cameron, Tweed, Morton Il Co
WAS nominated, but it would not stanC
O'Conor had convictions of his own, bu
he was not for sale, and Adams would di
only in the arms of O'Conor. Laughter
A.
tracted for in the shape Of candidates, tn
contractors were brought TO stand.
was OConor and cash, or nobody an
= nothing [laughter;l and the conven,io
e broke into disorder ut the prospect of To-
= ing their wages.
e In lucid interval the venerable ant
5 diluvian from Virginia, who was in Il
: chair, was declared nominated for pres
n dent; but there was nothing in II laugi
# ter, and il was called a joke. 1t was ma
s. tural that so serious calm as followt
the declinaton Of the candidates col
l. tracted for should be succeeded by coined
g If cash was to be denied them, they won
j. have their fun, and they joked Lyons q
n the ticket. But men cannot always jok
. Jokes won't pay grocery bills or clotl
d the baby laughter, and soberness r
l. turned to the remnant Of the contractor
s. Many left in disgust to save hotel bill
l. and gave their proxies to Duncan; bl
h the convention, finding that the contra
s was about to fail, avenged themselves o
e their chief contractor by denying him Il
lc right to cast votes for those who had col
ID cluded they were missed at home.
IN Finally, in utter desperation, the CO..
I'd tractors again nominated the only tv
I'd men they knew would not accept. and
ut haste rushed for their homes and the pa
Or masters. Laughter.] A conventlt
of of employed adventures without cons,
IL tuency fifty closed without candidat,
no and now it has dissolved among the pc
Of ple and is like twicc-told tale. 1t h
u made all previous bread and butter co
ia, ventions and brigades measurably I
I'd spectacle, and has given tho country I
j. lowest depths Of political chicancy th
4 has ever been sounded. [Applause,
q. the country will we'll note the fact tn
to from but one source does encourageme
40 come to the restless, fsithless men who
Is. fuse obedience to the now irrevocably 81
"a tied issues of the war. When all part
10 and all sections have yielded since
" obedience to the logical results Of our CO
/ tiict, the Graft administration has t
bo only proffer of welcome and encourag
he ment for unrepentant rebels. Tooml
NJ Stephens, Wise, Harris, and their few ,
ad sociates, who continue the war again
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