Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23


CINCINNATI,
CWIcH Is IN THE STATE Nv Omo),
May Z, 1872.
wuz not originally a delegate to the
Cincinnati Convenshun, wich IL to say
wuz no: appinted ez delegate. We he'd
meetin at Bascom's Nv me and Deekin
Pogram, Kernel McPelter, Issaker Gavitt,
and one or two other Libral Republicans,
but it wuz desided not to send delegate.
he'd, tho, some hopes ov the conven-
shun. Eff Adams, Davis or Brown could
be nominated it wood be good thing for
u.s. Adams is ruther too spectacle man
for first-class Democrat, but he is still a
Democrat, and the Democratic conveu-
shun wood hev accepted him. Davis and
Trumbull amt Dimocrats, eggsackly, but
all the roads out Nv the Republican camp
lead to ours, and ez they hev taken that
pertickelerly fiatrin one, ambishun, we
Good trust either of them. / wuz anxus
to see one NV these three nominated, and
wood hev counted it big thing for De-
mocracy Good it hev been done.
wuz surprised at the feelin manifested.
There wuz denunsiashen Nv the tyrant
Grant, more deep and fervid than / had
heard since the fall NV Vicksburg. There
wuZ torrent Nv aboose heaped upon offs
seekers, offis-holders, corrupshen In the
ClNll SCltlS, NV lCldllNCS W
offs, and sich, wich pleased me. / jIned
in it heartily, and wuz immejitly asked
by delegate whose nose recommended
him to me to-wunst, wat State l wuz a
delegate from. l anserd that / wuZ a cit
izen Nv Kentucky, but no delegate-that
we sent no delegates.
"That don't matter" sed he, his nose
gloin with zeal, 1--WE wuzn't any Nv US
sent-we come. Yoo shel be delegate. "
And afore Good decline the honor he
he'd an Illinoy delegates tickit in my
hand, and when l sed | wuz for Judge
Davis, infiexibly, he asked me to take
suthin. Now, eff ther is anything I'm
pertikerly distinguished for, its acceptin
invitashens to take suthin, and that dele
gates alacrity in askin, Good only hev bin
exalted by my alacrity in acceptin. He
wuz Davis man, too, and l promptly
borrered twenty dollars NV him. Ez
whisky wuz free, that wuz enough to take
me home, and suthin to pay Bascom on
account.
The mornin Nv the first day the delega.
shen from the deestrik l helpt to repre-,
sent, met There wuz twenty delegates
present, and a more earnest set Nv men
never mingled with. Five Nv EN- wuz
ex-Postmasters who he'd bin appinted by
| the sainted johnson, and most outrage
ously dismisst by the despot who is now
| President; two Nv EN- were ex-Collectors,
| three, eX-Assessors, and the ten remainin
WIZ bilin with indignashen becoZ the
offices in their respectiv towns wuZ filed
they swore, with the most unfit men in
that seckshen.
"Rather than have the country and the
servis rooined," sed one, 81 wood hey
accepted the Post-O Orifs myself. / wu7
| SO1iSSitad bu nav fa1lou,- 70 oarvf
EN- in that capassity, but no. A military
friend Nv Grants who he'd served under
him, wuZ appinted Wat kin be eX
pected NV sich an Administration
Faughi"
The other ten, assertained, he'd biz
applicants for posishens, but somehow
didn't git EN-. They were very certain
that unless there wuZ an immeiit change
there wuz nothin ahed but room. Their
cum in afterward an ex-member NV Con
gress, who he'd bin defeetid for renomina
shen two years ago, and his denunsiashel
NV offis-holdin wuZ affectin in the ex
reme
We finally got to biznis. One delegat
moved that ex-Collector Jawkins act e
chairman. This prodoost fearful up
roar. Immejitly six or eight others WI
nominated
Don't vote for Jawkins," whispers
one Reformer, "he wants prominenc
that he may control the appointments il
the deestrik, and he's brothers an
brothers-in-aw all over it"
Don't vote for that id Smithers,
, whispered another, ''he wants to be as
, essor."
To my utter and entire astonishment,
diskivered the alarmin fact that ever
Reformer in the delegashun he'd suthin i
, his eye. The caucus was finally organ
/ zed by compromise, and a man WI
r elected chairman who couldn't possibl
| want nuthin, ez he hedn't the tinansht
standin in his respective community t
r give bonds for anything. He he'd com
e to Cincinnati on a free pass furnished b
committees, and hisexpenses paid. wicl
b ez he remarkt, ez he hedn't anything
b, do at home, wuz cheaper than stayin
Q there. He remarkt to me that he though
: he shood go into the Reform Delegai
+ biznis exclusively.