The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-05-23
CINCINNATI, witch is in the S. of y.

CINCINNATI, wien is IN tue .. VI ".
May 7, 1872.
wuz not originally delegate to the
Cincinnati Convenshun, wich is to say
wuz not appointed ez a delegate, We
had a meetin ct Bascom's Nv me and
Deekin Posram. Kernel McPelser. lisa
ker Gavitt. and one or two other Liberal
Republicans, but it wuz Gesided not to
send delegate.
l he'd, tho, some hopes of the conyen-
shun. Eff Adams, Davis or Brown Good
be nominated, it would be coed thing
for US. Adams is rutber too spectacle
| man for irst-class Democrat, but he Is
still Democrat, and the Democratic
Convenshun wood hev accepted him.
Davis and Trumbull ain Democrats egg
sackly, but all the roads out NV the Re-
publican camp lead to ours, and ez they
hev taken that pertikerly fatrin one,
ambishun, we Good trust either Nv them.
wuz anxus to see one Nv these three
nominated, and wood hev counted it
big thing for Democracy Good it he'd been
done.
wuz surprised at the feelin manifest
ed. There wuz a denunsiashen Nv the
tyrant Grant, more deep and fervid than
he'd heard since the fall of Vicksburg.
There wuz torrent Nv aboose heaped
upon ofiis-sekers, offs holders, corrup-
shen in the civil servis, appointment Nv
relativessto offs, and SIGH, wich pleased
| me. jined in it heartily. and wuz I'M
| mejitly asked by delegate whose nose
| recommended him to me at once, wat
state [ wuz delegate from. L anserd
that | wuz citizen of Kentucky. but no
| delegate-that we sent no delegates.
| That don t matter" sed he, his nose
CLOWN with zeal, eve wuzn't any Nv us
sent-we come. 700 shell be dele
gate,
And afore I Good decline the honor he
he'd an Illinoy delegates tickit in my
hand, and when sed I wuz for Judge
Davis, infexibly, he asked me to take
| suthin. Now, eff Their is anything, I'm
| pertikelerly distinguished for, its accep-
| tin invitashens to take suthin, and that
delegates alacrity in askin, Good only
hev bin exalted by my aacrity in accep-
| tin. He wuz a Davis man, too, and |
promptly borrerred twenty dollars Nv him
Ez whiskey wuz free, that wuz enuff to
take me home, and suthin to pay Bas-
com, on account.
The mornin Nv the first day the dele
gashen from the deestrlk [ belDt to re-
present met. There wuz twenty dele
gates present, and more earnest set of
men l never mingled with. Five Nv EN-
wuz Ex- Postmasters who he'd been ap-
| pinted by the sainted johnson, and most
outrageously dismisst by the despot who
is now President; two Nv EN- were Ex-
| Collectors, three Ex-Assessors, and the
ten remainin wuz billin with indigna-
| shen becoz the Offices in their respective
towns was filled, they swore, with the
most unfit men in that seckshen.
Rather than have the country and
the service rooined,'' sed one, Il wood
hev accepted the Post Oris myself. [
wuz soIissited by my fellow citizens to
serve EN- in that capassity, but DO. A
military friend Nv Grants who he'd serv-
ed under him, was appinted. Wat kin
| he expected Nv SIGH an Administration
| Faugh -
The other ten. ascertained, he'd bin
applicants for posishens, but somehow
| didn't get EN-. They were very certain
that unless there wuz an immejit change
there wuz nothing ahed but room. There
cum in afterward an ex-member Nv Con-
gress, who he'd been defeetid for re-nom-
| inashen two years ago, and his denunsi-
ashen of offs holdin wuz affectin in the
extreme.
We finally got to biznis. One delegate
moved that ex-collector Jawkins act ez
| chairman. This prodoost fearful up
roar. Immejitly six or eight others wuz
nominated.
Don't vote for Jawkins," whispered
one Reformer, ''he wants prominence
that he may control the appointments in
the deessrik, and he's brothers and bro
theirs in law all over it.
Don't vote for that id Smithers,"
| whispered another, ''he wants to be as
| sessor"
To my utter and entire astonishment,
diskivered the alarmin fact that every
Reformer in the delegashun he'd suthin
in his eye. The caucus was finally or
| gained by compromise, and man was
elected chairman who coo6n't possibly
| want nothing, ez he hedn't the fnanshel
standin in his respective community to
give bonds for anything. He he'd come
to Cincinnati by free pass furnished by
| the committee, and his expenses paid,
| wich, ez he remarkt, ez he hedn't any
| thing to do at home, wuz cheaper than
staying there. He remarkt to me that he
thought that he shood go into the Reform
| Delegate biznis exclusively. :
The preliminary biznis w the Conven-
venshun wuzn' any easier sailin than the
caucusses. There wuz fearful diversity
| ofoplnion ez to wat wuz first to be done.
| He'd it been left with Brown, and Seburz
| and few others, ez we do in reglar Dem
ocratic Conversions, it wood hev been
easy enuff, but there wuz a dozen or more
lunatics who supposed that the movement
| wuz in dead earnest, and who ned idees
| to promulgate. They made trouble. but
| we soon got rid of en- To give the Con-