The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-05-23

The nrotectionists, for the sake of harmo |
nv. gave up their protechun idees, the |
free.traders their free-trade, the paper
money men were perfectly wiliiu to adopt |
the hard money theory-the hard money |
advocates declared themselves satisfied !
with paper money plank; the anti-bank |
men copsentid to banks, and the bank men |
were perfectly willing to have EN- abolish |
ed. The amnesty men had 10 OF cction |
to permancnt !isfranchise ment, and the |
disfranchiers wuz entirely willin to go the |
entire swine on amnesty. Wat they all |
wanted, wuzreforn and purity in the Civ |
il Service. They all wanted to cleanse |
Augean stables-to hev ciange-to re-
store the Government to its ancient purity |
On this point Frank Blair and Tweed was
especially pertinaShus, and on the neces-
sity Nv change in the Offices of the country
there wuz an unanimity wich never saw
exalted.
But at this pint the unanimity ended
In the caucus every delegate wanted to
be Chairman, and in the Convenshen
every leadin Reformer wanted to be the
candidate for the Presi lency Every
man NY EN- he'd gone at reform by getting
up fiackshun for hisself, and discov-
cred that they Good no more mix than oil
and water. Reformer Davis hated Re-
Ill II hak hot
only exalted by the hatred Reformer
Adams bore to Reformer Brown. There
wuz six parties Nv EN-, Adams, Davis,
Trumbull, Brown Curtis and Greeley.
The canvassin was furious, and my kittle
Nv fish wuz kickt over in less than min
it-Trumbull's supporters swore that
they never consent to hev the appoint
ments in the hands Nv ez corrupt man
ez Davis. Davis's friends swore vehe-
mently that they S sooner hev Grant than
to hey such demagogue ez Trumbul
control the patronage. Curtin wuz de-
nounced ez an ambishus skemer, Adams
wuz damned ez a cold blooded aristocrat.
Brown wuz stigmatized ez the most shame
less demagogue on earth, and so on,
while Greeley wuz lookt upon as beam
in old lunatic, with nothin espeshelly
dangerous in his lunacy cept to himself.
Attempts wuz then made to trade, but
they all failed. The delegates knowd
their men thoroughly, and they wuz afraid
to trust each other, and for two long days
Their wuz the hottest fight eyer saw
The trouble wuzn't so much in maxim
charges agin each other-it wuz in the
fact that each man he'd proof in his pos
session that his charges agin the others
wuz true. It was very plain on Friday
mornin that neither Brown, Curtin,
Adams, Davis or Trumbull Good be NOM
mated and the convenshun wuz likely to
break up in a row. But Frank Blair wuz
ekal to the emergency. The moment he
saw how things wuz, he ordered Brown
to bargain with the delegates to give
Horace the first place on the ticket, and
he takes the second. It wuz the same
tactics which had succeeded SO we'll in our
Illinois caucus. Greeley wuzn't Nv enuff
account to be in anybody S way and on
that account he wuz the most available
man; the stock holders Nv the Triboon
wantid him nominated that he might be
compelled to sell out his stock and leave
the concern; Blair wanted him nomina-
ted becoz if he should happen to be elect
id he Good control the patronage thro-his
cousid, Gratz Brown, and eff the Dimoc-
ricy should not accept him he wood prob
ably draw off enuff RepublikiE votes to
elect our nominee, and the other dele
gates wantid him nominated that they
might hev decent excuse to git out Nv
the whole thing. They saw in the laff it
wuz certain to raise. cover under wich
they Good git back to their old quarters.
The reform candidates so hated each
other that each voted for Greeley to spite
the other, and thething was did. Horris
Greeley is the nominee Nv the Reformers
for the offs Nv President Nv the Yooni-
ted States.
There wuz various opinyuns exprest Nv
the results. One DELEGATE remarked that
he WIZ in the fix that the man WIZ who
wuz bit by rattlesnake, and who swal
lowed gallon Nv corn whisky to cure it.
He got well Nv the bite, but died Nv the
whisky. He wuz bitten by corrupshen
and took convenshun to cure it. He
might get we'll Nv the corrupshen, but he
shood certainly die wv the convenshun.
But some good will come nv it. Gree
ley has been dying for such nomination
all his life and he'll stick to it with the
tenasity Nv Democratic postmaster. He
will, nv course, git some votes-enough
possibly to defeat Grant and give us a
Democratic President. Thank Heaven a
lite beams onto us The Democracy will
march to victory in any event. [ am full
Nv hope.
| shell go home immejitly and there
await events.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY.
(Wich wuz Postmaster.
POTOMAC ARMY REUNIoN.-The
Fourth AuE-al Reunion of the Army of