The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-16
From the Toledo Blade]

CONFEDRIT ~ ROADS,
(which is in the stait NV Kentucky :
Dec. 20, 1871.
The hopelisness NV electin Dimekratic
| president by Dimekrats alone, wuz apparent
| to all the gigantic intellek NV the party over
| year ago. A conference wuz held in Moo
| York eighteen months ago; Tweed, Hall,
Connolly and Sweeny, representa- Moo York,
| me and Garrett Davis representa- Kentucky,
| the Blairs representa- Missouri, and so ON.
| We decided then that the Dimocrisy should
| appeal directly to the people to yoonite with
us to beat Grant. General John c. Breckin-
ridge desired that the issue be made fairly be-
tween Grant and despotism on the one hand,
and the people and Yoonyun on the other.
| Tweed liked that idea, but he desired to add
to it. He wanted the issue to be Grant, Des-
| potism and Corruption ON the one hand, and
the People, Yoonyun and Purity on the 9TH
er. That wuz wat Tweed wantid. With
sich ishoo ez that, he felt that he Good go
afOre the people and make sich a fite ez he
never made afore. Gen. Breckenridge ac-
| cepted this amendment gladly. He felt that
! the corrupshen Nv the present administra-
shen, ez well as its attacks upon constitoo-
shnel liberty, he'd bin a stencil in the nostrils
| Nv the people, in which Mr.. Tweed conceded.
1t was resolved there and then, to make the
| fite in this way and upon this basis, and the
meetin adjourned.
Some months after the conference Mr..
Tweed, for obvious reasons, dropped out Nv
the management Nv affairs, and the Dimoc-
risy wuz left, reely without head. But
felt that the programme laid down wuz the
| proper one, and determined to make a tour
| thro the Northern states to ascertaine how
| much strength we Good depend upon gittin
from the Republicans. jist got home from
that trip yesterday, and the following extrax
from my diary will show how successful the
| raid wuz:
Smithville, N. Y,-Found one man, J.. c.,
who wuz strongly in favor NV reorganizin the
parties on a new basis. Had groaned over
the corrupshen Nv the Republican party for
| years. He'd bin a member NV the party from
its organsishun but owing to the prejoodiss-
ses Nv the members thereof in this country
he'd alluz bin debarred from holdin offs. up to
| the year 1866. In March Nv that year, Pres
| ident johnson made him collector NV revenoo,
wich offs he held with profit to hisself till
that oius military tyrant, Grant, wuz elected.
There wuz some triflin irregulirites in his ac-
counts, and he was dismissed and supple
tool Nv tyrany appointed in his place. Hiss
bail wuz outrageorsly sood for his defalcashun,
and he'd bin crooelly persekootid ever since.
Wuz a earnest beleeverin civil service reform,
and wood jine heart and sole in this movment
Nv course he wood want his old place back
agin, in the event OF success, and when he
gets it, shood favor law maxim it perpetooal.
Shel want money from the general committee
to yOoZe among shaky Republicans.
JOnesboro, Ohio.-Found Mr.. NJ. L. in a
grocery, with his feet cooked up onto coun-
ter. Wuz digusted and heartsick at the pro-
figacy Nv the present administrator, and
saw no hope NV any change for the better un-
til present party lines was bustid. Hoped the
new Organizashen would not overlook the
claims NV men Nv talent and genius ez COM
pletely ez the party in power hez done. His
friends he'd urged him time and again to the
present tyranical administrator for various
pusishens, from minister to Venzula to the
postoffice in his native village, all NV wlch
the military tyrant now at the head NV the
government he'd persistently dlsregarded.
Felt that there must be change or that
roon wuz inevitable; wuz in favor of the new
movement, stipulating, of course, that he
shood hey his choice NV the offises in that To-
cality.
Brownstown, Illinois.-P. B. contest that
the postoffis in his native village he'd bin the
heighth NV his ambishen for twelve years,
and ez he he'd never bin able to get it under
Republican roOl, he wuz willin to jine the
new movement eff that wuz promist him.
Hez brother-in-law who did want to be
collector, and possibly he Good be indoost to
go in also. He is doubtful, however, ez he
hez lately experienced religion. Will try him
any how ez it isn't certain that he hez bin
soundly converted. The promise NV the place
may possibly fetch him. Ez for him the cor
rupshen NV the present administrator wuz
too glarin to permit him to stay mint in
party wich supported it, He wanted 1t to be
understood that he wuz to hev the postofis.
Noblesville, Indiana.-GOt together meet
in NV the leading Dimocrisy and the dissatis-
fled Republikins-ten NV the latter. One he'd
bin histed from the postoffis, and the other
nine he'd applied for it in vain. Ther wuz
much enthoosiasm at the beginnin, till the
question happened to arise ez to the distribu-
shen NV the offises in the event NV snccess.
The ten disgustid Republicans insisted that
they should be given to them, ez without