Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-13

lne Iree-trauefS tnelf Iree-lfaue, the pa
per mony men were perfectly willin to
adopt the hard money theory-the hard
money advocates declared themselves
satisfied with paper money plank the
anti bank men consented to banks, and
the bank men we're perfectly willin to
have EN- abolished. The amnesty men
he'd no objection to permanent disfran-
chisement, and the DISTINGUISHES wuz
entirely willin to 90 the entire swine on
amnesty. Wat they all wanted, wuz re-
form and purity in the Civil Service
They all wanted to cleanse Augean sta
bles-to hev change-to restore the
Government to its ancient purity On
this pint Frank Blair and Tweed wuz es-
pecially pertinashus, and on the necessi-
ty Nv change in the offices of the country
there wuz unanimitv witch | never saw
exalted.
But at this pint the unanimity ended
In the caucus every delegate wanted to
be chairman, and in the Convenshun ev-
cry leadin Reformer wanted to be the
candidate for the Presidency. Every
man Nv EN- he'd gone at reform by getin
up fakshun for hisself, and | diskiver-
ed that they Good no more mix than oil
and water Reformer Davis hated Re-
former Trumbull with a fervency that
wuz only exalted by the hatred Nv Re-
former Adams bore to Refor1ner Brown.
There wuz six parties Nv EN-, Adams.
Davis, Trumbull, Brown, Curtin and
Greeley. The canvassin wuz furious,
and my kittle NV fish wuz kikt over in
less than mint Trumbulrs support
ers swore that they'd never consent to
hev the appointments in the hands Nv ez
corrupt man ez Davis. Davis friends
swore vehemently that they sooner hev
| Grant than to hev such demagogue ez
Trumbull control the patronage. Curtin
wuz denounced ez an ambishus skemer.
Adams wuz damned as cold blooded
aristocrat, Brown.wuz stigmatized ez the
most shameless demagogue on earth, and
so on, while Greeley wuz looked upon as
| beamin old lunatic, with nothin es.
peshally dangerous in his lunacy cept t.
himself Attempts wuz then made tt
trade. but they all failed. The dele
gates knowd their men thoroughly, anc
they wuz afraid to trust each other, and
for two long days ther wuz the hotties
fight ever saw. The trouble wuzn't S,
much in maxim charges agin each othe
it wuz in the fact that each man het
proof in his possession that his charge
agin the others wuz true.
1t wuz very plain on Friday morni1
that neither Brown, Curtin, Adams, Da
Wis or Trumbull Good be nominated an,
the convenshun wuz likely to break u
in row. But Frank Blair wuz ekal t
the emergency. The moment he say
how things wuz, he ordered Brown t
bargain with the delegates to give Hol
ace the first place on the ticket and h
take the second. 1t wuz the same tax
tics witch had succeed so well in our L
linois caucus. Greeley wuzn,t Nv enoug
account to be in anybody's way, and o
that account he was the most availabl
man: the stockholders of the Iriboo
wanted him nominated that he might
compelled to sell out his stock and leay
the concern; Blair wanted him nomina
It'd becos if he should happen to be elec
ted he Good control the patronage TIN
his cusin, Gratz Brown, and eff the d.
mocracy should not accept him he woo
probably draw off enuff Republican vot'
to elect our nominee, and the other de
gates wantid him nominated that the
might hev decent excuse to get out {
the whole thing. They saw in the la
it wuz certain to raise, cover und,
witch they Good git back to their O.
quarter. The reform candidates so hate
: each other that each voted for Greeley
spite the other, and the thing was di
Horris Greeley is the nominee Nv Il
Reformers for the offs Nv President I
the Yoonited States.
There wuz various opinyuns EXPIRE
NV the results. One delegate remark
that he wuz in the fix that the man W
!, who wuz bit by rattlesnake, and W
swallowed a gallon of corn whiskey
cure it. He got we'll Nv the bite, b
he died Nv the whiskey. He was bitt
. by corrupshen and took convenshen
cure it. He mite git we'll of the CORFU
shen, but he shood certainly die ov t
convenshen.
But some good will come NV it. Gre
ley hez been dyin for SIGH nominash
all his life and he'll stick to it with t
tenacity Nv Democratic postmaster
He will Nv course git some votes-en1
possibly to defeat Grant and give us
Democratic President. Thank heaven
= lite beams onto US I! The Democracy W
= march to victory in eny event. l q
= full of hope.
. shell go home immejitly and the
await events.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
g witch wuz Postmaster.