The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-05-16
TIFFIN TRIBUNE.
N4SBY.
The Cincinnati COHTentiOn-AF. Mas
by's Experience as 4 Delegate.

The Cincinnati COHTentlOH-HF. Mas
by's Experience as Delegate.
CINCINNATI, .wich Is ia OhiO}l
May eth, 1872.
Iwuz not originally delegate 10
the Cincinnati COnvenshun, Wich is
10 say I wuz not appinted ez a dele
gate. We he'd a meetin az Bascom g
nv me and Deekin POgram, Kernel
McPeltar, IssakeF Gavitt and one or
two other Liberal Republican,, but il
yyuz decided not to send a delegate.
I Ihed, tho, some hopes Nv the con-
yenshun. Eff Adams, Davis or Brown
Good be nominated il would be q good
thing fur rs. Adams is ruther too
spectacle q man for q first class Dem
ocrat. but he is still q Democrat, and
} the Democratic Convention wood hey
accepted him. Davis and Trumbull
ain't DimocTats egsackly, but all the
roads out Nv the Republican camp
leads to ours, and ez they hev taken
/ that pertikelerly flatrin one, ambish-
nm. we Good trust either NV them. |
| WIlz anxious TO see one Nv these three
nominated, and wood hev counted it a
big thing for Democracy Good it hey
been done.
I wus surprised at the feelin mani
| tested. There wuZ a denunsiashun NV
| the tyrant Grant, more deep and fer
vid than / had heard since the fall NV
! Vicksburg. There wuZ a torrent NV
abuse heaped upon oils seekers, offs
holders, cOrrupshen in the civil ser
Wis. appointment NV relatives to offs,
and sicb, which pleased me. l jined
in it heartily, and wuz immejitly ask
ed by delegate whose nose RECON-
mended him to me tO-wunst, wat
State I wuZ n delegate from. anser-
ed that ] wus a citizen of Kentucky,
but no delegate-that We sent no del
iTThat don't NATTER sed he, his
nose gloin with zeal, "we wuZn't any
nv Us -sent-we cum. NOO shell be .
delegate
And before 1 could decline the hon.
or he he'd an IllinOy delegates ticket
4 i'm nv hand, and when l sed ] wuz
fur Judge Davis, infeXibly, he asked
me TO take suthin. Now, ef ther is
anything I'm pertiklerly distinguish
ed for. its acceptin invitations to take
lsutbin, and that delegates alacrity in
taskin. Good only hev bin exalted by
my alacrity in aeceptin. He wuz q
Davis man, too, and Promptly borrer.
ed twenty dollars Nv him. II whls'
XIV wuz free, that wuZ enuf to take
me home, and suthin to pay BascOm
on account.
The morning NV the hrst 9ay the
ldelepashen from the distriek helped
to represent, met. There wus twen-
tv present, and more earnest set NV
men I never mingled with. Five Nv
4 ms were F,x- Postmasters who he'd bin
appoiuted by the sainted johnson,
and most outrageously dismist by the
desDot who is now President; two Nv
EN- wuz Ex-COllectOrs, three Ex-As-
SCISSORS. and the ten remainin wuZ {
bilin with indignashun beeoZ the
Offices in their respective towns wu5
filled with the most unfit men in thai
seckshen.
ERather than have the country anC
the servis rooined,u sed one, "I wooC
hey accepted the Post Offs myself
Iwuz solissitid by my fellOw-eitizenl
to serve in that capacity, but no. \
military friend NV Grants, who haC
served under him, wuz appinted. Wa
kin be expected NV sich an Admins
tratiOni Faugh ]"
The other ten, l assertaned, he'd biz
apDlicants for posishens, but somehow
didn't git em. They were very Ger
tain that unless ther wuZ an immeji
change, there wuZ nOthin ahed bu
rooin. There cum in afterward an ex
member of Congress, who he'd beer
defeetid for re-nOminashen two year
ago. and his denunsiashen NV offs
hOldin wuZ alIectin in the extreme.
We finally got to biznis. One dele
gate moved that ex-cOllectOr Jawkins
act eZ chairman. This prOdOOsta fear
full uproar. Imemjitly six or eight 9TH
ers wuz nominated.
"Don't vote for Jawkins,n . whisper.
ed one refOTmer, "he wants promi'
nence that he may control the appint
ments in the appointments in the
deestrik. and he's brother and broth
ers-in-law all over it."
WDon't vote for that Id Smitbers, ,
Whispered another, 'he wants TO b'
assessor
To nv utter and entire astOnish.
ment, i diskivered the alarmin fac
that every Reformer in the delegashur
he'd suthin in his eye. The caucu:
wuZ finally organized by a cOmprO
mise. and man wuZ elected chairman
who cOOden't possibly want nothin
ez he hedn't the finanshel standin il
his respective community to giyt
bonds for anything. He he'd come K
Cincinnati on q free pass furnished
2 L oFar1 his rl0Tn
wich, ez he remarked, ez he hedn't
anything do at home, wuZ cheaper
than staying there. BE remarkt t.
me that he thought he shOOd go into
the Reform Delegate biZnis exclusively
The preliminary biZnis NV the Con
venshun Wuzn't eny easier sailin thar
the caucusses. There wuZ a fearful
diversity NV opinion eZ to wat wul
first to be done. He'd it been left with
Brown and Schurz and a few others
ez we do in regular Democratic Con
yensbuns, it wood hev bin easy enuff
but there wuz 4 dozen or more luna.
tics who supposed that the movement
WuZ in dead earnest, and who heC
idees to prOmulgate. They made
trouble, but we soon got rid NV EN-
To give the COnvenshun character we
we compelled Senator FentOn to leave
for his home, in Moo York, and to hey
it managed properly Frank Blair wuz
telegraphed for. Then the biZnis wul
actoally commenced, and l WIZ in
high feather. 1t seemed a moral Ger.
tainty that either Adams OF Davi;
wood be nominated, and wat a glOri
/ Gus prospect opened. The Democracy
wood ADOPT EN-, the RefOrmers wool
all vote for EN-, and-well, WOOdent
hev give COnfedrit ten cent scrip L
hev bin ashOOred Of my Post Oritis IN
March next
The platform wuzn't ez much uv :
stumblin block eZ 1 supposed it WOOD
be. The prOtectionists, for the sake
Nv harmony, gave up their prOteek.
shun idees, the fTee-tradeTs their free
trade, the paper money men were
perfectly wiliin to adopt the harC
money theOry-the hard money advo
Gates declared themselves satisfied
with n paper money plank; the anti
/ hank men cOnsedid to banks, and thC
bank men were perfectly willin tC
have EN- abolished. The amnesty
men he'd no objection to permanent
disfranchisement, and the disfran,
chisers wuz entirely willin to go the
entire swine on amnesty. Wat they
all wanted, wuz reform and purity in
the Civil Service. They all wanted
| to cleanse the Augean stables-to hsv {
ehange-to restore the Government
to its ancient pnrity. On this pint
Frank Blair and Tweed WIZ e.
pecially pertinashus, and on the ne
cessity NV change in the offices of the
country there wuz n unanimity wich
1 never saw exalted.
But at this pint the unanimity en-
ded. In the caucus every delegate
I wanted to be Chairman, and in the
Convenshun every leadin Reformel
wanted to be the candidate for the
Presidency. Every man NV EN- he'd
gone at reform by getting up q fack-
shun for hisself, and 1 diskivered that
they Good no more mix than OH and
water. Reformer DAVIS hated Re-
/ former Trumbull with n feTveney
that wuz only exalted by the hatred
Reformer Adams bore TO Reformer
l Rrown. There WuZ six parties Nv EN-,