Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-09
INDEPENDENCE, FRIDAY FEBRUARY g.,
THE Massey LETTERS.

THE MASSEY LETTERS.
1Gr. Nasty Makes Tour Of the NORTH
TO See How Many Disgasted Repub.
Hcans Would b. Willing to Jeix
the Passive Democracy.
From the Toledo Blade.
C0NTRDRIr ROADS,
(which is in the Stait Of Kentncky,)
December -. 1871.
The hopelessness of election a
Dimekratic President by Dimekrats
alone, waz apparent to all the gigan.
tic intellecks Nv the party, over a
year ago. A conference waz held
in Moo York eighteen months ago:
Tweed, Hall, Connolly and Sweeney
representa- Moo York, me and Gar
ret Davis representa- Kentucky, the
Blairs representa- Missouri, and SO
on. We decided then that the
Dimocrisy shood appeal directly to
the people to yoonite with US to beat
Grant. General John G. Breckin-
ridge desired that the issue be made
fairly between Grant and Dcspotism
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, Despotism and Corrupshen
on the one hand, and the People,
Yoonyun and Purity on the other.
That wuz wat Tweed wantid. With
such ishoo ez that, he felt that. he
Good go afore the people and make
such fite cz he never made afore.
General Breckinridge accepted this
amendment gladly. He felt that the
corrupshen NV the present Admin
istration, ez well ez its attacks upon
constitooshnel liberty, he'd bin a
stencil in the nostrils NV the people,
in wich opinion Mr.. Tweed coin
cided. 1t was resolved there and
then to make the fite in this way
and upon this basis, and the meet
in adjourned.
Some months after the conference,
Mr.. Tweed, for obvius reasons,
dropped out NV the management NV
affairs, and the Dimocrisy wuz left
reely without a head. But l felt
that the programme laid down wuz
the proper one, and I determined to
make a tour thro the Northern
States to ascertain how much
strength we Good depend upon
gittin from the Republicans. l jist
got home from that trip yesterday,
and the followin extrax from my
diary will show how successful the
raid wuz:
Smithvillc, N. Y.-Found one
man, J. c., who was strongly in
favor of reorganizin the parties on
a new basis. He'd groaned over
the corrupshen NV the Republican
party for years. He'd bin a member
Nv the party from its organizashun,
but, owing to the prejoodisses NV
the members thereof in his county,
he'd alluz bin debarred from holding
offs, up to the year 1866. In March
NV that year President johnson
made him Collector NV Revenoo,
which offs he held with profit to
hisself till that ojus military tyrant,
Grant, wuz elected. Their wuz
some triflin irregularities in his
accounts, and he wuz dismissed
and a supple tool NV tyrany appoin-
ted in his stead. His bail wuz
outrajusly sood for his defalcashuns
and he he'd bin crooelly persekuted
ever since. Wuz a earnest believer
in Civil Service Reform, and wood
jine hart and sole in this movement.
Nv course he wood want hiz old
place back again, in the event Nv
success, and when he gets it shood
favor q law maxim it perpetooal.
Shell want money from the general
committee to yoose among shaky
Republicans.
Jonesboro, Ohio.-Found Mr.. M.
L. in grocery, with his feet cock
ed up onto a counter. Wuz DISCUS
ted and heartsick at the prof1igacy
NV the present Administrator, and
saw no hope Nv any change for the
better until present party lines wuz
busted. Hoped the new organiza.
shen wood not overlook the claims
Nv men NV talent and genius az
completely ez the party now in
power hez done. His friends he'd
urged him time and again to the
present tyranical Administrashen
for various posishens, from Minis.
ter to Venzuela to the Post Office in
his native village, all NV wich the
military tyrant now at the head NV
the Government had persistently
disregarded. Felt that there must
be change or that room wuz inevi-
table; wuz in favor NV the new
movement, stipulating, NV coarse,
that he should hev his choice NV
the offises in that locality.
Brownstown, Illinois.-P. B. con-
fest that the Post Offs in his native
village he'd bin the hcighth Nv his
ambishcn for twelve years, and ez
he he'd never bin able to get it
under Republican rool, he wuz will.
ing to jinc the new movement et
that WIZ p.omist him. Hez a
brother-in-law who did want to be
Collector, and possibly he Good be
indoost to 60 in also. He is doubt
full, however, ez he hez lately ex-
perienced religion. Will try him
any how ez it isn't certain that he
hcx bin soundly converted. The
promise NV the place may possibly
fetch him. Ez for him the corrup-
shen Nv the present Administrator
wuz too glarin to permit him to
stay mint in a party wich sup.
ported it. He wanted it to be un-
derstood that he wuz to hev the
Post Offs.
Noblesvillc, Indiana. - Got to-
gcther meeting NV the leading
Dimocrisy and tho dissatisfied Re
publikins-ten NV the latter. One
he'd bin histed from the Post Office,
and the other nine-hed applied for
it in win. Their wuz much enthoo-
siasam at the beginnin, till the ques-
ton happened to arise o. to the
distribushen Nv the offises in the