Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-08

ganlzed by compromise, and man
wuz elected chairman who coodn't posi-.
bly, want nothin, cz he hadn't .he finap.
shel standing 10 his rcspectiv community
to give bonds for anything. lie he'd
cum to Cincinnati on free pass furnish
ed by kummittee, and his expenses
paid, wich, as he remarkt, as he hedn't
anything TO do at home, was cheaper
than staying there. lie remarkt TO me
that he thought he should 90 into the
Reform delegate biznis exclusively.
The preliminary biznis of the convcn-
shun wasn't eny easier than the caucus
es. There was fearful diversity of
opinion ez to what wuz first to be done
He'd 1t been left with Brown and Schurz
and few others, cz we do in regular
Dimocratic convcnshuns,it would hev bin
easy enuH'; but there were a dozen or
more lunatics who supposed that the
movement wuz in dead earnest, and who
he'd ldees to promulgate. They made
trouble, but we soon got rid NV them.
10 give the convershun character, we
compelled Senator Fenton to leave for
his home in New York, and to hev it
managed properly Frank Blair was tele-
graphcd for. Then the biznis was ac-
locally commenced, and / was in high
feather. 1t seemed moral certainty
that either Adams or Davis would be
nominated, and that glorious prospect
opened. The Dimocracy would adopt
EN-, the Reformers wood all vote for EN-.
and-well, | woodn't hev give a Confed-
rit teu-cent scrip to hev been ashoored
nt m pfi in
The platform wasn't as much of
stunblin-block az supposed it wood be.
The prot, t,ctionists, Tor the sake NV har-
mony, gave up their proteckshun idees,
the tree-traders their free trade, the pa
per money men were perfectly wllin to
adopt the hard money theory-,he hard
money advocates declared themselves
satisfied with paper money plank; the
anti-bank men consented to banks, and
the bank men were perfectly willin TO
have EN- abolished. The amnesty men
he'd no objection to permanent disfran-
chisemeut, and the distranchisers wuz
perfectly willing to go the eulire swine
on amnesty. Wat they all wanted was
reform and purity in the Civil service.
They all wanted To cleanse Augean sta
blcs-to hey a chauGe-to restore the
Government to it's ancient purity. On
this pint Frank Blair and Tweed wuz es.
pecially pertenashns, and on the necessi.
ty NV change i'll the offices NV the couu-
ty there wuz a unaninity which never
saw exalted.
But at this pint the unanimiiy ended. |
In the caucus every delegate wanted to
be chairman, and in tho convenshun ev-
cry lea1in ketormcr wanted to be the
candidate for the Presidency. Every
man NV EN- he'd gone at reform by gettin
up tackshun for hisself, and | diskiver-
ed that they Good no more mix than oil
and water. Reformer Davis hated Re-
former Trumbull with tervency that
wuz only exalted by the hatred that Re-
former Adams bore to Reformer Brown. |
There wuz six parties NV EN-, Adams,
Davis, Trumbuil, Brown, Curtin, and |
Greeley. The canvassin wuz furious,
and my kittle NV fish was kikL over in
less than a mint. TrumbulPs support.
ers swore that they'd never consent to
hev the appointments in the hands nv ez
corrupt man as Davis. Davis's friends
swo:e yehemently that they'd sooner
hev Grant than to hev snch demagogue |
as Trumbull control the patronage. Cur
tin was announced as au ambishus ske-
mer. Adams was damned as a cold !
booded aristocrat. Brown was stigma
tized as the most shameless demagogue |
on earth, and so on, while Greeley was
lookt on as a beamin old lunatlc, with
nothing especially dangerous in his lu-
macy cept to himself. Attempts wuz
then made to trade, but they all failed.
The delegates knowd their men thor
oughly, aud they wuz afraid to trust
each other, and for two long days there
wuz the hottest fight l ever saw. The
trouble wasn't much in making charges
agin each other, it was III the fact that
each man he'd proof in his possession
that his charges agin the other wuz true.
1t wuz very plain on Friday mornin,
that neither Brown, Curtin, Adams Da-
Wis or Trumbull Good be nominated, and
the convenshun was likely to break up
in a row. But Frank BLAIR was ekal TO
the emergency. The moment he saw
how things wuz, he ordered Brown to
bargin with the delegates to give Hor-
ace the first place on the ticket and he
take the second. 1t wuz the same tao
tics which had succeeded so well 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 stockholders of the Zriboon
wanted him nominated that he might be
to sell out his stock and leave
the concern; Blair wanted him nominat-
ed becoz eff he shood happen to be elect;
id he Good control the patronage thro
his cousin, Gratz Brown, and if the Dim
ocrisy shood not accept him he wood
probably draw off enuff Republican votes
10 elect our nominee, and other delegates
wantid him nominated that they might
hev decent excuse TO get out NV the
whole thing. They saw, in tue laff it
wuz certain TO raise, a 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 the thing was did.
Horris Greeley is the nominee of the Re
formers for the offs NV President NV the
Y Yoonited States.
There wuz various opinyuns expresst
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