The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-31
NASBY.
The Cincinnati C0nve urOn--Mr. Nasby's
ENperteoco ~ q Delegate.
From the Toledo Blade.
fsU on Il In, IA ~ 90 ms Ohio

Cincinnati Conyenshun, witch is to say |
wuz not appointed ez a delegate. We
he'd "a meetin at Bascom's NV me and
Deekin Pogram, Kernel McPelter,
lssaker Gayitt and one or two other
Libral Republicans, but it wuz desided
not to send "a delegate.
he'd, tho some hopes NV the conven-
shun. Ef Adams, Davis or Brown Good
be nominated it wood be good thing
for us. Adams is ruther too spectacle
man for n ii rstcass Democrat, but he
is still q Democrat, and the Democratic
convenshun wood hev accepted him.
Davis and Trumbull amt Dimocrats
eggsacllly, but all the roads out NV the
Republican camp lead to ours, and ez
they hev taken that pertikelerly fatrin
one, ambishun, we Good trust either NV
them. / wuz anxious To see one NV
these three nominated, and wood hev
,counted it a big thing for Democracy
Good it hev been done.
| wuz surprised at the feelin mani
tested. There wuz a denunsashun NV
the tyrant Grant, more deep and fervid
than | had heard since the fall NV
Wick burg. There wuz a torrent Nv
aboose heaped upon offs seekers, oils
holders, corrupshen in the civil servis,
appointment nv relatives 10 oils, and
SIGH, witch pleased me. | jined in it
heartily, and wuz immejitly asked by
delegate whose nose recommended HIM
tome to-wunst, wat State wuz a delegate
from. | anserd thatzl wuz citizen
NV Kentucky, but no delegate-that we
sent no delegates.
THAT don't matter" sed he, his nose
gloin with zeal "we wuzn't any NV us
.sent-we come. 700 shell be dele
gate"
And afore | Good decline the honor
he he'd an lllinoy delegates tickit in my
hand, and when sed wuz for Judge
Davis, infexibly, he asked me TO take
suthin. Now, IF Their Is anything m
pertiklerly distinguished for, its accept
In invitashens to take suthin, and that
delegates alacrity in askin, Good only
hev bin exalted by my alacrity IN accep-
tin. He wuz Davis man, too, and l
promptly borrered twenty dollars Nv
him. Ez whisky wuz free, that wuz
enuff to take me home, and suthin to
paw Bascom on account.
The mornin Nv the first day the del
egashen from the deestrik l helpt to
egates present, and more earnest set
NV men | never mingled with. Five Nv
EN- wuz EX-Postmasters who he'd bin
appointed by the sainted johnson, and
most outrageously dismisst by the des-
pot who is now President; two Nv EN-
were Elk Collectors, three, EX-Assessors,
and the ten remainin wuz bllin with
indignashen becoz the offices in their
respectiv towns wuz filled, they swore,
with the mos unfit men in that seek
shen.
Rather than have the country and
the servis rooined." said one, ." wood
hev accepted the Post Offs myself. |
wuz solissited by my fellow-citizens to
serve EN- in that capassity, but no. A
military friend Nv Grants, who he'd
served under him, wuz appinted. Wat
kin be expected Nv SIGH an Administra-
ton Faugh y
The other ten, | assertained, he'd bin
applicants for posishens, but somehow
didn't git EN-. They were very certain
that unless there wuz an immejit
change there wuz nothin ahed but room.
There cum in afterward an eX-member
NV Congress, who he'd been deteetid for
denunsiashen ov offis-holdin wuz affect.
in in the extreme.
We finally got to biznis. One delegate
moved that ex-Collector Jawkins act ez
chairman. This prodoost fearful up.
roar. Imejitly six or eight others wuz
nominated.
{" Don't vote for Jawkins," whisper
ed one Reformer, he wants promin-
ence that he may control the appint.
ments in the deestrik, and he's broth.
ers and brothers-in- all over it,"
Don't vote for that ID Smithers, .
whispered another, she wants to be as.
SCISSOR"
To my utter and entire astonishment
| discovered the alarmin fact that evry
Reformer in the delegashun he'd suthin
in his eve. The caucus wuz finally or
ganized by compromise, and man
wuz elected chairman who coodn't pos
sibly want nothin, ez he hedn't the
finanshel standin in his respective com.
munity to give bonds for anything. He
he'd come 10 Cincinnati on a free pas,
furnished by a committee, and his eX
penses paid, wich, ez he remarkt, ez he
hedn't anything to do at home, wul
cheaper than staying there. He re
markt to me that he thought he shooo
90 into the Reform Delegate bznis ex
clusivly.
The preliminary biznis NV the Con
venshun wuzn't eny easier sailin than
the caucusses. There wuz fearful di
versity Nv opinion ez to wat wuz first tc
be done. He'd it been left with Brown
and Schurz and few Others, ez we dc
in re liar Democratic Convenshuns, i
wood hev bin easy enuff, but there WI
dozen or more lunatcs who supposed
that the movement wuz in dead earnest
and who he'd ideas topromulgate. The,
made trouble, but we soon got rid u
EN-. To give the Convenshun characte
we compelled Senator Fenton to leav
for his home, in Moo York, and to he
it managed properly Frank Blair wa
telegraphed for. Then the biznis WI
actooally commenced, and | wuz in hig
feather. 1t seemed a moral certaint
that either Adams or Davis wood b
nominated, and wat glorious prospec
opened. The Democracy wood adoI
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