Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-12-25

The nuZe NV the conyickshun Nv
the great Tweed by corrupt court,
and his sentence TO common peni-
tenshary by heartles and mercena.
ry Judge, | refer to that modern JEFF
fries, the infamous Davis perdoosed
perfound sensashen at the Corners.
Deekin Pogram, when he heerd that
Tweed he'd bin convicted Nv plum
derin the treasury, and he'd bin sen.
fenced to prizn, drawd long sigh
and sed that our liberties wuz gone
now. shoor. lie didn't know who
Tweed wuz, but he felt IL safe, eZ &
Democrat, TO draw sigh for any
body who wuz in limbo for plumber
in a public treasury. That mans
instink alluz guided him safely,
and his faith hez in it suthin sub
lime.
But the nooze did effect me serious
ly. Ny mind leapt over the past,
and lifted down upon the days when
! wuz the sole proprietor NV the
Harp Nv Erin s'loon, In the Six b
Ward, Moo York. Oh, them happy
das! Oh, them hours Of delite
There wuz no long, dry hours, SIGH
az / now spend, with parched throat
and shaky system, waitin for q
friendly invite to take suthin. No!
There wuz the bar, with the glasses
onto it, the barrel underneath. out
NV which | drew both Bourbon and
rye, Ell the customers wanted it;
there wuz my own private keg,
wich wuz not watered, for my privlt
drinkin-there wuz the red hot
stove, the pipes and the crackers, and
the back room
All that back room 1t wuz there
that we held the caucusses for our
deestrik. Many a time hez the
great Tweed hisself set in that room
many a time hez that great dia-
m0nd NV hiz flashed its light across
that pine table. In that room Patsy
McGonigle, Dennis O'Shaughnessy,
Tom McGrath, the Boss and myself,
hey many q time and oft arranged
our repeaters, our fighting commit
tees and our counters.
myself hev seen the Boss in that
room make his bargains with his re-
peaters-thi8 one to vote SO many
times in that ward, the other to vote
so many times in the other, and 50
on. In that room the ballot boxes
and poll books used to be brought
after the polls wuz closed, and then
we would wait till the returns from
up town, TO see how many votes
we needed to stuff into EN- to carry
the State, and it wuz sight voUch-
safed to few men to see that great
man take peek of ballots and chuck
EN- into box, and tell Thad Ham
merly witch Good wrlte) 10 put the
names to correspond on the books
from directory.
Boss Tweed WuZ not only great
man, but he wuz good man and II
just. l shell never forgit that mite
when he'd got four niggers drunk
and took EN- to the polls myself, and
changed the Republican tickets they
intended TO vote, 10 the Democratic
ticket, and then took wat money
they he'd in their pockets to pay fur
extra repeating.
" Nasty" sed he, "you are man
who deserves encOuragin. Go on et
700 hev begun and hi place awates
900. For the present take this"
And he handed me five clean hun
dred dollar notes.
"Charge 81 600" he remarked to
his Secretary, "to the account Wv pa
vim in the City Hall square"
Then | remember when Patsey
MCGEE wuz seriously hurt in an cleo
shun fife, how the Boss took materi-
al that he'd bought for the new C0rt
House, and took carpenters aud
brick layers and masons witch WIZ nj
work for the city, and built Patsey q
elegant little house on "A lot he owned
up town. That wuz arranged in my
back room.
And i'm that same room, Dennis
OShaughnessy, az Il reward fur re-
peatin twenty times more than he
he'd agreed to wuz made Assistant
Counsel to the Board for the condem-
nation of private property.
Take this" sed Tweed, "and
draw yer salary promptly"
But | don't know nothtn about
law" sed Dennis.
"Yoo know enuif to draw yer sal
airy, don't 700, and 700 know enutf
to repeet. That is enuff fur mc.n
And Dennis drawd his $4,000 81
year up to the very day he wuz
histed.
The Gage defalcation is Il startling