The Portland daily press., 1876-07-27
NASBY.
mr Nasby Goes 10 the st. Louis Conyeu-
hon-He Returns Entirely Satisfied with
the Platform and Candidates.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, (
WITCH IS IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY Z

WITCH is IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY
Joon 20, 1876.
hev returned from st. Loois and nifty glad
am to git back to the seen of my fucher laber
Tor the next four months. st. Loois is hot
| CITY, but ez the lkker is alluz good there, and
ez the Tilden delegates, ez we'll ez the anti
liiden Ones he'd lots Nv money, made out to
get on. Ez they never argood with delegate
without askn him to take suthin 1 didn't
make up my mind till the very last.
1t wuz the most interestin convenshun ever
attended, and hev bin to EN- all, sense the
one that nominated Martin Van Booren This
wuz the most intsrestin, becoz it was so thoroly
devotid to reform, which is alluz is my best
| holt. Eff can't be reformin suthin am abb
slootly mzrable.
1t gave me moo hopes NV the republic to see
the sperrit Nv reform that filled the soles Nv
all the Oemocrlsy present, that is, neerly all NV
em. Occasionally an anxious lookin farmer
delegate wood remark, "wat shell we do with
the currency?" and then John Morrissey wood
immejtely shut him up with the remark,
"D-n the currency-Tat we want is reform in
the government"
And when Moo England bzns man wood
ask, wat shell we do with tue currency?" Boss
Kelly wood d-n him for introdoosn disturbin
elemence into the convenshuu. swat we want
is REFORM" the boss wood continyoo, and eff the
man didn't sing small, some of the Bosses
reformers wood go thro him. A great man is
Boss Kelly. 1 don't wonder that the Moo
York Democrisy love him.
John Morrissey is the most ardent reformer
know Nv. He was so entirely devotid to it
that saw him stop game Nv faro at a bank
wich he run doorn the convenshun, to argoo
with an Injeanny delegate, who wuz losin
bootifully, that eff the Dimocrisy didn't git con-
| trole NV the Moo York custom-house and post
office, the country was ruined shoor In the
cause Nv reform he was wilin to devote all the
profits Nv his banks at Saratoga and Washing
ton.
Boss Kelly wuz even more urgent for reform
than Morrissey. He said that until Tammany
got possession Nv the government, he Good see
nothin but room ahed. Give him platform
wich pronounced squarely for reform, and he
wood feel encurridged to promise Democratic
majority Nv 10000 in the city NV Moo ork
alone. With the custom house and postoffis
| in the controle Nv Tammany, he Good afford
to pay ten thousand repeaters, and give stiddy
eupiOymonI 10 every SnOuluer-nitter and DrOOS-
er in the city. He wood feel justified in char
| term thousand gin-mills, and to make
shoor Nv the state he wood promise to give any
majority in the city that mite be needed. Re-
| form wuZ his watchword.
Doolittle wanted reform-he yearned for it
He sed that until President wuz elected that
wood make it possible for him to be Minister
TO England there wuz no hope of the Republic.
| He wuz disposed to yeeld everything fin sch
| matters ez currency, and tariffs aud sch, but
| it wuz Nv the first importance that the country
be properly represented at the Court Nv st.
James.
| The Southern delegates wuz ekally urgent for
reform. Wat they felt wuz necessary wuz a
complete change. They he'd groaned for
| twelve yeers under the horrors Nv nigger votin
and anything that wood give EN- releef from
that wood satisfy em. Enything to git back to
the good old idee Nv the soopremacy Nv the
to his normal condshn. One Georgy delegate
actooally shed teers over the sufferins he he'd
| endoored. He sobbed audbly wen he re-
marked thet it wuz now ten years last Christ
mas sence he he'd shot a niger. His shotgun
hung yooseless over his fireplace, and there
was ashes on his harth. "Give us DINER
cratic administration and refermp' he yelled,
and lmmejitely accepted the invitation nv a
Tilden delegate to take suthn. None Nv EN-
| ever refoosed that, from anybody.
The work of the convenshun wuz well done,
| and victory must perch upon our banners.
There wuz row among the Moo York delega-
| sEen wich thretened at one time to mar its
| harmony. but it wuz happily settled. There
| wuz a konference, and the offices wuz divided
| SO ez to satisfy all the reformers. Kelly is to
| continyoo in possession of Tammany Hall, and
| the city, while them ez favored the great and
| good Tilden will hev control Nv the Federal
patronage. Ez extraordinary services will be
needed, moo offises will be created, and ap-
| pointments that materially wood go to the Re
publikin States will all be given to the doubtful
ones. Several reformers who wusn't satisfied
Vxx1skI de
wuz to be given them after the election-wuz
pade so much money in hand, after wich they
were ez enthusiastic for the crate reformer ez
| enybodp. l stood out, myself, and got fair
| slice, but it didn't do me any good. Bascom
wuz with me and saw the money paid, and he
| demanded it Nv me, and got it, too, on account
There amt any thing so disgusting in life ez
payin old likker bills. That likker is gone and
amt no good to you-it can't warm your bow
els agin. Under stimulatin infooences one kin
afford to pay-but to pay this yeer for last
| yeers delites, which hev fled forever and can't
never be recalled, except in memory, ,,irs dis
gustn. never did like to pay for memories
| they amt substantial.
But shell hev the post offs at the Corners
| shoor, eff Tilden is elected for long afore the
| time comes, / shell be in debt to Bascom agin.
| The platform can't help sootin the Dmocra-
| sy Nv the entire ooutry, pertikerlerly when the
candidates is taken into account. 1t is the
most flexible platform 1 ever helpt to con-
| stract, and the Dimocrat wich can't stand onto
| it amt worth the name. In Ohio and Injeany
| we shel swear it's soft money and reform and
point proudly to Hendricks. In Moo York and
| the East we shel swear it's hard-money-and
| reform, and pint proudly to Tilden.
Ez shel hev to stump both seckshuns l hev
| two speeches, alreddy prepared, one nv wich
| is hard money and one soft, and the other ora
tors of the party hev fixed themselves likewise.
L would sejest, now, that ther may be no mis-
| takes, that committy be appnted in each
place where speech is to be made, to see
| that the speeker rises sober, and that he gifts
| the right speech started. After the reform
| speeker hes made his speech to the citizens, Nv
| course he shood be allowed to git ez full ez he
| chooses, but it wool be terrible to hev him git
| up and make the speech in Hartford, Connect
| icut, that wuz intendid for the latitude NV
| Terre Haut, lnjeanny, or to make in lnJeanny
| the hard money speech witch he shood goose in
Connecticut.
With sich care, and reasonable work, ther
| can't be any question ez to the result. The
| Dimocrisy hez bin out to grass SO long that
| they will fte ez men never fought afore, and
| we shell win. With "Reformp' in our mouths
| and Post-offis in our harts we shell parch for
| rerd TO victory. But we shell hev to work for
| it. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
WITCH woud like to be Postmaster.
| p. S.-A serious trouble threatened US at one
| time in st. Loois. The mayor Nv that city he'd
fixed upon the mite afore the settin nv the con-
| venshun to make rade onto the gamblin dens
and the houses of ill-repoot in that CITY,. For
| chinity we got wind Nv it in time to hev it
postponed. He'd it been carried out / shudder
| to think wat wood hev bin the result. Two
| thirds Nv our reform delegates wood hev bin
| gobbled and wood hev bin up afore poleece
magistrates in the mornn. Tildens money
| he'd bin distributed that mornin, and the re-
| formers he'd cash enuff to justify EN- in maxim
| mite nv it, and they wuz doin Nv it. He'd
| them houses been raided onto that mite the con-
| venshun wood hev bin obleeged to adjourn for
| want Nv a quorum. P.V.N.
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A strska of linhtninr took all the hair off an