The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-21
Massey.
Petroleum V. Goes to the st. Louis Convention
and Returns Entirely Satisfied With the
Platform and Candidates.

Platform and Candidates.
CoNrEDRlT Y ROADS,
WIoH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
Joon 20, 1876.
| hev returned from st. Loois, and right
glad am to gut back to the scene of my
fucher labor for the next four months
st. Loois is hot city, but ez the likker is
allus good there, and ez the Tilden dele
gates, ez we'll ez the anti-Tilden ones, he'd
lots ov money, made out to git on. Ez
they never argued with delegate without
askiu him to take suthin, didn't make up
my mind to the very last.
II wuz the most interesting convenshun
/ ever attended, and | hey blu to EN- all,
sence the one that nominated Martin Van
Booren. This wuz the most interestn be-
coz it wuz so thoroly devotid to reform,
witch alus liz my best holt. Eff / can't be
reformin suthin | am absolootly mizerable.
1t gave me moo hopes ov the repubik to
zee AZ pe o SDe e o Fef2rm tibet filed the soes
lookin farmer delegate wood remark,
swat shell we do with the currency p and
then John Morrisey would immeJllly shut
him up with the remark, "D-n the cur
rency-wat we want is reform in the gov
erment"
Aud when Moo England biznis man
wood ask, "Wat shell we do with TIE cur
rency ? Boss Kelly wood damn him for
introducing disturbin elemence into the
cnnvenshun. "Wat we want is reform,
the boss wood continoo, and eff the man
didn't sing small, some of the boss reform
ers wood go thro him. A great man IL
Boss Kelly. | don't wonder that the Noe
York dimocrsy luv him.
John Kelly is the most ardent reformer
tha, kuo oy. He wuz so entirely devo-
lid to it that | saw him stop game oV
faro q, a bank he run doorin the conven-
shun, to argoo with an lnleany delegate,
who wuz losin bootifully, tibet eff the
dmocrisy didn't git control Of the Noe
York custum house and post offs the
reform he wuz willing to devote all thu
profits ov his banks at Saratoga and Wash
ingtor.
The southern delegates wuz ekally ur
gent for reform. Wat they felt wuz neces
sary wuz complete change. They het
groaned fur twelve yeats under the hor
rors of niger votn, and enythng tina
wood give EN- relief from that wood satisfy
EN-. Enythipg to git back to the good ole
idee ov tie soopremacy ov the sooperlo
race. and the redoosin ov the Niger to hi
normal condshn. One Georgy delegate
actooaly shed teers over the sufferins h'
had endoored. He sobbed audibly wen h
remarked that it was now ten years las
Christmas sence he he'd shot niger. Iii:
shotgun hung yooseless over his fireplace
aud there wuz ashes on his harth. Civ
US dimocratic administrator and re
form |" and immeJtly accepted the invita-
shun of a Tilden delegate TO take suthln
None oy EN- ever refoosed that from any
body.
The work ov the convenshun wuZ wei
done, and victry must purch upon our ban
pcrs. There wuZ row among the NO
York delagashen, witch thretcned at on
time TO mar it's harmony, but 1t wuz hap
pily settled. There WEI a conference an
The ofllses wuz divided so ez to satisfy a
the reformers. Kelly is to continyoo /
ossession ov Tammany hall and the city
while them ez favored the great and GOO
Tilden will hev control ov the federal pa
ronage. Ez extraordinary services will
needed moo ofiises will be created, and al
pointments that would naturally GO to Ii
republican states will also be given to th
doubtful ones.
The platform can't help sootin the din
ocrasy ov thee entire country, partikelerl
when the candidates is taken in accoun
1t is the most flexible platform | ever hell
to construct, and the dimocrat witch can
! stand onto it amt worth the name. i
Ohio and Inieany we shall swear its 30
money-and reform, and pint proudly
Hendricks. In Moo York and the east
shall swear it's hard money-and reform
and pint proudly TO Tilden:
Ez | shall hev to stump both seckshul
I hey two speeches alreddy prepared, OF
| oy witch is hard money and the other sol
and The other orators Of the party hi
/, fixed themselves likewise. would seJe
now, tibet there may be no mistakes, that
committy be appointed in each pla!
where a speech is to be made to see that
gifts the right speech started. AFTER the T
: form speaker heZ made his speech to u
citizens, ov course he should be allowed
cit as full as he chooses, but 1t would
I terrible to hev him git up and make u
speech in Hartford, Connecticut, that WI
. intended for the latitude OF Terre Haul
y Inieany, or to make in lpJeany the ma
money speech witch he should yoose
Connecticut.
4, With SIGH care, and reasonable wor
y there cant be any question ez 10 the resn
The democrisy hez been out to grass
long that they will fife ez men never ioue
d afore, and we shell win. With "reform
v in our moths and pos-oilis in our harris
y shell march forrerd to victry, But we h
:. 90. 10 work fur 1t.
y PETROLEUM V. Nasty.
). WITCH would like to be Postmast
q p. S.-A serious trouble thretened us
~ one time In st. LOois. The mayor ov u
CITY had fixed on the night afore the sci
oythe conyenshuu to make raid onto
gambling dens and houses OF ill-repoot
that city. Forchinitly we got wind ov II