The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-05-18

he read parliamentary law to the Speak
or, and told him he diCn't understand
that science. Great confusion. Speech
goes on. Morton is the greatest man
who ever lived. Applause, shouts, yells
and cheers The hour draws near mid
night and still no end to the speech. 1t
is regular machine affair. The ma
chine was wound up and had to run
down.
White Delegate (who wanted to go
home)-Is there no way to stop that
damned niger?
Colored Delegate-The ge'man has the
ho''
Orator-And I'll keep it till Sunday
but what I'll express my sentiments afore
this convensLun.
Cries of"Put him out W "this amt a
Morton meetingp and immense confu-
sion.
Colored Delegate with a voice resem-
bling cross between a screech owl and
saw mill, with bad cold)-l rise to a
pint of order.
Damn your pint of orderp
Quiet partially restored, speech goes
on. The colored gentleman stuck to 1t
until he got through, when he grace
fully yielded the "ho'."
Mr.. Wimpey (white) seconded the
Morton resolution Morton was the only
man who could the Southern Republi-
cans any good. He would enforce the
law, and stop the arresting of Union men
in North Georgia for selling five cents
cents worth of untaxed whisky, and he
would turn the energies OF the govern
ment against the Ku-KuX and murder
ers of negroes, (Great applause.) 1t
had been said that Morton could not
carry New York. That don't make any
difference, continued Wimpey, for don't
believe we can carry New York any
way. Immense applause in the CALLER
les, and cries from the Democrats there
assembled. "That's so" "Thats so!'--
"Bully for New York")
In conclusion, he moved the previous
question. Tremendous confusion, and
cries of Don't, don't" "Oh, yes, yes,
let's fix Morton right here" &c. The
very demon of confusion himself seemed
to have taken possession of things.
BABEL IN AFRICA,
A colored delegate thought there were
other men in the United States besides
O. P. Morton. When he was a slave a
root doctor came along. This doctor got
one of the niggers to buy some of the
roots, telling him that if he would keep
them in his cabin he could cure his mas
ter, and would not be whipped He hung
the roots over the cabin door. and when
his master came in the morninghe cursed
him, told him to 90 to the devil, ard so
forth. What did that master do? he
gave that nigger about 300 lashes. The
root doctor came back to see how the
roots had worked The niger told him
they weren't no account, that he had
cursed his MASTER and got an awful
whipping ooh !" said the doctor, "you
should not have cursed your master until
he got out of hearing" The reader may
apply the story--if he can. / give it up.
Then followed another attempt to force
the Morton resolution. 1t led to the
most uprCarious confusion. A dozen or
more delegates collected around the
speaker, yelling and gestiCulating like
madmen. 1t was babel of sounds The
Democrats in the galleries yelled, and
hooted, and contributed as much as pos
sible to the turmoil. Some of the dele
gates declared that others had sold out,
that it was a game ofgag, that the Savan-
nah Custom House was trying to run this
Convention, that other delegates were for
sale to the highest bidder, and so on.
There seemed no way out fthe wrangle,
Finally all the names of all the dele
gates to Cincinnati were agreed upon,
and half dozen patriots who had been
talking constantly for four hours took
their seats and wiped the perspiration
from their massive brows.
1t was now midnight. A resolution to
adjourn was voted down. Each side
wanted to get whaCk at the everlasting
Morton resolution, some to put it through
and others to kill it. The author, seeing
that it could not pass, withdrew it, and
introduced another of a different stamp.
This one did not pledge the delegation
to Morton, but endorsed him in his course
in relation to Southern affairs.
But majority of the Convention did
not think best to even 60 that far toward
trammeling the delegates, and in the con-
fusion motion to adjourn prevailed.
So Morton was not endorsed, nor was
any other candidate, and the delegation
to Cincinnati are left as untrammelled as
the wind.
The delegates are pretty good body
of men. Their individual preferences
can, on good authority, be stated as fol-
lows For Morton, s. Bristow, 6; Blaine,
s. Conkling, 8. Total, %.
All the Morton men are colored but
one. All the Bristow men are white but
one. The Blaine men are mixed. The
Conkling men are all white.