The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-07-25
NASBY.
nr. Nssby Goes tn the 90. Loais Con.
vention-He Returns Entirely
satisfied with the Plat
forDs and Caudi.
dates.
CosFRDRIT Y ROADS,

COsfEpkIT y ROADS,
Wich is in the State nv Kentncky,}
Joon Goth, 1876.
hev returned from st. Loois, and
nifty glad am to git back to the scene
of my fucher laber for the next four
months. st. Loois il a hot city, but
ez the likker is alluz good there. and ez
the Mlden delegates ez we'll ez the anti
Tilden ones, he'd lots nv monay, l made
out TO get on. Fz they never argood
with delegate without askin him TO
take suthiu, didn't make up my mind
till the very last.
IL wuz the most interestin conyen.
shun ever attended, and hev bin to
EN- all, sence the one that nominated
Martin Van Booren. This wuz the
most interestin, becoZ ID wuz 80 thorly
devotid To reform, wich alluz is my
best holt. Ef / can't be a reformin
suthin am nbslootiy mTzrable.
Ii gave me moo hopes NV the Repub-
lie To see the spirit nv reform that fill
ed the soles NV all the Dimecrisy pres
ent, that is. neerly all NV em. 0cca-
sionally an anxious-lookin farmer dele
gate wood remark. ''wat shel We do
with the currency. and then John
Morrisey wood immejitly shut him up
with the remark, D-n the currency
wat we want is reform in the Govern
ment."
And when Moo England biznis man
wood ask. wat shell We do with the
currencyg' Boss Kelly d-n him for in
trodosin disturbin eiemence into the
convensbun. swat we want il reform"
the Boss wood continyoo, and if the
man didn't sing small, some OF the
Bosses reformets wood go thro him. -
A great man is Bose Kelly. don't
wonder that the Moo York Dimocrisy
love him.
John Morrisey is the most ardent re-
former L know nv. He wuz so entirely
devotid TO it that j saw him stop n
game NV faro, at bank wich he run
dooring the convenshun, to argoo with
an Inieany delegate, who wu9 losin
boOtifully. that cf the Dimocrisy didn't
git control nv the Moo York custom
house and postotfis, the country wuz
rooined shoor. In the coz NV reform
he wuz wiIlin 10 dcvete all the profits
NV his banks at Saratogs and Wash
ington.
Boss Kelly wuz even more urgent for
reform than Morrisey. He said that
until Tammany got possession of the
Government, lie Good see nothin but
room ahed. Give him platform wich
pronounced squarcly for reform, aud
he wood feel encurridged TO promise
Democratic majority Nv 10000 in the
city nv Moo York alone. With the
Custom. House and Postofiis i'll the con-
troll NV Tammany, he Good afford 10
pay ten thousand repeaters, and give
stiddy employment to every shoulder
hitter aud brooser in the city. He
wood s.eel justified in charterin thou
sand gin-mills, aud TO bake shoor nv
the State he wood promise 10 give any
majority in the city that mite be need
ed Reform WIZ his vatchwurd.
Doolittle wanted reform-he yenrned
for IL. He sed that until President
wuz elected that wood make 10 possi-
ble for him to be Minister TO England
there wnz no hope NV the Republic. -
He wuz disposed 10 yeeld everything
In sich matters ez currency, and tariffs
and sich, but il wuz nv the first impor-
tance that the country be properly rep
resented al the Court Nv 81 James.
The Southern delegates wuZ ekally
urgent for reform. Wat they felt wuz
nessary wuz a complete change. They
he'd groaned for twenty years under
the horrors nv nigger votin, and any
thing that wood give em releef from
that wool satisfy em. EnythiDR TO
git back to the good old idee nv the
soopremscy NV the sooperior race, and
the rcloosin NV the nigger to his nor
NAL condishn. One Georgy delegate
Ill t..ra .var tlo onNaffna
no he'd endoored. He sobbed audibly
wen he remarked that Il w',z uow ten
wears last Christmas sence he he'd shot
a nigger. HIS shot-gnn hung yooselis
over his fireplace, and there wuz ashes
ON his harth. 'Giye US n Dimecratic
administration aud reforml" he yelled,
and immeiitely accepted the inviiashen
Nv Tildeu delegate to take suthin.--
None NV EN- ever refoosea that, from
anybody SID rss. -.
The work nf the conyenshun wuz
well done. and victory must perch up
on our bsnners. ,TIhere wuz row
among the Moo York delegAshen wich
thretened at one time TO mar IFS har-
meny. but 10 wuz happily settled There
wuz a conference, and the ofiises wuz
divided 40 ez 10 satisfy all OF the re-
formers. Kelly is 90 continyoo in pos
session nv Tsmmany Hall, and the city.
While ez favored the great and good
Ti!den viii hev control NV the Fedral
patronage. Ez extraordinary services
will be needed, moo Offices will be Gre
ated, and appointments that naturally
wood go TO Rcpnblikin States will all
be given TO the doubtful oncs. Several
reforIners Who vuzeu't satisfied with
this arrangements with .promesis nv
wat wuz TO be given EN- after the clcc-
tion-wuz padc 80 much money in
hand, after which they were enthoosi-
astic for the great reformer NJ anybody.
I stood out, myself, and got fair slice