Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-06-15

feeders, them eZ actiily control
things. I writ to that giieless pat
riot, Willyum Tweed, Esq, who Is
now a pibin on 1 Turin shoar in
conscience Nv corrupt joory, which
enqnirod ez to wat he had done with
ten millions Nv the public munney,
and wuz not content to take his
word fur 1t that he had spent it le-
gally. His .anser wuz so strikly in
accordance with my noshuns nv
things that I give the heart Nv it.
By all means 60 into the next
canvass on the ishoo NV reform.
The corrupshens Nv the Republican
party In general, is SIGH ez to appeal
to tho heart NV any lover uy b scount-
~. In my lonely eggsile | frekent-
" shed teers wen | think OF the
steelin that's goin on.
"Let our wa,chword be "Reform
and Purity In official posishen. /"
Ef my lawyers kin git them indict-
ments agin me squashed in time,
will come home and help in the
campane. | kin get controle over
two hundred s'loons in the lower
wards NV the city, and eff l kin get
back l kin organize my old force
and restore Tammany to its old po-
sishen ez the controller Nv the Dim
ocrisy. The trick of repeatin hez
not been forgotten, and / kin handle
them fellows ez well ez ever Good.
"Reform and purity" is my watch
word"
Peter b. Sweeny, who is yit in
Paris, alvin ruther quiet than 9TH
erwise wuz still more emphatic.
He sez-but / will give his own
"Reform is what we want. I am
tired Nv Twin abroad, and / want to
git back to Moo York. / want a
hand in the comm campane, forI
hev jist liz much power ez ever, eff /
kin only git the cussid Republicans
out Nv the way. The repeeters amt
ded yit; and ez ship-loads Nv patri-
otto Irishmen, who are willin to
offs ez soon ez they land, are a COM
in every day, kin help to govern
Moo York ez well ez / ever did.
But what 700 want to do Is to make
this fife on reform and purity. DO
this and git me and Tweed back,
and we will make things hum.
There is Moo York aud its tax levies
for the victors, aud eff the currency
tariff, and all them miner questions
are sqaelched, and the battle is
fought on the simple question Nv
reform and personal Off shl posishn
VIZ kin win it. Reform is our watch
word, and that is wat insist upon.
am absent but not forgotten"
81 Connolly, who is residen in Bel
quinn, where there is no extradishun
treaty, and consistently where the
laws NV the United States forchntly
can't reech him, which makes him
entirely independent NV the country
which he hez adopted, writ me let
ter i'm which he gives me his views
ez to the situashen, which is ez fol-
lars: .." b.. @+'.. .".'.
s'"I hev only wun intrsst in the
ensooin elecksun--only wun. A
lonely eggsiIe on a Turin shoar, j
cast my eyes longiaIy to my native
land, ,and yearn for it. Sence me
and the rest NV old tammany left
Ameriky hev observed with more
disgust than kin put language too,
the corrupshens that have eeten out
the hart NV the country NV my adop.
shun. / earnestly hope that the
DiInocrisy will take hold NV it in
earnest and reform it. Wat we
want is purity. Owing to circum'
stances-which the same is indict-
ments-I can't come back persnelIy
to assist in the shindy, but / pledge
to 700 the yoose Nv my old and
stanch repeaters in the lower wards
of Moo York, which, ef they kin
depend onto hevin their expensis
paid and their whack in the offices,
and in contrax after the eleckshuns
kin be depended on to do the work
jist ez good ez ever they did. Let
the platform be heavy and solid for
purity and reform" .r .....a
Oakley Hall wants reform and pur-
ity, and in SIGH coz he is willing to
give fourth NV the forenoon he
made when he was astoot rit bower
NV Tweed.
/ hev heerd from EN- all. The
Democrisy of the grosery, are to a
man for reform. Pendleton wants
reform, and every man which wuz
turned out Of offs when Johnson
went out is a clamorin for it.
The Southern Dinocrisy wants re-
form. They say in their letters to
me. "Give us reform platform,
and Wen put away our shot-guns
and keep our hands off the niggers
till after the elections, shoor. We
won't insist on our rites to kill Mig
gers and keep 'em from hevin any.
thing to do with matters, till the
eleckshun of a Democratic President
gives us a rite to do ez we please"
Their constant remark is, "Go in
heavy for Reform, and make that
the oneIshoo."
The dooty NV the party Is cleer.
Give US a platform based entirely on
Reform. We kin carry 1T. 1t is a
great many yeers sence we wuz in
power; and by this time the people
hev forgotten us and they will take
us eezy. III we do this we kin sue.
coed beyond O question. The Mil
lenium amt cum yit nor hez there
bin any especial change in things
We hsv the ,Doggeries and all the
lower, elements. They are alluz
ours, and they are ez strong es ever
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