The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-03

CANDIDATES.
CONFEDRIT Y ROADS, wich is in the
state Nv Kentucky, Joon 10Th, 1851
hev returned from St. Loois, and nifty glad
| am to get back to the scene of my fucher
laber for the next four months. st. Loois
is a hot city, but ez the likker is aluz
good there, and ez the Tilden delegates, ez
well ez the anti-Tiden ones, had lots NV
money, | made out to get on Ez they
never argood with delegate without ask
In him to take suthin, [ didn't make up my
mind till the very last
1t wuz the most interestin convenshun
ever attended, and | have bin to EN- all
sence the one that nominated Martin Van
| BoOren. This was the most interestin
becoz so thoroly devotid to reform, wich
alluz is my best holt Ef can't be a re-
formin suthin [ am absolootly mizrable.
1t gave me moo hopes NV the republic to
see the sperit NV reform that filled the soles
OF all the Dimocrisy present, that is, nearly
! all NV EN-. Occasionally an anxious-lookin
farmer delegate wood remark, "what sheel
we do with the currency ?" and then Nor
risey wood immeitely shut him up with
the remark, Oh the currency-wat we
want is reform in the government"
And when Moo England biznis man
would ask, ''what shell we do with the cur
ruency?" Boss Kelly wood d-n him for
introdoocin disturbin ecmence into the con-
venshun. "What We want is reform, the
Boss would continyoo, and eff the man didn't
sing small some Nv Of the Bosses reformers
wood 90 thro him. | don't wonder that
the Moo York Dimocrisy love him.
John Morrisey is the most ardent re-
former [ know NV. He was so entirely
devotid to it that | saw him stop game
NV faro, at bank which he run doorin the
the cOnvenshun, to argoO with an Inicany
delegate, who wuz loozin bootifully, that
eff the Dimocrisy didn't Git control NV the
Moo York custom-house and postofiis, the
country wuz ruined shoor. In the coz of
reform he wuz wilin to devote all the pro-
fits Nv his banks at Saratoga and Washing
ton.
Boss Kelly was even more urgent for re-
form than Morrissey. He said that until
Tammany got possession of the govern
ment, he Good see nothin but room ahed.
Give him a platform which pronounced
squarely for reform, and he wood feel en-
curridged to promise Democratic majority
Nv 10000 in the city Nv Moo York alone
With the Custom House and Postofis in
the control Nv Tammany, he Good afford to
pay ten thousand repeaters, and give stiddy
employment to every shoulder hitter and
I,-,I- hn / f,ol 1
in charterin a thousand gin mills, and to
make sure NV the state he wood promise to
give any majority in the city that mite be
needed. Reform wuz his watchword
Doolittle wanted reform-he yearned for
it. He said that until president wuz
elected that wood make it possible for him
to be Minister to England there wuz no
hope Nv the Republic. He wuz disposed
to yield everything in sich matters cz cur
rency, and tariffs and sich, but it wuz NV
the first Importance that the country be
properly represented at the Court of ST.
James.
The southern delegates wuz ekally ur-
gent for reform. What they felt wuz ne
cessary wuz complete change. They had
ground for twelve years under the horrors
NV Niger vOtin, and anything that wood
give EN- releef that wood satify EN-. Eny-
thing to the good old idee NV the soopre-
macy NV the sooperior race, and the re-
doosin Nv the nigger to his normal condis-
hun. One Georgy delegate actooly shed
teers over the sufFerins he he'd endoored.
He sobbed audibly wen he remarked that it
wuz now ten years last Christmas sence he
he'd shot niggcr. His shot gun hung
yooselis over his fireplace, and there wuz
ashes on his harth. "Give us q Dimecra-
tic administrator and reform p he yelled,
and immejitly accepted the invitashcn NV a
Iilden delegate to take suthin. None Nv
em ever refoosed that, from anybody.
The work of the convenshun wuz we'll
done, and victory must perch upon our
banners. There was row among the Moo
York delegashen wich threatened at one
time to mar its harmony, but it wuz hap
PLY settled. There wuz conference, and
the ofises wuz divided so ez to satisfy all
the reformers. Kelly is continyod in pos
session Nv Tammany Hall, and the city,
while them ez favored the great and good
Tilden will hcv controle Nv the Federal
patronage Ez extraordinary service will
be needed, moo offises will be created, and
appointments that naturally wood 90 to Re
publikan states will all be given to the
doubtful ones.
Several reformers who wuzn't satisfied
with this arrangement-with promises NV
wat wuz to be given EN- after the election
-wuz pade so much money in hand, after
which they were ez enthusiastic for the
great reformer as anybody. | 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 anything in life so disgustin ez payin
old likker bills. That likker is gone, and
ain't no GOOD to yno-it can't warm your