The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-28
Nasty.
Petroleum v. Goes to the St. Louis Convention
and Returns Entirely Satisfied With the
Platform and Candidates.

Platform and Candidates.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, }
WIoH IS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
Joon 20, 1876.
hev returned from st. Loos, and right
glad | am to gut back to the scene of my
fucher labor for the next four months.
st. Loois is a hot city, but ez the likler is
allus good there, and cz the Tilden dele
gates, ez well en- the anti-Tllden ones, he'd
lots ov money, | made out to git on. Ez
they never argued with II delegate without
askin him to take suthin, l didn't make up
my mind to the very last.
1t wuz the most interesting COnvenshun
ever attended, and | hev bin to EN- all,
sence the one that nominated Martin Van
Booren. This wuZ the most interestin be-
COZ it wuz so ihoroly devoiid to reform,
witch slus IL my best holt. IF ] can't be
reformin suthin | am absOlootly mizerablc.
1t gave me roo hopes ov the republik to
see the sperit Ov reform tibet filed the soles
ov all the dimocrisy present-that IL, neer-
ly all ov EN-. OccashOnly an an anxious
lookin farmer delegate wood remark,
swat shell we do with thH currency p and
then John Morrisey would immtjhly shut
him up with the remark. ''D-n the cur
rency--wat we want ia reform in the gov
erment."
And when Moo England biznis man
wood ask, "Wat shell we do with the cur
rency ? Boss Kelly wood damn him for
Introducing disturbin elemence into the
Convenshun. "Wat we want is reform,
the boss wood continoo, aud eff the man
didn't sing small, some Of the boss reform
ers wood go thro him. A great man IN
Boss Kelly. | don't wonder that the Moo
York dimocrlsy luv him.
John Kelly is the most ardent TefOrmer
that kno ov. lie wuZ so entirely devU-
lid to it that ] saw him stop game oY
faro at bank he run doorin the conyen-
shun, to argoo with an Inieany delegate c,
who WIZ losin bootifully, lhet eff the
dmocrisy didn't git control Of the Moo
York custum house and post offs the
country was rooined shoor. In the COZ ov
reform he wuz willing to devote all the
profits ov his banks nj Saratoga and Wash
ingtop.
The southern delegates wuz ekally ur-
gent for reform. Wat they feltwuz nscee-
sary wuz complete change. They he'd
groaned fur twelve yeats under the hor-
rors of niger VOtin, and enything that
wood give em relief from that kOOd satisfy
en- Enything to git back to the good old
idee ov the soopremacy ov the sooperior
race, and the redoosin Ov the niger to bis
normal condishn. One Georgy delegate
actooally shed teers over the suiieTins he
had endoored He sobbed audibly wen he
remarked that it was now ten years last
Christmas sencc he he'd shot a niger. His
shotgun hung yooseless over his fireplace.
and there wuz ashes on his harth. Give
us a dimocratic administrator and re-
form !" and immeJitly accepted the invita-
shun of Tilden delegate to take sulhn.
None ov EN- ever refoosed that from any
body.
The work ov the convenshun wuz well
done, and victry must purch upon our ban
ners. There wuZ q row among the Moo
York delagashen, witch thretened at one
lime to mar its harmony, but it wuZ hap
PLY settled. There wuz conference and
| The offises wuZ divided 80 eZ to satisfy all
the reformers. Kelly is to continyoo 10
| possession ov Tammany ball and the city;
while them ez favored the great and good
| Tilden will hev control ov the federal pat
| ronage. Ez extraordinary services will be
needed moo oflises will be created, and APP
pointments that would naturally 90 to the
| republican states will also be given to the
| doubtful ones.
| The platform can't help sootin the dim
| ocrasy ov thee entire country, partikelerly
| when the candidates is taken in account.
| 1t is the most flexible platform | ever helpt
| 10 construct, and the dimOcrat witch cant
stand onto it amt worth the name. In
| Ohio and Inieany we shall swear it's soft
| money-and reform, and pint proudly &c
Hendricks. In Moo York and the east We
shall swear it's hard money-and reform
and pint proudly to Tilden.
Ez shall hev to stump both seckshuns
hey two speeches alreddy prepared, one
ov witch is hard money and the other soft
and the other orators of the party hey
fixed themselves likewise. | would sejes
now, tibet there may be no mistakes, that {
committy be appointed in each place
where a speech is to be made TO see that ht
gits the right speech started. After the re
form speaker hez made his speech to TIN
citizens, ov course he should be allowed tC
git as full as he chooses, but it would b.
errible to hev him git up and make Thu
speech in Hartford, Connecticut, that WI,
intended for the latitude of Terre HauIe
Injeany, or TO make in lpjcany the hart
money speech witch he should yoose il
| Connecticut
With SIGH care, and reasonable work
there can't be any question a 10 the result
| The democrisy htz been uuL TO grass 81
| long IUdl lutH VIII llit 4 ili'h INSi iN'uE''
afore, and we shell win With reform
in our moths and pos-oflis in our harris, W
shell march forrerd to victry. But we he
got TO work fur it.
PETROLEUM Y. Nasty.
Wch would like to be Postmaster
p. S'-A serious trouble thretened us a
one time in st. L0ois. The mayor ov tha
city had fixed on the night afore the setti
ov the convenshun to make raid onto tn
gambling dens and houses of ill-repoot
that city. Forchinitly we got wind ov it i
time to hev it postponed. He'd it been ca
ried out shudder to think what wood he
r bin the result. Two-thirds oy our reforl
delegates wood hev bin gobbled and woo
? hev BIN afore poleece magistrates in IL
! mornin. Tiden's money he'd been distril
4 uted that mornin, and the reformers he
I cash enough to justify EN- in maxim nigl
i ov it. He'd them houses bin raidt
n onto tibet night the conyenshu
I, would hev bin obleeged to adjourn If
want ov a quorum. ?. V. N.
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