The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-06-20
NASBY.
Nasty A "DEuOCRATIC RE-
FORM Err.
THE NEW RALLYINa CRY.


May Is, 1876.
Another Campaign is well nigh onto
to us, and feel the blood a bilin in
nv vanes, Like the war-hoss turned
out to grass,-wich literally, hev bin
ever since the Dustin nv the Onlimited
Trust and Confidence company
heer the blars nv the trumpet, and i
prick up my ears and tale, and cry hal
ha! to the carnage. smell the smoke
OF the conflict, and / smell, likewise,
the plunder underneath that smoke.
l see in the distance success, and be-
hint that success, Post-Ofis! Post-Of-
fist Post Oils! Delighteful words
Wat democrat is ther that woodent git
enthusiastic over that prospect
shell go into this campane with my
sleeves rolled up.
This is our last chance for a COM
plete success. Success is wat we must
hev, and that we may attain that sue
cess, shell throw out few words nv
admonishn, which will be apples OF
gold sot in pictures OF silver. We hev
bin pastrin on barren field too long,
and the fat bottoms nv offishal patron
age kin only come into our hands by
acoot and skillful management.
But there is difficulties in the way,
no matter where we turn. Dimocrisy
is a curious combinashun,-as.curious
and single mixter. In the east TO be q
democrat is to be q hard-mopey man,
NV the hardest possible stnpe,-in the
west to be democrat is TO be a soft
money man, NV the softest possible
stripe. Tilden nv Moo York, who
wood like to carry the democratic ban
ner to victory, proposes to put onto it's
folds ''hard money" Allen nv Ohio,
who was resurrected from his 20 years
sleep, on purpus to embarrass the por-
ty, proposes to put on the banner, IL ID
is given to him, "soft money, and no
end ont" Ef we put up Tilden and
hard money, Allen and soft money kills
him,-ef we put up Allen and soft
money, Tilden and bis friends hev the
sweetest kind NV knife for his inno-
cent throte, and when we come to tar
iff and banks there is an ekally onrec-
opcilable differens Nv opinyn.
To reconcile these differences is i'm
possible. There amt no yoose in try
in it, and / amt q goin to. Dodgin Il
now. ez ever, the democrats best holt
The man wich ken lift jist 200 pounds
shows nifty little discreshun wen he
strains hisself at $50, and l am mai
nv discreshun. We must hsv nothin tC
do with the questions on wich anybod,
differs. Ignorin is wisdom.
Their amt only ono ishoo on wicl
the dimocrisy kin plant itself, with an,
hope NV success,-only one question OIL
wich ther can be perfect yoonamity-
} and that ishoo is RBPoRMl On that W,
are a yoonit,-on that We kin agree a
sweetly as a spring mornin.
II is not on my judgement alone tha
depend onto in this matter. / he
consulted all the feeders NV the part
onto it,-that is, all the actooal leeder
them ez actilly control things. i wri
to that gileless patriot, Willyur
Tweed, Esq, who is now pinin on
furin shoar in conscience nv a corrup
ioory, which inquired ez to wat he he
done with ten millions NV the publ
munney, and wuz not content to tax
his word fur il thet he he'd spent it IL
Qally. His anser wuZ SO strickly /
accordance with my noshuns nv thing
that i give the heart Nv it:
"By all means go into the next cal
vass on the ishoo nv reform. The CO
rupshens OF the present administr
shen, and may say nv the republikl
party in gineral, is sich ez to appal u
heart NV any lover nv his country. i
my lonely eggsile / frekentiJJ she
teers wen i think OF the steelin that
goin on.
/. "Let our watchword be Reform m
purity in official posishen.' Ef II
lawyears kin git them indictmen
agin me squashed in time, will con
home and help in the campane. L X
git controle over 200 s'loons in q
lower wards nv the city, and ef k
git back kin organize my old fors
and restore Tsmmany to its old po
shen, ez the controller nv the dimoc
. sy. The trick NV repeatiD hes not be
forgotten, and kin handle them 4
lers ez we'll ez ever / Good. 'Rcfoi
and purity, is my watchword."
Peter Ii. Sweeney, who is yit in II
is, livin ruther quiet than otherwii
wuz still more emphatic. He SEE,
but will give his own words:
"Reform is wat we want. i 9
tired NV livin abroad, and / want
git back TO Moo York. want ha
in the comm campane, for / hev jest
much power. .ez ever, ef i kin only
the cussed Republicans ont NV the wi
The repeeters amt dead yit; and
shiploads nv patriotic Irishmen, v
are willinto take offs ez soon ey III
land, are a comm every day, L kin h
TO govern Moo York ez well ez evel
did. But what 700 want TO do is
make this fite on reform and puri
: Do this and git me and Tweed ba
and we will make things hum. Th
is Moo York aad its tax leyies for
- victors, and Of tho currency, tariff, {
all them miner questions
sauelched, aud the battle is fought
the simple question OF reform and I
sonal purity in offishal posishn, we
win ID. Reform is our watchwcrd, {
that is wat I insist upon. am
sent, but not forgotten"
81 Connolly, who IL residin in BelRii
III whore there is no extrsdition trei
Il aud consekently where the laws nv
n limited States forchinitly can't re
him, wich makes him entirely Ia
pendent Of the couptrp wich he
adopted. writ me q letter in wich
give me his views as TO the situssl
which is ez follers:
81 hev only wun intresr in the
sooin eleckshun, only wun. a lol
eggsile on q furrin sboar, i cast
. eyes longingly TO my native land,
yearn fur IL, Sonce me and the res
old Tammany left Ameriky, / hev
served with moro disgust than 1
put language into, the corrupsl
that hev eeten ont the hart nv
country nv my adooshen. 1 earns
hope thrt the dimocrisy viii take
nv il in earnest and reform it,
we want is purity, OWN TO cirs
stancea--which the same is in
ncnfs-I can't come back persenei