The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-25
lFrom the Toledo Blade.1
Nasby.
A Convoeation OF Democratic stumper.
Receive Their Instructions from m,
Agent Of Tiiden-Ths Harmony thar
Prevailed, and How il was Brouu.,
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, \
WITCH IS Jy THE STATE wv KENTUCKY. !
AuOuat 11tb 1879

"iCH ~ 1S SHE STATE wv KENTUCKY,
August 18th, 1876,
The men Nv inaoonce and them ez hez bin
appinted testump the State Nv Injsany for the
great reformer Tilden, and the finanshel genius
Nv the 18th sentry, Hendrix, met on the call nv
the chairman Nv the central commtty, in In.
Jenapolis, Yesterday, to be instructed in their
d0oties by the grand organizer, wich is maxim
a toor Nv the different States doin NV that.
One Nv the speakers remarked that it wuz ez
| hot ez HI, and 1 rebooked him to wunst.
Don't speak disrepectfully Nv that place"
sed i, the heft Nv our trends are there. Never
hevin scratched the Dimocratic ticket. L
oleeve L Good be electid to Congris from that
| deestrick myself"
The grand organizer got to bizness to wanst
ne TOOK Dimocratic platform and explained 1t
10 tne speakers so that ther shood be yoonan-
unity in their talk, aud so that they shoodn't
clash in different ssrts NV the State, but pre-
sent yoonlform front to the enemy. He got
to the civil service plank, and he remarked:
gentlemen, on this pint yoo must dwell
with great earnestness, and at much length.
Make no mistakes 10 this. Insist that ef TIL
den and He'1drix is electid, no man shel bs
hlsted out NV otis becoz nv his politikle views:
that no ma.n shel be appinted Decoz nv seryises
70 party, and that ftnis, honesty and sicb.
tne Je e.fersonyun tests, shel govern the dis
i0o'Ishen Nv patronage Remember this and
maze no mistakes about it. This must be
dTelt upou,"
Immejtly every one Nv the stumpers rose ez
one man to bis feet, aud demanded to be herd
They come up 10 solid platoons, and BIZ 1
glanced along that line nv shinin noses wuz
reminded uv fireworks.
a al oil ad II
pectid that L wuz to be collector Nv the dis
trick in the event Nv the elecshen nv the CRATE
reformer
81 will hev the postotis in my town, or not q
word will how'll" shrieked another
And every blessed one Nv em EN- insisted he'd
hev place or reform mite go to blazes,
The grand organizer rose calmly, selected a
book from out Nv dozen or more be he'd and
addressed hisself to the first man whe raised
shindy.
''Your name is"
"Slmpkins."
your County,"
|Posey.'
.o~asO You Ia are ED down S for Collector, see. Nv
"And what is fixed for me9' demanded the
second. ''
"Yoo are to hev the post offs in yoor town.
And ,aGs before we 90 eny further We will settle
this matter nv the offises We arranged II
with yoor commltty at st. Loois.
ana ne red out list nv the ofises in the
State, and who wuz to hev EN-, There wnz
some trouble, for they all warn't provided for;
nor wuz those wich he'd bin provided for allus
satisfied with wat he'd bin given 'em. IL guz
al! fixed, however. for in counties which he'd
Dimocratic majorities some NV EN- were prom
ised nominations, and quite a number NV con-
sulshlps and small furrin mshens were huv in
to satisfy em all.
The next question that come up wuz how to
treet the money question. Instrucshens wuz
asked.
The grand organizer riz to his feet
Lemme see" he sed, ''wat State am In?
Oh yes remember, Injeany End by refer.
rin to my instrucshens, that Injeany 700 must
De softmoney-modritly in the Northern part
Nv the State, but rampantly in the extreme
Southern part, going ez fur es Pendleton did,
with strong and decided leanin toward re-.
poodiashen. Also down ther 700 may sand
wich IN ez much Nv the niger ez 700 kin git
IN. Ef 700 hey any old banners left over from
campanes denouncin niger equality and
not em out agin. Returnin to the currency, eff
any Nv yoo shood be called to speak in other
States-wich yoo probably won't be-" he
added, glancin at ther faces, "dont tech the
topic at all till you hev consulsid the lokle
Committees. Be very keerful about this.
And in other States don't go on the platform
full of lkker, so ez you shell hev yoor MEM
ores. Be keerful about this, for ef yoo shood
make an lnjeany speech in Connections it wood
rooin US. Don't get drunk till after the meet
ms, and after the people hev all gone home.
Here yoo may do ez yoo please, for shood
suppose the drunker the man wuz the more be
wood talk to the satisfaction Nv the Ihjeany
Dmocrisy, but in Connecticut and Moo York
IT'S different Yoo must keep sober till after
the meetins there"
Whereupon the speakers all rose ez one man
and remarked of it wuz all the same they
didn't want to go to Connecticut or any NV
pie sons nv nacher and despised bioated aris-
tocracy sich ez the grand organizer wus de-
scribin.'
Then rose.
Sir" sed !, with stern and determined
look, zone thing more remains. Are we to 90
out like the AposseIs, without scrip In our
purses? That Good be done in Joodee, for that
climit WIZ mild enuff to sleep out DOORS and
the Apossels didn't hev whiskey or tobacker to
buy, ez hev bin informed. never saw in
any Bible ever red any account nv ther doin
it,
'Uv course we can't elect the CRATE reformer
without money" ejackilatid another. 'In my
county l hev to import a couple NV hum
dred nv Irish patriots who Amt nateralized,
and there are ten or dozen Irish wet groc-
ers in my town who hev to be arranged with,
to keep EN- strate. Besides one man who hez
stone quarry rekires at least a hundred dol
lars to keep his men tite enuff to bring em In
solid on eleckshun day."
my friends" sed the grand organizer, ''all
Nv this hez bin provided for. Do 700 suppose
the Great Reformer wood let the coz nv reform
Uo lcOpdIulZeu WduL Nv money! O0 yOO
suppose that John Morrisey wood let us 20
into the skrimmage unprovided? He is rnnin
his three faro banks mite and day, and hez
pledged all his profits to the coz. We hev
assessed all the men to whom we hev prom
ised the Fedrel offlses in Moo York, for money
to kerry Injesny, and we hev all. that we kin
ycose."
And he gave each Nv us enuff to do wat
shood be necessary. and instructed US to
draw on the committee in Moo York for more
ez fast ez it mite be needed and went his way.
He organizes lllinoy next.
Thus properly provided, both with funds and
instrucshens, 60 gaily out to battle for the
CRATE COZ Nv reform. 1 shell work in Iujsany
till after the October eleckshens.
Thank Hevn for platform with sich solid
planks in it ez civil servs reform and anti-cor-
.upshen, and thank Hevin that we hev candi-
dates onto em who kin appreshate my ideas nv
them CRATE question.
PETRoMEUM ". NAsBY,
Which hez hopes Nv bein Postmaster