The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-17
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Louis Convention. lilo RetuF t,,s
Entirely Satisfied VIII 'H'
PInfforIn and Candidates.

I,I,ov roiuruel from ST. LooB, anu
:n ,,VI mn 10 git back to the scene
~ iucher laber for the next four,
u n ~ 81 Loois is hot city, but ez,,
,%o IiEEer is alluz good there, and ez the
ridden delegates, ez we'll ez the anti-Iil.
den ones, he'd lots Nv money, made out
IN eel on. Ez they never argood with a
'IeIevate without askin him to take
suthin, did't make up my mind tillthe
very last. ,,, sGa,
itwuz The most interestin convenshun
| ever attended, and l have bin to EN- all,
sence the one that nominated Martin Van
Booren. This wuz the most interestin,
becoz Il wuz thoroly deyotid to reform,
which dlluz Is my bestholt Ell cAn'tbe
a reiormin suthin | am abslootly miz'
rable. ,
Il gave me moo hopes Nv the Republic
to sec the sperit Nv reform that filed the
soles NV all the DimocriSy present,1that
il, neerly all NV EN-. Occasionally an
anxious.iookin farmer delegate wood re-
mark, await shell we DO with the eur.
renew" and then John Morrisey wood
immejitiy shut him up with the remark,
"D-n the curreucy-wat we want Is re-
form in the Government"
And when a Moo England biEnis man
wood ask, "Nyat shell We do with the cur.
rency?" Boss Kelly wood d-n him for
introdoosin distur6in elemence into the
Conyenshun. "Wat we want is reform"
the Boss wood coninyoo; and, etthe man
didn't sing small, some Of the Bosses re-
formers wood go thro him. A great man
is Boss Kelly. l don't wonder that the
Moo York Dimocrisy love him.
John Morn isey is the most ardent re-
former know Nv. He wuz so entirely
deyotid 10 II that I saw him stop game
NV faro, at bank witch he run doorin the
convenshun, to argoO with an lnjeany
delegate, who wuz losin boOtifully, that
ef the Dimocrisy didn't git control Nv the
Moo York Custom. House and Postottis,
the country wu1 rooined shoor. In the
COZ nv reform he wuz willing 10 devote all
the profits Nv his banks at Saratoga and
Washington,
Boss Kelly wuz even more urgent Tor
reform than Morrisey. He said that I'M
til Tammany got possession Nv the Coy
ernment, he Good sec nothin but ruin
ahed. Give him a platform wich pro-
nounced squarely for reform, and he
wood feel encurridged to promise Dem
ocratic majority Nv 10000 in the
city OF Moo York alone; With
the Custom House and Post:
offs in the control NV Tammany, he Good
afford to pay ten thousand repeaters, and
give stiddy employment to every shoulder
hitter and brooser in the city. He wood
feel justified in charterin thousand gin
mills, and to make shoor nv the State he
wood promise to give any majority in the
city that mite be needed. Reform wuz
his watchword.
Doolittle wanted rcfOrm-he ycarned
for 1t. He sed 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 dis
posed 10 yield everything in SIGH matters
ez currency, and tariffs, and SIGH, but il
wuz Nv the utmost Importance that the
country be properly represented at the
Court Nv 81. james. -
The Southern delegates WIZ ekally
urgent for. reform. Wat they felt wuz nee
essary wuz complete change. They het
groaned for twelve years under the hor
rors Of Niger votin, and anything that
wood give 'em releef from that wood sat
isfy EN-. Enything to get back to the
good old idee nv the soopremacy Nv tht
soopcrior race, and the Tedoosin nv The
niger TO his normal condishn. One
Georgy delegate actooally shed teers over
the sHlTerins he had endured. He sobbet
audibly wen he remarked that il wuz now
Ten years last Christmas scnce he het
shot niger. His shotgun hung yooselii
over his Fireplace, and there wuZ ashei
on his harth. "Giye us q Dimeeratic ad
minlstrashcn and reform y he yelled
and immelitely accepted the inyitashei
Nv a Tildcn delegate to take suthin
None NV EN- ever refoosed that, from any
body.
The work Of the conyenshun was vel
done, and victory must perch upon on
banners. There 'wuZ row among tn
Moo York delegashen, witch thretened a
one time to mar its harmony, but 1t WI
happily settled. There wuza conference
and the oftises wuE divided so rs to salts,
fy all the reiormers. Kelly is to contin
VOC in possession Of Tammany Hall anC
the city, while them ez favored the grea
and good Tilden will hey control Nv the
Federal patronage. Ez extraordinary
services will be needed, moo oflises will
be created land appointments that mater
ally wood 90 to tho Republican State
will all DO given 10 the doubtful ones
Several reiormers who wuzn't satisfied
with this arraugement-with promesis u
wat wuz to DC given en- after the election
-wuz pado so much money In hand, aite
which they were Cd enthoosiastic for th
great refofmer as anybody. l stood OIL
myself, and got a fair alice, but it didn'
do mo any good. Bascom wuz with m
and saw the money paid, and he demand
ed 1t Nv me, and got il, too, on account
There amt anything in life so disguSti
e. pawn old likker bills. That:hkker !
gone, and amt no good to yoo-it can
warm your bowels agin. Under stimu
lating inllooences one kin afford to pa!
but to pay this ySer for last yeer's de
lites, which hev lied forever aud. can
never be recalled, except in memory, II
disgustiu. never did like to pay 10
memorieS-they amt substanAh1l.
But l shell hev the Postoitis at the Corn
ers, shoor, II Tilden is electid, for lon
before the time comes shell bella debt L
Bascom agin. y
The platform can't help sootin the Di
mocrisy Nv the entire country, pertike
lerly when the candidates Is taken In &c
count. II Is the most flexible platform
ever helpt to construct, and the Dino
crat wich can't stand onto II amt wortl
the name. In Ohio and Injeany weshe
swear it's soft money-and reform, anI
pint proudly to Hendricks. In Moo Yorl
and the East We shell swear It's hard mon
ey-and reform, and pint proudly to Til
den. Us
Ez shell hcv to stump both seckshuni
hev two speeches, alreddy prepared, on
Nv wich is hArd.monoy and one soft, ant
tho orators Of the party hev fixed their
selves likewise. wood sejest, now, tha
Their may be no mistakes, that commit,
ty be appinted in each place where
speech Is to DO made, to sec that he git
!he right speech started. Alter the re
form Speaker hcz made his Speech.to the
citizens, Nv course he shood DO Sllowet
70 get e. iull ez he chooses, but 1t woult