New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-11
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Our frames beneath this cloak shall rest
Evening Post.
Nasty.
The Sage of the Cross Roads ON Demo.
cratic Reform-Advice to the Party.
CoNYEDR1T x ROADS,
Wich 10 in the State Nv Kentucky. I
Another campane is we'll nigh onto us,
and feel the blood bilin in my vsnes.
Like the wor boss tarned out to grass, l
heer the blare up the trumpet, and prick
up my ears and tale and cry ha! hs! to the
carnage. l smell the smoke Nv the conflict,
and smell, likewise, the plumber under
meath that smoke. l see in the distance
success, and behind that success, post-of6e.
Post-offis! Post ofis! Deliteful VERDE!
enthusiastic over that pr0speck! l shell
go into this campane with my sleeves
rolled up.
This is our last chance for . complete
success. Success is wat we must hev. and
that We may attain that success shell throw
out q few words Nv admonishn. which will
be apples nv gold sOt in pictures of silver.
We hev bin pastrin on barren feelds TOO
long, and the fAt bottoms nv of6shl patron
age kin only come into our hands by acoOt
and ekillful management.
But there is difficulties in the way, no
matter where we turn. Dim0criey is Q Gu
rious combinashun-a curious and singular
mixtur. In the East, to be Democrat is
to be q hard money man nv the hardest
possible stripe; in the West, to be Demo
crat is to De soft money man nv the soft
est possible stripe. Tilden, Nv Moo York,
who wood like to carry the Dimocrs'ic ban
folds "hard money.a Allen, Nv Ohio, who
wuz resurrected from his twenty years
sleep, ON purpus to embarrass the party,
proposes to put on the banner, eff it is given
to him, soft money, and NO end ont" Eff
We put up Tilden and hard money, Allen
and soft money kills him-ef we put up
Allen and soft money, Tilden and his
friends hev the sweetest kind NV knife for
his innocent throte, and when we come to
cilable differens w Opinyun.
To reconcile these differences is impos-
eible. There amt Go yoose in tryin it, and
l amt q gOin to. D0dgin is now, ez ever,
the Democrats best holt. The man witch
kin lift 200 pounds shows nifty little dis
creshn wen he strains hisself at $50, and Pm
q man Nv discreshn. We must hev nuthin to
do with the questions on witch anybody diff
fers. lgnOrin is wisdom.
There amt only one ishoo on wich the
Dimocrisy kin plant itself with any hope
Of success-only one question on wich Their
kin be perfect yOOnanimity-and that ish00
is reform! On that we are q yoonit-on
that we can agree ez sweetly ez spring
mornin.
1t is not my judgment alone that de-
pend onto in this matter. / hev c0nsultid
all the feeders Nv the party onto it-that is
all the actoOal feeders, them ez actilly con-
Willyum Tweed. Esq, who is now pinin
on q Turin shOar in conscience Nv cor
rupt jOory, wich enquired ez to wat he he'd
done with ten millions nv the public mum
ney, and WIZ not content to take his word
fur it that he he'd spent it legally. His
anser wuz SO strikly in accordance with my
noshuns Nv that give the heart Nv il:
"By all means go into the next canvass
on the ishoo nv reform. The corrupshens
Nv the present administrator, and I may
say Nv the Republican party in general, is
SIGH ez to appal the hart nv any lover Nv
his country. In my lonely eggsile 1 fire.
kently shed teers wen l think Nv the steel
in that's goin on.
"Let our watchword be Reform and
purity in official p0sishen.' Ell my lawyers
kin git them indictments agin me squashed
in time will cum home and help in the
campane. l kin yit cOntrOle over 200
s'lO0ns in the lower wards nv the city, and
of kin git back kin orginise my old force
and restore Tammany to it's old posishen ez
the controller Nv the Dimocrisy. The trick
Nv repeatin hez not bin forgotten, and kin
handle them fellows ez we'll ez ever /
Good: Reform and purity is my watch
word"
Peter B. Sweeny, who is Wit in Paris, a
Twin ruther quiet than otherwise, wuz still
more emphatic. He sez-but I will give
his own words:
"RefOrm is what we want. am tired nv
Twin abroad, and want to git back to Moo
York. l want hand in the comia cam
pane, for hev jist as much power ez ever
Of kin only git the cussid Republicans out
nv the way: The reporters amt ded yit;
and ez ship loads nv patriotic Irishmen, who
are willin to take offs ez soon ez they land
are comm every day, l kin help to govern
Moo York ez we'll ez ever did. But what
700 want to do is to make this fite on re-
form and purity. Do this and git me and
Tweed back, and we will make things hum.
There is Moo York and it's tax levies for the |
victors, and of the currency, tariff, and all |
them miner questions are sGuelched. and |
the battle is fought on the simple question |
Nv reform and personal cfishl posishn we
we kin win it. Reform is our watch word,
and that is what l insist upon am alb |
sent, but not forgotten"
Connolly, who is residin in Belgium.
where there is no extradishun treaty, and |
,onsekently where the laws NV the United |
States torchntly can't reech him, witch !
makes him entirely Independent NV the |
country witch he hez adopted. writ me let |
er in witch he give me his views ez to the |
witch is ez follers:
II hev only wun intrest in the ensooin |
'leck shun-only wun. A lonely eggsile on |
! furrin shoar. cast my eyes ioneinglv to |
ny native land, and yesrn fur it. Sence
ne and the rest Nv old Tammany left |
Ameriky hev observed with more disgust
han kin put language too, the corrup- !
hens that hev eeten out the hart nv the
country Of my adOpshun, earnestly hope
hat the Dimocrisy will take hold Nv it IN
earnest and reform it. What we want is
purity. owing to circumstances-which
he same Is lndictments-I can't come back
'ersneily to assist in the shindy, but I
pledge to 700 the yose Of nav old and staunch
epeaters in the lower wards of Moo York.
Tlch, ct they kin depend onto hevin their
'xPensls paid and their whack in the Offices
md IN contraz after the eleckshuns, kin be
lependld on to do the work list ez good ez
yer they did. Let the platform be heavy
'nd solid for purity and reform"
Oakey Hall wante reform and purity. and
q slch COZ he is willin to give fourth nv
he forenoon he made when he was astoot
lite bower NV Tweed.
l hev heerd from EN- all. The Democr;sr
II the sixth ward of Moo York. wher I
vunst run small grosery, are to q man for
eform. Pendleton wants reform, and every
nan witch wuz turned out of offs when
Crimson went out is clamorin for it,
Inc southern Democrisy wants reform.
hey say in their letters to me: "Give ma
reform platform, and we'll put swav our
hotkuns and keep our hand of the nis eera
Ill after eleckshns, shoor. We won't insist
q our rites to kill niggers and keep 'em
rom hevin anything to do with mat.