The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-08-10

CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
WITCH Is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCkf, Z
Joon ~, lS76.
hey returned from ST Loois aud nifty glad
am to git back to the seen nv my iucnei Az AZ,
for the next four months ST. LOnis Is nDe y, ~
but the likker is allnz good tnes, anu %
Tildeu delegates ez well ez the anu i.'en W." !,
he'd lots NV money, / made out 10 CT w. IN
thew never argood with q delegate without asHih
him to take sntbin, didn't make up my MIND
till the very last.
1t wuz the most interestin ConVenshnn ever
attended, and hev bin to EN- AIT sgnce Tue one
that nominated Martin Van BoOren. This WIZ the
most interestn becOZ it WIZ so thoroly deyotd Ia
reform. wieh alIuz is my best holt. Ef can't be
a reformin suthin, am abslootly mizable.
Ii give me moo hopes Nv the Republic, to see
the sperit nv reform that filed the soles NV all
the Dimocrisy present-that is, neerly all NV EN-.
Occasionally a anxiOns-lOOkin farmer delegate
wood remark, wat shell we do with the curren-
cyf" and then John Morrisey wood mmejitly
sbet him mp with the remark, DIN the eurren-
cy-wat we want is reform in the Government"
And when a Moo England bznis man wood ask,
@Wat shell we do with the currency u Boss Kelly
wood d-n him for introdosin disturbin elenence
into the Convenshun. wat We want is retolin, >
the Boss wood cOntinyoo; and, eft the man didn't
sing small, some nv the Bosses reformerS wood
go thro0 him. CRATE is Boss Kelly.
don't wonder that the Moo York DmocriSy love
him.
John Morrisey is the most ardent reforner
Know NV. he huZ 80 OuIlFeiy ucNOIc0 10 u, i1ib
saw him stop game NV faro, at bank wicl
he run dOOrin the cOnyenshun, to argOo with a
Injeany delegate, who wuz a lOOsin boOtifnlly,
that eff the DimOcrisy didn't git coBtrole nv the
Moo York Custom-EOuse and POstoffis, the eoun-
try WIZ rOOined shOOr In the coz reform, he
wuz willin to devote ali the profits nv his banks
at Saratoga and Washinton
Boss Kelley wuz even more urgent for reform
than Morrisey. He sed that until Tammany got
posseshen nv the Government he Good see nOthin
hufr ha1 i'll,
nOunced squarely for reform, and he wood feel
encurridged to promise a DimOeratic majority NV
10000 in the City nv Moo York alone. With the
CUSTOM House and POstoffas il the contrOle NV
Tammany, be Good affOrd to pay ten Thousand
repeeters, and give stddy employment To every
shOlder-hitter and brooser in the city. He wood
feel justified in chartern a Thousand gn-milIs
and 10 make shOor NV the State, he wood pron-
Use to give any majority in the city that mite be
needed. Reform wuz his watchwOrd.
DoOlittle wanted refOrm-he yerned f6RIt. He
sed that until President wuz elected that wood
make it possible for him to be Minister to Eng
land, Their wuz no hope nv the Republic He
wnz disposed to yeeld everything in SIGH matters
ez currency, and tariffs, and SIGH, but il WIZ nv
the first importance that the country b. properly
represented at the Court NV St. Jeemes
Inc Snthern delegates wuE ekally urgent for
REFORM wat they felt wuz nessary wuZ a con-
pleet change. They he'd groaned for twelve
yeeLS nnder the horrors NV niger yOtin, and
would satisfy EN-. Enything to Git back to
the good old ice NV the soOpremaey NV the
sOoperior race, and the redoOsin NV the mig
ger to his normal eOndishn. One Georgy dele
gate actOoalIy shed teers over the sufferins he
he'd endOOred. He sobbed audibly when he re-
marked that it wuz now ten yeers last Christmas
sence he he'd shot niger His shotgun hing
yOoseiis over his fireplace, and Their wuz ashes
on his harth. "Give ms Dimoeratc administra-
shen and reform" he yelled, and immeiitly &C.
gfaA h. II. =
take suthin: None NV EN- ever refoosed that,
from ANYBODY
The work NV the COnvenshun wnz well dun,
and victry must perch upon our banners. Their
wuz row among among the Moo York delegash-
en-, witch thretened at one time to mar its har-
mony, but it wuz happily settled. Their wuz a
conference, and the Ofises wuz divided rs to
satisfy all the refOTmers. Kelly is to eontinyoO
in posseshun NV Tammany Hall and the city,
while them ez favored the CRATE and good Tilden
will hev controle nv the Federal patronage. Ez
extraordinary services will be needed, moo offises
will be created, and appointments that materially
wood go to the Republican States will all be Civ
en- to the doubtful ones Several refOrmers, who
wuzn't satisfied with this arTangement-with
promises nv wat wuZ to be given EN- after the
elecshun-wuE pade so much money in hand, af-
ter wien they wuZ eZ enthusiastic for the CRATE
reformer eZ enybody. i stood out myself and
got fare slice, but it didn't do me any good.
Bascom wuz with me, and saw the money paid,
count. Their amt anything in life dsgustin
eZ payin old hkker bills. That lkker is gone
and amt no good to yoO-it can't warm yOor
bowels agn. Under stimulatn intiooences one
kin afford to pay-but to pay this yeer for last
yeer's delites, witch hev fled forever and can't
never be recalled, except in memory, its disgust
in. 1 never did like to pay for memories-they
amt substanshal.
But shell bev the Post-OGis at the Corners.
shoor, eff Tilden is electid for long before the
tina ahal he in af 20
The platform can't help sootin the Dimocrisy
nv the entire country, pertikelerly when the can
didates is taken in account. 1t is the most iicx-
ible platform / ever helpt TO construct and the
Dimocrat witch can't stand onto it Amt worth the
name. In Ohio and 1njeany we shell sware its
soft money-snd reform, and pint proudly to
Hendricks. In Mo- York and the East we shell
sware it's hard-mOney-and REFORM and mint
proudly to Tilden.
Ez shell hev to stump both seckshuns, l hev
two speeches already prepared, one NV witch is
hard-money and one soft, and the other orators
Of the party hev fixed themselves likewise I
wood sejest, now, that Their may be no mistakes.
that committy be appinted in each place wher
speech Is to be made, to see that he gifts the
rite speech started. After the reform Speaker
hez made his speech to the citizens, NV coarse he
shood be allowed to git ez full ez he chooses but
it wood be terrible to hev him git up and make
the speech in Hartford, Connecticut, that wuz
intended for the latitude NV Terre Hut, Inieanuy
or to make in Iniesnny the hard money speech
wich he shood yOose in Connecticut
With SIGH care, and reasonable work, ther can't
be any question ez to the result. The Dimocrisy
hez bin ont to grass long that they will fife ez
men never fit afore, and We shell win. With "Re-
formp in our moaths, and POst-0ffs in our harts,
we shell march forrerd to yictFy. But We hev
got to work for it.
PETROLEUM v Massey,
witch would like to be Postmaster.)
p. S.-A serious trubble Threatened MS at one
time in st. Loois The Mayor nv that city he'd
fixed upon the mite afore the settin the Con-
venshun tn make raid onto the gamblin dens
and the houses nv ill-repoot in that city. For
chinitly we got wind nv it in time to hev it post
poned. He'd it been carried out, shudder to
think wat wood hev bin the result. TwO-thirds
nv our reform delegates wood hev been gobbled,
and wood hev bin up afore pOleece magistrates
in the mornin. Tilden's money he'd bin distrib-
uted that mornin, and the reforners he'd cash
enuff TO justify EN- in maxim a mite nv it, and
they wuz doin nv it. He'd them houses been
raided onto that mite, theConvenshun wood hev
been obleeged to adjurn for want NV a quorum.
P.V.N.