The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-06-15
Toledo Blade.l
Nasty.
The Sage of the Cross-Roads Open ng
Campaign.

OONfEDRlr ~ ROADS, WITCH is IN THE STATE
wv KENTUCKY, May 17.-Another campane is
we'll nigh onto US, and feel the blood q bilin
in my vanes. Like the war. boss turned out to
grass,-wich literally hev bin ever since the
bnstin Nv the Unlimited Trust and Confidence
Company-I heer the blare Nv the trumpet,
ard prick up my ears and tale, and CRY ha
Ia! to the carnage. 1 smell the smoke Of tn
conflict, and smell, likewise, the plunder un-
derneath that smoke. see in the distance,
success, and behint that success, Post-Ofisl
Post-Offs! Post 0fisl Delteful wordsl Wat
Democrat is ther that woodent git enthoosias-
tic over that prospeck shell 90 into this
campane with my sleeves rolled up
This is our last chance for complete sue
cess. Success is wat we must hev, and that
we may attain that success shell throw out a
few words Nv admonishn. wich will be apples
of gold sot in pictures Nv silver. We hev bin
pastrin on barren fields too long, and the fat
bottoms Nv ofishl patronage kin only KUN
into our hands by acoot and skillful manage
ment.
But there is difficulties in the way. no matter
where we turn. Dimocrisy is curious combi-
nashua curious and singler mixter. In the
East to be Dimocrat is to be hard money
man Nv the hardest possible stripe-in the
West to be Dimocrat is to be a soft-money
man NV the softest possible stripe. Tilden, Nv
Moo York, who wood like to carry the Dino
cratic t banner s to victory, proposes to put onto
wus 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
w NM mn
Tilden and his trends hev the sweetest kind nv
knife for his innocent throte, and when we
come to tariff aud banks there is an ekally on
reconcilable differens Nv opinyun.
To reconcile these differences is impossible
There amt no yoose in trying it, and amt
goin to- Dodgn is now, ez ever, the Demo.
Gratis best holt. The man wich kin lift list
200 pounds shows nifty little discreshn wen he
he strains hisself at $50, and am man nv
discreshn We must hey nuthin to do with
the questions on wich anybody differs. Igno-
rim is wisdom.
Their aint only one ishoo on wich the Dimoc-
risy kin plant itself, with any hope NV success
only one question on wich ther kin be per-
feet yoonanimity-and that ishoo is REFoRM,
On that we are yoonit-on that we kin agree
ez sweetly as spring mornin.
1t is not on my judgment alone that de-
pend onto in this matter hev consultid all
the feeders Nv the party onto it-that is all the
actooal feeders, them ez actilly control things.
l writ to that gileless patriot, Willyum Tweed,
Esq, who is now pnin on furrn shoar in
conscience Nv corrupt joory, wich inquired
ez to wat he he'd done with ten millions Nv the
public munney, and was 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 things that give the heart NV
it:
by all means 90 into the next canvass on
the ishoo Nv reform. The corrupshens nv the
present Administrator, and may say Nv the
Republican party in general, is sich ez to appal
the heart Nv any lover nv his country. In my
lonely eggsile frekently shed teers wen
think Nv the steelin that's gon on.
Let our watchword be Reform and Purity
in official posshen.' Eff my lawyers kin git them
indictments agin me squased in time, will
come home and help in the campane. kin git
cOntrole over two hundred sloons in the lower
wards Nv the city, and eff 1 kin git back KIN
organize my old forse, and restore Tammany to
its old posishen, ez the controller Nv the DIM
ocrisy. The trick of repeetin hez not bin for
gotten, and kin handle them fellows ez well
ez ever Good. Reform and purity is my
watchword."
Peter B. Sweeney, who is out in Paris, liyin
ruther quiet than otherwise, wuz still more en-
phatc. He sez,-but will give his own words:
Reform is wat we want. am tired Nv ivin
abroad, and want to git back to Moo York. 1
want hand in the comm campane, for hev
Jest ez much power ez ever, eff kin only git the
cussid Republicans out NV the way. The re-
peeters amt ded yit; and ez ship-loads Nv pat
soon ez they land, are comm every day, kin
help to govern Moo York ez well ez over
did. But what 700 want to do is to make this
tite on reform and purity. Do this and git me
and Tweed back, and we will make things hum.
There is Moo York and its tax levIes for the
victors, and eff the currency, tariff, and all them
miner questions are squelched, and the battle
is fought on the simple question Nv reform aud
personal purity in oficishl posishn we kin wiz
it. Reform is our watchword and that is wat
insist upon. L am absent, but not forgotten"
Connolly, who is residing in Belgium, where
there is no extredition treaty, and consekently
where the laws of the United States torchinitly
can't reech him, which makes him entirely in
dependent Nv the country which he hez adoptid
writ me letter in which he hez give me his
vews ez to the situsshun, which is ez follers:
II hev only wun interest in the ensooin eleck-
shun-only wun. A lonely eggsile on the furrin
shoar, I cast my eyes longingly to my native
land, and yearn fur it. Sence me and the rest
Nv old Tammany left Amiriky hev observed
with more disgust than kin put language into,
the corrupshens that hev eeten out the hart Nv
the country nv my adopshun earnestly hope
that the Dimocrisy will take hold nv it in earn
est and reform it. Wat we want is purity.
OWN to circumstances-wich the same is in.
dictments-I can't cone back personally to as
sst in the shindy, but pledge to 700 the yoose
Nv my old and stanch repeeters in the lower
wards of Moo York, wich, eff they kin depend
onto hevin their expensis paid and their whack
in the offices, aud in contrax after the eleck-
shuns, kin be depended on to do the work jist
ez good ez ever they did. Let the platform be
solid for purity and REFORM
Oakley Hall wants reform and purity and in
sich ccz he is willin to give a fourth Nv the
torchoon he made when he wuz the astoot right
bower of Tweed.
hev heerd from em all. The Democrisy of
the Sixth Ward of Moo York, wher wunst
run small grosery, are to a man for reform.
Pendleton wants reform, and every man wich
wuz turned out of offs when johnson went out
is clamorin for it,
The Southern Dimocrisy wants Reform.
They say in their letters to me, Give us q Re
form platform, and we'll put away our shot
guns, and keep our hands of the niggers till
after the elections, shoor. We won't insist on