New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-23
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Petroleum v. Nasty Goes to the ST. Louis
Conventiop- He Returns Entireiv Sat.
isaed with the Platform and Candi.
dates. vp>
- 49, Jo0n ~. 1876.
/ hev returned from St. Louis, and NIFTY
glad l am to git back to tho scene OF ny
fucher laber for the next four months. st.
Loois is g hot city, but ez the hkker 10 auuz
good there, and ez the Tilden delegates, ez
we'll az the anti Tilden ones, he'd loss nv
money, / made ont to get on. Ez they
neyer arpood with q delegate without askin
him to take suthin, didn't make up my
mind till the very last.
1t wuz the most interestin cOnvenshun l
ever attended, and / have Din to EN- all,
sence the ore that nominated Martin Van
Booren. This wuz the most interestin, be-
ccz it wuz 80 thoroly devotid to reform,
who alluz is my best holt. Ell can't be
ref0rmin suthin am abslc0tly mizrable.
1t gave NE moo hopes Nv the republic to
zee the spsri, nv reform that tiileG the soles
NV oil the Dimocrisy present-:hat is, neer-
" al Nv en-. Occasionally an anxious
Iookir farmer delegate wood remark, Wat
shel We do with the currency and then
John Morrisey wood immejitiy shu. hin up
with the remark, "D-n the currency-wat
And when a Moo England biznis man
wood ask, What shell we 30 with the cur
reDcyl' Boss Kelly wood d-n him for in
trodOsin disturhin elemence into the con-
venshun. 'What We want is reform" the
Boss wood continyoo and, ei tho man didn't
sing small, some of the Bosses reformere
wood 60 thro him. A great man lie Boss
Kelly. / don't wonder that the Moo York
Dimocrisy love him.
John Morrisey ls the most ardent re form
er l know NV. He was so entirely devotid
to it that l saw him stop game Nv faro, at
a bank wich he run doorin the convensh I'm,
to argo with an lnjeany delegate, who was
q loein bOOtifully, that if the Dimocrisy
didn't git control nv the Moo York Custom
house and Postotfis, the country wuz
rooined shoor. In the COZ Of reform he wuz
willing to devote all the profits Nv his banks
at Saratoga and Washington.
Boss Kelly wuz even more urgent for re-
form than Morrissey. He said that until
he Good zee nothin but room ahed Give
him platform wich pronounced squarely
for reform. and he wood feel encuridged to
promise Democratic majority Nv 30, 600 in
the city nv Moo York alone. With the Gus
tomhOuse and postofhs in the control nv
Tammany. he Good afford to pay ten thou
sand reporters and give stiddy employment
to every shoulder hitter and brooser in the
city. He wood feel justified in charterin q
thousand gin mills, and to make shoor nv
the STATE he would promise to give any ma
jority in the city that mite be needed. Re-
form wuz his watchword.
DoOlittle wanted refOrm-he vesrned fcr
it. He eed 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 was disposed to
yield everything in SIGH matters o. cur
rency, and tariffs. and eich but it wuz nv
the first Importance that the country be
properly represented at the court NV St.
James.
The Southern delegates wuz ekally ur.
gent fer reform. Wat they felt WIZ nes
sary wuz a complete change. They he'd
groaned for twelve years under the horror
Nv niger votin, and anything that wood
give EN- relief from that wood satisfy EN-,
Enything to git back to the good old idee
uv the sooprenacy Nv the sooperior race,
and the redoosin Nv the niger to his nor
NAL condishn. One Georgy delegate &C
locally shed teers over the sufferins he he'd
endoored. He sobbed audibly wen he re-
marked that it wuz now ten yeers last
Christmas eence he he'd shot niger. His
shotgun hung yooselis over his fireplace.
and there wuz ashes on his harth. "Give
US Dimecratic administration and re-
form" he yelled, and lmmejitely accented
the invitashen nv a Tilden delegate to take
suthin. None Nv EN- ever retoosed that
from anybody.
The work of the convenshun wuz well
done, and victory must perch upon onr
banners. There wuz row among the Moo
York delegashen witch threatened at one
time to mar lts harmony, but it wuz hap
PLY settled. There wuz conference, and
The otiises wuz divided go as to satisfy all
The reformers. Kelly is to continyoo in Dos
session Nv Tammany Hall and the city,
while them ez favored the great and good
lilden will hev control Nv the Federal Dat.
ronsge. Ez extraordinary services will be-
needed, moo offises will be created, and ap-
continents that materially wood 60 to the
Republican States will all be given to the
doubtful ones. Several refOrmers who
wuzn't satisfied with this arranpement-
With promises nv wat WIZ to be given en-
liter the electiOn-wuZ pade 90 much
money in hand, after which they were e.
ENTHUSIASTIC for the great refOrmer a. any,
body. stood out myself, and got q fair
lice, but 1t didn't do me any good. Bas-
'om wuz with me and saw the money paid.
md he demanded it Nv me, and got it. too,
70 disgustin ez payin old likker bills. That
lkker is gone, and it aims no good to 700
can't warm your bowels agin. Under
rlmulatin int0oesces one kin afford to
,ay-but to pay this yeer for last veer,a
lelites, which hev fled forever and can't
lever be recalled. except in memory, it's
lisgustln. never did like to pay for mem
ries-they amt substanshal
But shell hev the postoffis at the Cor.
ers, ehoOr, if Tilden is electid, for long be-
ore the time comes / shell be in debt to
sascom agin.
The platform can't help sootin the Dim
'crlsy Nv the entire country, pertickeierly
when the candidates is taken in account.
t is the most flexible platform l ever
elped to construct, and the Dimocret wich
ant stand onto it amt worth the lame.
q Ohio and Injeany we shell swear it's
OF money-and retOrm-and pint proudly
D Hendricks. In Moo York and the East
70 shell swear it's hard money-and re-
pint proudly to Tilden.
Ez shell hev to stump both seckshuns
ev two speeches, alreddy prepared, one
v won Is hard money and one soft and
le other orators of the party hey fixed
leirselves likewise. l wood seiest. now.
lat Their be no mistakes, that commltty
applnted in each place where speech
TO pc made, to see that he gifts the right
'eech started. After the reform Speaker
ez made his speech to the citizens, nv
PURSE he shoOd be allowed to get ez full ez
chooses. but it wood be terrible to hev
IN get up and make the speech in Hart.
I'd, Connecticut, that was intendid for the
titude of Terre Haut, Injeanny, or to
AXE in lnjeanny the hard money speech
ich he shood y0ose in Connecticut.
With SIGH care, and reasonable work,
er can't be any question ez to the result.
ne Dimocrisy hez bin out to grass 90 long
at they will fite ez men never foughf
ore. and we shell win. With "reformv7 in
u NOUNS and postoffis in our harts we
81 march f0rrerd to victory. Bnt va bev
It to work for it.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty.
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