Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-26
From the Toledo Blade
CoNFEDRIr Y ROADS.
WLcH IS IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
,IoOne 2gth 1876

glad ! am to git back to the scene of my
fucher laber for the next four months. ST.
Loois is hot city, but ez the likker is
alluz good there, and Ell the Tilden dele
gates, eZ well eZ the anti-Tilden ones, he'd
lots Nv money, made out to get on. Ez
they never argood with a delegate without
askin him to take suthin, | didn't make
up my mind till very last.
1t wuz the most intercstin Convenshun |
ever attended, and | hey bin TO EN- all,
sence the one that nominated Martin Van
Booren. This wuZ the most interestin,
becoz it wuz so thoroly devotid to reform,
wich alluz is my best holt. Ef | can't be
reformin suthin am abslootfy MIRA
BILE
1t gave me moo hopes NV the Republic
to see the sperit NV reform that filled the
soles nv all the Dimocrsy present, that is,
neerly all Nv EN-. Occasionally an anx-
ious-lookin farmer delegate wood remark,
" wat shell we do with the currency ~ and
then John Morrissey wood immejitly shut
him up with the remark, " Curse the cur
rency-wat we want is reform in the Gov
eminent"
And when Moo England biznis man
wood ask, wa, shell we do with the cur
rency?' Boss Kelly wood curse him for
introdosing disturbin elemence into the
Convcnshun. "Wat we want is reform,
the Boss wood continyoo, and ef the man
did mt sing small, some of the Bosses re-
formers wood go thro him. a great man
is Boss Kelly. / don't wonder that the
Moo York Dimocrisy love him.
John Morrisey is the most ardent re-
former | know NV. He wuz so entirely
devotid to'it that | saw him stop a game
NV faro, at a bank witch he run doorin
the Convenshun, to argoo with an Injeany
delegate, who wuz a losin bootitully, that
eff the Dimocrisy didn't git control NV the
Moo York custom-hou and postoiiis, the
country wuz rooined shoor. In the COZ NV
reform he wuz willin to devote all the pro-
fits Nv his banks at Saratoga and Washing
ton.
Boss Kelly wuz even more urgent for
reform than Morrssey. He said that until
Tammany got possession of the Govern
ment he Good see nOthin but room ahed
Give him a platform witch pronounced
squarcly for reform, and he wood feel en-
curridged to promise a Democratic MAORI
ty Nv 10000 in the city NV Moo York
alone. With the Custom House and
Postotiis in the control NV Tammany, lie
Good afford To pay ten thousand repeaters,
and give stiddy employment to every
shoulder-hittcr and bro0scr in the city
He wood feel justified in charterin a thou
sand gin-mills, and to make shoor NV the
State he would promise TO give any ma
iority in the city that mite be needed.
Reform wuz his watchword
DoOlittle wanted retorm-he yearned for
it, lie 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 lie wuz disposed
to yeeld everything in sich matters ez cur
rency, and tariffs and sich, but it wuz nv
the first importance that the country he
properly represented at the Court NV ST.
James.
The Southern delegates WIZ ekally
urgent for reform. Wat they felt wuz nes-
sary wuz II complete change. They he'd
groaned for twelve ycerS under the horrors
NV niger votin, and anything that wood
give EN- releef from that wood satisfy EN-.
Enything to git back to the good old idee NV
the soopremacy nv the sooperior race, and
the rcdoosin NV the niger to his normal
condishun. One Georgy delegate actooally
shed teers over the suilerinS he he'd en-
doored He sobbed audibly wen he re
marked that ii wuz now ten yeers last
Christmas sence he he'd shot a Niger. His
shotgun hung yooselis over his fire place,
and THAR wuz ashes on his harth. " Give
Us Dimecratic Administrator and re.
form ~ he yelled, aud immeiitely accepted
the invitashun of Tildcn delegate to take
suthin. None NV EN- ever rctoosed that,
from anybody
The work Of the Convenshun WIZ well
done, and vic'ery must perch upon our
banners. There wllZ a row among the
Moo York delegashun which thretened at
one time to mar its harmony, but it WIZ
happily settled. There wuz a conference,
and the otliscs WIZ divided so eZ to satisfy
all the retormerS. Kelly is to continyoo
in possession of Tammany Hall, and the
city, while them ez favored the great and
good Illden will hey control of the Fedral
patronage. En- extraordinary servises
will be needed, moo otliiseS will be created,
and appointments that materially wood go
to Republican States will all be given to
the doubtful ones. Several reformers who
wuznt satisfied with this arrangement
with promeSis uv what wuz TO he given
em after the election was pade so much
money in hand, after which they were ez
enthusiastic for the great reformera as any
body. | stood out myself, and got fair
slice, but it didn't do me any good Bias
com wuZ with me and saw the money
paid, and he demanded it NV me, and got
it, too, on account There amt anything
in life so disguSdn' ca paying old likker
bills. That likker is gone, and amt no
good to yoo--it can't warm your bowels
agin Under stimulatin' iniooences one
kin afford to pay--but TO pay this yeer for
las vecr'S delites, which hev fled forever
and can't never he recalled, except in
memory. us disgu>tin' | never did like
to pay for memories-they amt SubStan-
shall,
BUT | shell hev the post-ofiis ut the Cor.
ners shoor, ct Tildcn is elrctid, for long