The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-07-14
EASB&.
He Lectures the Democracy
before the 81. Louis COnyen-
fiOn.

\ lricKY, Joon 2Gtli, 1876
| hev a word to say to the De
mocracy, just afore the Nashnel
Convention, wich is. intended as
a admonishun TO guide EN- after
ward. Afore this epissle reaches
EN- the representatives NV the
party in Saint Loois will hev reg
istered their DEGREES, and we shel
hev ticket to hooray for.
Wat | want em to understand is
that that ticket, no matter wat il
is, or wat platform it stands onto,
must be hoorayed for, and hoo
rayed for with a will. There must
be no hesiianny-nO dOubtin-no
holdin back-no . nonsense NV
any Kind. Watever the Saint
Loois Convention duz we must
endorse hartily, and zelously,
wether it scots us or not.
Tilden is, hard money, and we
in the west are soft money. Very
good. Eff Tilden is nominated, he
will be nominated on a platform
,wich will reed so that it kin be
constrood either way, that is to
say, hard or soft, ez any body
chooses, wich is craftsmanship.
Allen is soft money, wich the
Eastern Dimocrisy don't believe
in, but eff he is nominated they
must do ez we will do, and swal-
Ter him with a pleasant counte-
nance. Their must be reciprocity
in these things. Eastern Demo
Gratis must remember that Post
offices are only attainable thro
Dimocratic successes, and wat is
hard or soft money compared to
Offices! | am willing to take my
salary in either kind, so long as
either kind: will pay for Gkker.
On either plntform down here
in Kentucky, and in the West and
South ginerally, we shall swear it
is soft money, and go in. to win.
In the East the Dimocrisy will
swear it is hard money, and like
wise go in to win. And the two
seckshuns won't hev any trouble
with each other about it, either.
Yoor troo Dimocrat, Like the de-
vout Catholic, accepts, the inter
pretashen that his leederpu on
|. TO his article NV faith, that is sich
of EN- as reed at all, and don't al
low no doubts to afliict him. We
kin depend onto EN-, sure, and
thank Hevin there is enulf NV EN-
to carry the next eleckshun, no
matter who is nominated, or wat
platform he is put onto.
We kin depend with unerrin
certenty onto these classes:
The ardent friends of the eggs
lied Tweed, Connolly, with their
remainin friends, Oaky Hall, and
sich, who are afflicted at the cor
rupshuns that hev cropped out
into the Government, and who
are clamoria for "purity and re-
form"
The Catholic Church ez undi
vided whole, wat wants to divide
the skool funds, and hev itself re-
cognized ez the State religion.
The doggy keepers in Moo
York, without excepshualA.
Myself, who has been eetin the
husks of private life long, for s
long weary years, ever sence
Grant turned me out of the Post
Offs, wich ! he'd adorned under
the lamented Johnson.
George Washington Bascom, to
whom owe a likker bill, the di-
mensions whereof frightens him,
and would frighten me, of ! ever
intended to pay it by hard work.
All the confdin citizens of the
Corners, with hev given me cred
it for board and clothes.
All the citizens of the Corners,
which hev missed things from
ther close lines, ard found en- in
scrootibly in my poseshun, and
wich fondly dreem that of he'd
an offs / would pay for sich
things wen wanted EN-.
All these classes are dying to
hev a reform in the government
thro Dimocratic victory.
John Morrisey, who sez for the
NV faro he wood rather
have one winter NV Dimoeratic
Congress, than four yeers NV a