Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-06-23

lsSay: All cur hopes were blasted
By the unhappy affair at Trenton" :"
To the patriots it was 8 life-giving
cordial, reyiying their dropping spir-
Its, and lifting them out of the ''val-
ley of the shadow of death"
H4SBYS ADMOSITT0N NTOHfSPARTY.
CoSFEDERATE x RoADs, IN THE
STATE w KENTUcKY, MkY II.
Ancther campane is nigh onto US,
and feel the blood bilin in my vanes.
Like the WARRIORS turned out to
grass witch literally / hev bin ever
since the, Dustin NV the 0hlimited
Trust and Confidence Company
heer the blare Nv the trumpet, and /
prick up my ears and cry ha! ha!
to the carnage. l smell the smoke
of the conflict, and smell likewise,
the plumber underneath that smoke.
l see in the distance, success, and
behint that success, Post-Offis. Post
Offs? Post-0ffis? Deliteful words!
Wat Democrat is ther that woodent
git enthusiastic over that prospeck 4?
shell go into this campane with my
sleeves rolled up.
This is our last chance for a com
plete success. Success is what we
must hev, and that we may attain
that success l shell throw out few
words NV admonishun, wich will be
apples NV gold sot in picters of sill
yer. We hev bin pastrin on barren
feelds to long, and the fat bottoms
NV ofiishl patronage kin only come
into our hands by acoot and skillful
management.
But ther is difficulties in the way,
no matter where we turn. Dim
ocrisy is a curious combinashn-a
curious and singular mIxter. In the
East to be a Democrat is to be a
hard money man, NV the hardest
possible stripe-In the West to be a
Democrat is to be soft money man,
Nv the softestA possible stripe. Til
den, NV Moo Y York, who would like
to carry the Dimocratic banner to
victory, proposes to put onto its
folds ''hard-money." Allen NV Ohio,
who wasresqrrected from his twenty
years sleep, on purpose to embarras
the party, proposes to put on the
banner, eff he has it, "soft money,
and no end ont" IF we put up
Tilden and hard-money, Allen and
soft-money kills him-ef we put up
Allen and soft-money, Tilden and
his friends hev the sweetest kind of
a knife for his innocent throte, and
when we come to tariff and banks
there is an ekally onreconcllable diff
ferense nv opinyun.
To reconcile these differences is
impossible. There amt no yoose in
trying it, and 1 amt a going to.
Dodgin is now, ez ever, the Demo-
Gratis best holt. The man which
kin lift jist 200 pounds shows nifty
little discreshn wen he strains him
self at 25O, and am a man of dis
creshn. We must hev nuthin to do
with the questions on which any
body differs. Ignorin is wisdom.
Their amt only one ishoo on wieh
the Dimocrisy kin plant itself with
any hope of success-onlY one ques-
ton on which there can be perfect
yoonanimity-and that ishoo is Re
form! On that we are yoonit-on
that we kin agree ez sweetly as a
1spring mornin. eGtst tH1 t311
1t is not on my judgment alone
that / depend onto this matter. 1
hev consultid all the feeders Nv the
party onto it-that is all the. actoal
feeders, them as actilly hez control
of things. / writ to that gileless
patriot, Willyum Tweed, Esq, who
is now pinin on a furrn shoar in kon-
sekence NV corrupt joory, which en-
quired as to what he had done with
ten millions NV the public munney,
and Bus. not gkontent TO take his
word furit that hehad spent it le-
gally. His anser was so in accord
ance with my noshuns NV things
that I<give the hart NV it:
"By all means go into the next
canvas on the ishoo Nv reform. The
corrupshens of the present genera
shen, and may say of the Re-
publican party IN general, is such as
to appal the heart of any luver vf
his country. In my lonly eggsile ]
frekently shed teers when think Nv
the stealth that is goin on"
"Let our watehword be reform
and purity in official posishen. Eff
my lawyers kin git them indictments
gainst me Strengthened up, l will
come home and help in the campane,
i I kin git controle over two hundred
! s'loons in the lower wards NV the ci-
ty, and eff 1 kin git back l kin organ
lze my old forse, and restore Tamma-
ny to its old posishen ez the control
er Nv the Dimocrisy. The trick OF
repeatin has not been forgotten, and
/ kin handle them fellows ez well ez
ever 1 Good. Reform and purity is
my watch word"
Peter B. Syeepyy who is yit in
Paris, livin rutherlqniet chan other
wise, wuz still more emphatic. He
sez- but l will give his own words;
'sReform is wat we want. l am
tired Nv livin' abroad, and ] want to
| git back to Moo York. i want a
] hand in the comm campane, for ]
| hev Jest ez much power ez ever eff
kin only git the Republicans out NV
the way. The repeeters amt ded
yit; and ez ship-loads Nv patriotic
foreigners, who are willin to take
offs ez soon ez they land, are a com
in every day, l kin help to govern
Moo York ez well ez | ever did
But What you want to do is TO make
fite on reform purity. Do this ant
git me and Tweed back, aud we viii
make things hum. There is NoC
York and its tax levies for the vic
tors, and eff the currency, tariff an(
all of them miner questions arr
squelched. and the battle is fought
on the simple question NV reform
and personal purity offishl posishn
we kin win it. Reform is our watch
word, and that is wat insist upon
I am absent but not forgotten.