Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-04
From the Toledo Blade.
Easby ut 81. Louis,
he MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE TWO
JOHNS AND jim DooLITTLE-HE SMELLS VIC
TORY (AND PosT-oFFIcE) IN THE AIR.

,f hev returned from St. Loois, and nit
: glad | am to git back to the scene of m
iucher laber for the next four months. 81
' Lools is hot city, but ez the liker is allu
good there, and ez the Tilden delegates, c
- well as the aiti-Tilden ones, he'd lots u
mo.ey, | made out to get on. Ez the
!, never argood With delegate withou, askir
him to take suthin, didn't make I'D N,
4 mind till the very last.
. 1t wuz the most interestin conyenshun
= ever attended. and hev bin to en- all .senc
the one that nominated Martin Van Booren
This wuz the most interestin, beeoz it WI
, SO thoroly devotid to reform, wich alluz i
!, : my best holt. Ef | can't be q reformir
suthin, | am ahlootly mizrable
, 1t gave me moo hopes Nv the Republic
SEQ the sperit Nv reform that filled the sole.
NV all the Dimocrisy present,-that is
, neerly all Nv en-. Occasionally an anxious
looking farmer delegate wood remark
:" Wat shel we 10 with the eurrency?' and
then John MOrnssey wood immeitly shu,
him up with the remark, D-n the cur.
rency-wat We want Is reform in the Gov
ernment''
And when Moo England biznis man
wood ask, = Wat shel we do with the cur
rency?' Boss Kelly wood d-n him Tor
introdOsin dlsturbin elemence into tho con-
yenshun. " Wat we want is reform, the
boss wood contlnyoo and, ei the man
didn't sing small, some of the Bosses re-
formers wood go thro him. A great man is
Boss Kelly. | don't wonder that the roo
York Dimocrisy love him.
John MOrrissey is the most ardent re-
former know Nv. lie wus so entirely de-
yotid to II that | saw him stop game Nv
faro, at baak wich he run doorin the con-
'enshun, to argoO with an lnjeany dele
gate. who wuz a lnsin bootilully, that ef
the Dlmocrlsy didn't get control uv the
Moo York Custom-llouse and PostCfis, the
country wuz roOined shOOr. In the coz Nv
reform he wuz wilin to devote all the profits
NV his banks at Saratoga and Washing
ton.
Boss Nelly WIZ even moro urgent for re-
form than Morrlssey. lie said that until
Iammany got possession Of the Govern
ment, he Good see nothin but r0oin ahed.
Give him platform wien pronounced
/ squarely Tor reform. and be wood feel en-
curr!dged 20 promise Democratic ma0ri-
| " Nv 40, 600 IN the City Nv Moo York alone.
| With the CustOm-House ana PostofIis in the
control Nv Tammany, he Good afford To pay
ten thousand repeaters. and give stItdy EN-
| plOyment to eyer7 shoulGer-hitter and
brooser in the city. lie wood feel Justified
IN charterln thonsand gin-wills. and to
make sh0or NV the S:Gtc he wood promise to
give any majority IN the city that mite be
needed. Reform waZ his watchwOrd
D0olIttle wanted reform-he yearne1 fJ-
It. lie sed that. until a President wuz
elected that wood make it possible for him
TO be Minister TO England, there wuz no
hope Nv the Republic lie was disposed to
yeeld everything in sch matters q curren-
cy, and tariffs, and sich, but it wuz Gy the
first Importance that the country be pro-
perly represented at the Court W ST
James.
The Southern delegates WIZ ekally urgent
for reform. Wat they felt wuz nes>ary wuz
complete change. They he'd groanei Tor
twelve years under the horrors Nv Niger
yotln, and anything that wood give en- re-
leet from that wood satisfy EN-. Enything
TO get back TO the good Old iiee " the 500
premacy Nv the sooperiOr race, and the re-
dOOsln Nv the Niger to his normal con-
dIshu. One Gregory delegate aetooaly
shed teers over the sutierins be he'd end1Or-
cd lie so5bed auiibly when he remarked
that II wuz now ten yeers last Christmas
sence he he'd shot a niger. Ills shotgun
hung yoOselis over his fireplace, and there
wuz ashes on MS harth. " GIVE Us Dine
cratic administrator and reform '' he
yelled. and immejitely accepted the invita-
shen w Iilden delegate TO take suthin.
None Nv EN- ever rttoosed that, from any
body.
The work of the c0uyenshCn wuz well
done, and victory must perch upon cur ban
ners. There WIZ e TJw among the Moo
York delegashen vlch thfetenei, at one
time, 10 mar It's harmony, ldt 1t wuz hap
ply settled, There VIZ q conference. and
the ciises VIZ divided. 80 as to satisfy all
. ka %. l. ID rr
possession Nv Tammany Hall and the city,
while them oz favored the great and good
Iilden will hev control w the Federal pat
rOnage. Ez extraordinary services Will De
needed, moo oih-es will be created. and en-
pointments that naturally wood = ,a-
Republican States Will all be gly.u % the
doubtful ones. Several rci fa.tr~ vino b
wuzn't satisfied with this .rrauI,ucut-
with promises Nv wat wuz % re given can
alter the elect0n-wUs pace SD much ia 1ue1
IN hand. atter which they were O. entn1l-
slastlc Tor the great reiormer Is auy3ldY-
stood out my self. and got tlIr slice. but is
didn' I do me any good. Bascom wuz with /
me and saw the money paid, and he de-
manded it w me, and got it. to. on ac- I
count. There ain any thing in lie 50 d.
gusting ez payin old lIkker bills. That tx .
ker l. gone, and amt no good to yo0-it .
can't warm your bowels agin. Under .
stimulatin infooeuces one kin afford tJ pay.
but to paw this yeer for last yoer : deltc-, 7
which hev He'd forever and cant never be +
recalled, except IN memory, It's disgustin. I
| never did Ike 10 pay for mom0ries-taoJ /
amt substaushal
But she hey the Post Olis at the Corn I
ers, shoOr, If Tilden is elec,il for, long b.
fore the time comes, | shcl he in deb. 10
BaScOm again.
The platform can't help sootin the DIM
ocrisy Nv the entire country, perikeleriy /
when the candidates Is taken IN account.
Ii Is the most flexible platform | ever hcipt .
to construct. and the Dmecrat wich can { .
stand onto 1t amt worth the name. In .
Ohio and lGjeany we shel swear its s0t-
money-and reform, and pint proudly 10
Hendricks. In Moo York and the East We
shel swear its hari-mOney- reform,
and pint proudly to 1Ilden.
Ez | shel hev to stump both scckshuns
hey two speeches, alreddy prepared, one Nv
wich Is hard money and one soft, and the
other orators of the party hev fixed their
selves likewise. wood sejsst. now. that
there may be no mistakes. that commtty
be appinted in each place where speeca i
to be made, to see that he gifts the right
speech started. After the reform speeker
hez made his speech to the citizens, Nv
course he shOOd be allowed to get oz tull ez
be chooses, but it would be terrible u hev
him get up and make the speech IN Hart
ford. Connecticut, that was intendid for the
latitude of Terre Haut, Inieanny, or 10
make in lnjeanny the hard-money speech
wich he shood yoose in Connecticut.
With sch care, and reasonable work,
there can't be any question ez to the result.
The Dimocrisy hez bin out to grass so long
that they will fte e. men never fought
afore, and We shell win. With" Reform -
in our mouths and POst-Ofhs 10 our hsrtS,
we shel march forrerd to victory. But we
hev got to work for It.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, Wich would like to
be Postmaster.
p. S.-A serious trouble threatened US at
one time in St. Loois. The Mayor nv that
city he'd fixed upon the mite aiore the settin
Nv the COnvenshun tn make a raid onto the
gamblin dens and the houses of ill-report
in that city. FOrchinitly We got wind NV
it in time to hev it postponed He'd it ben
carried out, | shudder to think wat wood
hey bin the result Two-thiTds ov our re-
form delegates wood hev been gobbled and
wood hev been up afore poleeee magistrates
in the mornin. Tilden's money he'd bin
distributed that mornin. and the reformers
he'd cash enough to justify EN- in maxim
night Nv it. and they wuz doin Nv it. He'd
them houses been raided onto that mite, the
wood hev been obleeged to ad-
iurn for want Nv quorum. P.y.N.
Stealing kisses in Texas is quite exciting.
A man at Houston grocery tried it with
Mrs. Donovan. but before his object was
accomplished she seized weigh aud placid
ly informed him she was going to knock his
teeth down his throat, whereOn, in his turn,
he drew big knife and proposed to reduce
her to hash She went home and told her
husband about it. He gave her a revolver,
and the twain returned to the grocery.
There he knocked down the fellow who
wanted the kiss, and four OF his comrades
set upon the husband. Mrs. Donovan her
self then took hand, cooking the revolver
and levelling it at the head Of the man her
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