Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-07-26
NO. 175.
aAiscella1eoMs.
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY GOES TO ST. LOUIS.
THE PLATFORM AND CANDIDATES sATIs-
FACTORY.

CONFEDRIT X ROADS,
wich is in the state NV Kentucky,
Joon Goth, 1876.
hev returned from St. Loois, and nifty
glad | am to git back to the scene of my
tucher labor for the next four months.
st. Loois is hot city, but ez the likker is
alluz good there, and ez the Ttlden dele
gates, ez we'll as the anti-Tilden ones, he'd
lots NV money, made out to get on. Ez
thev never argood with delegate without
askin him to take suthin, didn't make up
my mind till the very last.
1t wuZ the most interestin convenshun
ever attended, and have 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,
which aluz is my best holt. Ef can't be
a reformin suthin l am absiootly mzer-
able.
1t gave me moo hopes Nv the republic to
see the spirit Nv reform that filled the
soles NV all the dimocrisy present,-that
is. nearly all Nv EN-. Occasionally an
anxious-loOkin farmer delegate wood re-
mark. "Wat shell we do with the curren-
cyP" and then John Morrisey wood i'm
mejitly shut him up with the remark,
''D-n the currency-wat We want is re-
form in the government"
And when Moo England biznis man
wood ask, "Wat shell we do with the cur
rency?" Boss Kelly wood d-n him for
introdoosin elemence of disorder into
the convenshun. "Wat we want
is REFORM the boss wood contin-
yoo; and, ef the man didn't sing small
some of the bosses reformers wood
go thro him. A great man is Boss Kelly.
don't wonder that the Moo York dimOc-
risy love him.
John Morrisey is the mos. ardent re-
former l know NV. He wuz so entirely
devotid to it that l saw him stop game
of faro, at a bank wich he run doorin the
egate, who wuz loosin bootifully, that
ct the dimocrisy didn't git control NV the
Moo York custom house and post otis, the
country wuz rooined shoor. In the coz
Nv reform he wuz willing to devote all
the profits NV his banks at Saratoga and
Washington.
Boss Kelly wuZ even more urgent for
reform than Morrisey He said that until
Iammany got possession of the govern
ment, he Good see nothin but room ahed.
Give him platform wich pronounced
squarely for reform, and lie wood feel
encurlidged to promise a democratic
majority Nv 10000 in the city NV
Moo York alone. With the custom
house and post ofiiis in the control
NV Tammany he Good afford to pay
ten thousand repeaters, and give stiddy
10 every shoulder-hitter and
brooser in the city. He would feel just
lied in charterin thousand gin-mills, to
make shoor NV the State he wood promise
to give any majority in the city that mite
be needed. Reform wuz his watchword.
Doolittle wanted reform-he yearned for
it. He sed that until a President WIZ
elected that wood make 1t possible for him
to be minister to England there wuz no
hope NV the republic. He was disposed
10 yield everything in sich matters cz cur
rency, and tariffs, and sich, but it wuz Nv
he first importance that the country be
represented at the court NV St.
James.
The southern delegates wuz ekylly ur-
gent for reform. Wat they felt wuz nes-
sary wuz complete change. They he'd
groaned for twelve years under the hOr-
rors NV Niger vottin, and anything that
would give EN- releef from that wood sat
isfy EN-. Enything to git back to the good
old idee Nv the sOopremacy Nv the soope-
rior race, and the redoosin Nv the niger
to his normal condishin. One Georgy
delegate actooally shed teers over the sui
Terms he he'd endoored. He sobbed audi
bly, wen he remarked that it was now ten
yeers last Christmas sence he he'd shot
nigger. His shot gun hung yooseis over
hiy fire. ,,1unn ord thara aShaS hia
harth. Give US dimercratic admins
rashen and reform" he yelled, and inn
nejitely accepted the invilaahun NV Til.
len delegate to take sulhin. None Wv EN-
sver refoosed that, from anybody.
The work of the convenshun wuz we'll
lone, and victory must perch on to our
banner. There wuz row among the
Moo York delegashrn wich threatened at
,ne time to mar its harmony, but it was
happily settled. There wuz conference,
and the of1ises wuz divided SO as to salts
Iy all the reformers. Kelly is to continoo
in possession NV Tammany hall and the
city, while them ez favored the great and
good Tilden will hev control of the fed
eral patronage. Ez extraordinary SER
vices will be needed, no offices will be
created. and appointments that materially
wood go to republican states will all be
given 10 the doubtful ones. Several re-
ormers who wuzn t satisfied with this ar
ngement-with promesis NV wat wuz to
)e given em after the election-wuz pade
10 much money in hand, after which they
we're as enthusiastic for the great reform
II as anybody.
l stood out myself, and got fair
lice. but it didn't do me any good.
3ascom wuz wi me and saw the money
,aid, and he demanded it NV me, and got
t, too. on account. There amt any
hing in life so disgustin ez payin old
ikker bills. That lkker is gone, and
lint no good to yoo-it can't warm your
bowels agin. Under stimulatin infioo-
,nces one kin afford to pay,-but to pay
his yeer for last years delites, which hey
led forever and can't never be recalled,
except in memory, it's disgustin. new
sr did like to pay for memories they
lin t substanshal.
But l shell hev the post offs at the Cor
ler's, shoor. if Tilden is electid, for long
'efore the time comes | shell be in debt
o Bascom agin.
The platform can't help sootin the di-