The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-15
LFrom the Toledo Blade
2. Nasty Holds His Regular ConYen-
tiOn, and Makes a Platform.
Cnnfednrit X Roads

Confederit X Roads, J
ltNleh is in the State of Kentucky,) :
Aug. 26, 1877.
The Dimocrisy NV the Corners net
3n Conveshun, Yesterday, to nominate
2 county tikkit, and a deliteful sea-
son it wuz. Bascom arrayed his
grosery in green branches, in honor
~ the occasion, and ez the wheat
growd in the region he'd bin har-
yestid and sold, he he'd ordered two
.parls.uv moo likker from louisville.
The harvist Wuz earlier this season
'sstAsn ever BEFORE. Pollock notified
the citizens that ez there wuza boun-
tiful crop he wood give EN- no more
credit for goods, but they laft him to
skorn. "We kin go without shoes
and stOckins and SIGH, for it's liable
to be a mild winter", they sed. But
wen BSscom sed "no more trust for
likkerW they turned pale and went
to ther whete feelds.
1twuz a very pleasant convenshun.
The delegates Wuz full NV enthoo-
siasm for the party and its time-hon-
ored prinsiples, and the oftener they
went to BaScOm's the more enthoo-
siastic they become. To save time
FINELY adjourned EN- to Bascom's in
order to keep quorum together.
L rose, ez is the regler thing, to re-
port series Nv resolushuns wich
he'd prepared, wich run ez follows:-
ReSOLCed, That the DimOcrisy NV
the Corners, in convenshun assem-
bled, now, eZ ever, reiterate their
approval NV the war NV 1912, and
wunst more male the motto, free
trade and saler'S rites" to the mast
head, and under it demand to be led
to victry.
This resolution wuz received with
cheers.
ReSOyred, Thet the Dimocrssy NV
the Corners re-affirm their devoshun
to the prinsiples NV the immortal
Jefferson, and Jackson likewise, and
congratulate the country upon the
successful result NV the battle NV Moo
Orleans.
ReSOlUed, Thet the thanks NV this
c0nvenshun is hereby rendered to
the gallant volunteers from Ken
tucky end Tennessee, who, on that
bloody feeld, beat back the British
Invader, and added moo lustfe to the
Amerikin name.
ReSOtCeI, Thet we are unalterably
opposed to high pertective tariff,
to the nashenel bank, and in favor
NV hard money, and opposed to pa
per NV any kind.
Here Wuz a little trouble. Bascom
insited that we ought not to include
a denunsiashen of paper money, for,
ez he understood it, wat the Dimoc-
risy Wantid wuz more paper and no
more money for the bloatid bond
holders.
Deekin POgram rose and sed he
didn't know wat the Dimocrisy
wantid or wat they didn't want, but
this he did know, that a resolution
agin paper money he'd been in every
Dimocratic platform he he'd ever
he'd anything to do with, sence the
first conyenshun he attended, in 1923
and he wood never sit calmly by and
see a platform with that plank left
out. He wanted to stand by the
old lites, and wuz opposed to inno-
vashuns and innovators. Then l
went on:-
Resolred. That the Dimocrisy pro-
test agin the okkepashen NV the suv-
rim States NV the South by the Fed
eral troops, and demand their i'm
mejit withdrawal.
"Parson," sed the Deekin, "hezn't
Hayis Withdrawal the troops ?"
"Deekin, don't interrupt me-"
Res0lUed, That the Dimocrisy de-
mand NV the Fedrel Government
reform in the civil servis, and econ
omy in the eXpenditoOrs, and
"Parson," sung out Bascom, "ain't
that jist what Hayes is adoin? Wat
do we want to indorse him for?"
"Bascom," l replied tartly,- a
little too tartly considerin that he
holds the destiny uv orr stumicks in
his hands twill you tell me wat
good any reform kin be to us wich
aCe don't make? Wat eff he is cuttin
down offs holders? ? Wat if he is
rootin out sinecures? What eff he is
reformin Wat good is reform to
me so long ez ther is "a niger radikle
in the Post Offs, Wber / ought to be,
and white radikle in the Collectors
offs, wher Issaker Gavitt ought to
be? Theirs a distincshun. It does
make a diffrens who institoots a
REFORM"
The resolooshens wuz adoptid, a
tikkit wuz nominate ed, and the con-
venshun adjourned. It's a good
thing to hold Dimercratic conven-
shun IN bar-room--the delegates
don't hev to skater after the biznis
is over.
| notist with alarm that the inter-