Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-06
From the Toledo Blaio.
NASBN.
NA>kY ASSISTS At TIIF RE,EFTioN GIVEN TILbEN
AND nENDRICKs ~ NEW YoEE.
CONFEDERATE \ RoAp~,
(W hich is in the State OF kcntuckyD

NoNttbt tA1E y I'oAlN,
(W hich is in the State ot kcntuckyD
Joon lj, lS11.
The rcCepshun given our two noble Re
form standard-harers in New York, wuz no
iiSt wat We he'd looked for. We nv tn
West he'd agreed that Hendrix mite he re
ceI a in Moo York, to git him into trainil
Tor the PrcSidenshel candidacy in 1850, bn
Tilden igot wind Nv 1t and blocked ou
little game. We he'd to receipt him ez wei
e1 Hendrix, and oz Samyoocl. in the rccen
campanc Tor Reform, he'd spen, five millyun
NV dollars buyin up votes and sich, he in
sistli upon hcin made checf mourner.
This wuz cspesholly di-agrceablc to me
Tor hcy a hittcrniS wlch am norriShin.
coodent he p rcmcmhcrn that at the reform
COZ yrnshun in 81 Ioois, the reform manager,
on, paid me 800, for my vote, when orhcl
del ties with not more than half nv in.
foo nee received twice and three times that
stunt. | WIZ swndlcd. and nv course
coodcnt view the swindlcr with cumpla.
ccncv.
The parade the first evening WIZ site
| that wuE ChCcrin to Il Nashnel RelOrmrr
1t showd me that in Moo York, ut least, the
ilrcs Nv pimocriSy wuz blazin britcly, and
that. tho We he'd bin chcetid out NV our
President, it wuz not to be STAYED in its en-
ward march toward Reform. | saw all the
old familyer faces. There wuz Teddy
| 'ShaughncSsy, who alone and single hand
I'd, killed six adult and five infant nissers,
in the demonstrashun NV July ith, 1868,
scelin in their blood his deyoshun to Di-
mocrisy. lie holds four ofses now in the
City government. Their WIZ Patsy O'Brien
who was pardOned out Nv Sing Sing list in
time to take part in the Reform movement
last fall, and Micky O'Flyn and Jimmy
Ryan, and in short all the old standby NV
NV the Reform party, cz full NV zecl as ever
y deliteiul little re-yoonun We he'd after
the speeches, in convenient s'loon talkin
over old times and maxim plans for the
iucher. They considered the prospex for
the fuchcr NV the Reform Dimocrisy cheer
IN. Patsy q Bricn scd that the emirrashen
IRON ireland WIZ sinc-eesin every day, and
that under the rool Nv the Reform managers
NV Tammany, there wood be no trouble
watever in votin an Iri'hman ez soon ez he
landid
1t he'd hin scjestcd that they shood be al
lowed to vote in Ireland. by simply an
nounsln their intenshuns NV comm over, but
he didn't approve nv it. Ez soon cz they
he'd votid there, they wood insist upon bein
made skool direktcrs, or bein put upon the
payroll Nv tie p'lcece NV this city. lie
held that man hOldin oiiicis ought at least
be upon the ground. There wood be no
trouble in keepin up our majority here.
Whisky wuz cheer, and the process Nv max
in Dnmocrats wuz goin on uninterruptcdlv.
The rcccIshun at the Manhattan club wuz
a brillyant affair. In swaller-taled cote
and a white neck tie, | am ruthcr an i'm
posin spectacle. 1t is grand but uncomfort-
able, but bore it like hero.
Tilden, the reformer, is a a grate man.
Ills speech wuz modlc. Ills denunshia-
shen Nv fraud, and the necessity Nv pre-
servin the purity Nv the ballot-box wuz e1
tetchin piece Nv oratory ez ever heerd.
1t Affected the Tammany feeders wich stood
around him to teers.
One little accident occurred wich mite
hev marred the harmony Nv his speech, he'd
anybody else bin a maxim Nv it. lie wuz
denonnsln the wrong that he'd hin done the
people, by forcin President elected by
fraud upon them, and deplOrin the yoose
OF improper inilooenses in clecShunS, when
package Nv papers fell out nv his breast
coat p0ckit, and VIZ scattered on the flDOr
They wuz the telegranls ulicrin 50 900 for a
Oregon electOr, and all the receipts for
money Iade in the Cronin and t'Obble blznis.
Everybody he'd the presence of mind not TO
pay any attenShun to en-, and he went on
denounsin fraud cz cody ez tho il wuz
testament that he he'd dropped.
\ excellent liic-inshoorcnce agent wa.
spilled when Samuel j. Tildcn went into
pollytix.
Likewise admired his withorin dcnun-
shlashcn Nv corrupshen generally, with all
NV Twecds old leitcnants-his pardncrs-in
the crowd. Ii wuz spektaclc seldom
exalted never surpast.
Ell Samyooel j. Tilden Good combine any
NV the characteristics nv the late G.. Wash
ington, with them wich lr p,>sc-s,s, he
wood he shinn lite indeed
lie is the most pashunt Nv men. \
Dimecratic member OF Congris elect scd he
wantid TO make n speech on the Prcsldcnshl
question, and wantid some iniurmaShcn.
lie wantid to know wat wuz the mcenin nv
the irazcs, president dc jury. and "Pres
dent de iakto." Samyool sot down and cx-
planned it to him. didn't kctch it all, but
from wat did heer, understood that a
President dc jury WIZ a man which he'd
spent $4,000, 900 buyin up votes and sich,
and didn' git the place and Il President lie
iakto wuz man wich artilly got the pc
sishcn without spending cus-id cent for it,
The next day We he'd splendid time nv
it. ! wuz put in charge Nv eminent re-
former wich shOwd us the city. Ii WIZ not
only intercstin but instructive.
We he'd kerridges, and We WI taken to
the sixth ward to see whcr Dimecratic ma
lOrities come from, and from thence We went
to ycw the unfinished court house on wich
thirteen milyuns hev bin already spent, and
wich will take almost aS much more TO finish
it.
That bildin cost Us thirteen milyuns,'
scd our guide proudly. The Brooklyn
people bilt bigger one and only got five
hundred thousand out nv it, wieh wuz a
waste NV opportunities seldom exalted in
histry Nv the Reform Dimocrisy. That
Pustoiliis "-and oz he looked ut it Il por-
tenshus irown wrInklcd his brow, castin
shaddcr on his nose which changed the
gorgeous red to gastly bloo-''that Post
oifis We wuz swindled out NV. 1t wuz hilt
by corrupt Rcpublikin Administrator,
and only cost two milyuns and Il half Fl
it he'd bin in our hands, in the hands Nv men
which know how to make sch things pay,
1t wood hcv cost twenty milyuns by thi~
time and woodent hcy bin halt dan vii
All il Tweed he'd only he'd it \ crate
man is Twecd-the Reform p.mocri>y nv