Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-07-05
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An excellent life inshoorance agent
wuz spilled when Saml. j. Tilden went
into pollytix.
Likewise l admired his witherin de-
nunshiashen NV corrupshen generally,
with all NV Tweed's old leftenants-
his pardners-in the crowd. 1t wuz a
| spectacle seldom ekalied-never sur
past.
Ell Samyooel ]. Tilden Good combine
any Nv the characteristics Nv the late
G.. Washington, with them wich he
possesses, he wood be shinin lite in
deed.
He liz the most pashunt Nv men. A
Dimccratic member Nv Congris elect
sed he wantid to make speech on the
Presidenshel question, and wantld
some informasnen. He wantid to
know wat wuz the meenin nv the
frases, president de jury and 'Presi-
dent de fakto.' Samyooel sot down
and explained it to him. l didn't
catch it all, but from what did heer,
understood that President de jury wuz
man wich he'd spent S5 .QO0,0OO buy
in NV votes and sich, and didn't gil
the place; and President de fakto wuz
a man wich actilly got the posishen
without a spendin cussid cent fer it.
The next day we had splendid time
of Nv it. Iwuz put in charge NV the
eminent refoTmer wich showed US the
city.
We he'd kerridges, and We wuz ia
ken to the Sixth ward to see where
Dimocratic majorities come from, and
frfArr 20 hA
| finished court house on wich thirteen
milyuns hev bin already spent, and
wich will take almost az much more
to finish it.
That bildin cost thirteen milyuns,
said our guide promptly. The Brook.
iyn people built q bigger one and only
got five hundred thousand out Nv it,
wich wuz a waste Nv opportunities sci.
dom exalted in the histry NV the Re
form DimOcracy. The Postoffis'-and
ez he looked at il pOrtenshus frOwn
wrinkled his brow, casting shaddel
on his nose, wich changed the gorge
Gus red to gsstly bloo-'that POstOffis
We wuz swindled out Nv. 1t was bill
by corrupf Republican Administra.
shen, and only cost two milyuns and a
half. Ell it he'd been in our hands, in
the hands NV men wich know how tC
make sich things pay, it wood hey
cost twenty milyuns by this time and
wouldn't hev been hall done yit. All
if Tweed he'd only he'd il! A CRATE
mad is Tweed-the Reform Dimocrisy
Nv the city miss him very much
And we druv up town, and looked
sadly at the gorgeous palaces which
. Sweeney, Connolly, Harry Genet, Gar
vey, Ingersoll and them old Romans
bilt at the expense NV the city, afort
they become eggsiles onto a fufrir
shOar; we looked at the armories wici
wuz bilt in the goldin age Nv DimOcri
sy, and unable to endOOr more VI
alighted and hung our hsrps on th'
wilers, in s'lOOn, and wept eZ we drunl
cheap whisky, out Nv thick glasses.
This amt the likwid l would be alb
sorbin he'd the reformer Tilden beeI
electid, sighed the reformer wich wu
shown US around. sWe he'd it fixet
that the custom house Wuz to be re
bilt, and wuZ to hev he'd the contrak
NOthin less than shampane would hey
irrigated this wastid frame for the mex
, ten yeers. Oh! the cussed fraud tha
, kept US out! After all the money
spent-I he'd charge of the repeeter
we sent to Connecticut and Moo Jerse,
after all my sacrifices in the intrest
NV reform, to be thus swindled out "
) my rewardr
And the poor man broke down will
emOshen.
We paid our respects to the marte
Tweed, to Tilden at his home, to Nor
rissey at his faro bank, and other Iced
y
Each ans az bn ana hne snen aS lt
fresh zeel for Dimocrasy, and will
/, fresh determinashen to do our leve
best to bring out Dimocratic tria
this fall, as precursor to crOwninl
triumph in 1880. To see how the Dim
ocrisy Nv Moo York live, infiaines M
with righteous zeel.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
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