The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-28
acknowledgement:
Nasty.
He Assists Mt the Reception
Given TiIden and Hendricks in
New York.

The fecepshnn given our TWO NOBLE
Reform standard. bearers in New York,
wuz not jist wat we had looked for. We
Nv the west he'd agreed that Hendrix
mite be receptid in Moo York, to git him
into trainin for the Presidenshel candi.
dacy in 1880, but Tilden got wind Nv ii
and blocked our little game. We he'd to
receipt him e. we'll ez Hendrix, and ez
Samyooel, in the recent campane for Re.
form, he'd spent five millynns Nv dollars
buyin up votes and SIGH, he insistid
upon bein made chief monrner.
This WIZ espeshslly diRagreeable TO
me, for hev n bitternls wich am nour.
isLnn. | coodent help remember that at
the reform conyenshun in ST. Loois, the
reform managers only paid me $500 for
my vote, when other delegates with not
more than half M, inaooence received
twice and three times that sum. l wuz
swindled, and nv course coodent view
the sWindler with complacAncy.
The parade the FIRST evening WIZ 4 site
that wuz cheerin to a Nashnal Reiormer
1t showed me that in Moo York, at least
the fires nv Dimocrisy WIZ blazin brite
", and that tho we he'd bin Cheetid oui
Nv our President, il wuz not to be stayed
10 its onward march toward Reform,
saw all the old familyer faces. There
wuz Teddy O'Shaughneasy, who alone and
single handid, killed six adult and five
infant niggers, in the demonstrashun OF
July 4th, 1868, seelin in thar blood his
devoshun to Dimocrisy. He holds four
olii1eS now in the City Government.
There wuz Patsy 0'Brien who WIZ par
doned out Nv Sing sing jst in time to
take part in the Reform movement last
fall, and Micky O'Flyn and Jimmy Ryan,
and in short all the old stand bys nv the
Reform party. ez full NV zeel IA ever.
A deliteful little reyoonyun we he'd
alter the speeches, in convenient s'loon,
talkin over old times and maxim plans
for the fncher. They considered the
prospex for the iucher Of the Reform
Dimocrisy cheerin, Patsy O,Brien sed
thai the emigrSshcn from Ireland wuz
increasin every day, and that under the
Eool Of Reform managers Nv Tammany,
there wood be no trouble watever in vo-
tin an Irishman ezsoon ez he laRdid.
The recepshun at the Manhattan Club
was bryliant affair. In u swallertaled
cote and a white neck.tie, am rather an
imposin specktacle. 1t ia grand and un.
comfortable, but bore it like hero.
Tilden, the reformer, ia a great man,
His speech wuz modle. His denunshiu'
tian Nv fraud, and the necessity Nv pre-
scFVin the poorly Nv the ballet-bo1
wuz ez tetchin piece nv oratory ez |
ever heerd. 1t affected the Tammany
lseders which stood, around him TO teers.
One little accident occurred wiCh mite
hev marred the harmony Nv his speech,
he'd anybody else been 4 maxim Nv it. He
wuz denounsin the wrong that had bin
done the people, by forsin President
elected by fraud upon them, and deplorin
the yOose otimprOper inaooenses in cleo.
tions, when package nv papers fell out
Nv his breast pockit, aud wuE scattered
on the floor. They wuz the kilograms
ofFerin $1,000 Tor Oregon Elector, and
all the receipts tor money pade in the
Cronin and GobbIc biznis. Everybody
he'd the presence Nv mind not to pay any
attention TO EN-, and he went on denounsin
fraud eE cody ez tho it-wuz pocket tea.
lament that he he'd dropped.
An excellent life inshoorence agent
wuz spilled when Saml. j. Tildeu went in.
10 pOllytix.
Likewise admired his wilherin de.
nunshiashen NV Corrupshen generally,
with all Nv Tweed'B old lefteHants-his
pardner.-in the crowd. II Tuz a
ipektRcle seldom ekalled-neVer sur.,
past.
EfSamyooel ]. Tilden Good combine
any Of the charAGteristiCs Nv the late e,
Washington, with them wich he possess
es, he wood be shinin lite indeed.
He ia the most paShunt NV men. A
Dimecratic member Nv Congris elect sed
he wsntid to make speech on the Presi.
lenshl question and wantid some infor.
m1shen. lie wanted 10 know wat WIZ
the meenin Nv the frazes, president de
jury and president de fakto." Sam.
yoOel sot down and explained it TO him.
didn't ke!ch it al, but from wat did
heer, understood that President de
jury waz a man witch had spent s., 900, 900
buyin ny votes and siCh, and didn't 81,
the place; and President Dc iakto wul
man witch actIlly got the posi5hen with.
out spendin cuSsid cent for it.
The next day we had n splendid time
Of it, Twas put in charge Nv the emf
nent rCiormer wich showd us the city.
We he'd kerridges, and We WIZ taken
to the Sixth ward to see wher DtmecratiC
majorities come from, and from thence
We went to view the unfinished court house
on wiCh thirteen milyuns hev bin already
spent, aud wich will take almost AZ muci
more to finish it.
That bildin cost thirteen miIyuns," sei
our guide promptly. "The brooklyn
people hilt bigger one and only got five
hundred thousand ont Nv it, WiCh wuZ I
waste nv OPPORTUNITIES seldom eEallet
IN the histry Nv the Reform democracy
The Po.totRs and ez he looked at il
pOrtenshus frown wrinkled his brow
casttn shadder on his nose, which
changed the gorgeous red to a gastl,
bloo-'that Postotlis We wug swindled ou
nv. ItwuE bilt by corrupt RepublikiI
Administrator, and only cost Two mil
yuns and a half. Ell it he'd bin in GU
hands, in the hands NV men wich knoy
how to make sich things pay, 1t Woo
hey cost twenty milyuns by this time an,
voodent hey bin hall dun yit. Ali
Tweed he'd only he'd III A CRATE man
Twecd-the Reform Dimocrisy Nv tn
city miss him very much"
And we druv up town, and looked sad
" at the gorgeous palaces which Swee
Eey, Connolly, Harry Genet, Garvey
lngesSoll and them old Romans bilt q
the expense Nv the city, aiore they be
come eggsiles onto a Turin shoar; "
looked at the armories wich wuz bilt Il
the golden age Nv Dimocrisy and unabl
TO endoor more we Alighted and hun
our harps on the willers, in s'loop, ant
vept ez we drunk cheap whisky out u
thick glasses.
This amt the likwid I wood be alb
'orbin he'd the reiormer Tilden BIZ
eIectid," sighed the reiormer witch wui