Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-07-05

Toledo Blade.
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WIoH Is IN TBE STATE Nv KENTUCKY, ;
Joon Is, 1877.
The recepshun given our two noble
Reform standard bearers in Moo York
wuz not jist what We had looked for
We Nv the west he'd agreed that Hen
dirk might be receptid in Moo York tt
git him into trainin for the Presiden
shell kandidacy in 1880, but Tilden GO
wind Nv 1t and blocked our little game
We he'd to RECEIPT him ez well ez Hen
dirk, and ez Samooeyl, in the recen
campane for Reform, he'd spent fiv,
milyuns Nv dollars bHyin up vote
and sich, he insisted upon being made
chief mOurner.
This wuz espeshelly disarreeable t.
me, for I hev q bitternis wich I an
nOurishin. l cOodent help remembel
that at the reform convenshun in st
Loois, the reform managers only paiG
me $500 for my vote, " hen other dele
gates with not more thaR halt my in
fiooence received twice aud thres
times that sum. 1 wuz swim
died, and Nv course I coodent view thu
WIN COiuRIdCCuCys
The parade the last evening wuz
site that wuz cheerin to Nashual Re
former. 1t showed me that in No(
York, at least, the fires Nv Dimocrisy
wuz a blazin britely, and that tho We
he'd bin cheetid out Nv our President
it wuz no. to be stayed in its on ward
march toward Reform. 1 saw all the
old familyer faces. There wuz Teddy
lO'Shaughnessy, who alone and and
single handid, killed six adult and five
infant niggers, in the demonstration
Nv July 4th, 1868, seelin in their blood
biz devoshun to Dimocrasy. He holds
-four ofises now in the City Govern
ment. There wuz Patsy O'Brien whO
wuz pardoned out Nv Sing sing, jist in
time to take part In the Reform move.
ment last fall, and Micky OFlyh and
Timmy Ryan, and in short all the old
stand bys Nv the Reform party ez full
zeel ez ever.
A deliteful little. reyoonyun we he'd
after the speeches, in a convenient sa-
loon, talkiD over old times and ma.
kin plans for the fucher. They con.
sidered the prospex for the fucher NV
the Reform Dimocrisy cheeriD, Patsy
|O'Brien sed that the emigrashen from
Ireland wuz increasin every day, and
under the rool NV the Reform managers
Nv Tamlnany, there would be no trou-
BILE whatever in vOtin an Irishman ez
soon ez he landid. it
The recepshun Mt the Manhattan Club
wuz bryIyant affair. In a swaller-
tailed cote and white necktie, / am
rather an imposin spectacle. 1t is
grand and Uncomfortable, but I bore it
like hero.
Tilden, the reformer, liz great man.
Hiz speech wuz moddle. His de-
nunciashun Nv fraud, and the necessity
Nv preservin the poorly Nv the ballot;
box wuz ez techin piece Nv Oratoory
ez ever heerd. 1t affected the Tam
many feeders wich stood around him,
to teers.
One little incident occurred wieh
mite hev marred the hamony NV biz
speech, he'd anybody else been maxim
NV It. He wuz denouncing the wrong
that he'd bin done the people, by for
siH President eleckted by fraud upon
them, and deplOrin the yoose Nv i'm
proper infiooenses in elections, when
q package of papers fell out Nv his
breast pockit, and wuz scattered on
the floor. They wuz tho kilograms Of
ferin $5,O QUO for Oregon Elector, and
all the receipts for money pade in the
Cronin aHd Gobble biznis. Everybody
he'd the presence NV mind not to pay
any attention to em, and he went on |
deuounein fraud ez cody ez tho IL Wuzl