The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-07

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hi assleed. u
III The mos spasilun Of men Al
Aiinexratic ilelaber uv girls elect
s 1e wantid Ia MAKE a speech on
he Fresitl tlensl lei question, and want
IA SOME informash lie wantid 1
hi know wat w1z the useenin NV the
Eszes, Presto lent tIe jury and
II resident De fals Ssaflsyo yooel. sot
Aogis and ex ,laiTe Il Al to him. /
Hsles kete II luf 5rom vat r
d eeF nilslers that
Jury sss|saz 4 laisi S'is3
sich and didn't git the place; and a
President de fakto wuz a man wich
actilly got the posishen without
spendin cussid cent for it.
The next day we he'd a splendid
time Nv it. | wuz put in charge Nv
a eminent reformer wich showed us
the city. 1t wuz not only interestin
but instructive.
We he'd kerrdiges, and we wuz ta-
ken to the sixth ward to see where
Dimecratic majorities come from,
and from thence we went to view the
unfinished court house on Wich thir-
teen milyuns hev bin already spent,
and Wich will take almost as much
more to finish it.
"That bildin cost us thirteen mil
yuns,' sed our guide proudly. "The
Brooklyn people bilt a bigger one
and only got five hundred thousand
out Nv it, wich wlz a waste NV OPP
portoonities seldom exalted in the
histry Nv the Reform Dimocrisy.
That Post Offis"-and ez he looked
at it pOrtenshus frOWn Wrinkled
his brow, castin a shadder on his
nose Wich changed the gorgeous red
to gastly blOo-"that Pust-otfis we
wuZ sWindled out NV. 1t Wuz bilt
by corrupt Republican Admins
trashen, and only cost two milyuns
and a half. Ef it he'd bin in our hands,
in the hands of men Wich know how
to make sich things pay, it wood hev
cost twenty milyues by this time,
and Woodent hev bin half done yit.
All! if Tweed he'd only he'd it! A
CRATE man is Tweed-the Reform De-
nocrisy Nv the city miss him very
much.
And then we druv up town, and
looked sadly at the gorgeous palaces
Wich Sweeney, Connolly, Harry Ge-
net, Garvey, IngerSoll and them old
Romans bilt at the expense NV the
city, afore they became eggsiles onto
a furrin shoar we looked at the ar
mories wich wuz bilt in the golden
age Nv the dimocrisy, and una bic to
endoor more, we alightid and hung
our harps on the willers, in s'loon,
and wept ez we drank cheep whisk-
ey out Nv thick glasses.
"This amt the likWiG l wood be
absorbin he'd the reformer Tilden bin
electid,o sighed the reformer wich
Wuz shown us around. "We he'd it
| fixed that the Custom house WuZ to
be rebilt, and that | wuz to hev he'd
the contrak. Nothin less than sham
pane wood hev irrigated this Wastid
frame for the next ten yeers. Oh I!
the cussid fraud that KEEP us out! At
ter all the mummy | spent-l hed
charge NV the repeeters we sent to
Connecticut and Moo Jersy-aft fter
all my sacrifices in the intrest NV re-
form, to be thus sWindled out uY
my reward ~
And the poor man broke down
with emoshen.
We pade our respects to the martnr
Tweed, to Tilden at his home, to
Morrissey at his faro-bank, and other
leedin Dimocrats, and then separated.
| Eech went to his home filled with
fresh zeel for Dimocrisy, and with
fresh determinashen to do our level
hest to bring about a Dimecratic tri-
umph this fall, as a precursor to a
croWnin triumph in 1880. To see
Low the Dimocrisy NV Moo York
live, inflames me with righteous zeeI.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
EX-Reformer.