Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-09-14
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hh' Nasty HOLDS HIS REGtLAE CONVENTION,
AND MAKES PLATFORM SUBSTANCE
THEREOF.
CONFIDENT ROADS,
(WIcH Is IN THE STATE Nv kENTUCKYll
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AND MAKES A PLATFORM THE suBsTANc
THEREOF.
CONFIDENT ROADS,
| (HIcH Is IN THE STATE Nv kENTUCRYl
Aug 26, 1877
The Dlmocrisy NV the Corners met in Con
Nenshun, yesterday, 10 nominate n count,
tkklt and II delitetul season it wuZ. Bascon
afrayed his grosery with green branches, il
honor NV the occashun, and ez the whea
crowd III the region he'd BIN harvested am
sold, he he'd ordered two larls NV moo hkkei
from Louisville. The harvest wuZ earlier
tins season than ever before. Pollock noti
ned the citizens that ez there wuz IL bounti
iul crop he wood give EN- no more credit foi
goods, but they lait him to skorn. 1--WE Kin
| 20 without shoes and stockins and sich, fnr
ITS liable to be a mild winter" they sed.
But when BascOm sed mo more trust foI
hkker :" they turned pale and went to ther
| wheat feelds
1t wuz very pleasant convenshun. The
delegates WIZ iull NV enthoosiasm for the
party and its time-honored principles, and
The oitener they went to Bascom's the more
enthoosiastic they become. To save time
hnely adjourned em to BascOm's in order to
keepa quorum together.
rose, ez is the regler thing, to report a
series nv resolooshens wich he'd prepared,
wien run tZ follows :.
HesOired, That the Dimocrisy NV the Corn
ers, in convenshun assembled, now, ez ever,
reiterate their approval NV the war NV 1872,
and wunst more male the motto, free trade
and saler rites, to the mast head, and un-
der it demand to be led to yictry.
This resolooshen wuz reserved with cheers.
HeS"'red, That the Dmocrisy Nv the
Corners re-ailirm their devoshun to the prin-
slples NV the immortal Jefferson, and jackson
likewise, and congratulate the country upOr
the successful result Nv the battle of Moo
Orleens.
Eeso'r,d, That the thanks nv this conven-
shun is hereby rendered to the gallant vol
unteers from Kentucky and Tennessee, who,
on that bloody feeld, beat back the British
Invader and added new luster to the Ameri-
kin name.
H'SolJ''d. That we are unalterably opposed
To high pertective tariff. to the nlshnel
bank, and in favor NV hard money, and op-
posed to paper NV any kind.
Here wuz a little trouble Bascon insistid
that We ought not to include denunsiashen
nv paper money, for, ez he understood it,
wat the Dimocrisy wantid wuz more paper
money and no gold Tor the bloatid bond
holders
Deekin Pogram rose and sed he didn't
know what the Dimocrisy wantid nor wat
they didn't want, but this he did know, that
resolooshen ngin paper money he'd bin i'll
evry Dimekratic platform he ever he'd any
thug to do with, sence the first convenshun
he ATTENDED, in 1928. and he wood never sit
camly by and see platform with that plank
left out. He wanted to stand by the old lites,
and WIZ opposed to innovashuns and inno-
vators. Then | went on
RtSOlrei, That the Dimocrisy protest agin
the ukkepashen NV the suyrin States NV the
South by Fedrei troops, and demand their
imme)it withdrawal
"rarson, sed the deekin, 'heznt HAYES
withdrawed the troops"
"Deekin don't interrupt me-"
HtSolrd That the DImocrisy demand NV
the Fedrcl Government reform in the civil
servis, and economy in the expenditoors,
and
Parson, sung ont Bascom ''ain't that jist
wat Hayes is adoin? Wat do you want to
endorse him for z"
''Bascom," | replied tartly.-a little too
tartly considrin that he holds the destiny Nv
our stumicks in his hands will VOC tell me
wat good any reform kin be to us wich re
don't make. Wat ei he is cuttin down offs
holders? Wat ef he is rOatin ont sinecures
Wat ei he is reforInin Wat good is reform
to me so long ez there is IL nigger radikle i'll
the Post-ofliS. wher | ought to be, and
white radikle in the Collectors offs. wher
lssaker Gayitt ought to be? There's dis
tinkshen. 1t does make ditferens who in
stitoots II reform
The resOlooshens wuz adoptid, a tikkit
WIZ nominated, and the convenshun ad-
journed. It's sa good thing to hold Dino
cratic convenshun Ill II bar-room- the dele
gates don't hev to skater after the bi2nis is
over.
notist with alarm that the iLterrupshens
and questlonings in this convenshun came
from Bascom and the Deekin. feer they
don't altogether understand Dimocrisy.
Dimocrisy is the same one and invisible,
now and forever. Eyence and conditions
may change, but Dimocrsy never. Wat wuz
Dlmocrisy fifty years ago is DimOcrisy now,
and will, ! hope, be fifty yeeIs hence. |
never go agin president when n conven-
shun once passes II resolooshen, that becomes
Dimocrisy, and all succeedin convenshuns
must rciterate it. We occashenelly hev to
moo matter ez for instance the
war brought i'll some moo ishoos wich We
can't ignore, but wunst there, there they
must stay. In addishen 10 approvin the last
war with Great Britain, and Opposin tariffs
and sich, Dimekratic Convenshuns from this
time out must protest agin the okkepashun
NV southern States hy Fedrel troops, and
aGln everything connected with the war Fl
Providence ever blesses me with II son, |
trust my sperit will hover over him and his |
son, and hIs sons son, in Dimekratic Con-
venshuns, interdoosin resolouShens dammin |
the late war, and everything GROWN out NV
It, ez well approvin nv the last war with |
Great Britain.
That's my idee NV Dimocrisy, and alluz |
Will be. Dimocrisy is ez eternel ez the hills |
and jist ~ inmovable. We are ez hard ez |
the grant rox, and it takes jist ez much |
drillln To get anything new into us. We hold |
WELL but We don't hold much. The most |
lltlinl site in nacher is to see IL young man
who hez idee into him. in an old Dime |
STatlc COnvenshun. It's terrible to see the |
old stagrrs wich wuZ suckled on the war NV |
1872, and weaned ON Jacksonism, strugglin |
t" take in any thing that hez happened sence |
HAT time, and tit it to themselves They |
7tn't do it,
1t Is chcrrln To me to see the DimOcrisy NV |
The corners follerIn president so closely cz
to demand hard money. when the wants Nv
The Corners demand paper, and los of it
and 1t WIZ cheerin also to see EN- ignore the
work the yooserper Hayes is dom, in the way
nv reform, jist bocoz he wuznt elected by
the Dimocrisy.
Sch Dimocrats 700 kin count on with
degree NV certainty that is dehteful. Wood,
'h wood, that We had more nv en-
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