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


The recepshun given our two nos
BILE Reform standard-b -barers in New
York, wuz not iist wat we he'd look
ed for. We NV the West he'd agreed
that Hendrix mite be receptid in Noe
York, to git him into trainin fur the
Presldenshel candidacy in 1880, Tlls
den got wind NV it, and blocked our
little game. We he'd to RECEIPT him
ez we'll ez Hendrix, and ez Sarnyooel
in the recent campane for Reform,
he'd spent five milyuns NV dollars a
buyin up votes and sich, he insistid
upon bein made cheef mourner.
This wuz espeshelly disagreeable
to me, for I hev bitternis wich l
am nourshin, l coodent help remem-
BERN that at the reform convensnun
in st. Loois, the reform managers
only paid S4O0 for my vote, when
other delegates with not more than
half my intloOence, received twice
and three times that sum. [ Wuz
sWindled, and NV course | cOodent
view the sWindler with complacency.
The parade the first evening WuZ
a site that Wuz cheerin to Nashnel
Reformer. ItshoWd me that in Moo
York, at least, the fires NV Dimoc-
view ,,,,,y :, l,Inr<i,, br; r;talyr 0n6 tbot
tho we he'd bin cheetid out Nv our
Hresident, it Wuz not to be stayed
in its onward march toward Reform.
saw all the old familyer faces. There
wuz Teddy O'Shaughnessy, who
alone and single-handid, killed six
adult and five infant niggers, in the
demonstrashun Nv July 4th, 1868,
seelin in their blood his devoshun
to Dimocrisy. He holds four otfises
now in the City Government. Ther
wuz Patsy .O'Brien who wuz pardon
ed out NV Sing-Sign ,jiSt in time to
take part in the Reform movement
last fall, and Micky O'Flyn and Tim
my Ryan, and short all the old stand.
| bys Nv the Reform party, eZ full Nv
zeal as sever.
A deliteful little re-yOonyun we
he'd after the speeches in a convenient
s'loon, talkin over old times, and
maxim plans for the fucher. They
considered the prospex for the fuchel
NV the Reform Dimocrisy cheerin
Patsy O'Brien sed that the emigra.
shen from Ireland wuz increesir
every day, and that under the roo
NV the Reform managers NV Tam.
many, there wood be no trouble in
votin an Irishman ez soon ez he
landid.
1t he'd bin sejisted that they shood
be allowed to vote in Ireland, by
simply annOunsin their intenShuns
NV comm over, but he dident ap'
prove NV it. Ez soon ez they hed
votid there they wood iusist upon
bein made skool direkters, or bein
put upon the payroll NV the p'leece
uy this city. He held that a man
holdin offs ought at least to be upon
the ground. There would be nC
trouble in keepin up our majority
here. Whiskey wuz cheep, and the
process NV maxim DimOcrats wuz
goin on uninterruptedly.
The recepshun at the Manhattan
club wuz a brilyant affair. In g
swaler- tailed cote and white neck
tie, | am ruther an imposin spectacle
1t is grand but uncomfortable, but ]
bore it like a hero.
Tilden, the reformer, is CRATE
man. His speech Wuz a model. His
denunshiashen of fraud and the he.
cessity NY preservin the purity Nv
the ballot-bOX, wuZ ez techin piece
NV oratory ez | ever heerd. 1t affect
id the Tammany feeders wich stOoc
around him TO teerS.
One little incident occurrid wicl
mite hev marred the harmony uN
his speech he'd anybody else bin 6
maxim Nv it. He wuz denounsin the
wrong that he'd bid done the people
by forsin a President elected by
fraud upon them, and deplorin thu
yoose of improper intiooences in elec
shons, when a package NV papers
fell out NV his breast cote pockit, anC
wuz scattered on the floor, They
wuz the kilograms oflerin 5000 fo
Oregon elector, and all the receipts
for money pade in the Cronin anC
Gobble biznis. Everybody he'd tn,
presence of mind not to pay any at
tenshun to EN-, and he went on de
nounsin fraud en- cody ez tho it WI
a pockit-testament he he'd dropped.
A excellent life-inshoorence agen
wuz spilled when Saml. j. Tildel
went into pollytix.
Likewise l admired his witheril
denunsiashen Nv cOrrupshen gener
ally, with all NV Tweed's old leften
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