The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-13

but don't you think it long time between
drinkss"
i could not refuse, and we saised ssceetly and
LsD long. Then the steam was up, and Leib talked
pretty loose.
wasn't that ratification meeting sweet at-
fairi Was You theref"
No. was not"
Well, then, win tell you ell about IT. II was
. regular 6zzle, and the whole party were ashamed
land 20 expressed themselves) Of it. Conover's
excursion crowd, brought down especially 70
Conover was in bad spirits, and made very
lame speech. Bisbee was bad mad and made .
fool Of himself II was good thing there was no
shorthand reporter there 10 give verbatim
reports, and, fortunate for the party, matters
were .fred up as the Sun and Press did it.
Dennis Hurted right ont against Bisbee and gave
him the cold shoulder, and right here let me tell
you he gave Bisbee particular Jesse 10 Conover's
room at his hotel. He cursed him up hill and
down dale-called Bisbee an Incubus dead
man Of the sea on the parry a chronic Office
seeker and worse than all an migrate - re-
wardng his enemies and deserving his friends,
and he emphasized ell these sayings as only the
Little Giant can do to make what he says impress
sive. Poor Bsbee stood and took il all like q
bag calf, and did not dare resent the insults. But
our Washington friend put his foot in it bad.
Some say his condition was not good that night.
Certain it is he was not very choice in his Ian
guage, for when he got TO a certain point afler
eulogizing DeGolyer and came TO Hancock or
any other he was forcibly pulled down
from the stand for uttering language even unfit
for that assemblage-that il might do for Brook
lyn, but here 1t was too indecent
"Well, l think they have turned Hughes out TO
pasture as unfit for the seasons campaigning, as
he was not invited to Palatka, and think his
services as speaker will not be called into requi
sitiOn very soon. had good time around
Jacksonville until my pocket-book goi very thin.
made raise and got up here TO fix up things
for the meeting at Palatka, but let us smile
again" We smiled, and he began: The Pa
latka meeting was regular jamboree. Old Cow
gil raised HI with it. Some how We can't gel
things 10 run smooth. Some muss always comes
in failure at jacksonville, failure al Palatka
in more ways than one. Bisbee is as cold as
him. He blows and tries 10 bulldose and the
voters don't like him, anyhow, but we have to
carry the dead soeight of both Conover and Bis
bee to endeavor to carry the State for Garfield
and l am blest if l think it can be done any way
you can fix it, and am getting sick of the job
but my only salvation is TO work on the best
can, for am promised good fat office if Gar
field gets in and you know need il; it is bread
and hitter with me all the time"
"Now, Leib, what OF the alliance between these
parties for the fall CAMPAIGN in the State"
II tell you IL has no strength-it is as hollow
as gourd and will break out worse than eveI
before election. The truth is that each and
every one Of the candidates are tricky and have
always been SO. They have cheated each Other
so often and they know each other so we'll that
don't think band of heavy hoop iron, and riv
eted at that, would insure their holding together
knight don't like Bisbee, and has many in the
same boat with him. Bisbee thinks Conover &
dead weight 10 carry and in his way-unpopulal
and will hurt his vote; Conover don't care Gus:
for the crowd, and won't bulge an inch, anG
knows he has the others foul and will carry thu
organization in his breeches pocket, and if Gar
field is elected will control State appointments
So he thinks. Bsbee wants to, but dare not Gu
COnOver. COnover dictates to Bisbee, and Bisbee
has to come down on his knees al ConOyer's bid
ConOver says to Sawyer. oppose me il you dare
and down comes the building over your head.
Putting Bisbee in as chairman of the State
Committee is great blunder, and will so prove
Sawyer wanted the post office but Simon said
No, but Bisbee can get you the collectorship nov
held by Hopkins who is considered very .fshl
on all the candidates except Bsbee. Bisbee say.
no, / won't; not that / care a continental fol
Hopkins, but his removal will lose from thirty
to fifty votes in Jacksonville, and his son-in. law
Col. Titus, at Titusville, Volusa county, would
raise particular fits with me all along the line
Darkness coming on Leib and came to a fai
understanding 10 meet again at this particula
place one week from to day. He exacted
promise that should come armed and equipped
against rattlesnakes, which would certainly do
and then we would have further conference
in regard TO the situation. and he would be abb,
to tell me few more very interesting notes all
OF course, in strict confidence.
ONCE A WEEK.
WARRINGTON LETTER.