Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-04-04
Nasty.
Mr. Nasty Has an Interview with
Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden, During
which the Plans, Purposes,
and Desires Of the Lat
ter Gentleman are
Daily Set Forth

From the Toledo Blade. Ttr {-~.
Moo York, March 20, 1880. ~ 3
/ Am 1t present an inmate Nv q conVen-'
lent but very cheap hotel in the vicinity Nv
Grsmercy Park, the residence Of the great
Tilden, witch wood hey invited me to stay
with him, but unfortoonitly his house wuz
full NV dimecrats from all parts, witch cum
to persuade him to save the kentry by con-
centin to run for the presidency. In the
kindest manner however, he is payin nv
board here Il bein dele gate elect to the
Cincinnati Conyenshun), and makes me 3
fair allowance for my prinsipal expenses,
wich is the bar of the house
l he'd interview with the great man
Yesterday, witch wuz entirely satisfactory.
Indeed, the close NV it wuz more than 8 It.
isfactory, ez kin now git not only Root
months without askin credit preyidin the
influx Nv drummers from louisville keeps
up, and they display Their accustomed lib
erality in askin the whole house up to
drink.
Mr.. Tilden remarked that he did not
now, nor never he'd desiredithe presidency.
Eff he knowd hisself he wuz simple
minded man witch desired TO pass the re-
minder Nv his days in peace and quite with
his friends, and not be worried with polly
Tx or biznis. Blu. wat Good he do? The
| kentry wuz his wife and children, and,
they demanded that he take the sect. They
| demandid in 1876, and he yielded then,
and he spozed he shood hev to now.
| I'm wat way, Mr. Tilden, do 700 per-
pose to- meet this almost yoonanimus de-
mand of the Amerikin people for 700 to
accept the nominashen?"
II shell do everything that in me lies to
meet the wishes NV my fellow citizens. l
shell start out with the pint that 8 great
fraud wuz committed four years ago, when
wuz swindled out of the presidency after
! investing three milyuns Nv hard earned
money in buyin it, and that" y
| "Will 700 hev Cronin, Nv Oregon inter
viewed and the cipher dispatches repub-
| lished2'
"That wuz the work NV my nsvew Pei
| ton, and other enthusiastic but indiscreet
| friends Nv mine. l am innosent and gile-
| lis old man, and liable to be imposed upon.
Eff the cry Nv fraud don't move the con-
venshun my nevew Pelton will gently in
innate eff the dimocrisy don't take me they
can't carry Moo York, and without Moo
York dimecrat can't be electid. That
| will hev IFS effeck upon them ez desire pos.
ishun in the postofiice department and the
| custom house, and will doubtlis, to yoose
slang, fetch 'em. t is pint"
"Spozn that fails?"
| I'm that event only one thing remains.
| We must hev pure government, with a
| pure man as its hesd. Eff these two con-
| siderashuns don't infoeence EN-,
| shell take the heads out Nv two or three
barls and buy the entire convenshun. The
country must be saved. And then
The gilelis old man spare fgger seemed
| to dilste ez dose worrior's when be
meets foeman.
The sage and patroit then gave me di
| reckshuns ez to how to manage the Ken
| hat
shood be his agent in buying up stubborn
ones, and that shood be on the committy
| wich shood parcel out the ofises for Ken
lucky, Nv course the postoffis at the Coz
ners wuz to be mine, tho the sage ant
patriot did hint that eff the Kentucky
delegashun wuz yoonanimus the col ector
ship at Louisville wood be mire. He spok,
definitely on this pint.
MY dear friend" he remarked ez b,
prest my hand at partin, remember tn
collectorship at Louisville and whisper to
yoor friends that my bari is the only on
that will be opened. A wink ez as good e
( q nod to a mule"
Nv course Mr.. Tilden is my candidate
He kin sppreshiat patriotism, and is tn
, first candidate that hez ever promised m
anything better than the Corners DOS
all my mite. PETROLEUM V. Massey.
For Tilden frt last and all the time
z. 81 don't know about Tilden ate
all Another Kentuckian witch is stoppir
at the same hotel, rema rkt TO me- confden
shell that he esteemed Mr.. Tilden tn
greatest patriot NV modern days. And b,
went on to say that the great and goot
man he'd desired him to see that the Ken
thucky delegsshun wuz yoonanimus 70
him. THE fact is Nasty" sed this man
"ef TiNden is nominated and electid | an
promise the collectorship of Louisville
and kin give you nice berth in it. L
, make yoor interest to support him." Til
wuz encurridgin to me, for l was about
J make him the same offer.
p. s. 2-Lster last mite two other Ken
] lucky dimecrats come to me with the sam
proposishun. How many collectors doe
Louisville need?
p. S. No. 3.-An enemy Nv the gilele
patriot hez caused MIR. ilden setiou
trouble. He caused it TO cirkelate priyitl
among the democrisy, that the great an
good Tilden desired to meet, personally
them upon whom he expected to confe
appointments, on the 10 inst, at the house
The streets wuz full for FIVE blocks with
perceshun tz long et q st. Patriek's Day
Among em wuz exactly 38 statesmen vic
bed each bin informed tibet he wuz tn
gilelis statesman's choice for the vice pres
dency,snd who he'd bin promised that hi
inhooence shood be throwed for them.
didn't annoy the gilelis man a. all Ez h
blandly remarkt to me, these gentleme
are all committed, publicly to met, an
they can hardly 60 back on wat they he
told their constituents
, Mr.. Tilden is . great ez we'll ez gilelii
man.