Daily Republican., 1880-07-13
Massey ON HANCOCK's NOMINA.
TION.
The Corners Have some Ideas ms to
the Nomination nj cincinnati,
and make . GrtevOus Mistake
But They Kect1fy IL at Once.

Joon rs, 1880.
The Corners is alluz being made the
victim NV n istakes, which will never
end till we git rid NV Joe Bigler, or till
our people git into habit Nv reedin.
On some accounts | wish our people did
reed. They woodent make SO many
but on the other hand they
woodent be so easy to msnage. II is a
bad thing for Dimocrisy when psople
git to rsedin and thinking for their.
selves.
ice Biglsr came around to Basoom's
last mite and reported that he had ad-
vices from Cincinnati, and that the
nv Tilden and reform wuz
q shoor thing. He said the southern
brigadiers he'd 80 decided, and that
settled It. ....
Bleevin in the words Nv this arch
observer witch takes delite in oonfusin
US, l immejitly organized the Faithful
into q meetin. l remarkt that we he'd
wunst more candidate under wich
we Good rally, without any feer NV re.
suits. We wuz, happily, rid nv the
military element in Dimooratic pollytix
q element witch evry troo Dimocrat
despised, onless it wuz clothed in gray.
"Wich Nv us is ther," l remarkt,
'swho does not remember the disgust
with witch the nominashen Of Nickel
Ian inspired us in 1864 ? We wuz then
com PEELED to cast our ballots for man
wich coodent help slawterin some Nv
our brothers, tho, to do him jsstice, |
wood say that he did jest as little Nv 1t
ez he Good. The convenshen now in
seshun don't make no SIGH mistakes,
Sam'l. J. Tilden hez ever bin the friend
Nv the south, and never drord no sword
agin 1t. He wuz our friend, fust and
last, and shell never Geese to revere
his name till forgit the $3.50 he paid
me ter my vote at st. Louis four years
ago. He is no bloc eoted hirelin witch
went forth to destroy us, ez did Gar
field, he Is a man Nv peace, witch is wat
we want the north to alluz nominate.
In the south we hev different views.
Then moved the adopshen Nv the fol-
lerin resolOoshens
Rssolped, That the Dimocrisy Nv Ken
lucky, now OF ever. depreciates the nomina-
shen nv men Tor civil offises witch hev nothin
but military records to back EN-.
Resolved, That h0ldin the late war to be
an unprovoked assault upon the liberties NV
the south, we reio ce that the Dimocratic con.
venshun hex given US candidate wieh hez
no military record to apologize for, and ne
blood NV the south to answer for.
RESOLVED, That the Corners, In the interest
NV constitooshenel liberty, and Nv free gov
eminent, VIII give s. J. Ttlden every vote In
the precinct, and Ell any Niger or Northern
agitattr in these parts attempts to break our
unanlmity by votin for GARFIELD, that his he'd
shell be broken promptly and to Wunst.
The resolooshuns wuz past immejitly
and Basoom was so delighted that he to
wunst announst a suspenshun NV the
roofs, and remarkt that in view of the
speedy openin Nv Tilden's bar'l, he
wood also open a bar'l, and wood give
credit to-nite, eff he glode into bank
ruptcy to- morrer. Bascom does git de-
liteful streeks now and then.
Everything wuz now ez l wanted it.
Bascom wuz tappin fresh bar'l, and
the Dimocrisy stood around in a state
of expectancy witch may be imagined,
but cannot be described. Our mouths
wuz a wateriu for the likker wich wuz
to come. Bascom wuz film the bot
Ito to pass 1t around, when just at the
most I'm forchoonit time, Pollock, the IL
linoy disturbsr, come in. That man ID
alluz bird Nv ill-omen.
"Bigler," sed he, 81 hev jist reoeev.
ed a telegram from Cincinnati. 1t amt
Tilden at all"
"Who is it ?" | demanded!
"Gineral Winfield S. Hancock" said
he, ga Fedrsl soljer."
And he and Bigler walked out, Big
Ter leerin at me in the most fesndish
manner.
And am very seldom caught in a
dilemma witch can't git out Nv, but
this rather staggered me, and 1t did
the Dimocrisy assembled.
"Hancock /" growled Issaker Gavitt.
"Why, Hancock was solisr wich was
at Gettysburg and agin u.s."
"Hancock be id" sed Dekln TO-
gram, che fit agin US from fust to
last" =.
Il took me several minits to collect
wich did while l wuz burnin
the resolooshuns witch we he'd past.
But | finally got my thots together"
"My friends" sed 1, "don't be too
fast. Come to think NV it we wuz too
fast TO 20 to passing resolooshers Till
we knowd fur sertin wat We wuz re-
solootin about. We hev commitid them
to the flames, and we
won't pass no more till we hev wat the
Conyenshun actooally did, under the
name NV the President and Secretary.
Then we will pass set witch will re-af-
firm wat they hev dun with great cheer
fitness and alakrlty. A Dimocrats
fust dooty is to obey his Convenshun.
and to do wat his Convenshun airex
him to do. Idon't deny but wat my
hart ia somewhat tried by the nomi-
nasben NV q Fedral soljer wich bore
arms agin US. But why shood we re-
pine ?" Why SO shood we question the
wisdom nv the choice ? WITCH seckshun
that Copvenshun Paws
and refleck. Wuz It the North or the
sonthP IF the North, wat difference ls
Iber betwixt Northern Dimocrat ana
A Southern one, anyhow But the
Northern DEMOCRATS didn't hev nothing
to do with it. The Convenshun wuH
controlled entirely by the Solid South.
The Brigadeers wuz all Their. Tner
vuz Wade Hampton, nv blessed mem
cry. Their wuz all nv ,em. Inel w WI
resent evry long. haired man witch he'd
lin prominent In the defense Nv the