Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-02
AIRY.
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS, J
w ich is in the State NV Kentucky,
August 70 1894

l cum to Moo York 10 attend meeun
Nv the Independent Republicans wich
hev boltid Blame and perpose 10 cleo:
TO see eegsackly what they
mean to do. wuz forchnit In my
Time NV comm, for there wuz a meetin
NV them the ni:e I struck the Metro
polis. There wuz present George
Wilyupi Curtis, Ia / Shurts. Rev.
Henry Ward Bs.cher and others too
,cjus 10 mention
can't say they greeted me with that
corr aliiy witch ought TO eggist atwixt
brethren engaged In common coz, and
| am Satisfied that the genooine Demo
crisy NV the kentry kin never work in
harmony with EN-. They are altogether
too nice for our party. MIR. Shurts re-.
marked sushiu about clean shirts being
not altogether undesirable, witch wuz
evidently levelei Mt me. Out NV
Difference TO these finicky men l he'd
borrered a shirt from close line at l
D. m. to come to Moo York in, and he'd
only wore 1t o week Wat do they
want? Wood they hev man hev y
thousand shirts? They ought to SET
that shirt q week from now.
George Wilyum Curtis shifted at my
breath, and Henry Ward Beecher re-
foosed to speak 10 me at all. However,
/ don't mind trifiss like hat. 1 mingled
with EN- affibly.
The question under discussion wnz
the proper method Of condukrin the
campan on the part Nv the Independ.
ents, and Mr.. Gurus spoke fust.
Mr.. Curtis reinaikt that he he'd
killed the Repuoiikin party, orieineely
becoz NV the depravity of is candidate,
the tattoed Blaine. 1t wuz his orr inei
l 20 that he Good never support man
witch he'd any stane onto his character
Nv any kind. But his views he'd un.
dergone a modification recently. He
he'd originally intended TO eliminate
polytix from that campane entirely
and he'd notified the Dimocratic Nash
mel Commit'y to that efieck-and fife 1t
purely on tbs sooperior morality NV
Mr.. Cleveland, but his views he'd un.
dergone a serious change sence sub.
sized press he'd charged Mr.. Cleveland
with sedoosin u widder and bein the
father Nv illegitimste child.
A voice from the awjense-" Aud
proved 1t, too"
admit the correcshun. And proved
1t. l bev sence desidid that The bring
into the canvass liz all wrong. For the
time bein, only ask offisbl purity NV
u candidate Wat hez the Wilder Hal.
pin to do with"
Myself" The pos.offises !"
swat hez the Wilder HalEin or the
child, Oscar Folsom Cleveland, to do
vi. purifyin Amerikin politix =?
NUynln This campane must now be
fought on them ishoos, and none
others"
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher spoke
next.
Eff l sposed," sed Mr.. Beecher,
" that MIR. Cleveland wuz actilly guilty
Nv the heenyus sin that has bin charg-
ed to him. l suppose l Good not con-
vote for him. A man in
in public lite heZ no rite IT, indulge in
sins in sich way that it can be proved
agin him. Ruther than hev it proved
agin him he he'd better keep virchus
In matter Nv this kind the onpardon-
able sin is to hev II proved agin 700.
l kin sympataize with MIR. Cleveland,
for have bin slandered myself. You
all remember the painful circumstance,
But | wuz shoor Nv my ground. | wuz
acquitted. MY people all hleeved that
while wuz iLnoscnt, Elizabeth was
guilty, and l most earnestly hope that
our noble standard bearer ID fixed the
same way.
1--WE care not how guilty Mrs Halpin
may be considered, but we must doutD
the guilt NV MIR. Cleveland. And, At -
all, shel vote for him anyway. Sec
the Holy Scriptures Let him witch is
without sin cast the fust stone To
forgive is divine. We all need for.
givenis. Sposen Theodore he'd succeeded
in huntin me out NV my pulpit, wat
wood Brooklyn, and the independent
Republican organizasheD, and the
world hev lost When the purify in
NV the pollytix NV this great kentry il
under consideration IL il idle to take
into account such trifle ez the seduck-
ohen NV woman, tho abduzkshen NV a
child, or trifles like that. We shood
k, ep our eyes fixed steadily onto wal
wa sot out to do-the establishment NV
richusnis in pollytix. Not wun Nv us
kin vote for n man like Blaine, whose
character IL smirched."
1t wuz my turn to chip in, witch !
did, as follows;
"My friends and co.workers," l re-
markt, 81 bring 700 glad tidins NV
great joy. The charges made by a We
nal and subsidized press agin Mr..
Cleveland don't affect the Uemocrisy NV
the Corners ut all. That teend, joe
Bieler, sposed 1t wood hev some effeck
upon the Dimocrisy, and he sposed
that we wood denOunce u man for SIGH
a misdemeanor, and demand his re-
tirement from the ticket. We held a
meetin to consider the matter and Josef
fixed to put us to confusion, witch is his
principle biznis. He gathered together
a hundred or more mula.toes, the most
of em over 80 yeers NV age, bein tho sole
reminders Of the patriarkle system wich
the Republican party destroyed, all NV
EN- barein the honored names of Po-
gram, McPeltsr, Gavit and Cutie, and
all NV EN- rcsembiin the Pograms,
Gavifs, McPelters and Guttlesses to q
wonderful degree.
ale gathered together these niggers
and brot 'em 20 to the house, and in
tendid to spring EN- on US jist after we
he'd passed a resolooshen denounsin
Cleveland for hevin' bin the father Nv
illegitimit child Did he put US to con-
fooshun? Not any. quoted the pas
sage nv skripter which my friend Mr..
Beecher jist.quotid, and we resolved 81
700 are dom that this campane must
be fought out on the gate prinsiple NV q
reform In pollytix, and that In SIGH q
Ate tie privit character Nv our candi.
date he'd nothin whatever to do with It,
at Is entirely proter to assale the
privit caractsr NV the Republican can
didate becoz the Republican party lay
came to responsibility, but it is nsl
proper to assale The privit caracter NV
our candidate, beccz we don't make nc
SIGH clame. Inesmuch OF Joe BigleI
kin git together a hundred niggers who
bear the noses NV skore NV our best
Dimocrats, shell we condemn Cleveland,
WITCH is only charged with half dozen?
Dimocrisy must he consistent. The
charges agin @ eveland will make votes
for him in the Corners. Ez we sympa'