Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1858 — Funny! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Funny!

[From the State Journal.

There was more than the usual amount of fun at the Democratic Convention on Saturday. After Alajor Dunn had been called to the chair, and Elder (of the Stray Cow Organ) and Bav-miller (of Jesse’s Organ) made Secretaries, some member of the Talbot clique, who had been fixed upon for the purpose, moved that a committee of five be cjhosen by ballot to select tire delegates; to tijie County Convention. Here Air. Coulon (p German Douglasite) arose and said, in effect, it was useless for the Convention to go through the farce of selecting delegates., as that labor had been saved them [by “candle-box” clique. As an. evi-; deuce; ol that fact, he was informed that there was a gentleman present who had a list of delegates wh’tch had been determined upon, 1 (Calls for'the list.) Air. Boetticher of the Volksblatt, (German Douglasite) then read the list. (By the way, Air. Conlon was mistaken as to the occasion when the’list was tp'be used. It is probable it was,intended that the persons named in it should be selected by the County Convention as delegates to the Congressional Convention.) Here several gentlemen named in the list denied having any knowledge of the matter. There was a good deal of talk about cbqueism and combination, and a good deal of suppijfssed cursing. Air. W. H. Talbott duprucated such talk. He was sorry to hear it. It had been charged that he and his brotljer (the postmaster) headed a clique. He alnd his brother nearly always differed about candidates. Up alluded in pathetic terms to his and the postmaster's money. How thby had spent it like water for the good; of th” party. (Impertinent Douglasite, slplto voce: “Your meddling has done the i • party more harm than your money has done good;”) 4 Tanner (Douglasite) said he had ns persona defense to make; tltat his name was not cn'that list. Somehow it never got on to such papers, for which he was thankful. He was willing to believe that the gentlemen vho had denied knowledge of; the matter s ioke truth, but he knew that somebody was guilty of the trick. It was useless to deny in the face of this community, that there is and has long been cheating in jthe man: gement of our conventions in this city. No min can deny that there have beenjalmost nightly, secret cabals held by individuals of a certain political bias, in the Palmer House, in the public offices, and in otjher and t irti.er holes and corners. [To wit: certain liquor saloons and gambling hells.] The object of all this wire-working is to fjOrct the nomination cf Alartin Al. Ray u|pon the Democratic masses of this district. They ettn’t want Air. Ray, and they won't have him. [Applause.] No man ean deny that this list is part and parcel of their plan. The operations of these gentlemen are not to be confined to this district. I understand that the juries of the Federal Court arc to I be d scharged to enable them and tho United States Marshal and his deputies and creature;, with a score more of those political lazz ironi who hang like buzzards about the Stale Qapitol—to enable this posse of politic il vagabonds to attend the* Congressional Convention at Seymour, to aid in forcing Air. James Hughes upon a Democracy who des) ise him—don’t want him, and won’t have him! [Great fluttering among the Lecomptonites—particularly among the efiemies of the tiger. Here the postmaster's brother couldn’t stand it any longer.] order. I hope he will confine himself to oujr own district, Tangier.— 1 ani glad Air. Talbott-has recalled my atteniion to him. There is much matter worthy of attention at home. Now I assert that there is a Talbott clique here. [Diminutive individual squaks “order,” and hopes nobody will pay any attention to Air. Tanner. The - postmaster said he never cared for the abuse of men he didn’t consider Domocrats.] Tanner.—AJr. Talbott, do you indorse the Cincinnati Platform? Talbott (P. M.) —I do. Tanner^ —Do you indorse Green's English bill! Talbott.—Certainly. ■i Tanner. —No mar. can indorse both! It is; a contradiction in terms; and no Democrat can indorse the latter. Now, Mr. John Talbott, Postmaster, Esq., I challenge you, pr any flunky of yours, (and I pity the man who can be your flunky,) to give a single evidence that I am not as good a Democrat as an,' in this house. No man can do it. [Here Air. W. H. Talbott said he would settle with Tapner i“elsewhcre” —to which Tanne|r replied that tiQthing wouid please him more,] Ferguson (Walpolite ) —T hopi? the Ccn-

vention will get te business. Ws did act come here to hear the party abused. Tanner.—ls Mr. Ferguson says I have abused the party, I have only to say he is a l ' liar. [Here three or four Federal offic** holders jumped to their feet. One of them hoped there would "be no quarrellun. We had not cum that to quarrul.”] The question on delegates was resumed. Air. Wainscott moved the ring-plan as aa amendi .ent. The postoffice and court house men opposed if. It destroyed their plane. Air. Gatling wanted intellect to govern. (Alodest individual.) He did not- want chance to make the delegates. Wainscott thought any Democrat had sense enough to name a delegate, and chance could hardly fall upon a man who had not as much "Intellect” aa Air. Gatling or Mr. Talbott either. Gatling and the jeweller looked doubtful. The postmaster’s countenance resembled an old-fashioned, cast-iron fire-dog. By the way, look in Webster for the meaning of the word “Talbott.” The question was put. The antics had a majority. Incredible result! The jeweller could not believe it! He called for another vote. Th'e came result, only wuss! Nobody but the Federal office-holders, postoffice hands and their kin, and a few enemies of "ye tiger” voting in the negative. The Convention then went into the yard, formed a ring, and every fourth man named a delegate. Yours, Sqcibob. P- S.—The postmaster’s face was no better, at last accounts. Some slanderous Douglasite said Colonel C. W. Hall of cus-tard-colored memory, was drawing six do), lars a day from Uncle Sam, for doing nothing. Talbott said it wan’t so. I understand since that somebody else gets half of it. How is that? -4t is astonishing how little these Douglas men care for phtelinkt. They just talk right out in meetin’ and don’t seem to be afraid of Jesse's myrmidons—not even of ye enemy of ye tiger. Talbott hasn’t challenged Tanner yet, but it is regarded as certain by Colonel Fitler that he will. It is supposed that Colonel Hall will bear the note. The Colonel is a brave man.