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strong rum, and rank cigars with which the
sckened spectator was glad to retreat into the yard
here the strangencss of the transition from the noise and
riot OF the bar room to the quiet and comparative still
ness pervading the garden marvellous The immense
almost densely packed with little groups knots and
squads OF dyed In the wool democrats all engaged IN
low and earnest conversation. Here was to be seen
almost every candidate hsre honorable
exceptons who painted to benefit himself and his
the morrow was to sit in Judgment upon himhere were
candidates urging themselves and strongly urged by
others, whose chief qualifications that they kept
taverns and sold rum to the democracy and here were
other candidates whose qualifications nearly as
good they having drunk much for the good OF the
democratic cause and here in these groups were now
being consumated every description Of party knavery
which in this country dsgraces the political dictionary
me mere Were gerry Wandering wirepulling and logro
were slandering, backbiting and ying-here were de-
cent bribery and corruption anxiety be seen in
serious air which pervaded the assembage was novel
device OF one Of the candidates. who had table
with decanters of brandy and the moment a new con
eree the yard he would rush out and
:. An, Jones; how are you-hav'nt you since this
ume last year-scp up and take something to drink y
And SO went on all that Sabbath day until dark night
when borers and borees left for their respective homes
the contracts being a made and the ticket fixed for the
morrow.


About O'Clock the next day, NIonday) the increasing
density of the crowd around the court house where the
conference met and the frequency the demand upon
Browns, late Holahans barkeeper for " brandy cock
tails and gin sings would have easily satisfied any one
that at length had arrived the great the important day
big with the fate of Cato" and OF Rum. Here cand.
dates leaned with anxiety against the tree boxes and
there candidates friends leaned with equal anxiety
against the ratings impatence was IN every lace anu
cigar in every mouth In a short time the ballotings
commenced and the agitation OF the crowd became more
visible Now the announcement of the hrst balotng Is
brought by obliging conieree, and Immediately
there is grand rush of oicehunters to the fortunate
possessor the for the purpose of hearing the
suit. All here the conerees in body, the ballot


is enough, and now candidates and delegates
adjourn to Jem Browns " and % Jake Mayors and
negotiate and bargain for the settlement of the second
ballot. Now, indeed, there is great anxiety. No one
tell what may be the result OF the vote the low
est candidate on the list may perhaps be the lucky no
mnee and accordingly life and death struggle going
between the borer for the vote OF each delegate
dy poured out freely and the purses of the Office
hunters which in the morning stuffed with specie
begin to collapse and shrink in consequence of the great
exertons their owners for tho success Of the cause
At last the happy recipient of the confidence OF the party
IS announced, and the excited mob quickly forgetting
their friends just defeated, are soon plunged into labors
and pottngs for the OF their respective cand
dates for the next office. londer is OF the success
full nominees behold he appears to be wh!the
weight OF the burden which has been placed upon his
shoulders his step unsteady he actually reels
der the load of his coming Importance; he iances himself
doctoring the ills of the community in the Office
10 which he is to be elected; at the contemplation he be-
comes dizzy and quite faint, he must strengthen his
nerves, and accordingly, as medicine he drinks
Browns brandy.


The ticket nominated by such influences as these of
course, cannot be expected 10 be extremely good and
therefore, individual has been named for the second
best oce IN the peoples gilt whose strongest qualca
ton appears TO be that he keeps and
other-whst the REMAINDER of the nominees, il would
seem, picked specially because they are the
most unfit men tor the stations they are named for
that can be found careful eye also being kept open
to that they the most noisy and brawng of the
pothouse class OF politicians And this ticket which has
been thus begotten in political sin conceived in political
corruption, and brought forth in political iniamy-is
placed before the honest the democratic party
and not only their sutrages, but those of the indepen
dent voters OF the city and county of Philadelphia
unblushngly asked for its support. There never
party whose theoretical principles pure
whose avowed doctrines more holy, and whose


fundamental designs ennobling than those of
the democratic party. But there never was party
whose leaders base-whose every move.
ment was mere corrupt and whose whole system of
tics was more dshonorable than the high party
whose founders were Jefferson, Madison and Jackson