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Show REFORM. Petroleum V. Nasby, a canilidato for postmaster, ia working up tho reform re-form movement within the demo ciatic parly, lie lias bean corresponding corres-ponding with some absent democrats and finds nn excellent reform spirit prevailing. We quote": It ia not on my judgment alone that I depend onto in this matter. I hev couaultid all the leeders uv the party onto it that is, all the aclooat leedera, them ez actilly control things. '. I writ to that guilder patriot, ' Wiuyum Tweed, K:q., who is now a piuin on a furoin shoar in consekence uv ocorrupt joory, wich inquired ei to wat he lied done with ten millions av the public munney, and wuz not content con-tent to take his word fur it that he hetl spent it legally. His auaer wuz so Btrikly in accordance with my noshuns uv things that I give the heart uv it: i "By ail means go into the next canvass on the ishoo uv reform. The corrupahens uv the percent admiuis-trashen, admiuis-trashen, and I may say uv the repub-likin repub-likin party in general, is sich ez to appal the heart uv any lover uv his country. In my lonely egiisile I fre- kenLly shed leers wen I think uv the j steelin that's going on. "Let our watchword be 'reform and purity in official poaiahen.' E( ; my lawyers kin git them indictments I agin me squashed in time, I will come home an help in the cam pane. 1 kin git controle over two hundred a'loons in the lower wards uv the city, and efl kin git back I kin organize my old lorse, and restore Tammany to its old poaishen, ez the the controller control-ler uv tho democrisy. The trick of repeatin hez not bin forgotten and I kin handle them fellows ez well ez ever I cood." 'Reform and purity' is . my watchword." Peter B. Sweeney, who is yit in Paris, a livin rut her quiet than otherwise, other-wise, wuz still more emphatic. He acz but I will give his own words: "Reform 13 wat we want. I am tired uv livin abroad, and I want to git back to Noo York. I want a hand in the comin campane, for I hev jest ez much power ez ever, ef I kin only Igit the cussed republikins out uv the way. The repeeters aiu't ded yit: and ez ahip-lsads uv patriotic Irishmen, Irish-men, who are willin to t:ke ofhs ez soon ez wiey iuu, are comiu vwiy day, I kin help to govern Noo York ez well ez ever I did. But what you want to do ia to make this n'.e on reform and purity. Do this and git mo and Tweed back, and we will make things hum. There is Noo York and its tax levies for the victors, and ef the currency, tarifl, and all them minor questions are squelched, and the battle is fought on ttic simple question uv reform and personal puritv in ofkhl posishn we kin win it. Lieform is our watchword, and that is wat I insist upon. I am absent, but not forgotten," Connoly, who is residin in Belgium, where there is no extradition treaty, and consckently whero tho lawa of the United Slates forchinitly can't reech him, wich makes him entirely independent inde-pendent uv the country which he hez adoptid, writ me a letter in wich he givo me his vews as to the Bituaahcn, wicli is ei follows: "I hev only wun interest in the ensooin eleck;hun only wun. A lonely eggsile on a furrin ahoar, J cast my eyes looginly to my native land, and yearn fur it. Sence me and the rest uv old Tammany left Ametfky I hev observed with more difgust than I kin put language into '.he comipsheni that hev eeten out the hart uv the country uv my adop-flhen. adop-flhen. I earnestly hope that the dimocriiy will take hold uv it in earn est and reform it. Wat we want i purity. Owin to circumstances wich the same is indictmenLs I can't I come ba(k perenclly to ajsist in the shindy, but I pledge to yoo the yooae uv my old and stauch repoelers in tht-lower tht-lower wards of Nt-o York, with, ol they kin depend onto hevirt their exneneis paid and their whack in tin 1 otl) cm, and incontmx alter the eleck 1 shuns, kin be dependid on to do tut i work jist rz gocd ez ever they did. Let the plallurm be heavy nnd solid for purity and reform." Oakey Hall wants reform and purity, and in sich a coz lio is willm to give a fourth uv the forchoon he mode when he wuz the aatoot rite bowor of Tweed. I hev heerd from em all. The democriay of the sixth ward of Not York, wlier I wunst run a small grosfry, are to a man for reform. Pendleton wants reform, and every man wich wuz turned out of otlis when Johnson went out is a clainoriu for it. |