Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-07-02

to go to press to-day without any thing
later than we received on Wednesday last.
Tremendous ercitemeut-the Extra loco
Conuentioa-the Clique again uasucceSS-
.fui--secret caucuSing eTposed-qudrrel
bet,reen Scott and QuesSenberry-qua
Scott and McNair-the "TimeS" brought
in as euidence-R the Bentoni-
an leader prosecuted, and laid on the shelf
By his o,cn party--t,oo Anti Clique can
didates succeSsful-the devil TO pay, and
"a id fuss generality"
Last Saturday was the day appointed by
the Locos for their extra convcntion.-|
Some of our readers, perhaps, will not I'M
derstand what we mean by the Extra Con-
vention;' we will therefore give brief
sketch of the "ways and means" adopted
by the Clique to defeat the wishes of the
people, and how it has been twice defeated.
Last April, according to previous notice,
the locos held convention for the purpose
of nominating candidates to represent the
county in the next general assembly; the
meeting was tolerably large one. On
the morning of the Convention, a desper-
ate effort was made by the Clique to have
a ticket nominated that would exactly suit
its notion, and one that would be in favor
of sustaining the Bank; in having the
Bank sustained the Clique have great in
tcrest, for they are all concerned in it
more or less; some in the way of salaries,
and others in the way of loans, &c. Scott
had declared his intention of opposing the
Bank in the next Legislature, if elected,
and hence it was matter of some moment
to the Clique to have him defeated; they
tried every way to get some one to oppose
him in the Convention that would be
strong enough to defeat him, but made a
complete failure. The convention went
into the nominations and Scott, Robiou and
Redman were the nominees. The Clique
had no objection to Redman, but to the
other two they were decidedly opposed
particularly Scott, and they set themselves
about the best mode Of getting clear of
him, and the means resorted to are well
known by our readers. Soon the news of
Redman's defalcation arrived, and it was
considered necessary that something should
be done to smooth that over; every body
believed it to be true, and day was set
for meeting to see what could be done
meantime Redman was written to, and it
was thought that he would either be here
by the time of the meeting or some word
from him would make every thing right;
the day of the meeting arrived, and Red
man was here. What was done that day
cur readers are all acquainted Withheld
man clearly proved himself a prosecuted
man-threw himself on their mercy, and
was received with open arms A motion
was made for new convention to nomi-
nate three candidates again, notwithstand-
ing two of the old nominees were vet in
the field, against whom nothing, withstru,h
could be said, save that they were anti
Clique men. The motion for new con-
yenton prevailed, and now for what was
done in the new or Extra Convention oil
Saturday last:
The day was an un favorable one; but
some two hundred of the "boys" came in.
The morning was consumed in caucusing
by the Clique, and by the "boys" in drink
ing whiskey; the candidates showed them
selves unusually liberal in the way OF
furnishing whiskey. About midday a
call was made for the people to assemble
in the Courthouse. The fat Judge took
the chair, and the inimitable McNair the
Secretary's stand. The chairman ex-
planned the object of the meeting and gave
hint as to what had been agreed upon as
the order of proceeding, and called upon
DR.. Lowry TO sanction what he had stated
as the DR.. had been in the caucus and knew
what the chairman wished to get at; the
Dr., between the breaking up of the eau
Gus and the assembling of the convention
had been knocking about among the boys
and found out that what had been settled
upon wouldn't exactly suit, and not having
had conversation with the chairman, he
was at a loss to know how to proceed
The chairman was in favor, and under
stood it as having been agreed upon, that
the old ticket was to be nominated; he was
about to put the question on the old ticket
when DIR. Lowry rose and made some re-
marks, the purport of which were, we be-
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