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

proceed; after the excitement had a little
the chairman decided Mr.. Cues
senberry to be out order, and announced
that nominations would be in order
Robiou, Scott and Redman having al
ready been announced as candidates, the
following other persons were put in nomi-
nation: Candle, Rocker, Bouldin, c. F.
Jackson, Hughes, and r. Jackson.
They were all Withdrawn but c. F.
Jackson and Candle. Jackson made long
speech, in which he tried to get out the i'm
preston that it was not his desire to be a
candidate. He and Scott had some pretty
sharp shooting. Soon as he was done, up
popped several of his fddlers, all big with
speeches. They had their business marked
out for them, and the stronger Jackson
went for not running, the stronger they
were to go for his running. They made
their speeches, and Jackson's name was
not Withdrawn.
Mr.. McNair expressed desire TO adj
dress the meeting, but there was strong
disposition manifested not to hear him; he,
however, kept talking, stating that injus-
tice had been done him, and that he had
been refused the privilege of defending
himself in the way he had been mistreated,
Qhrough the columns of the democrat,)
and that he wished here to have a chance
to defend himself; he only asked five min
utes. He stated that Scott had said that
the mhig TINES, in its report of the procee-
dings of the last meeting had reported what
he said about National Bank, more cor
rectly than he did in the proceedings of
the meeting published in the Democrat
This had the effect Of creating an insan-
taneous silence; they were all anxious to
know SCOTS views on that question, and
they kneU whatever the Times said about
it was correct. M'Nair read from the
TIMES, and attempted to prove that his re-
port of the meeting was the correct one;
but it was no go-they preferred the
TINES statement because it was true, and
Dr. Scott intimated that Mr.. M'Nair had
lied. McNair begged for few more mi
nutes that he might read his defence the
Democrat refused to publish, and we be-
lieve did read some Of it, but the people
were becoming impatient, and kept such
noise that he was forced TO give it up.
The confusion was now so great, and so
many speaking at once, that it was impos-
sible to tell what they were aiming at. At
length motion was made to repair to the
yard and take the vote on the candidates
before the convention. Counters were
placed on the steps, and as Robiou had
been cunning enough to get first on the list
by nominating himself the vote Of course
would be taken on him first.
He took his stand on the fence and called
out to the "boys" to come on; and after
him Scott, then Redman, then Candle, and
Jackson, the others as before stated having
Withdrawn. 1t appeared there had been
a combination entered into by the three
tirstn named men TO support one another with
their friends, and to not let them vote for
either of the other candidates. After the
voting had been concluded it appeared that
Robiou had the highest vote, Jackson the
next, Qaobiou's friends having deserted
Scott and Redman, and voted for Jackson
and that Scott and Redman were tied, Ca
mole being left out of sight. So two can
didates had been chosen, and the next two
highest, the Doctors, (par Mobile ,fratrum)
were tied. "Phlo Scotus" dashed them so
strongly together that it seemed hard mat
ter to get them separated. They were
asked if they would run the race over; DR..
Etedman replied that he was willing to run
it over, or let DR.. Scott be the candidate
Scott declined running it over, saying he
didn't want to oppose Redman; but SCOTS
friends would run it over, and Redman was
defeated. Redman's friends acted in bad
faith to him; there was evidently something
more than the public charges against him
that was made to operate to his prejudice.
The nominees Of the convention are
Robiou, Jackson and Scott.
We do not recoect of ever attending
just such meeting, and we have given the
above correct, we believe, statement of its
proceedings, without any coloring or exag.
geration, believing the facts stated as they
occurred, would make the party appear a,
least ridiculous enough.