The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-08-19

sSSe~RO--~y WI
egates to Che State and Congressional
Conventions. We observe that the
people do not attend their primary
meetings. In this township not soul
appeared from Dowagiac at theprimary
'meetingAso we learn it has been in
most all the townships. Lagrange and
Silver Greek are, probably, the only
townships that wifi have legal delega-
lions. From townshipsin which Dele
gates were not regularly chosen, any
one will appear whom the clique can
pay or persuade to attend-for the Re-
publicans of this county have become
so disguised with the management of
affairs that they will not attend the
local caucuses and but few, perhaps,
will be at the county caucus but the
managers-and if so, we say to them
distinctly that they have no right to
instruct or bind Delegates to either
Convention, from the. fact that they
cannot represent the body of the Re
publican Party, under the present state
of affairs, and nothing short of a Mass
Convention could, or can represent the
rank and file. If the clique continue to
think for the people of this county, the
people may, conclude to act for them
selves next November. - q. = -
We are informed, also, that in their
bargaining they intend to select dele
gates to the Congressional Convention
opposed to the denomination of Hon.
Henry Waldron..-Cdss Go. Tribune.
In the above article we see at length
an exposition of a purpose formed some
months since, and secretly avowed, for
the disunion and defeat of the Republi-
can party in Cass County. The pro-
gramme of that purpose, as may be
seen above, is to create disaffection in
the Republican ranks by a hue nd.cry
about "certain men''-''a Clique
'sruling the party through a collared
press"-"a Convention of pack dele
gates" y" the necessity of Mass Con-
vention to represent the rank and file
of the party" &C., as if the rank and
file of the party could not be represent
ed by delegates chosen by the people
themselves in their own primary meet
ings in the different townships. The
report which we give in another col
umn, of the convention when it assem-
bled, more fully representing the people
of the different townships than any
convention heretofore held in the coun-
ty; their unanimity of action, particu-
larly in regard to the appointment of
delegates to the Congressional Conven-
ton, of persons known to be friendly
to Mr.. Waldron, gives the lie direct to
the base and slanderous article quoted
from the Tribune above. The fact is
the Gantts in this, as in all their past
movements, exhibit hot haste, and
lack of discretion, making ggth themselves
ana lheeisfP paper appear supremely ridic-
ulous. H.a 400 E-H u
On par with the above, and equally
destitute of truth, are their gratuitous
and nnfounded assertions contained in
n previous number of the Tribune, in
reply to an article from the Ionia Ga.
zette, in which they travel out of their
way to make an attack upon the Cass
County REPUBLICAN. "The press, u
say they, C. of late days has become
degenerated in many instances SO
basely as to be now only the mouth
piece of a corrupt clique. Indeed the
REPUBLIcAN of Dowagiac is just such
a paper, 1t speaks the sentiments OF
JUsTUs GAGE and, the Court Hoasse
Clique. 1t aoears their collar" &c
Now this is sheer moonshine. It ex
lists, in truth, if anywhere, only in the
jealous and morbid imaginations of the
writers. Now what are the facts
Justus Gage has neither written MOI
dictated line for the REPUBLICANS
since its publication, with the exception
of " A Statement of Facts to the Pub
lic," signed by the Republican Com
mittee, published in a few first numbers
of thisIpaper, and one short article e
communication concerning the correct
mode Of TRANSFORMING shade trees mol
has either of those persons designated
as the Court House Clique. Neither
has Mr.. Gage, nor any. other person
except Jones q Campbell, any pecun
larry interest in the Cass County RE
PUBLICAN. We came here and estab
! lished the 4REPuBLIcAN because desired
to do SO, as we supposed, by the Re
publican party of the county; and be
cause they, as we believed, had conf
dence in us that we could represent tn,
sentiments of the party without doing
violence to our own; and could mov'
forward with them in sustaining sucl
measures as they might deem essentia
to the success of those principles 70
which the party was called into exist
ence. We have the satisfaction t.
believe we have the sympathy and cor
dial cooperation of those men, in con