The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-04-03
Written for the News.
TOWN ELECTION.

NiSO luo hOuooI pOiIiOu vi DOln pOllllcal
parties throughout our county how con-
temptibly dishonorable some men can per
NIT themselves to be politically, for no
other reason and for no other purpose than
to crafty their own little WEAKNESSES and
satisfy others as we'll as themselves that
certain men only are equal to certain dirt
mess. aLal
On Saturday evening preceding election,
after considerable effort on the part Of
recognized leaders of both parties, the
democrats and republicans met in joint
convention and put in nomination candi-
dates for the several offices, all of whom
were good men and well fitted for the
positions for which they were severally
named. And at the time of doing so
the convention, without dissenting voice,
passed resolution binding themselves
to adhere to and support the ticket so
nominated. In taking this action no can
did man Of fair common sense, who is
conversant with the matter, will, or can
think that any Of the men who were
chiefly instrumental in bringing about a
union Of the two parties, were actuated
by any motives but the best, nor sought
any other object than to do away with
the really unnecessary excitement that in
yaria5!y attends strict party canvass,and
which usually results in embittering the
social feeling if our community.
That the entire action of both parties
in this was honorable and sprang from
honorable motives no ono can doubt, after
knowing that their proceedings were en-
dorsed unanimously by the people in con-
vention assembled, and that convention
the largest ever known in our town for a
like purpose. But the ticket so nomina-
ted was defeated, and how? BY an OPP
position ticket, concocted on the morning
of election day, headed by one of our
saaO-dust aristocracy, supported by the
red-topped nonentity Of the Clarion, and
one or two yearling voters whose age
dates much nearer the trundlebed than
the finished politician. These men and
boys succeeded in entrappng one or two
good, though innocent, men by placing
them high on the ticket of which they
were the bastard fathers-the rest being
made up of Tom, Dick and Harry, par
ticularly Hairy-and was elected by pay
ing some tfty sic dollars for poor whis-
KEY and ale, of which the partizans Of
these men had unlimited drinks. In fact
the stuff ran free, and our "saw-dust
man (who, to do him justice, must have
been born in night-mare,) had the
pleasure of paying the bills of some three
distinct houses. This man, too, processes
the purest morals, if not piety, and is ev-
err anxious to reclaim men from the vice
of intemperance, and yet from the effect
of cheap whiskey paid for by him, night
was made hideous by the drunken orgies
of that class of voters he is so well fitted
to, and did influence 10 vote his hybrid
ticket. The gentleman may deem his
action in this meritorious-may take the
samo unbounded pride in it MS he does in
his miserable success. But we cannot
but think that both an honorable public
and the honest political party to which he
claims to belong will alike remember the
contemplate means used by him and his
fellows to accomplish disreputable cnds.
That such specimens of humanity rs
the imbecile editor of the Clarion sho'ld
lend themselves 10 the forwarding of Sc
despicable scheme perhaps no ono who
knows him will wonder-unless it is al
his persistent consistency in doing what
none but fool or idiot would DO. Be-
cause it is too well understood by those
who have to know him that whatever po-
llt&al principles he has, are only those
that can readily be made subservient to
his own interests. This man was in the
joint convention and took an active part
there. In fact moved the acceptance and
adoption of the nominating committees
report, and made a union speech, ala
Club style. Yet on the day of election
this man, with his accustomed impudenco,
mot to say worse) unblushingly advocat-
ed the mongrel ticket before alluded to,
and did it with no feeling of shame, such
as any man would have felt whose sus-
capabilities were even so slightly refined