, 1862-10-27
4 SENSATION RCORBACK.
AStcRET SOCIETY STORY SPOILED,

Editors Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Times publishes great cock
and-bull story about terrible secret society
In Chicago, that is alleged to control primary
meetings, elect delegates and play smash gem
orally. This is about the distance Of time
before the election that 1t trots out its stump
tail roortacks. / propose to spoil the present
one, and obllge 1t to invent smother for tue
entertainment OF its readers. In the first
place, 1t is true and was never denied, that
nulnbcs IF those who disapproyed Of Long
Johns course on the New Constitution, organ
k:d together to defeat his nomination for
Mayor. >TheIr meetings were private 50 far
IS practicable, in order to keep his spies out.
Johns headquarters we're at Jackson Hall sud
Dtoo hsd 4 clnb organized to promote his
nomination, to which bis opponents were not
invited. The contest VAS a sharp onc bs-
tween tue rival clubs. L WIS diamond cut
diamond. Joh1 Is no grccnhoru, and .he n,.n
that undertake. to head him off have 70 ret uo
ta1ly aud treye! fast,
Well, af:.r as close and exciting race as
ever engaged 10, the anti Wentworth mea
ce1ne ou1 anout hal length ahead. As soon
asJohn's friends fund that he was beaten, they
turned In and htlptd 10 nominate as weak i
ticket rs possible, and on the day Of elec, ion,
voted for Sherman scd tbs Democratic ticket,
in order to make doubly sure o: defeating the
nrti-Weutworth side Of the Republican pity.
John had his revenge. His opponents had one
triumph and he bad the other. The account
is considered Squared, AID each faction has
Isid wbat it owed the other. Inc anti Went-
worth club which the Times SO fanc,fullr por-
trays, dissolved By mutual cousea! the dag
THIS brings meaqwn to the "secret circu.
lar" published in the 7Faas, which reads rs
tp.ivate1
srs: The d:easters 1t last eprlog are Sci.s;ed TO
be attributable to the urpopnla:i!y Of our Hal,
apd thc inpsnd:acc OF como of our members.
~ Ia thnusht best to organtze at new place. As
few Of the old members at first, and then admit
The pEes',nE officer q tn. "a meeting ia alone
you are ttIfct1y exhoEted to communicate with no
one IN the tuh]cct as similar notices ara sent to
tIor.
The above has been sent to several hundred
rerf ons. It was concocted In the TINES office
and is 3 "sell," and rather stupid o1e. The
very first sentence exposes the fraud: "Tne
:. Disasters Of last spring are believed to be
as wsx e ths s l .,ei Of H4
mony Hall; but there II detects Itself. The
club did not meet at Harmony Hall Long
John knows where 1t met, and who were its
members, as he managed to get two or three
OF his friends into the club, who reported to
him regularly, all that was said and done, On
the other hand, the club managed to inform
themselves tolerably accurately Of what trx2s-
pired In the rival club at Jackson Hall. The
long and short Of the whole matter Is,
that 1t wna faction fight between the
Wenrwo1thites and the anti. tl.Weutworth-
ties, in which both sides got whipped,
and have since cried quits The pres
idents proclamation furnishes q platform
for all patriotic men to stand On, no matter
what faction or party they formerly balonged
to. In this spirit the convention On Thursday
met AID worked. There never was falrer
elected set Of delegates BY any party in the
county 81 Cook, and no convention ever held
N Lnas city acted more independently or har-
me natchet was buried out Of sight and =
ticket WAS nominated Of the best and strong
est men, all things considered, that It
Was IN the power Of the convention to dnd.
Several of Wentworth's warmest friends In
| past contefts, and several Of his strongest op-
| Ponents In former times, are on the ticket;
| but no man was nomfnated with auY referanca
to past faction quarre1s. The terrible crisis
Of our country overshado Ts such pueriittes,
The presence Of an awful danger to our Union
and tnstltutfonB brings loyal men together, tr-
respective Of former feuds, factions or parties
which divided them. No sensation lies In the
tory 1hHes; no eKhumAtlon of the moulder-
irg II maine Of past contentious will det,ch
earnest men from the support Of the Union
ticket and no Inventions OF the oaeaY vil1
be allowed to feed dIssentions and divisions.
United VIC stand. -ONE Who KNOWS.