Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-04-21
Lockport, April 8. 1869.


EDIT RS JOLIET SIGNAL:
Dear Sir'-Onr tOSn meeting came of
Tuesday, April Tih. Our nOmiua tiuns were
made March 18th and headed Democrat
ic.'
The Abplitionists made their nomiua.
tons one week later, and, as usual, headed
their ticket with the false Inscription
Union Ticket" The Abolitiouists, az Won
know, telt very confident Of victory. Their
b. society, under the special patronage
OF the County Jud &c, had been working
very lndustrIously for more than q month
past and had taken pretty correct list of
the Abolition vote, but bad failed to obtain
perfect list of the Democratic vote. In
the morning they obtained their Moderator
by majority of eleven votes. and conse
quently were 10 high glee. declaring in a
very e1u!ting manner, Now we have them
certain"
For more than two weeks all the iufIu-
ence OF the Methodist and what we term)
the Stone Church ministers had been
brought to bear upon every person whom
they thought weak enough to listen to
them. 1t must have been very humiliating
10 any person With religious feelings to see
their ministers stand with open mouth and
eager eye amid excited crowds IL q caucus
or running the streets in wild confusion
peddling Abolition tickets-yet such was
really the case. aud worse still men almost
dying were brought from their beds to vote
the Abolition ticket.
Another great str, ke Of policy conceived
by some illustroue AbolitioniEts was the
attempt to carry the German vote. This
they were fools enough to think tn ey could
do by nominating four Germans all Re.
publicans) on their ticket. This arranged
the next thing was to put some big gun at
the head OF their ticket. The person Sc
Iected to occupy this enviable position was
the Hen. John B. Preston, General Super-
lntendent Of the Illinois and Michigan Ca
ma.
This dcne-the Canal OHice at the head
and the ministers at the tail-they were
ready with torch and fire TO celebrate their
victory. Ia fact the s. Be. BAD actually
prepared torch light procession for The
occasion.
The Abolitionists got out most of their
strength IN the morning and felt very Jolly
and good natured with every body except
the Copperheads. They expected to pnll
about two hundred and fifty votes, end did
90, but at the same time they did not ex-
pect the Democrats to poll over two hun
dred and thirty. And when, 10 the after.
noon, the poll list reached Eve hundred
their counteoances began to droop-and
when later the vote reached Eve hundred
and ,birty-nins their tally men gave IN
their once, and the poor liz le Ston. Church
minister ran home in dismay and was seen
no more that evening.
The Democrats did not get out all THAR
votes by forty, Or our majority would have
been over seventy.
We very kindly offered to buy I'D their
boxes aud fire wood at fair price. bu, so
chop-tallen were the poor fellows ,bev
would not stay l1ng enough to strike q
bargain.
Thus ended the great struggle for v;c,o.
~, the pure "0ld Union Democrats" De.
feating che AbOIiIiODists, the Canal Once.
the political ministers, and :ha ;Ilustrous
unknowns who conceived the idea Of carr.
ing over the German Democracy Of Loci. .
p'Tt.
The German Democracy of Lockport ara
men OF sound sterliug sense and could not
be fooled by this Abolition trick. although
some OF their personal friends were run.
ming for Office.
The Democracy of LockpOrt were deter.
mined to vindieate and sustain their citi.
zen and Representative, the Hon. Chas. E.
Boyer. Add ncbly did they do it.