White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1864-09-22

They ahses wild.
The Lane papers sppses 70 b. lying al
. mark-tha, is. striyiDs which can tell
the biggest wb"ppsrs about To Anti Lane
Convention. Thus far. it il nip aad-tucl
between the Topeka Record. Lswrence
Tribune. and Lssvsnworth Conservative
They are troubled because ths Coavsatiou
met 10 secret caucus. 70 canvas The rsla.
tive strength Of the various candidates; to
compare votes. in order to ascert1lh who
were the most proper mea for candidates;
and to reconcile local and other differences.
If any ehould exist. These fellows want.
ed to 10 present, and report all the it'll.
items; and because they were shut out.
they think their duty 10 their readers 70.
quires them to manufacture proceedings
to order. HIT - FIJI
The Record says. at is understood that
the eaucus vas stormy ons. We new.
er saw a more poaceable and good-humor.
ed meeting in onr. life. ) ~
1t says of Ed. Russell: '.Finally. as Q
last resort. be .threatsped that the whole
Northern Tier would support Col. Craw.
ford and the ticket headed BY him. unles.
Leo was nominated" Neither Ed. Rns
sell nor any Other. delegate threatened OIL
intended that he, would bolt. Every mar
who expressed himself, said that he would
support the whole ticket. no matter who
were nominated. THE talk Of boiling
was I'll done BY outsiders-by the lobby
mem bers whom the Record says were
not allowed to. run the Convention.
Again. it says: '.Ssm. Wood was
CHAIRMAN of the COMMITTEES on Rssolu'
tions. Legate was put on the Commit
tes." &c. A COMMITTEES on Resolutions
was named. before the Convention wa'
permanently organised, and before it wa.
ksown whether any member Of the Com
mittee was entitled to seat. Wood wa.
on the Committee, but was not Chairman
The Committee reported no resolutions
After the permanent organisation. anoth'
er Committee was appointed. This com,
mittee drew up and submitted the Reso.
Iutious. Neither Wood nor Legate wa.
on it. and neither Of them had any hand
in getting up the, resolutions. ,sa
And, ,Agsin: ,1'.Gov. Robinson was IN
attendance. he said In . speech thai
Lincoln had damaged the party and the
country. and overriddeu the law and Con.
s,itution. The Government. b. said. il
falling to pieces from inherent imbscility'
For himself. be preferred Mcclellan 10
Lincoln. Such speeches 2were encored
heartily" The Record here endeavors
to create the impression thst this speech
was made in the Convention, which is
false. Gov. Robinson was at Topeka,
bat not in attendance upon the Conven.
tion-he had nothing to do with it. Al
the adjournment of,he Convention. Tues.
day noon, il was announced that q Ere
mont meeting would be held in the same
room. at which all members of that party
were requested to remain. 1t was dis
tinctly stated that this meeting was to be
considered in no way connected with the
Convention. We remained, a. an outside
locker on. Gov. Robinson was called to
the Chair. upon taking which. he made q
speech, denouncing Lincoln. The crowd
Of Fremonters was quite email. and the
applause was BY no means hearty. Gov
Robinson-was The only one who made q
speech. { A Lincoln man present. (who,
by the way. was decidedly boozy.) gol
into a colloquy with Sam. Wood. upon
the question of plunder and Pomeroy's
seed wheat. which occupied most of the
session, and produced gteat deal more
applause than any speech abusive Of
Lincoln. 81, no s..,a. 0-7 80
"a large share of the members were
bitter opponents Of Lincoln." says the
Record. Perhaps Eve certainly
not ten. Willthe Record please inform
its..readers that this same Convention, COM
posed so largely Of oppou,nts Of Lincoln,
squarely endorsed Lincoln aud johnson;
while the Lane Convention. claiming 10
be composed wholly Of Simon Pore LIN
coin aud. johnson men, did not say q
word in their resolutions 10 their favor.
but instead passed ashystering reioiution
designed to catch the Fremont vote .
There were just IS delegates who took
part in tho public nominations. "i con-
tinues the Record. ' There are IS Repre-
sentative Districts. and all were repre-
sented bot eight orteu. If that leaves
IS. then the Record 10 correct. ri. eos
The L.wrenos Tribune say. ,h. Fra,ua-
ties and acClellanites held secret caucus
ss together aud thst thu latter nomin.tei
. Mcclellan Electoral ticket. If they hsld
their caucuses together. they do not sp-
pear to. bsve agreed very well; for the on
" man whom tha Democrats desired