The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-06-11
As.li.s.. County ce.vens,.s.


Aoelltssn County CenventisH.
The abolition County Convention met
sat 0ttsxa ON fuesd.y9tsuussausssnssaai
dateA fes. es1Sty sf6ces As tho strife BE-
tween tie .vsrious Candidates had grown
asite hot, ssbs essvention was fully aty
I Yended. ana the Proceedings promised r
81 anin.tsd andexci,ins. The pro.Pset
! Of this wa. hsghtSasd bv the fact that. be
for. tn. convention was called 10 order,
several eaSi$gatss had grown SO hot in
discussing the CLAIMS of their favorites,
that but for she interference Of the police
or bystandees, they would have ct into q
general game Of fsticuffs in the Court
House Hall. However. by earsfsl manipu
lAtion, the een:lsmanz eoo,ed OF, and
vixen the august body was called TO order
made their APPEARANCE with calm and
fplacid brows stssn .C-ssassfF ss5ts-zas
I r.L Housb, E.q was chosen chairman
with a. complement Of Vice President.
and Secretaries. aud withoat further oerl-
mony, the convention. proceeded 70 ~
informsl ballot for Circuit CLERK SKesnit
Silver 40, Moare.3S, J F. Nash II. C A.
Miller ). This looked oninous for the
nomination of Silver on the first ballot
Now the love between Moore and Silver
had been famed, by the contest for dele
gates, into = fame 50 ardent, that it seem.
ed scarcely probable either would support
the otherif nominated, and it was deemed
prudent, at this particular stage. 20 extort
pledge from Col Moore o. that subject
So Miller Of Freedom moved that. before
proceeding to nominate, each candidate
be called upon to pledge himself to sup.
port the nominee Col moore came for
ward, and made the pledge pro"ptly.-
Silver, (being sure Of the nom nation Of
course did the same, and good deal more.
ii q thought 40 man could be loyal or for
his country unless he also pledged him>
self for Old Abe, and he took that pledge
all the time he was for Old Abe for next
President, and he was FOR Cock for cons
gress; and Silver for clerk, and thought
that Old Abe, Cook and Silver would
make hard ticket to beat. Nash also
agreed to support the ticket and Miller
WAS withdrawn The Convention then
balloted, and Silver had 55 votes, Moore
81, Nash l2.-noninaring Silver --rs
For Sheriff the contest was more mixed
An informal ballot showed seven or eight
candidates ia the field Ma,tocks had 81
votes, Cullen 81, H,rris 23, Hutton s.
Whitmore L., John Miller and Others few
votes The thing looked as il MAttocks
would get the nominatisn Cameron Of
Ottawa protested against Peru getting
everything, and pnt, in word for Harris
He had been arepuslican when the party
wen. or fsot and was one at lis death, &c
Hart, of Earl, put IN a word for Cullen. -
iullis, OF Peru, defended the claims Of
-Mattocks The west end OF the comfy
nee led Sheriff They had more scala
wags and horse thieves among them than
ali the rest Of the county put together
Mattocks was great OIL catching horse
thieves-was stroaE and true man, dc.
Hutton was Withdrawn, and ballot Was
taken. Cullen got 81 votes, Ma,tocks 40,
Harris 25 A second and third ballot
showed Cullen rapidly gaining ground
Mattocks barely holding his own, snd
EJarri. broken down. The fourth ballot
| nominated Cullen by ! majority.
Or. VIM Geek, Of Ottawa, was then
! nominated for coroner by reclamation, and
after some formal business, the conveutic n
adjourned. -. --.. ED
And this, then, is the ticket $50
Herman Silver, German Jew, for Cir
cui, Clerk ...
Vim. Cullen. q North Of Ireland man
for Sheriff s ~
And Bilissek, . known nothing and
John Bell man. for Coroner . ..-...
Silver thinks No nan can be for his
country or loyal, unless he's is for the re-
election Of old Abe-a...trong test of 10y
alty. certainly, but enc which he felt cea,
PEELED TO put forth to kill off suspicion
that he had leaninxs towards Fremont
Cullen is one Of that dark stripe Of OLD
line abeluionists that slsried in John
Brown, swore by Lloyd Garrison and Wen
dell Phillips, and is Of course for continu
ing the war until the white population Of
the south is exterEinateA, or abolitiouized,
which 10 the same thing. ~ 80 a.. as
Geek il "l,yal."- but thiaks it wrong
that Dutchman or Irish man should vote
before he has been q years in this
country. SCR
Was there ever more singular con
Slomsrats7 Verify, politics make
strange bed.fellowa" ~,sa aacz O. s.-ea
" slE ers