The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-08-04
Republican Convention:

The republican county convention, to nom
mate candidates fo- county officers, and to
appoint delegates to the state, congressional
and representative conventions, met at Ottawa
on Wednesday. Elmer Baldwin was made
chairman, and Nj. School Commissioner Dao
secretary. Delegates were present from all
the towns except FIVE. =
re convention Immediately proceeded to
nominate candidates for Sheriff and coroner
An informal ballot for sheriff resulted in 6S
votes for Co !. Z McCaleb, IS for Frank
Whitmore, for lieu, p. ". buchanan, ard
2 for f. W. Matt. Then Col. McCaleb
was nominated l.. exclamation. Somebody
then nominated Ralph ". Buchanan for Cor
tner, bnt Ralph stepped forward and peremp,
tor1ly declined the honor whereupon DR.. x.
N. Macarthur was nominated, also by acca,
nation.
Committees were then appointed or resola-
tions, and to fix up the delegations TO the
various conventions and then the convention
took a recess OF an hour.
The committee On delegations reported
first; set for the state convention; another
for the congressional, and q third for the rep
resentative convention; all of which were
agreed TO.
Then Chas. Blanchard, for the committee
on resolutions, made report. The resolutions
lay down the usual formula OF radical doct-
rine in regard to the admission: Of the states
I. 4 Ill
financial scheme; and cPfrove the course il
congress of Senator Trr.pbull and Hon 3 c.
Cook.
The resolutions were adopted bodily, nem
cor; hir. Rogers, however, thought they were
deficient in one particular, and to make them
perfect, offered an additional resolution.
squarely endorsing negro suffrage. The
resolution was also swallowed without oppo>
sition.
The delegates to 'lle congressional conven.
tion Were instructed to support the re-nomi'
nation of Hon. B. c. Cook. \ motion, how
ever, to instruct the delegates to the repre-
sentative convention to support the nomination
of Elmer Baldwin and Z. F. Bull for rep
resentati7es to the legislature wouldn't 20
down-in fact. came near kicking up muss
The country delegations said they hadn't been
sent here with instructions on that point, and
didn't Ike this way Of having a trap sprung
rpon them. These instructions were equiv
alent TO a nomination, and the convention
might aswell nomiEa,e at once. City delegates
and politicians might Ike such candidates,
but clown our way said one of the dee>
gates, ''we have a habit, other things being
equal, Of always voting for soldiers The
'barnacles'' saw it wouldn't do to press the
resolution in that shape; so they proposed to
have it swallowed piecemeal, by first inserting
the name Of Mr.. Baldwin only; but the
convention had as little taste for NJ Baldwin
alone as they had for him and Mr.. Bull tos
gether. Then the pharmacies" came down
another peg and asked simply that the names
of Messrs. Baldwin L Bull be 'presented'' to
the representative conYention. No 20 again.
So the resolution was trimmed down TO a
simple instruction IN r;:''or os Lyman Trun,>
bull, and in that shape adopted.
The business of the convention now being
done with. Hon. B. c. Cook was called upon
for a speech, winch he proceeded to deliver,
occupying some 40 Or 50 minutes. We no.
tice the speech in another article. At its
close, Tie convention adjourned sine die.