Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-10-30
Cassville Caucus ana lastoa Convention

your colurins a few letters and ques-
tons that have been asked me on the
above subject, as there has been some
Misrepresentation about them, which
| will do in rs brief q manner as pos
siblc.
| On Tuesday afternoon, next before
the Tatton convention, Mr. Sneclodo
called at my house, he aud attend
ed 70 some business, then We talked
about getting up caucus, TO send
delegates to the Tafton convention,
there was no town committee and no
call had been made or notice given
and there was no place to hold it, the
School House not being used for
such purposes. Mr.. Sneclode said
they had proposed to meet that even
inc at Mr. LaGrave's Store at Z
O'Clock and that lie would not go
home till after the meeting end that
| should come over at early lamp
lighting. | told him that intended
to be at the convention he said they
would appoint me delegate. | re-
marked that | would rather not 90
as a delegate, but if others could not
be rot to 90 that ] would not object
to 90 as one At the time appointed
| went to LaGrave's Store found
Sneclode there but no others. We
went into the Post Office next door
that is Mr.. Reinke's Store, remained
there some time and returned to La
Graves Store found Mr.. Maywert
and Mr. Forbes the store keepers
there Mr.. Maywert said he knew
nothing about the caucus. Mr. For
hes said Mr. LaGrave was down at
his house and could not be there it
was then about 8 O'Clock. Mr.. Sne-
clode and | left, agreeing that there
could be no caucus. requested MIR.
Sneclode to go and try to get some
others to go and represent the towr
in the convention he said he could
not 60 That was Thursday night.
| heard 40 more about caucus on
Saturday morning set out for Taf-
ton to attend the convention. | m ct
many persons some Of whom asked
me il | was q delegate from Cass-
vile. / answered there was none APP
pointed there had been no caucus
the same when | arrived at Tafton
| was asked by many if | was del
egate no! who were the delegates
from Cassville =? answer as above
[ was ansllcd by citizen Of Tafton
those questions who on hearing my
answers, told me, that Mr. I homp
son, had told him in the early part Of
the week, ! think on Tuesday, that
himself, Burgess and Snecode had
been appointed delegates from Cass-
wills. ] remarked that there must be
mistake about that and related as
above, adding that there had been no
caucus held unless it was a private
one. Now for tho convention. II
met in the schoo! house agreeable tC
call | went as a spectator. Con
vcntion organized, committee on ere.
dentials appointed. Mr.. Thompson
presented himself, Burgess and She
clode to be the authorized delegates
from Cassville, himself being in the
absence of his colleagues three fold
delegate, being instructed to cast
three votes, for Q certain individual
This rather astonished me; in an at
itude Of self defense, for had time
and again, asserted that there had
been no caucus held in Cassville j
arose and went and examined the
credentials, | knew the hand writing
and the name annexed as chairman
and again asserted that there had
been no meeting in Cassvilc for the
purpose Of choosing delegates, known
to the people, and returned to my
seat. The committee on credentials
proposed that ! should lie received
by the convention as adelegate from
CassviIIc Before a vote was taken
on It'll positively declined accept
ing seat in the convention, under
such circumstances. The conven-
ton then took action on the case
and redu cd the three fold pow
err Of Mr.. Thompson to that OF sin
gle delegate, and refusing to receive
any votes by proxy. | OF course
took no part in this action OF the
convention for | was not Q delegate
A motion then being made that my
humble self should be received by
the convention AS delegate from
Cassville, and carried unanimously |
then after Few remarks on the ac
ton of the convention reluctantly
took my seat as member OF the
convention. Finding that mmlsrep
RESERVATIONS are going the rounds en-
the above case to the prejudice o.
the nominees of the convention, =
deem it my duty to give to give q
true statement. | care nothing
about the way and manner that Mr.
Thompson got his credentials, many
credentials have been issued in the
same way and candidates wrongfully
obtaining nominations by them.
leave that for oilers to criticise on
am Q Jeffersonian, Anti-slavery
Democratic Republican, ask no Ia
vors from any political party, take
no private road, go on the high
way Of liberty, equal rights, to all
transact no political business under q
cloud.
w. Pollock.
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