, 1866-08-21
THE DOUGnFACES OF ILLINOIS
NORTON,S STATUS FIXED.
How tho Convention .vas n Success.

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fould be used as test of loya1ty-tliat tho
:xccntirc would cnlcr upon the work Of be-
reading ot1'cc-noldcrs In vigorous earnest
MSS Immediately after its adjournment If
ou do but wntch How, my good masters,
'ou slinll see, over these tllus-tu-be-inadc
Il most lovely and lively scramble.
The matter has been much canyasscd here
luriuE the week.
Somebody Is badly sold- The Weed men
say The Convention lias broken up the DEM
ucratic party, and tho Western Democrats
,rc very positive that all these Ho-ca1lcd
Johnson men will bc nvowcd Democrats
within SIX months. s'Oll Weed Is s.uart us |
l-ll." snid oue of the quasi Republican del
clntcs II hl'cnnsylvan.h to me last evening a. |
VT discussed tic Convention; "he's trippcl |
up these d-d CoppcrI,cads aud SWING tho |
whole d--d Democratic party over On to |
Il Union PLATFORM" "Ah, rou think 80 W
said /. ''Think so ! know 10. md all you
Radicals 1lad better stand from under If you
don't want to get smashed You've got to
join US. or you're ctcrnaliy done for, ,roliti-
cally." Which valuable advice is hereby
made public for the benefit Of whom 1t may
conccin.
had talk at the supper table with one
of the Illinois delegation-an old friend. who
never Was anything but a Democrat IN poll
tics, and whose record for loyalty during the
professcs himself entirely satisfied with the
results Of the Convention. "We'ye hiyed
Browning, and Norton, and Tom Turner,
and DR.. Green, and / believe the Democratic
naEy I'll, ! cay the st Stats t this 4, ~ by god
do youEn ! queried. Certainly, certainly;
VIC shan't trust 'cm ont Of sight much for o
little while, but they're regularly initiated"
These two gentlemen arc types ofthe classes
now leaving here. As I said before, somebody
is bndly sold. Weed has had c2reworn and
anxious expression Of fcountenance during his
stay. Dean NcAmond's face is Just about as
expressive in human sense Us boiled lob
ster, but be eays "eycrythfng's all rig.lt-al
right" It will be worth your while, Sir, to
watch the developments.
The Convention was made up of three
classes-Dcmocrats, Republicans in otNcc,
and Republicans who want Office. A gool
many so-called Republicans were elected or
appointed as delegates hnt I observe, what
| everybody else also observes, that large
| majoTity Of the ahsentces were Republicans.
a venture and without warrant. However
this may be, the fact Is as statc-the Demo-
/ cratic delegates got here readily enough,
while very many Of tue Republican delegates
"fai1cd to make the connection" Possibly
the fact may be significant.
It is entirely safe to soy that Of the whole
body Of delegates, not onc-f0urtt, ever acted
| with the Republican party aud Doubt If
there were hundred men In the entire Con-
vcntion who voted for lincoln In 1Sti0. don't
know any better test 0; cerublleanlsm than
that vote There were. pc: :ars, TWO hundred
more who voted for Lincoln and johnson In
1S64, but never called themselves anything
but War Dcmncrats--nevcF ind any sytnpa-
thy with the Republicans as q party. The
balance of the twelve hundred delegates and
n1v fn&sr r.. Aff 4ntf.r
were men who have been in opposition to the
in ISL.
That it was Democratic Convention il
readily enough shown, too, by the commit
tees appointed. Great effort was made te
give them Republican coloring; but exam
inc which Of them you will, and you will set
ut once how the effort failed. Of conrst
none Of the Southern appointees arc Repub
licans; Of the Northern nppointees not on
earnest Republican. In word, the commit
tees are made up of-ex-rebels, four parts
Northern Democrats. three parts; genuin
Coppcrheads, one and a half parts, and Re
publicans, mostly Of low grade, one and
!, half parts. Possibly Mr. Weed and hi
Dean Richmond, Montgomery Blair an
James L. Orr eau find it much more easily,
imagine .
The Convention, at least, accomplishe
one thing-it fixed the political status {
, Jesse o. Norton Henceforth. il any Reput
: lican is fooled by him, he must be very greer
r remember how Mr. Norton balanced abn1
. during the last two months of the session {
Congress Common report In sVashin.to
. asserted that be finally secured his app0tn
i ofthc Democratic Central Committee. uop
4 ever that may be, he is fixed now-he b
longs to this new bread and butter party {
l. heartily as Bates or Browning. Let him e
y and be-kept in office.
G To eay tha: this Convention arrived
d unanimous conclusions would be to hide II
!. fact that it did nothing but vote "Rye" vii
tremendous force on cvery motion snbmittt
by Doalittfe, Cowan. Steadmaur Randall ar
Y Keycrly johnson These gentlemen were
st the " ring" and whoever was not Of tt
e. sweet little company had no chance for recn
=. milton by the Convention. Everybody kne
. y. that debate would not be allowcd-t
II delegates were to swallow Just what t
3 Executive Committee gave them. and tn
at 70 home. And they did II, too, without
chcat-or say farce, for nobody will
cheated.
Nj. Browning has appeared in the pl
=. merely IS the walking gent" He vas ut
es enough behind the eceDes, being, in fact, q
Of tug stage anagsFs but IN pqb1lc nc
cs rltlcd shirt rt-bosums-the cminentty respc
~ able gentlemen Of the olden time. he =
~ bland. and genial, and courteous, aud
Southern delegates evidently left the c
Fe- With very favorable impression OF the 4
nj Sec; ;ctAry Of the 1nfezaoF.
g, piece Having killed himself POLITICAL,
'eA his own State, he had cause for anxiety
's hasn't so happy faculty us some men
or falling On his feet, and unless nc can n
not something out Of this new movement, q
ted u o' G1s III II tno @ = Ta'k;ne % was Of aT hi
-, what he could not allow; and the aG
'sN in Wnicn ne stooo Willie nays uaoc
spfeau-caEie DeMoeraEG sleeea% q,
hey 70 tee- II ne "e[e u AZ eanap'.s ' q up
': recalling Tic manner In which hc i'm,
,,,n every dGiceate NOT IN ING mana:G!la. Us
MI blAir dto not eecm Wnolly sall G
ooo win inc resnlts OF me Canyenllon. M ton
10 acre on Ihufsuay " last "seh. -. ~ lnus -
end onts nu vas h1 snc Enhu nonsrI,ad KIN, are'
hey meM: ssefy9oos eansoltea nin, sse!!s
4e1e,1to ~ us oPiniont ese1y nouy ",
fer his nod; He was ubiquitous, and
re- Mephls'ophi!ean corners o. Ms NOUN ~ as
sent Sanght p!easant s sfnMe. Nc 6nx on ~
n.l0W 4aa .so1 Mss1 anu n1oana san ~ enona IN ~
'ton, and, somehow, 1t seemed that Mr.. Dlal.
:. ~ q little into the shadow alter that tx
tue NOT quit inc secret eoaneit eaamoef IN o.
lson, was pu1 AZ tae Aeau ~ tae ton ~.
oId and hard sarionic Ieer came back ini
l. -. face, mud his tongue lost the mellow 1
;. L. Of Sunday and Saturday: ! can't tesis
'oe1s. nensi that ne means nlsentei, not On
Aa1- 1nI ,tte nn+ uId n1sa9 sssncfetas ="
L IN social scnse the Convention vas
Aes- cidcd succcss. There was deal of
ne OF trap about Massachusetts, and South
nator lima, nnd not little disgusting donghia
N, genesa os @.s 1,a,, a.. ~ osut,an,s,
J. D. the no sections af The county. aud {
q, aA less personal friendships were formed
will finally result IN an increase OF tFa
:, anu snoHieaEe petHeSn Nessn Enn SJH1n, nhina-
lis IT. ~ EIart;a,, I.ssvt;a srea . s,ccess r. r
Alnle' rioue md anxious labor to get II God ,And
$. and Va1landtcham ont of the way, ar
ey, j. amount of drill tbronCh which the pl