Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-10-23
T. ssembly District Confusion in Fifth
District.
Mr.. Cover:

At tharequest of parties
interested as much as myself | beg
leave to correct through the HERALD
some misstatemens made by our
townsman Col W. Pollock, at the AS
! sembly District Convention held at
| Tafton, on the 18th inst.
MIR. Pollock is said to have made
the assertion at the convention afore-
said ut MISREPRESENTATION of the, though
imperfect credentials Of j. L. Thomp-
son, one of our delegates, and in fact
our only authorized delegate there,
that his credentials were spurious,
that there was no primary meeting
held at Cassvile at all, thereby rep
resenting our delegate as an imposter.
Now the facts in regard TO this
primary meeting are as follows in
the first place we failed to meet
agreeable to notice in the HERALD
thereafter arrangements were made
to meet on the Monday thereafter,
this proved another failure, after that
myself aad others had taken it on
ourselves to give out word that
meeting would be held at the store
of c. l.. LaGfave on the 18th Of Oct.
at half past seven, p. NJ.
In the afternoon OF said day | saw
Mr.. Pollock and toldhim Of the meet
ing, to be he'd he iptimated he was
going to the convention and would
not object to act as a delegate but
then added that he would rather not
be delegate; later in the evening |
saw Pollock at the post office he en-
quired of me about the meeting and
| told him as there was then not any
body present to attend, | thought we
would have to let it go by default;
while thereafter number of town
people came together (and | may
here say, as many as we can get gen.
orally together on such occasions)
and we held our meeting. At the
meeting ] did propose the name of
Mr. Pollock Us one Of the delegates
but this was objected TO on the al
legged ground that the Colonel was
generally dramatically opposed to
the interest and wish of the majority
ofthe people in town. 1t was urged
that Esq Bennett was our man for
Representative and Pollock would
surely oppose his nomination, and
which is to-day equal to opposing the
wish Of our-ffths of our people eve
all approve Of Esq. Benefits course
taken last year, appreciate his seryi-
ces, and were willing to trust him
agasn.)
The meeting had chosen Otto Rein
Ike for chairman and John Ii. Sneclode
secretary, and the following were the
delegates chosen, to wit;
J. IL. G. Sneclode, Henry Burgess
and J. +. Thompson, and were in
structed to urge the nomination of
A. A. Bennett FOR the assembly and
in case Of any hindorence to any one
Of the delegates from attending the
rest were authorized to cast the.whole
vote. BY the coarse the Colonel took
at the convention he defeated Bennett
it is true, but did at the same time
not get nominated himself though,
this is true likewise.
As this communication has already
taken more space than | had intended
| will close by saying that the ere
dqntials Of j. I. Thompson were not
spurious though he had rot my name
on as secretary; ! had made out other
credentials for Thompson ard Bur
CESS and signed them as secretary
left them with my wife Gas had to 60
to my work. with instructions to give
them to Thompson and have him get
them signed by Mr.. Reinlle as chair
man Of the meeting and the authori-
ty given to Thompson by these ere
dontials which he brought to Tafton
were consonant with the wishes of
the majority of the people Of the
town.
| will close with the annexed GER
tificate. Respectfully yours,
J. I'll. c. SNECLoDE.
We, the undersigned citizens of
Cassville, hereby certify that the
statements made in the foregoing
communication by ]. II. G. Sncclode
are true in as far as they relate to the
feeling of the majority of the voters
here and to the primary meeting held
and the business transacted there.
QTTo REINKE
L. S. MASON,
G.. l.. IAGRAvE,
Il. G. FORBES,
JOHN A. KLINDT,
CT. CHAPMAN,
J. D. UAEP.
? S. Since writing the above, l
understand that Bennett is an lnde
pendent Candidate for the office of
Representative, if so he will get a
hearty vote at Cassville.
J. FL. C.SNECLoDE.
Cassvillc, Oct. 16.
BoscoBEL observation-disclosures has
long been great public concern about
the peculiar and very exciting pcli-
tics so familiar to all at Boscobel, but
elsewhere unknown. For some
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