Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-04-07
"A FEW FACTS II
The Menomonee CONGESTION.
TO THE UNION PARTY OF PIERCE coUxr,
Open Confssiion is Coed for the Soul.

TO THE UNION PARTY or FIERCE COUNTY.
Open Confsssioz is Coed for the Soul.
we preface few facts relative to the
late Judicial Convention, with two OBJ
servatIons
lst--We are convinced By recent
events that the Millennium in Pierce
Co. is not so near by several years as
Rev. w. G. DENNIsoN thought it was.
2nd-As q magnet will draw steel
filings out of a pile If saw dust. SO the
recent election for man 10 fill an i,upor-
tast and lucrative office. has drawn all
that is venal and merceuary in both par
ties to the surface, and both parties have
suffered from it. You can count the
noses of the blood suckers as easy as you
can the black sheep in 4 flock:
Shortly after the Judicial Convention
at Menominee, the mir began to be filed
with rumors that Mr.. Humphreys NOM
iaation had been bought. Mr.. H. A.
jay openly bolted the nomination, and
MAIDS an affidavit that he had been Of
fered S40O for his vote. and that $1,000
had been paid TO secure Mr.. Humphreys
nomination. Mr.. Felt made an affidavit
mainly to this purport; affidayits denying
having received any money, were made
by the other delegates from Pierce. and
afiidayits upon various subjects from bri
berry down TO ''peanuts" and "pop corn"
were made, pro and con, all over the
District. The people naturally suspec-
ted there was some frs to cause all this
smoke. and little by little items of truth
became known and public interest ar
reused, until We are forced TO
state what we know to be the facts.
In the first place, it is we'll known that
the feeling of the County was over
whelming in favor of Mr.. Humphreys
nomination.
This is sufficiently proven by tho
known expression Of the people generally
and by The passage of the following res
olution in the Co. Convention, which
was the very weakest endorsement of
Humphrey which White could engineer
through.
RESOLVED. That the delegates to Me-
noinonee, are hereby instructed to sup.
port IL. l.. Humphrey for the office of
Judge Of this Judicial circuit so long as
in their judgement he is the strongest
man for the position, but if it appears
that he is not such a candidate, then to
support j. 8. White or the best and the
strongest man for that position.
The fact is again attested by the very
large vote Mr.. Humphrey has received
showing that the action of his friends at
Menomonee was necessary to protect the
people in their right to their own choice.
The delegates were elected with the
general expectation that they would sup
por, Mr.. Humphrey, but with Mr.. White
covertly working to defeat him. The
real friends of Mr.. Humphrey soon saw
that an energetic effort was being made
to defeat him, and thwart the will of the
County, and after it became known who
would cast the votes, ourselves and 9TH
ers felt confident that Greenbacks were
the only argument which could reach
some of the votes.
The persons who went to the Menom-
once Convention from Pierce Co. were
as Gallows: Fl. A. Jay, ] vote, p. v.
Wise, vote, E. N. Redmon, w. FL.
York aud H. Felt, all opposed to Mr..
Humphrey, and ostensibIy for Mr..
White; and II. p. Ames, l vote, Jas.
Whlsingham 3 votes, J. ". VIM, John
Dale, Stephen Collins, ]. M. Mckee. and
Lutte A. Taylor. all in favor of Mr. Hum
phrey's nomination.
| 1t was Immediately evident to Mr..
Whites friends that he stood no more
chance for a nomination than he did oil
being translated bodily into the King
dom Of Heaven.
| The s.situation" was as follows Eau
Claire. Chippewa and Pepin Counties.
Is votes were for Mr. Barnes. st Croix,
votes. and votes 10 Pierce were fol
Mr. Humphrey. Dunn, 8 vo'es iol
Mr.. Humphrey as their first choice,
and ready to nominate him on the first
ballet if Pierce would vote united. Two
votes from Pierce were waiting fors.some
thing to turn up" The work was plain
Ito secure those two votes from Pierce.
in other words to persuade those holding