The evening Argus., 1868-11-13
A SERMON FROM HOBBS.

The radical editor Of the Gcneseo Repub
lie, smsrting under the defeat Of the radical
candidate for sheriff in county which goes
nearly 5000 radical majority, wakes right
up and tells the truth about the way radicals
manage their conventions. He says;
If these inscriptions wire.workers will
give the mater few moments serious re.
lecton, they may be able to trace the caus.
es of FIansburgs defeat. They may be able
to realize, more fully than they now do, that
70 trde with the wishes Of the people is
dangerous business, aud that it Is far better
to consult and obey such wishes than to try
to thwart them. Personally we have not
word 10 say against Mr. Warner-we believe
him good man but the manner Of Flans.
burgs nomination was an insult to the peo.
pie, a fraud on the convention, and dis
grace to those who effected it, The cOnven.
tion was manipulated by men who we're b4nt
on carrying their points NJ oil hazards-men
who cared nothing for the wishes Of the pcu.
pI"-men who were bound to rule or rain,
aud they ruined, We know, aud are prepar.
ed to prove the position, that not more than
one name on the ticket voted for would have
had place on il, had the convention been fair.
ly and honestly conducted With a singleex-
ceptlOu there was not a man on that ticket
that could have come within forty rows Of
apple trees OF nomination had the question
been fairly submitted to n vote Of the people
These are facts. And they are facts which
INSCRIPTIONS wire.pulers will DO well to pay
some attention to in the future, Political
conventions must not be turned into shops
for bargain and sse-a place where dishon.
est men can trade on the interests of the
people. There must be some show Of fair
ness connected with the business Of making
officers by those who are sent to conventions
TO do the work. else the people will repudi.
ate it. They have repuliatcd in this matter
Of sheriff, and they will do It every time a
candidate s forced on them that they do not
want Had it been any other than prcsi.
dental election hardly man on the repub
hcan ticket in this county would have beer
elected. There would have been the bigges
bolt that ever came over
That's what we call n good sermon, full
Of truth and well laid on. Aud every word
of it will apply to the radical management
III this county a. well rs in Henry as such
men as BufTum, Allen, Jordan, Hawcs
Payne and Wilson know. So does the Rim
Union know it-but it dare not say it,
But only think Of the confession Hobbt
makes, viz; Had it been any other than {
presidential election hardly man on the
republican ticket in this HENRY county
would have been elected Think of it! 4
confession that republicans are slaves to par
ty drill and the party lash and will, by
their votes sanction such disgraceful truck.
anddicker trades as were made in that
county and in this! A few republicans in
this county had the courage to vote against
the swinde by which men who ought to have
been nominated were snubbsd and laid on
the shelf by the wire pulling clique and mere
puppets pat inthe places they should have had.
A few, we say, had the courage to vote
against it-but few of them dared to say q
word publicly against the party drill or rebel
against the court house lash. We know
plenty Of good men in the republican party
who wanted to knock the whole ticket stone
dead, as a rebuke to the shameful trade
which brought it before the public, but they
had not the moral courage to do it. They
had surrendered their manhood to the eau.
Gus, no matter what the caucus might do. |
he amount Of respect one feels for such |
crageus is not extensive.