The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-08-13


hereby declare that zee viii accep
nothing less.
"R. w CAHrLL. Chairman.
JACOB RIBLRT, Secretary.
"Bucyrus, August G."
The reading of this was followe,
by a storm Of Kisses from all parts o.
the hall and the greatest uproar pre
vailed. Mr.. Paine, of Seneca, Chair
man Of the Central Committee
shouted from tho platform: 81
that's your style then take Gibsor
and be done with it," The memoria
was referred to the committee or
resolutions without debate, aud amid
tremendous confusion the Conyen-
tion took recess till 1870 p. M
The delegates went pell.moll down
stairs with hundreds of such cjaoula.
tions as: "That 'lccts Gibson. u
" That busts the hull id thing. "
"Confound CrawIord-they're reb-
els" "We might s well 20 homo. u
" The RAIDS II carry the district ow
sure" jackson ought TO he lynched
fr this" "lIe's Killed the party. "
"This all comes from that blasted
Erie county split" That's what
packing county delegations does -
" This is brought about by Repbli.
can money" "Tbat Sandusky Reg.
ister knew what it was doiug-it's in
coho Dts with Jacksou'-and so on.
Representatives of every county
rushed to the headquar.
tors Of Crawford and begged, threat
ened and oajoled to no purpose.
Abncr sat among his seventy beach
men grim and immovablo. The un.
varying response from the chairman
Of the Crawford delegation was
Jackson or nothingp Attempts we're
made to compromise by Withdrawing
Noble and taking up a third man.
To this the Jacksonians replied,
mot by a damsight." Hubbard was
proposed "Cuss Hubbard | Who's
p Then Lockwood ? "D-p
Lockwood-how long eince he was
a bowling radical ?" Perhaps Judge
Senoy, of Seneca, would do Dab
Seney was quartormaster in the Abo.
litiou armyj lie wouldn't get 500
in Crawford Besides he
lives in Sencca-modest SENEGAL"
Woll, Convention reassembled-
Cruwford's seventy still remaining
out in the cold, One lone delegate
from Crawford, Prosecuting Attorney
Jones, who disapprovod of secess ion ,
took his seat in the Convention
amid much appliance, After hear.
ing the routine reports of committees,
il was voted to proceed to nominate
4 candidate. Noble Of Seueca, Jack
sou of Crawford, and Lockwood of
Ottawa, were named. A ballot was
deferred until the COMMITTEES on reso-
utions should report on tho Craw.
'o'd memorial. They reported that
hey had conferred with the Craw
ord delegation, aud as no proof was
of the statements made in
: 0 meLgoriLl, the Committee recon-
,end. 1 tha. said memorial be re-
nrpeI to 'he Crawford delegation,
I'd they be in, tied g take seats in
he Convention. 4, special commit
CO was sent to comm .1nlcate TINS
ction to tho Crawford de-. ,'.ngatlon u,
'hc response was brief but fun OF
meaning to Democrats "Tell the
Convention to 20 to holl." This
loscd tho negotiations aud the Con.
entiou proceeded to nominate War.
on Z, Noble on the first ballot, the
ote standing: Noble 2l2, Lockwood
70, jackson I. Ottawa gavo 20 to
lockwood, Huron gave Jackson 6
nd Crawford gave him / Mr.. Jones
ot wishing to "cast the whole vote
t Crawford as the Convention
'anted him to do.
Mr.. Noble was sent for, and on
aking the stand, put on his specta-
les, produced some hiriy pages of
prepared manuscript, and
roceeded to read a very common
lace essay on "tho issues" He
Introduced this, however, by deplor.
ng the discussions which had
ccurred aud disclaimcd all rcsponsi.
ility therefor. A cloud of soidently
osted on the Convention, grief was
.epicted on tho faces Of the faithful
nd that "trouble in chunks" predic.
ed by the Register aboundod. Mr..
Noble read for half an hour, the
audience constantly thinning out.
\ considerable portion Of the essay
consisted ofprinted slips of speech
which the reader said he delivered
u '6o. Its juciuess can bo imagined.
\ committee was sent to invite Mr..
lackson to address the Convention.
tut he omphatically declined to have
to do with gathering
which had iusultcd him aud his
county,
After some spouting by one Bar
lum the Convention dispersed to-
ward the depot, with silent tongues
md heavy hearts-except the Craw-
'ord delegates who we're jolly aud
predicted the election of Gibson by
lu overwhelming majority. They
aid to other delegates "You have
nominated NOble--aow elect bim.-
Crawford medas iohat she says aud
'sho says she ,eiH not cote for Var
'rea 4. Noble" There is no doubt
Df the truth Of this. The split is
not surface one it is not an affair
IF oliquos aud politicians, but it
originates ,oih the Demoeratic masses
!f Crd,Cford who know that their
champion, A. NJ, Jackson, has been
repeatedly suubbed, aud all for the
sake of pretended expedieuoy.-
They also believe they know that
Noble delegations were unfairly
packed in moro counties than Eric.
Every delegate who expressed an