Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-10-27
Bazetta Correspondence.

OcJ 10, lSOJ.
EDITOR CHRoNICLE:-Th Thinking
/ that news from Bazetta might be ac-
| ceptable in your columns, we give q
I few items that may be of interest to
some of your readers.
In consequence of various hindering
! causes, but five Republicans met at
/ the Town Hall on the evening of the
ID inst, in pursuance of a call of the
county committee as published in
your issue of the 18th ult. for the DUR
pose of putting in nomination q can
didate for Land Assessor, and they
not wishing to take the responsibility
of making so important a choice, the
meeting was in definitely postponed
until at q Republican meeting at Ba-
consbuTg on Friday evening, Oct. Sth,
it was announced that the Republi-
cans would hold q nominating con-
ventiOn on Monday evening. Oct. u.
In pursuance of which q number of
Republicans assembled in the Town
Hail, when, TO their surprise, there
also came nearly the entire strength
of the Democrats of the township.
And when the meeting proceeded to
business, To- and behOldi the Demo-
Gratis pitched in and actually under
took to run the convention according
to their previously eoncoeted plan.
And when the Republicans objected
to interference, the intruders made
the cheeky endeavor to bully the Re
publicans into silence by SCOTS and
ridicule, but they found they had the
plucky, wide awake Republican boys
of Bazetts to contend with, who gave
them plainly, but eOuTteously TO I'M
derstand that when their help was
wanted it would be called for. Find
ing that they could not brow-beat the
boys into submission to their outrage,
some of their leaders gave vent to their
mortified rage in sarcastic speeches
and burning epithets, conspicuous
among whom was the notorious "Bill
Downing" who wound up n highly
infiamed sDeech with the cTeditable re-
mark, that certain Republicans pres
ent were 'foOls and not fit to stand in
a still house and pick the lice off dead
hogs" and thus he will doubtless con-
tinue to squeal until some of his DEM
ocratic friends are found pure enough
to extract his surplus vermin. After
finding themselves fairly caught and
defeated, and too late to follow the eX-
ample of their defunct leader by max
ing mastery retreat" they consent
ed to wait until after the Republicans
had got through their business, when
they would nominate their man. At
this juncture 'Ex-Chief Justice Freer,'
an old auctiOneer and an old hand at
getting his party out of bad scrapes,
conceived the happy thought of fore
the report of their conduct
which would inevitably go forth with
the brand of falsehood, and to that
end made the assertion that any one
who would say that the Democrats
did convene for the purpose of dis
or interfering with the Re
publicans in any way, would cir
culate a falsehOod. Thus initiating
the boy who was up in tree stealing
peaches when one of his neighbors
accosted him with, "GOOd morning.
my bCy," to which he replied, "It's
darned lie, / am after a birds nest"
The Republicans finally succeeded in
restoring order so as to proceed with
the business of the evening, which re-
suited in the nomination of n. A.
COwdery. a man every way competent
to fill the office, having satisfactorily
filed many positions of profit and
trust. After adjournment the Demo-
Gratis went into convention and nOmi-
mated VIM. Hoagland, a good citizen,
but like poor tray was found in bad
as the returns of the cleo /
ton shows-Cowdery being elected by
a handsome majority. 1t would be
sheer desperation for the Democrats !
to deny that they undertook and failed |
in the old Democratic dodge of trying |
to sneak into and run a Republican
caucus. y