The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-06
The Radical Congressional squabble.

The Radical Congressional Squabble.
The radical squabble over the congressional
nomination of this district came to cOnclu-
sion somewhat suddenly and unexpectedly
on Tuesday by the decision OF the Will coun-
ty radical convention III favor of the present
incumbent, the Hon. Burton C. Cock. As
Mr.. Snapp, of Will and Mr.. Corwin, of La
Sale, had Joined teams TO lay our Mr.. Cook,
Il became essential 70 the success of the game
that Cook should be beaten at least in Will :;
while should the ''holy alliance" be beaten
there, the Jig would necessarily be up. So
the interest Of the parties belligerent in the
movements in viii became very intense. At
the little caucus meetings on Saturday to ap-
point delegates to the county convention, Ito
meet on tuesday, it was often doubtful
whether there were not more voters present
from Ottawa and Morris, than from the town
Immediately interested. In some of the cru
raj precincts where two or three local poll
ticians were wont to meet on the school house
steps and appoint the delegates, it is said the
siuidASH-S.it was AuuAS4Ous w oCO VAC
invasion OF noble Celts' or TeutOns, who,
in spite OF their utterly strange and unrecog-
nized faces, claimed not only to I've residents
but good republicans be iiabexs" or "py
TAM as the case might be, and who showed
q surprising readiness to vote " early and
often to- Cook or Snapp delegates, whichever
happened to have hired the particular squad.
The battle eliminated on Tuesday. when the
various delegations, thus elected, met in con-
vention ct Joliet. 1t took but little time to
make q count Of noses and ascertain that of
the 100 delegates composing the convention,
the alliance had been able 10 carry but 80,
leaving u in favor Of Cook. Nevertheless,
the blood of the opposition" was up, and
though badly beaten in advance, they would
have fight anyhow, for the fun Of it. So
for an hour or two the convention was
"scene' to which nothing short of the con-
vention that slaughtered Cullom at Spring
field can be named as comparison. Charges
of bribery, fraud and corruption were banded
back and forth amid screams of cursing and
swearing that made the old court house trem-
BILE. However, the Cook men, resting easy
in their overshadswing majority, took the
thing cooly until the opposition had exhaust
ed itself, and then went grimly to work and
appointed their delegates, with instructions
to vote for Cook.
Snapp was then inhumanly called upon by
mis- own friends to deliver his funeral Grafton,
which he did in a pathetic way, declaring
that it was Cooks money and congressional
patronage that had been the death of him.
Cook was nsXt called upon to speak, but the
Snspp-ists We're still to- snappish to hear him,
and his voice was drowned amid their bel
lowirgs'
So ended the tight in Will, and if man
like Mr.. Snapp was unable to lay out Cook in
Will, what chance could there be tor Corwin
against Cook in la Sale Clearly none at
all, and Mr.. Corwin, holding with Falstaif
that "deecretion is the better part of valor,"
concluded it was better to back off the course
than to be choked off, His dccensiOn ap-
pears in this weeks ottawa Republican, and
though 1t woald not take up great deal of
our space to copy it, we fancy Mr.. Corwin
Will feel obliged to us Il year or two hence for
not doing so, After the tind of fight he and
his friends made in Will though it is very
likely they were more than matched in Kind
by the friends of Nr. Cook, it is anything but
graceful to retire whining aGoout having been
beaten by the "lavS3h use of money and con-
gressional patronage Were Mr.. Corwin and
his trieuGis simple enough to imagine Cook
could be beaten without the lavish use of
money ?! Were they, IN point nf fact, green
enough to undertake tie fight without the
lavish use u money and at least prospectiee
congressional patronage Bowea and the
rest OF CorwiG captains wouldn't thank US to
suppose them so unsophistieated !: is hard,
we know. wheE one has set his heart on q
thing, as Mr., Corwin evidently had Oh this
congressional nCminatidn, to lavc ones long
and fondly cherished hopes thus suddenly
dlssipated. We commend to hiM for consoia-
ton, the pathetic lines from Llatah Rookh
twas thus y ON chldhoods hs,lr.
I've seen my ondsst pores dscay,'
and 50 forth or, if that is too melancholy
there is n world of consolation. il one can see
il, in the robust distitcE ot less polished
poet:
since AN 80 pu.cN! Goue i1r.
What in --Wa> ho.vr Tor -
Call N philosophy, Brother Corwln Moth.
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