Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-08-24
THE HENRY COUNTY SHERIFF.
The Row in the Grant County Convention
Maj Gould Rebukes their Truck and
Dicker Trades

The Row in the Grant County Convention
Mai Gould Rebukes their Truck and
Disker Trades
The sreA, contest among the Grant folks
in Henry has been over the Sheriff. Mr..
Ayres, very respectable and competent
man was the choice OF q very large portion
oftho Grant people. The frs. ballot showed
4s for Ayres, % for johnson, % for HAr-
riug,on, and Ia for Lindstrom. Mr.. Har-
riuglOn, slsO highly respected American,
was the fSvoriio OF many, and would have
made an excellent, sheriff. But the policy
men, the breAd-And. butter brigade, we're
afraid of the SWedes and managed to throw
overheard Ayrss and Harm g,ou, who had
II votes to 43 for the two Swsdes-nearly
two to one against :he Sweiss blu. the ma
jorily we're oui-maneuvered and had to get
down on their knees. Maj. Gould, feeling
keeuly the humiliStiug position be and his
friends were placed 10, after an Intellectual
stfor. 10 save the convention from the dis
grace Of the truck. And.dicker sale, indig
nAutly withdrew the name Of Mr.. Ayrss in
timAting that there had been n bargSin-Aud.
sale, pus-up Job, deuounciug such shame
fol work, and declaring that Mr.. AyreS
would not permit himself TO be a candidate
before such q convention. Two indignant
gentlemen, friends of Ayres, who
we're delegates in that convention, have Civ
en- Ne this information, and we are assured
that the classification with the msrcensry
aud iims-serVing action Of that convention
is quite universal.
The Gsneseo Republic evidently don't like
johnson, the nominee, as it speaks very
coldly of him, calling him "a young man OF
Ioms knowledge Of the kind of business
which the oghce Of sheriff will throw him
into, "bragS ABOUT how many Svede votes he
eau get and SAYS, Gin this light his selection
was q judcouS one Here is an scknowl-
edgsmeui that his only qualification is that
Of getting Svsde votes, and that, in the alb
Ienoe Of this qualification, he never would
have been thought OF for the office. Rather
adsgrGdiug conisSSion-but that is to be
expected from our Grant ring-meu. The
best men have left their organization, and
the ofhoe-holders are trembling with fear
for the vote which, in November, will con
sign them to their original obscurisy, and
their native inIignihcAnces
The Cambridge True Republican, in AZ
article on this subject, says: Peter johnson
Of Weller was nominated, although G. J..
Lindssrom, of Lynn, was the man the Swedes
had recommended to the convention, and
the most competent TO Gil the Office. Here
IL another evidence Of the rsspsot the Grant
ties have tor the wishes Of their Swedish
tellov-cinzenI They throw overheard the
man Of their choice, and nominate in his
place man who is VIGOROUSLY incompetent;
man who oAnno, read a paragraph intel
hgibly, or write q legibls sentence. 1t is
evident that ma oriGy Of the convention, If
they we're compelled 10 nominate a Swede
had determined to take the weakest and
most ignorant candidate offered, so as to
disgust the natives and drive them to vote
Tor and elect his opponent, Many Of the
delegates went home swearing they would
not vote for Mr.. Z. Johnson, and some Of
them were so disguised with the whole pro
oseding, that they declared they would vote
the straight Liberal tiokelr