Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-07-27

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jefferson County Nominating Convention.
Self gorsrnmpnt-F1iks who are fiji for
IL Charge Of Bargain and .'"le-
Scenes Of Riot and Disorder-7hs
High md .Mgh'y FaAe"-.Uadmsn
on The RampagS-Carpst-baggiag
Dsmocrpis-".Nea Of COmpa"y b
Jorward," &c, &c.
The scene of riot and confusion which
took place on Saturday lastat the meet
ing to select delegates to represent
Charlestown township in the County
Convention, like very disgraceful events
casting their very dirty shadows before,
was intimation sufficient to the toresee-
ing, that all would not be well at the
Convention, when it should assemble.
But no foresight could anticipate and
no imagination can now compass the
rowdyism and riot that actually took
place. Even many of those who were
present could hardly believe the evil
dence of their eyes and ears. One, at
least, was not only surprised aud dis
gusted at much that he witnessed, bu;
AS utterly unable to describe it. If some
/ Of those engaged were well known bad
characters, there were also some whose
regulations hitherto have been uneXcep-
tionable. But the Selt-control of all was
lost. Gentlemen pugilisticalIy inclined
struck out at imaginary foes contede-
rate officers (some Of whom, when John
Brown took Harper's Ferry, instead OF
attacking the old man, preferred to
wait for re-intorcements, } called on
their comrades. while old men, in their
rage. danced on the floor, and then
jumped on the tables, performing antics
TO the music of hoarse shouts, speeches,
and imprecations, that would have dis
graced a Jungle, and set Htra";s, the
german fiddler, crazy. Bedlam was let
loose.
Lee Hall was crammed at ] o'clock,
A, NJ, when the Convention was called
to order. The business of organization
was commenced and completed, with a
good deal of decorum and to the appar-
ent satisfaction of all. The Convention
then adjourned to meet at 2 7. NJ, to
make nominations,
At two o'clock the Convention re-as-
sembled, and the business Of nominating
candidates was commenced and proceed
ed with. On the first ballot Mr.. Ed
ward Tierney OF lIarpers Ferry, a gen
tleman who can be his own bOndsman,
and whose manners and character have
made him popular not only in his own
neighborhood but thro' the whole coun-
ty, was nominated for the Office of Sher
iii, over Mr.. Crane, his opponent, the
nomination being declared unanimous,
on motion of Mr. Lock, the friend and
proposer of Mr.. Crane. The nomina-
tons for offices of Clerk of the Circuit
/ Court, and Clerk of the County Court,
Mr.. Evans of Smithfeld, and Mr.. Chew
of Charlestown, were then made, and
made in the same way, each and all be-
! ing declared 10 be the unanimous noml-
nations of the Convention BY this
time, Charlestown, finding herself com
pletely foiled, by a combination Of the
! County, invited into existence by her
own baseess pretensons, the exhibition
of which filling her papers for months
past, has been a source of merrment to
the whole State finding that her
greed for office, was not likely to be
gratifed. began to boil, and when Mr..
Beltzhoover was nominated for Prose
cutting Attorney over Mr.. Wilson, (the
'Protessor, not the Senator, 1.-THE row
which had been brewing since the nomi-
nation of Edward Tierney, burst forth
with undated fury. "Bargain, sale,
fraud combination, 1.-The young
blood of Wilson flowed on one battle
tield-he was the last man on another.
"Beltzhoover, carpet Dagger, &c, DC.
Such was portion Of the language OF
the charges of Charlestown against the
rest of the County. John A. Thomp-
son took the stand and amid unparalleled
confusion, attempted to explain how
candidates were nominated and elected
at the time of .4ristoHe. Col. Baylor,
the John Brown warrior, interrupted the
scholastic economist, and shouted out
something-caling for his men of Com
panv b, Gas he was UNDERSTOOD. John
Lock arose IL make an explanation.
Believing that he ''hed the cards, he
had nevertheless ''lost a trick, and was
filled with holy Indignation. What he
meant to say, Heaven only knows, 70, a
friend of his, who seemed to have the
MYSTERIES, showed him off the table. and
{ with uplitted arms, exclaimed High
/ Heaven :" and then, dashing his hands
together, with force enough to turn
them both into their original mush, shot
wildly into the crowd. The Chair,
(there had been of course no chair, for
sometme,) was continually addressed.
Men who had been for an hour violating
every rule of order, called for "order,
''orLer." But it is impossible to de-
scribe the scene of wild disorder. A
fight at an Irish tair--a row in the sixth
ward Of New York-Philadelphia fire
men dividing spoils after fire at a hat
store, give some idea, but most imper-
feet one, of scene that "bangs Banna-
CHER. and Bannagher' (you may have
heard) bangs the devil.
And this seltishness, disorder, bru-
tality-this is the return that Charles
town makes to the county Of Jefferson.
a County, that for years and years,
through thick and thin fought for the