Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-09-04

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Committee together, to whom they un-
bosomed their worst fears and fondest
hopes "Brutus was an honorable
man." Brutus was there, and equal
to the emergency.
The handful of committeeman,
with zeal worthy of better cause.
in very few minutes designated seven
men of their city, with full authority
to send for men and papers," to the
end that they proceed to Morrowtown,
Ohio, on the 2Ist of August, and rep
resent Greene county in the Senatorial
Convention, casting the thirty votes
of the good people of their county
solid for S. N. Yeoman. And, strange
as the coincident may seem, six Of
these same deleg ates were interviewed
the same Monday night by Col. S. N
Yeoman, not, however, of course.
with reference to the Convention. Oh,
No! But Tuesday morning found the
Colonel and posse safe at home. What
now was to be the next grand move
by these bold players upon the politi
cal chess board The day for holding
the Convention arrived, and thirteen
of the nineteen delegates selected in
Fayette met at Morrowtown, seven of
whom were for and six opposed TO the
nomination of Col S. N Yeoman.
Three delegates only of the twenty
five from Clinton county, with no
power to ill up their delegation, or
authority to vote the full vote OF their
county-and to their credit be it SAID,
they did not attempt to do so. The
seven men ofXenia, also appeared and
claimed to vote the thirty votes in that
Convention to which Greene county
was entitled.
Why it was necessary to send seven
men to vote the thirty votes, when
the same authority could have dele
gated the same power to one man, is
not readily accounted for, except on the
theory ofkeeping up appearances; and
besides, had they only sent one man,
it would have been a saving to Col.
Yeoman of the price of six suppers.-
(Who says he paid for the suppers of
those seven men y
You now have the material that was
to serve as the nucleus for Conven-
ton. They met, Clinton not reple-
sented at all-only three delegates
from two townships being present, for
the reason, as Judge West, of Whining
ton, one of the delegates. said, that
they did not have time after learning
the fact, to notify their delegates that
there was to be Convention. Greene
not represented at all. The city of
Xenia represented by the seven men
heretofore mentioned as having been
appointed by the Central Committee
of Greene, and escorted to the Conven-
ton under the leadership of Capt
Stuckey, of Washinging G. H., Ohio.
Fayette, having filled up her delega-
ton, stood nineteen strong. One of
the delegates from Clinton demanded
that the Convention adjourn to some
future day, to enable their delegates to
attend, but such a proposition was
not to be entertained, whereupon Full
Ter Hess, of Fayette, arose, and in an
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Senator, Col. S. N. Yeoman," where,
upon, no other nomination being made
one of the men from Xenia moved
his nomination by accIamation, and
Immediately thirty Ayes proceeded
from those seven men Of Xenia, to-
gether with the Ayes of portion O
the delegation from Fayette. The
Republicans of the three countie:
can very readily see how unanimously
he was nominated, and that, too, by
|, acclamation.
Republicans of Greene, Clinton anc
. Fayette, how will that do for a jol
, ''set up" from the beginning? o, how
is. that for ring? The shell being
cracked, the kernel begins to smell a
though there was decay going on, if
/ in fact, it does not amount to evidence
; ofpositive corruption. Let Republican
having the purity of their party a
heart, reflect. The crisis is upon us
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