The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-09-12
TUESDAYS CONVENTION.

Thu proceedings 81 the rhin'y Invention
OF tte led, pcpderis' or ~ formers OF
'lnleyendeut Rplormcrs," who met IN this
ic'iy pursuant ton call onTnesdaS las',are pub
jlshud m another cn!umD. The convention
was well aliended--a believe every town in
the county was represented.
The convention was certainly made up OF
very homogeneous ma,ciial--of republicans,
democrats, liberals, tariffi'eR aud arri-tariff'
! ties, hard money men and paper money d :
luslonists. The only common purpose thai
seemed to animate the whole body WAS op.
position to rcpublicanism and the corrupt
dynasty at present III power.
That q convention thus composed should
be entirely harmonious, was more Than ronld
be reasonably expected. And 1t was net
harmonious. There was, 10 begin with,
determined effort from HE west end of the
county to force the convention tn commit
itself to the cray Camphellite rag money
theories The convention had no stomach
for such pill, and persiS'en''y rejected IT,
The best 10 be douc, considering The hc'ero'
runcous composition Of the body. was 70 >g
more the subject, and this was the conrSe ire
convention wisely decided upon. to the dis
gust Of the west -sdcrs, many OF whom there
upnn withdrew, ard the baiance having ar
rived at something like ca'mness upon This
basis, TIE convention PROCEEDED to make NOM
nations.
The fir, nomination made WAS that Of L.
A. FERGUSON for sheriff. Mr.. Ferguson had
but little opposition, and his nomination was
made hy acclamatlon and unanimously, He
IS a No man la: the position, and his nom
nation gives universal satisfaction, the con-
gwlion on all hands being that no better
nomination could have been made,
:s...Tnen The convention proceeded IL nomi- !
nate candidates Tor representatives. and here, |
Ioo, Tie EXAMINATIONS were made with equal
y led IN AID discretion. 6. w Armstrong
md Chas Hoffman are as 90 I'd men as we have !
n The COUNTY, and will carry as big vote
Is any two men il wss possible for the con.
3entiou to name. Thus far We can support
he ticket with clear consci'r ce and entire
i2altints3.
The next nomination made was that OF
'awcet Plumb for State S, natnr. The nom
la'ion WAS sprung upon the convention
Without much consideration, on the ground 4
hat the nominees thus far had been former
publican should have q prominent place upon
he ticket IL is pretty evident, however,
bat the nomination Of Mr.. Plumb was mis-.
ike Personally, certainly, there can be no
ELECTION to HIM. He Is "A man of ability and
high toned, honorable gentleman. But the {
onveniion pretended tn be composed mainly
farmers and ant,-monopollsts and the {
by 'uch b1dy, Of lawyer,
ankcr and rallioal man, was go NJ back on
Il their former professions We Tear the ,
Of Mr.. Plamb can not be made to
lex L
Having made the nominations, ana ap- |
oin'ed delegates to the Morris convention,
he d"legaies generally left, leaving half q {
oxen in The room TO attend to little for
nal business, such IA appointing IL county I
omrn,tee and getting the proceedings pub Z
shed, when back came the secedlng west I
d"rs, and The absurd farce was enacted of I
istructing the delegates to Morris to vote
,r the nomination of Alex. Campbell, OF La =
ale, for Congress! The whole thing was
heer fraud. and wcuid have been voteG down {
We TO one had all the delegates been present. C
he disgraceful maneuve-. however, pr0ba. Il
ly had the desired effect OF securing the Z
omlna,lon of Mr.. Campbell at Morris, thus Q
'rcing upon the opposition to republican.
m in the district the necessity to put f
lird canildit' for congress into the field 4