Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-03

has been his "organ" in this county,
has welcomed to its columns COM
munications derogatorv to both Mr..
Hazelton, and Mr.. Holloway, and in
its editorials has treated both of
these gentlemen unfairly. But this
was to have been expected, for it is
well known il this county, that
whenever the Witness becomes the
'organ' Of any man, seeking nom
ination, its BAL over-leaps the bounds
Of discretion, and it swings its fail
tielcely and wildly, hurting itself
and its candidates, however, ottener
than any one else. These statement 8
may surprise some, who only see the
| Witness during the times Intern cdr
ate political contests, when the plsc :
id dullness of its inside pages, is only
relieved by the attractifc head lines
of new advertisement.
Doe of tho communications to
which we refer was published over
the signature can Old Republican"
and was written at Fennimore, by a
supporter of Col. Clark. 1t gave an
unfair statement of the manner in
| which the caucuses in the Northern
District had been held. The object
of the communication was to create
the false impression, that if the eau
cuses in that district had been held
q week later, the district might have
gone against Ha2elton and, inferen>
TALLY, for Col Clark. A result in no
degree probable +; for Mr.. Hazelton
is undoubtedly the choice of that dis
trict, and with the exception of two,
all the towns in it will declare in his
favor over all others, upon q notice
of one day, or forty. The two
towns excepted are Fennimore, and
WingviIIe, which would probably
go for Holloway or Clark. Fenni-
more has all along been claimed as
favorable to Mr. Clark. 1t did not
hold its caucus when the river towns
Of tho district held theirs, but chose
to postpone it until last Saturday.
As the result in the district had al
ready been determined by the towns
in which caucuses had been held but
little interest was manifested in the
caucus there on Saturday by the vo-
ters generally, but the supporters of
Col. Clark, who had been warned to
come for special purpose, were
promptly on hand, the Witness cor
respondent, Gan Old Republican, .
acting as chief drill master. A few
Holloway men scattered in to see
what was up. The caucus was call
cd to elect delegates TO attend the
Assembly Convention which was to
meet at Boscobel A person not up
to the "ways that are dark and the
tricks that are vain" would have
supposed that the caucus would have
set itself to work 20 elect delegates,
and as the Clark men preponderated
that they would have selected DEL
egation with Gan OH Republican"
at its head, that could step into the
assembly convention upon adequate
notice." But no, the Clark men
knew trick worth two of that, that
had been prepared for them at head
quarters, for instead of proceeding
to elect delegates according to the
notice under which they had met,
they at once set to work to do a
thing not contemplated by the no
tice and, therefore, oonfessedly irreg-
ular-thoy proceeded TO adopt reso-
lutions, that had been drafted at
Lancaster, ignoring the Assembly
Convention at Boseobel, and splitting
impotent invcctive at Mr.. Haz elton ;
and this work being done, adjourned
without electing any delegates
Some of the Holloway men present
opposed this, and advised the eIec
ton of delegates according to the
notice of meeting, but they were ig-
nored. The Clark men hoping to
| light large confagration with their
little local torch, unanimously re-
solved" that their resolutions should
be published in all of the papers in
this congressional district. Now
wasn't this an irregular thing fol
"An Old Republican," and his coad
tutors, who do nothing except upon
due notice, to do And what did
they expect TO accomplish By it
Did they expect their irregular With
out-notic1-vltuperative resolutions
would receive any notice in the As
sembly Convention, or affect the APP
petite of an individual membeI
thereof? OF course not, for they
who voted the resolutions, knew
! that the delegates to the assembly
convention had been regularly cho
: sen. They knew that the friends o
Mr.. Hazeltou, whose desire was bar
mony, had said to "An Old Republi
CAM who was known to be tn,