Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
CONVENTION.

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are the blacks at fault.
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
CONVENTION.
The day-last Sturday-was some
what unpropitious for.thc assembling
of the Democracy. Ii was evident.
however, from the spiri!less proceed.
ings Of the few who did gather on
that occasion, that they had no en-.
thnsiasm in the campaign before
them. Everything dragged its slow
length along, stumbling and hating
until everybody was worried out
Time and again nj intervals. The
townships Of Adams. Cass. and Kco.
kuk were called. and ii was long
time before anybody could be scared
up in the city to represent the two
first named townships. Adams came
in at last-in time. we believe. to vote
on the nomination for IA candidai,
for sheriff Columbia township had
Il single delegate present, and one
man IN the city. was found 10 repre-,
sent Cass, but the hest efforts pu,
forth by the different candidates tc
get votes, were unsuccessful in find.
ing Democrat in the city TO cast the
vote Of kcokuk township. Impro.
vlscd delegates were let in on al
hands without a murmur. but still
not over about half the delegates tC
which the various townships were en-.
Titled. were present.
The Committee on Crcdcmtial. re.
ported those elected. rs present. but
notably, in Center township. many OF
the delegates reported by the com.
mittcc were not on hand. One ma,
was reported as present who had Civ.
en- notice through the press that h,
would not active refer TO n. Baker
Esq. Another Center township dele.
gate we saw i'm the court room. who
declined to participate; at. least h,
took no part when solicited to do so
We noticed that one delegation
OF Compctinc--dcclincd to vote at all
on the candidate for Trcasurcr,cxprcs
ing themselves dissatisfied with Tho
two candidates presented. We mus
confess we rather admired their judg
mcnt. We believe that one of thos,
delegates did finally vote. but TIN,
other two could not swallow the pill
Whether they will. before election
make up their minds that thew ca,
stand the dose, remains to be seen
We incline very mnch to the opinio,
that the dose will remain nauscous a.
often rs presented. Not Il shout. no
cheer, not an encore of any kind
no manifestation of good feclin"
even. exhibited itself. 1t was n mos
hung'ingly conducted funeral escort
and us each victim was placed i,
| nomination, the sombrc hue of fin,
| "onh'chanccs of the delegates was il
Keeping with the lowerin. cloud.
without. Complete silence rcigncG
supreme. save what interruption was
made by the garrulity of the chair
man as he invited the convention +,
move ON 10 the burial of the next vie
tim.
we arc forced 10 the conclusion,
That the members of the convention
tancicd they heard the clods rattlipo
within the open grave rs each CANDY
date was nominated, such weird and
] appalling countcnamccs did they wear
giving no signs of hope in the flu
turc. OF Il resurrection and triumph
Even when vote was called to de-
clare II nomination unanimous. the
duh, passionless condition of the con-
vcntlon was so complete that the
chairman attempted to have the vote
repeated, in his anxiety TO arouse
some evidence of enthusiasm. The
facts were, that there were incongru-
Gus elements there. which were afraid
OF the sound of their own voices. The
new made Democrats pushed their de-
mahds so far That words could not do
justice to the subject, unless they were
red hot. aud nothing but the sahlbre
silence OF the funeral procession
comb prevent the match being APP
pied TO the magazine. The KNOWN.
wire puller, OF the city had set rp Il
pan 10 he sure OF a part Of The
ticket, feeling that they had no hope
unless they threw their whole power
into scheme of thi, Kind. This
scheme took i'm Dixon for Rcprcscn-
tativc, John Gray for Sheriff. and !,
candidate for Supervisor in the. citv.
as the especial points. 1t moved az,
well in The nomination of the Hon
y. w. Dixon and Captain Greg. A.
Madison, for Representatives. and
ten. M. NJ. Lane. for Treasurer. hut
when that country delegate dropped
III The name of NJ. g. Myers, of OF
tumwa, for Auditor, there was II
break. More than the usual silence
reIsncd after this announcement, and
finally j. NJ. Peek, Of Center. did
nave The courage to say that Ottun-
wa expected to have the Supervisor,
ana perhaps, somehow, maybe OF
tnm wa might be getting !, good MANY
candidates. But this timid. halti,s.
lntination to somebody and ANYBODY.
to help them out of this dilemma. did
not win, and Myers was led to The
slaughter. This prepared the way
for another slaughter, and the new.
t'edged Democrat, Captain Hitter
man, whose immaculate sonl is gro
ping around in the Democratic party
after reform or office, us the reader