The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-06
THE PAST WEEK POLITICALLY.


The past week has been week of po-
litical excitement in Cairo. On Tuesday
the congressional convention met and
nominated Mr.. Hartzell for congress, and
Mr.. Hill, of Union county, for member
OF the state board of equalization. OF
Hartzell it is unnecessary to speak. lie
will wipe out his competitor without
any difficulty. MIR. Hill is good man,
new to politics, but reputed by his neigh
bors to be first-class man in every re-
spect. The convention was very quiet
one-almost sleepily so. 1t met to DO a
cut-and-dried duty. Rev. Mr.. kroh adj
dressed it. and talked Democracy with
good vim, and now, Lord bless his soul,
he has bolted and is running as an indie.
pendent candidate for the legislature |!
Well, such things can't be helped; and
it Is fact, lamentabe or otherwise, that
not a few Democrats of Union and Jack
son banker after Grow, spelled K-r-o-h.
Hon. Geo. w. Wall presided, and did It
well.
The NIGHT MEETING.
On Tuesday night, many of the dele
gates remaining In the city. large DEM
ocratic meeting was held at the foot of
the Tilden and Hendricks pole on Ohio
levee. 1t was managed by Judge Bross
and Capt. Williams. and was success in
every way. Judge Green spoke first,
and ably discussed the issues of the day.
He raised his voice tor reform in every
department Of the government, and Sc
cured hearty rounds of applause. The
Judge was followed by ID. +. Linegar,
Esq, who made an able address. He
spoke from the standpoint ola converted
Republican, and gave his old party not
few hard raps over its knuckles. Mr..
Linegar's discussion of the financial issue
was particularly happy, and the silver
part of it was golden. We are glad that
Linegar has put on the reform harness,
and his friends-or rather the gentlemen
who profess to be his particular friends
have no right 10 denouncc us because
they believe We do not devote sufficient
attention to him. On one occasion the
young gentleman who runs our local ma
chine forget to say that Mr.. Linegar had
addressed our people, much to our regret
We explained to him. and he fell upon
our neck ahd forgave us. Then, when
he made his great speech on Tuesday
night last, our young man, who has no
taste for good things in oratory or poll
tics, dismissed David among others
with word or two. This was wrong,
and we were properly denounced for it.
The young man might have gone by
Green and the other fellows without a
word, but d-n it. You see, it was wrong
to ignore Linegar. But we are sure MIR.
Linegar knows that the BULLETIN has a
very kind side for him, and has never
done anything since the times we used
to abuse him for being Republican,
that he has objected TO. We are therefore
confident that this ignoring cry will be
discontinued by Mr.. Linegar's friends
Well, as we were saying: Linegar made
a fine speech, and was applauded to the
| echo. He was followed by Col. Robert
Hundley, OF Williamson county, in an adj
dress so humorous that it put everybody
into laughing mood, and so forcible
that 1t compelled cheers and shouts of APP
prevail. The colonel talked nearly an
hour. While he was at his work, Capt.
Jesse Mahaffie sent up to the poles head
beautiful, large flag, and everybody
cheered long and loud. MIR.
Sumerwell, who was one of
the pole-raisers, stood off, and
beamed with delight as the flag spread
its folds and went up into the midnight
air. Capt. Williams was also one of the
admiring observers, and he swore in re-
ligous way, that the pole was the great
est pole in the world, that Mahaffie and
Sumerwell were the greatest pole-raisers
in the universe and that Tilden and Hart
zell were bound to be elected by MAORI
ties OF mammoth proportions. Alter the
flag had been hoisted, Mr.. Oberly spoke
a piece. Its great merit was brevity.
Then Rev. Mr.. kroh made fine speech
of its kind, and the meeting broke up
with cheers. Tuesday was good day,
and Tuesday night was fine night.
THE JoNEsBoRo CONVENTION.
On Thursday morning, about a hun
dred Democrats, with the National brass
band went up to Joncsboro in special
train on the Cairo and st. Louis narrow
gauge. Arriving at Jonesboro the
Cairo visitors marched to the square in
procession. and then scattered through
| the town. After dinner Judge Allen
made good speech in the public square
to big crowd OF good Democrats. He
spoke an hour and half. In the mean
time the senatorial district convention
was going on; and, in it the Cairo dele.
cation. led by Judge Green, greatly dis
tinguished itself. Mr.. Fitzgerald was
chairman of the convention, and handled
1t with skill. He had difficult task tC
perform, but he acquitted himself to the
entire satisfaction OF every member of the
convention. The nominations were made
aud we all came home. Everybody was
delighted with the trip, and some OF us
were just as happy as a big sun flower.
Take it all IN all, last week was a lively
one in political way and the result of il
will be that, settling down to work, VT
will elect the Democratic ticket from toy