, 1876-10-21

INTERESTING FACTS or TllH EXISTING CANVASS
BY Tribune CORRESPONDENT Wuo nAa
LATELY TRAVELLED THROUGH THE ntSTA1CT.
Special 0sspdtch to Ias 7}1auna.
ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Oct. 20.-Tha most interest
Ing OF nil Congrcsslonal struggles In this State,
anl perhaps tho most interesting ono in thu
Union, Is Just now proceeding with conaldcrabls
energy. The armies If MI three contestants asn
well drawn up In linz. TlIeso lns been ltl1o
skfrnfshtnE this wcuk, but tho anal cngn:,e-
mcnt, when tlse sllarp work will be done, maY
10 looked Tor about u week before election. It
l,as been tho aim Of TIN TRIBUNE to
keep its readers informed from ttmo
to tmo Of the exact condition OF
affairs In tho Fourth Illinois District, and
hence your correspondent has collected such In
formation as trip through the district and carc-
fu inquiry Us to thu prevailing sentiment. would
give. The facts In respect to tho difficulty aro
still fFcsli In the realer's mind. 8. a. Hurlbut
wAs elected IN the Fourth District ns q conf
promise candidate In 1872. He wns not then tho
choice Of the district. Between two cyils Mur1-
but aud Farlsw0rth) tho people chose tho
lcsser. The voto in lS73 stood: Hurlbut,
Republican, 15,53s: Brown, Liberal, 5,ls4, CIV
Ing Ilurlbut majority Of 1U,398. But when
lIurlbut's record becams publicly known Ills
best supporters lost confidence fa him, and in
AGt1l hASA liz AtyAsI4 HahEA tHG ECOpC VI ul5
District for tfiee suffrage, le received only 0,353
votes to Farnsworth's $3.50, or a majority OF
Ills. III 1915 he agan asked for their support,
bringing up as rca&on for
Ills RETURN 70 coNdRgss,
that Dln!nc. Wheeler, Lo:san, GarGeld, and
othera, lad sud It wodld be u "uatfonal
calamity - Il ho wcro nut sent back. Willie
stho volunteered a1ylce Of men If ability, tho
voters VI tho Fourth District still retaln tho
right to send whom they plcase to represent
thgm at tho national cupttul, ind hcnco tlo
asetss to tho sonny Tere not
basis Of one te'egatc for every t'ltY votes, hr.
Hut somehow uid stugcrs like 1Iurlbut and
FarnswoEth, no matter 10 what purity they be-
long, .......,.-.
and We find that thu as0wc1 AFFECTION Of MI.
Lathrop to tlse Government Offices as Etcpp!nE-
os tspeo. pos'ton IL sope of o &c County couyen-
tion. The tlrst Try nf fraud catno from Mctlensy
County, wllcro sorne delegates pledged to voto
for Lathror suddenly aopPrssd round to the snG-
tbs ytrtuous Stephen captured his own county
WA original IN tue extreme, md your reporter
was told 1T Poplar Grove, Capron, and Cal
SIR COST 5000 CASH,
beef.tes the certificates Of character from that
great md good statesman Loen1.. But at Gene
y the ta5les were turned: While some Of tho
1iuflnAt AtiEbALcH WETc absent "tlX11k up Q4r-
galns y the l4ath1op men, t!rcd Of waiting, COM
n,encctl business, mud nominated mixed dele
gatlotl lroln Kane couuty-scye1 for Iturlbut
mud iye for lathrop, hfautfestly this was
tho tatrcst thing that could be done. This
county, or rather delegates to the Convention,
wGFc about equally divided, and by giving Mr..
li"rlnlt seven delegates thu Geneva Convention
Thought they did aEunerous thing. But Hurl-
bute army Of Post1nasteFs, route agents, etc.,
didn't SEQ IT." md amid huoting Gt,d ye1Ing
they tried to break up tbs Convention, but tho
vote for adjournment was faiEly c.lrrlcd Then
thu llurlbut mob called .neetlnK aud elected
tWeiSs delegates, all pledged for uurlbut, At,
both CLAIMED AnMmrAncx,
and the Convention bad to deehle which delcga.
t!on should be admitted. No other tribunal had
any right to ad1ullcate tho contested point, and
both factions seemed perfectly willing tho mat
ter shoulll bc submitted to tho ElE1n Oonycu-
ton. Having madu = most thorough inveat!-
gatlon, tho Convention decided, by yote Of IL
to II, tllat the mixed delegation 10 admitted.
Tho ground for thla decision seetns 10 havo betn
~ tlI4t thu Geneva Convention ha1i properly al.
tourncl bofofo the tweIyu deaegutGs wGre elect
G1.h ibis was ton much fur 1lurlbut's follow
crs 80, grabbing tllctr llats, they rushed from
tho Coilycutlul, led by u brothcr.ln-law OF
fee tho oilco VI 1uterual Revenue Collector for
this district.
DURING TUE AnsHncn
Of these gentlemen tAc thirty remaining dals.