The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-09
RADICAL TROUBLES.

lnere Is q Dig row auiOHS 'hc iSPuo'iN""'
| in the 4th Kane) congressional district. The
rival Candidates for nomination are stephen
A. Hurlbut and one Lathrop, known rs the
Winnebago Cow lawyer" Enough dele.
rates had been appointed TO The con
gressional convention, at Elgin this week, to
show that whichever way the Kane county
delegates went, would decide the question.
The Kane county convention which met at
Elgin last Saturday, therefore, really held IN
its hands the decision of the battle. In that
convention Hurlbut had clear majority OF
| II, but what his opponents lacked in mum
bers they made up by "shenanegan.' They
stole the chairman and secretary of the con-
vention, and then put things through in
their own way. The chairman, refusing 10
allow the yeas and nays to be called on any
question, decided every vote against the
Hurlbut faction, and a delegation was appoint
ed in favor his opponent The Hurlbut men
then withdrew, and organizing convention
of their own, appointed second set OF dele
gates, SO that the row stood adjourned over
lTQu llC IOduNJ W nv N'bt5i S'"'NA"i N''i' "a
ton which latter, however, being composed
of a majority of undisputed anti-Hurlbu
delegates, it was believed would slaughter
the little corrupuonist" without mercy.
This belief was well founded, for on Thurs
day, when the convention met at Elgin, they
had, as the parrot said in the story "a hell of
a time" The LathrOp men, by prompt action,
got in their nomination first for chairman of
convention, but the Hurlbut men nominated
another, and for time there were two chair
men and the whole affair was exceedingly
ludicrous. Then the anti. Hurlbut delegation
from Kane was admitted, upon which the
Boone and McHenry delegations which were
for Hurlbut, and the chairman they had set
up, withdrew IN body, and the other party
went on and nominated LathrOp the Cow
LAWYER" without further ado. The Hurlbut
men organized in convention of their oHn,
but at latest accounts had not decided wheth-
or to nominate a second candidate or not.
But there is even worse muddle in
the 9th or Peoria district. There Whiting,
the present incumbent, expected re,nomna-
ton as matter of course and all the pins
were apparently set up in his favor. But
when the convention met at Galesburg il was
found that Thos. A. Boyd, defeated for nom
ination four years ago, had sold out Whiting
and TOOK the nomination himself.
In doing so he is accused, firstly, of lying
and by wholesale against Whit.
ing. Secondly, he is denounced as a scaly
republican, having been Grceleyite two
years ago, and until a month ago an "lnde-
pendent" Aud thirdly, he is particularly
obnoxious to Peoria, as bitter enemy of
that city's prosperity. Whiting, on his re.
turn on Monday evening from the East, had
a reception at Peoria, at which he made q
speech, in which he detailed how he had
been cheated by Boyd, and declared that he
should oppose his election Emery, OF the
Peoria Trdnscript at the same meeting, de-
clared his purpose to oppose Boyd, as an
unsound republican and political trickster
OF the worst description. AS the district is
close at best, this seems to insure BOyd's de-
feat and the election Of an honest democrat.