, 1876-11-01
FIVE CENTS,

xa, tnas| g icgatcs we're not on!Y instructed to
no f[[S tances 10 vote for Farnsworth.
,,!MS Ills time, or soon thereafter Gen.
1aH 1aautH cturned from Bogo:a On pretended
!ca1@'@ scncc and while nt tlc Doono Coun.
II ton. openly pretending to bc for
NJ o,p, secretly tried to prevent instruc.
dIGns iof MIN, II NOT Ia procure Farnsvorth
Falling IN this, On the 2od Of June, 1872, he
blu, to
nur ur CERTAIN DELEGATES,
A. and to count hsn, QIurIbut) ont Of the game.
e,mpscs Stsss nups W. 1arfsrsn s nrns tse
Upon TIC TACT being knoHn tint no QUO candi-
date would have majority Of the Convention,
anu tho almost certainty that Gen. Farnsworth
fore and at the tItne Of Tie Egtu Convention,
seen aud visited By tho Aforesaid " Ring,'' who
oiinred 70 turn oyer TO bin the Mclicnry cle-
gas'!on, g' Which, With hfs delegations from i,oone
Il he (.athrop) would carry out rarn.wostlt
aforementioned contracts a. to appointments
etc., and repay to them Tor Gen. Favnsworth
DtswcGn s9 org mud - 200, claimed to have hccs'
lienTy Coiinty,
rus WAS ssp,asAs7LY REFUSED
f py Mr M Lattrop, Who, upon bcIug urged BY sons
nd retn f1fs 70 aks 9ssh
e to Congress-; but soy to you ind all my
friends tlnt do not propose to 20 to Washing
4 ta uPoa catsnssl1 ss5eae it at o5 to send ne f.
diplomatic relations with lin on tlat subject q,
Gcn. llnr1but was next called upon by tho
king" tu whom the sama proposition was
madc' and who readily. nnl no doubt willingly
AccEnEp 10 sucn Txas.s,
closed The contract, aud agreed TO rcpay such
corrupt!on.funl.
The result was, Hurlbut received the non-
lnasion at the Elgtu Convention in June, 1s73,'
Mand M the next morning Farnsworth packed up:
Ills satclIcl and started for tho Greeley head
quarters In Scw-York City.
1t was presumed that tic " Ring " made their
pTSp0sit'on yI;i o! to LaaFop p before making 4 e
that the latter would LiItraii:<, Il f,nvTns been
! hinted-attl II afterward proved truc-that,
whi!G Minister At bo9ota, he had written to i
.!onr'.al indorsing the Liberal movement to Us
full 40 extent Us either Palmer, Trulnhull, or
Doollttle had.
The result Of the election Of 1872 was In Gen.
lIuTlbut's iavor though hc ran behind the
Grant ticket oycr 200 votes.
After tho reelection aud Inauguration Of
Gen. Grant, Gen. f1urlbut
CARRIED OUT ALL or rARSswonTn's ORIGINAL
CONTRACTS
with regard to appointments and Federal pa
tronasc, though It Is nut claimed that he repaid
tug expenses aid corruutton-fund. In fact, 1t 10
believed he DID not; for lis reputation for. dis
clargtng money cyContracts las not been of tho
highest order. For instance, during tue san,e
campaign Of IL, he wrote to Charles spafford,
Postmaster ut Rockford, asking him TO send
! $500 for campatEn-purposee, tucloslng Ills y,otc
to Spatfo1d for thu amount. EpatIord had nut
| the amount at hand, but procured the signature
! Of Mr. Thomas Scott, Rockford coal-dGalcr, to
| the note. and then signed 1t himself and ntgo-
tiatcd 1t, sending the money to lIurlMt. Wien
tho note became due Mr.. Scott paid It, and still
| has It IN his possession, unless hc has parted
With It slscc Sept: II, 1876:
In 16I4 !lurlbut was again nominated for Con-
| gFcss, without posItsoih-Farnsworttl running
al:ninst hln,-ana was rc-clsetcd by aboat ,o(kl
majority, us Rgnnst over 10,000 in 1S52; and
now Mr. FarnsWorth Is running rs the regular
Democratic, Tllden candidate for Congress, mud
Hurlbut is running on the stump M
| HIS AILY OH A5s1srANr;
for FArnsworth says lie could beat the nppos!-
| ton II there were three men running against
/ HIN. 1u fact, Fnrnswortl aud Ilurlbnt really
nre "lunting ip PAIRS" aud, as proof thereof,
| letters haVc been seen in that district
froul Gen. I1urlGut, in which ]lo says, III Sub
stance: "l]ave no fears; It h all right anyway.
1t has all been arranged that, IN caso Fartis-
worth is elected au1 Huycs should be President,
tho disposition, control, anil dtspchsation Of tho
| Federal patronage in tile district ia 10 remain
the saineas heretofore" This Of course means,
| still III the hands OF Gen. 1Iurlbut.
It is also currcntiy reported, upon what is r.:-
| gart'ed 10 good authority. that Gen, IIurlhut,
through his friends, has applied to the Demo-
| cratic State Central Committee for funds to
help him run bis stan!p cdmpdi9n II thisb So,
the object is apparent, nul further COMMENT
| thereon Is UNNECESSARY. REPUBLICAN,.