The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-29
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them would refuse to vote for the electors
or to cast any vote that favored 1ilden, |
As they only claimed to represent $4,000
votes, the above estimate would allow no
votes whatever in favor of the ticket. !
The sum and substance OF the proposition
was then, MIR. Drake said, that the indie
penlents would be willing to have the
Democrats adopt their state ticket. 1t
had been suggested, by a member OF the
Democratic conference committee, that
the convention might nominate one or two
OF the men whose names were on the In
dependent ticket, and Judge Steward s
name was mentioned as an instance. The
Independents Indignantly declared that if
any man on their ticket were to accept a
Democratic nomination apart from the rest
of the ticket they would strike off his
name.
La view of these facts Mr. Drake moved
that the committee on conference be dis
| charged and that its report be tabled.
THE PROPOSITION OF THE INDEPENDENTS.
| 1t was quite amusing to watch the faces
of committeeman as the proposition OF the
Independents was announced and ex-
| planned. 1t was evidently considered the
| Hoot SuCChf lutuR III tilt Ctuluty, du0 thC
speaker was occasionally interrupted with
such remarks as Indeed, you don't say,
why, yes" &c. Everybody seemed to
grow little savage at the GOODNESS OF the
proposition.
MIR. Harrington, another member OF the
con mittee, enlarged little on the report.
The Independents he said. claimed As,
900 votes, which were sure to go
! ho phi
to be attained was to consolidate these
and the Democratic votes. The indie
pendents, however, refused to see any way
of accomplishing that object, except that
the Democracy adopt the Independent
ticket They had suggested that if this
were done the Democrats might succeed in
getting United States senator provided
he be a greenback man. This corruption
propo sition, however, was not entertained
tor moment, for any man to represent
the Democracy in the senate must be a
hard money man. The Independent CON-
mittee was composed he said. of gentlemen
and men of intelligence. They had de.
clared their inability to make any com
promise because they could not deliver any
votes to Tilden. no matter what promises
E they make.
Mr.. Harrington said that so far as hi
was concerned he was satisfied that i
the Independents would only make COCO
their word, and withhold 40,0o(
Republican votes from Hayes ant
! Wheeler, the Democracy could easily carr.
a the day without a coalition.
After a few remarks from Mr.. Edmuuds
= another member of the committee tending
to show even more clearly the obstinacy O
the Independents, the motion to table the
report went through with rush.
Mr.. Green moved that the central com
mittee adjourn until 9 o'clock, and if a
. that time the Independents had no NOR
reasonable proposition to make that al
communication be dropped.
The result of the afternoon conferenc
greatly disguised many who up to tina
time favored coalition Mr. Green, fo
one, declared that he had come her
favoring a compromise and prepared t
yield little, but not play Jonah.
z At nine o'clock the central committe
again met and the roll-call of districts
n which was begun in the afternoon, was re
C. sumed to enable members to state the
% POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
}. All oftne members expressed themselve
as most sanguine OK victory as the resu
of straight nomination, except Maj. Ne
i son, of the Fourteenth, and Mr.. Dowdall,
q the Ninth district The former declare
8 it imperative that the convention nomi
q ate electors only and then adjourn. III
q latter held that the entire lndepender
~ ticket should be formally nominated her
es The discussion waxed very hot and W
to continued until after eleven o'clock, win
re ing up with a most earnest appeal by Ge
Black urging the acceptance of the l.
dependents proposition, and saying tn
the statement that $4,000 Independent
D, would under no circumstan les vote t
,ut Democratic electors, rested solely upon t
it authority of Crazy Smith, one of the Ind
in pendent committee.
he On the conclusion of this speech t
ef- committee adjourned, thus putting an e
sO1 to all negotiations,