The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-08-31
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

An official call appears in the Ottawa Re
Ipubiican Of Thursday for delegate conven-
ton Of the republican party of this county to
meet at Ottawa on the 10th OF September to
nominate candidates for county officers, scna-
tor, and representatives. While the name OF
the editor of the Republican, for unpleasant
reasons connected with the last convention of
the party in this county, Is not one of those
appended to the call, he is not debarred of his
privilege however, as the county organ of the
party, to accompany the call with an lntima-
ton to the convention Of what it Is expected
to do.
Sheriff Stevens has made Il good officer and
has given the organ all his printing and adj
Ivcrtisng; therefore the convention will re-
nominate him. There are other candidates for
his place" some" of them worthy men-but
:" they can wait"
The convention is at liberty to nominate
whom it chooses for coroner.
For representatives., l.. b. Crooker must be
renomnated, but AS to the Other man, who
will probably be beaten anyhow, the conven.
ton have Frank Bowen, Of Sheridan E. II.
Spicer, Of Marsellles, and Pap Burwell, of
Seneca, to choose from.
As for senator, really the organ must be eX-
cused from making a choice as its editorial
head is sadly befoggcd. The list to choose
from is quite bewidering 1t embraces the
names of JOS Hart, of Earlville Hon. Elmer
Baldwin, of Farm Ridge, f. n. Lewis and
IG. 5. Eldredge, of Ottawa, s. h. Lewis, OF
Fall River, Nate Mcintyre, of Allen, Ed, c.
Lewis, of Deer Park, and Walter Reeves of
Streator Any one Of these will satisfy the
organ,
The legitimate inference, then Is that the
nomination of any one not on this list will
nat satisfy the organ:
Now it is curious that for the last three
or four weeks at least the prominent man
spoken of as in All respects the most eligible
and, therefore, most probable nominee of the
party for state senator - this district was } Ohm
#. Nash, Esq, of OTTAWA. His name was
even mentioned N nat connection IN some OF
the outlying smaller republican papers of the
county; and certainly on the streets in Otta-
wa, about tic court mouse, and in political
circles and coterics generally his name APP
pcatcG so prominent that we thought his
nomination was a tOregone conclusion. Why
is eE'Nrs cavaierly cut and ignored by the
organ. OF course, it is none of our funeral;
and our saying SO will very likely do Mr.
4 Nash more hurt with his party than good, yet
it is but the honest truth that in the organs
long list of eligible candidates there is, in our
humble Judgment, no name that can be placed
before that of Mr.. Nash, either on the score OF
ability, integrity, tact and every other needed
qualification for the position, or OF wide ac-
qualntance throughout the district and of cx-
ceptional personal popularity. Nothing would
be so likely to throw the organ into towering
passion as to intimate that it is run by and
in the interest of ring; but as claiming solely
to care for the interests of its party without
bias, prejudice or personal prediction, it GER
tainlv has a habit of occasionally putting
down its foot on the object of its spleen, as
Bret Hare would say, in "a way that de-