The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-14
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

! inc c'hNcHtlOu vi yc great TaIlCal party
was held at the court house, IN this city, on
Tuesday last The meeting having been
called to order by Mr., Mayo, chairman of the
| County Central Committee, Bowman nomIna-
ted W. w. Crumpton Of Freedom to be tenn
porarv chairman, which was agreed to- As
usual, he was anxious 10 he excused, and all
that sort o. thing; but when Mayo told him
no man could be excused from doing his "doo-
ty" for We party, he went quietly to the slaugh-
! ter.
4 delegate from the south end moved that
the whole republican press of the county act
as secretaries; but Mayo desired that the
small fry be excluded, leaving only the heavy
weights, Nattingcr of The Times and Rug
giles of the Mendoza Bulletin, "alone in their
glory"
4 committee on credentials was then APP
pointed A. G. Robinson, VermillionvIlle; j.
| II. Widmer Ottawa; W. S. Pitcher, Streator,
who went to work at once. The committee on
Organization was heard of on divers occasions
but never succeeded in obtaining life.
DR.. Woods, of Streator, was very much con-
Cerned lis to the matter Of taking the ballots;
| excepting the man from the north end, who
talked very fast and on the key of f, he
seemed the most worried man in the cOnven-
ton Even before the delegates credentials
had been passed upon, he was on his feet and
wanted the votes taken ciga 00ca, the chairman
of each delegation announcing its vote. He
was ruled out of order.
ia
ported the credentials o. X, all the towns be-
ing represented excepting Dimmick, Ophir,
Richand Utica and Waltham. After admit
ting delegates from Drmmick and Waltham,
and fixing up other minor matters the conven-
ton was ready for business.
Mr.. Bull then moved to proceed to nomi-
nate IA candidate for Sheriff, the first ballot to
be informal Stevens, of Streator, and Thomp
son, Of Ottawa, were appointed tcllers.
Mason, Of La Sale, nominated r. c. Stevens,
reviewing his war record as Colonel in due
style and pointing with pride" to his official
career Robinson, of Ncrmilionvlle second
ed the motion; and amid the hoorays and
hooplas, some one crowded in motion to NOM
mate him by reclamation, which was Of
| course done.
| Our friend from the north end then opened
up at 2:40 gait in the key of Z and wanted
all further nominations to be by ballot, an in
formal one to be first taken "to give all the
boys chance" Bull acquiesced-thought 1t
good thing-at'"r thoy wore done with Coro-
ner. So far as he knew he said, only one
| 1 IL, oft
of DR.. j. w. Petit, who had been their candi-
date in 1876. Then he was comparatively un-
known, and was beaten; now it was different.
On his motion the DR.. was nominated 10y ac-
clamatiOn.
| Our north.ender then insisted on his ideal OF
an informal ballot rs to the other and DR..
Woods right bower from Mission wanted the
delegates to show their hands by having each
chairman declare the vote Of the town as 1t
was called; but no one paid any attention to
this latter bit Of humor.
| Nominations were then IN order for candi-
idate for State Senator. Quietly and with
only slight waving of "war records" and show
lngs Of certificates of good moral character
and SIGH, Nate Mcintyre, 5. r. Lewis and Ell
1
mer Baldwin were put in nomination DR..
Wiley, of Earl, then spread himself on JOS
Hart, OF Earl. The Doc thought this IA time IN
the history Of the party when they should lay
aside party (sic) and personal feelings, and
put before the people man whose record is
clear" and whose (republican) principles are
we'll settled, &c. TO which r. Baker replied
that he had Just the MANI. \. Lewis, of OF
tawa Dr. Woods again put in his oar in Ia
vor of the gtca c0ca voting: it saves time and
shuts out trades" and other ''disgustlng she
nanegans, at which all the vlrtuous of the
crowd set up howl of insulted dignity.
Trades-the idea! shenanegan. 900. put
him OUT Bull said the delegates did not,
thank heaven, all live in Streator and La Sale
said that was just why they wanted the vote
sccret-and not have the tail end of the list come
in to destroy the will Of the majority. On
Bulls motion Dr. Woods was laid on the Ia
bic anu balloting proceeded
FIRST BALLOT.
! n. Mcintyre. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ...5l
| =. IL Lewis. ........ ,.........'.'. ~
| Elmer Baldwin. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
| Jos Hart. ........... -. ...........lS
| f. \. Lewis ....... ..................2l
| Waiter Reeves ............'' .''.'''
| j. III. Widmer.. ......
There being no choice, ballotng proceeded,
after the La Sale delegation put in nomna-
ton Mai j. II. Widmcr
| .I-,t,-n uNTIpT.