The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-11
FALL ELECTION.

county haze held their conventions and pre-
scented their candidates for the November cleo
ton. Reports ofthe proceedings of the various
conventions appear elsewhere.
The Democrats, 1t will be seen, have put
Samuel w. Raymond in nomination for re cleo
ton. The nomination was made by acclama
ton, no other candidate having been named
The compliment is deserved. Mr.. Raymond
has held the Office tor nearly three terms and i,
is conceded by all that its duties have never
been SO ably attended to by any other treasur
er. While the pay is but a trltie to what il
years later, its labors have steadily increased
and now require massive and complicated
system Of ook.keepng equal to that of an or.
dinarp bank or insurance company. Few men
indeed, without pretty long previous appren.
| ticeship, would be fit to undertake its duties
without considerable hazard to the county. To
dismiss Mr. Raymond, therefore, under such
circumstances, would be about as senseless as
it would be for some big banking house to dis
miss competent, trusty and thoroughly tried
cashier or large wholesale house to dismiss
its tried and trusted head book keeper with no
other man trained 20 take his place We feel
quite satisfied that the people of this county
will not hastily commit so important a trust as
the office of county treasurer involves to new
and untrled hands.
As to county surveyor, there is no doubt that
Mr. John Wolf, of Usage, whom the conven.
ton put in nomination, Is a very good and
competent man and would make an excellent
surveyor though we think the convention, in
presenting Mr.. Raymond confcssedly on the
score of competence and personal merit rather
than politics, could very consistently have
left the field for surveyor to Mr., Brumbach on
the same score. However, the convention was
called to make a nomination, and the delegates
had doubts whether in justice to those who
sent them they ought to shrk that duty
The Republican Convention, it will be seen,
presents the name of Il. {. Webster, of the La
Sale Press, for treasurer Mr.. Webster proba.
bly, got the nomination mainly because he was,
we believe, the only one who had courage to
admit before the convention was held
that he was candidate His nomina-
ton, too, like that Of Mr. Raymond, must
be put largely on the no party ground, as
his republicanism must inevitably be re-
garded as somewhat questionable, Mr. Web
ster having but week ago been distinctly
read out OF the party by Congressman Hayes,
the grand mogul of the party in this district,
and his support of the greenback candidate for
congress, Alex. Campbell against Mr.. Hayes,
last fall being too fresh in everybodys remem-
brance to be ignored. This makes the qles.
ton between Webster and Raymond one pure
ly of comparative fitness, way of putting it,
on thelpart of the convention, which we sub
nit, towards Mr.. Webster, looks like a piece
of premeditated cruelty However, Mr.. Web
ster is understood to have great confidence in
being able to make up for the GOODNESS towards
him by the stalwarts in q compensatory vote
from his greenback friends.
AS to Mr.. Brumbach, the other republican
nominee, he has given, so far as we know, en-
tire satisfaction as county surveyor and the
only question is whether he ought or ought
not, after holding the Office so many years, to
give place to another man equally competent
and meritorous
The Greenback convention yesterday in
which but ten or eleven towns were represent
ed by about 25 delegates, mostly from La Sale
and Ottawa, and which was decidedly tame
and spirltless, nominated Phllo Castle, of Men
dota, for county treasurer giving the survey.
Drship the go.by. Mr.. Castle said he used to
be democrat, but SAID he left the party be-
cause he couldn't stand Tilden and Belmont
As neither of these gentlemen at present holds
my position in the democratic party nor is
likely to be a candidate for any Office from
president down to New York alderman it
must be confessed that Mr. Castles reason for
leaving the party is rather shallow He is
known as a rather good,hcarted clever, but
rough illtcrate man, and of course so utterly
for the office of county treasurer
that his nomination for such position must
be regarded in the light of a joke.
The State Board of Equalization finished its
work last week and adjourned. 1t seems to
have made no material change in its manner