The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

ly man in the district equal to do u justice In
boys then whooped-it-up with srpa. eheer'l
When Grundy was called, Mr.. G. DaAhn put II
nomination r. C. Hayes. He cut it short oy say
ing Philip had shown by his past record lie wal
the only man for the place. No applause
"Kcndall' was responded to by r. W. WbicN
He suggested that FOR the first time in its county
history is put in nomination man frem
Kendall county; and he believed that when the
facts were set forth, the convention would agree
with him that Kendall's was tie one man for the
Nomination. man who would gather in the
stragglers and pick up the wavering and the lost
greenback sheep lettering by the waysde, (which
the boys considered very good. He then pro
ceeded to show by what per ccntagc Kendall had
been for years the banner republican county Of
the district This 'favorite son." he ASSURED us
who was to make doubtful victory sure one,
was jeremiah Eyarts, land Kendall hnrrahed for
Jerry.] Langdon, Of Kendall, said ditto, as a
second, assuring the house that Kendalls repub
lcanism weighed "l6 ounces to the pound.p
GOOD enough
When Will was called, Amos Savage, of JOLT
ct, named Judge G. u. A. Parks, of Joliet,
I--''a power of strength lie said lie did not
claim or demand anything, but he was looking
simply to the interested the district. VIII was
willing to support any candidate; but they want
ed Parks, to break up the democratic strong hOld
of the district-Joliet aud assured l.angdon, that
if 1G o. b. is enough In viii county it takes
II Oh. to be n good republican in Joliet, in the
midst Of 'wepeaters and budozers." And Will
''whooped it up"
| Capt. Hill seconded the nomination, say ing
that he knew Parks to be man Of ability, great
industry, good sense and judgment, hard work
or, and one trained to the work by years of ser.
vice in both branches Of the state legislatures.
He then branched out to show the value of
Parks's spceches-used in 1876 as campaign docu.
ments, &c. He closed with a neat culogy "Thc
peer of Jesse o. Norton, b. c. Cocktail the
great men of the district; who would enter con-
gress as to the manor born, at once master of
the situation and be SomebodM" at which La Sale
cheered not.
| Ray, of Grundy, closed with boost for Hayes,
admitting everything that had been said to claim
it all for his man and more; that he had had four
years experience, which the party could not aI-
ford to lose at this critical time when she needs
all her votes, especially one who has worked him
self to the top Of the stalwart COLUMBIA man
who had redeemed the district from the dcmoc-
racy and followers after false gods, by the largest
republican majority since 1865! Whoopla lie
then announced the only really novel fact yet
propounded- Haycs's speeches made during
his first session in congress had been used as
campaign documents by the ational Commit
tee and pronounced by them to be "the most ef.
fectye of any used by the committce"-a fact
unprecedented in the history OF fresh congress.
men.
! After this there was of course nothing more
to say. A. Stevens, La Sale, and i. II. Good
rich, VIII, were made teIlers, and an informal bal
lot taken, about 800 with the following result
Cullen. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Parks. ........'.'.'.''. '''....'''''..'''.'l
Hayes. .......,.,....,.... .
Eyarts. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. D
The delegation chairmcn then cast the votes
of all, and balloting proceeded.
The next six ballots being exactly the same as
above, Ray suggested the secretary read the next
ten ballots as above to save time.
On the 18th the secretary reversed the order
of reading with good results -, 5, H. 1G."
On the 18th Grundy delegates wanted Il new
man to carry the ballots, Ray being foot sore.
The reporters rule additional room for ballots
on their note books.
On the 30th the Grundy man complained he
had to "do all the work" and each man voted for
himself but gave up the job at the 43d round.
After the 9th, Stevens moved to adjourn for
80 minutes.
Ray suggested they give the tellers a rcst'
On the 10Th lib began to shoot Off his bari
Itone-"lG, II, 5, B."
'Too THIN, Doc"
Ar,or tbo SOL, ballot a ynry Thin dnlyn WAX
played by the Hayes men, for which Doc. Corbus,
of La Sale, gets the credit due, which Is not
small, considering its miserable thnness. Some
time before small boy had been noticed TO en-
ter the room with telegram, which he con
signed to the tender mercies of'Woods, of the
oet Repubicdn, sitting in the upper seat of the
feast He gave it to the chair. When the occasion
seemed ripe, some time after, aGrundy county
man called for the reading of ii, claiming that
as it had been directed to the secretary and
was the conventions property.
Hart objected.
A Will county man said that if that was the
game the convention could read kilograms all
night, as their ability to have them manufactured
in Joliet for this occasion and sent down was US
great as their pocket books-and Joliet men be- |
gan to haul their wallets.
Doc. Corbus thought, of course, with the
chair that this was all out of order, Of course,
some La Sale manufacturers, and he would like
to have 1t read-later, of course, for he was
Cullen man until-he got a chance to beat him. |
THE fact seems to be that the whole was manu-
featured in the convention and the La Sale |
mfrs" requested to send the telegram-Ottawa
and La Sale men doing the fixing and PAYING |
After the Goth formal ballot (about o'clock
an adjournment was had until o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session began with the Tooth bal |
ilot-exactly like all others, exactly like the In.
formal ballot; and so the farce continued until
the l25th was reached, when Kendall man
moved that for future ballots, each delegate
should cast his own vote
Hart, who owned La Sale body and soul as a
voting machine in this convention, objected be-
cause the delegates had that right.
A VIII who had bppn most eyre |