Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-01

'iouiieou III AdSb week s LED
GER, the Republicans of Salt River
Township met in the court house last
Saturday, to elect Is delegates to
the county Republican convention.
which meets at the court house next
Saturday, to send delegates to the
State convention at Sedalia.
But few of the representative Re-
publlcans we're present-about ohe-
half of the fifty persons present be-
ing negroes. I. H. Day was elected
chairman and George Poteet secreta-
ry, OF the meeting.
Major Lawder moved that the dele
gates be elected in open convention
to prevent ''committee packing" He
then nominated H. Hall as one of
the delegates. Hall was elected.
"York'' johnson (colored) then
made a speech on parliamentary
usage; said he had been ~''concurr-
ing with the people of this town for
some time and thought the Republi-
cans were all Tor Giant.
W. H. D'ysvas then elected as a
delegate.
Ira Hall then lrose, took off his
coat and moved that no man be al
lowed to nominate more than two
delegates. He ''wanted no gag law,
&C. Jack Saunders was then elect
ed. Mr.. Selfridge was the next. Then
Mr.. Rosenberg, r. H. Herman, H.
W. Gleason, David Kid, Mr.. Cud-
worth, Fred Fuhr, Mr.. Doueherty,
Mr.. Hunter, Ira Hall and T. H.
Day, were all elected delegates.
Judge Folrist was then nominated
and would have been elected, but
Capt. Harry Day pulled his pack of
negroes by the coat tail and told them
not to vote.
1t always seemed strange to US
how Harry Day and a pack of mokes
could run a Republican convention
in Mexico, when we have so many
other Republicans who have proper
tv and other interests which deserve
representation. AT this stage of the
game it was found that fourteen
delegates had been elected and that
the negros had been forgotten en-
tircly 1t was then agreed that the
colored troops be allowed to elect
their own delegate. They chose
:'York'' Johnson, who completed
the fifteen delegates.
Capt. Harry Day then moved that
the delegates be instructed for Grant,
and Charlie Day seconded the mo-
ton.
Mr.. Selfridge then arose and said
that he. for one of the delegates,
would not go to the convention with
a rope around his neck. He had
been elected without any Instructions
and should go to the county conven
ton free.
This raised Capt. Harry Day, The
stalwart, out of his chair. He fairly
ragged in his Indignation and wratl
to think that a man could he a Re,
publican and not for Grant for presi'
dent and the Day family for post
masters He said he knew 1--WE dom
know how he knows it) that the Re.
pub!icans of Salt River township were
for Grant and that the delegate:
should be instructed for him.
II. w. Gleason then made a te"
remarks in opposition to Instruction
About this time Capt. Harry Day
/ saw that he was going to have trou'
/ Ill. to instruct for Grant and he slip
ped out of the door. In 4 few mo
ments we saw that he had ''gottei
his work in," for the darkeys begai
to come in by twos and threcs.
s.York'' johnson (colorcd) thel
made Il very exhaustive and rhetor
ical (?yspeecll IN favor of Grant an'
instruction ofdclega,es.
Ira Hail said that they could in
struct as much as they pleased l
would amount to nothing; he was :
delegate and for II wou!d not b'
instructed by three or four white
men and a dozen negroes. If all tht
Republicans were present it woul'
be different and he would love t.
know when Day, or any one man
, got the right to instruct him.. How
| did Day know all the Republicans
we're for Grant? He himself knew
they were not. Capt. Harry Da,
again arose, and this time he pulled
, the cork out. Eloquence ilowct
from his mouth like milk from "a sicl
l cocoaput. He was sick OF Haye'
and his policy; he wants ed his friehd'
to beware of John Sherman and hi
tricksters. He talked in this straii
t for some time, as though he was TIN
only Republican in the state, excep
C.. l. Filly. He then ranted OF
, Grant. he had conquered the Re
lpublican's foes and made them la,
their arms at his feet, 6 &C., &C., ant
closed with an appeal to the dea
colored man, whom, he said, Woul'
soon be driven from their homes
thew did not vote for Grant.
ssYork'' johnson then came t.
, DAYS aid and made another Gran
snocch He said. he knew all til
~neoros were for Grant--to be anger