, 1880-03-14
LOCAL POLITICS.

| ~ 0@AAA - WILL AN/kCe
COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
The Cook County Republican Central Commit
| tee met at the Grand Pacific yesterday after
noon. seventeen of the members being present.
twelve from the city and five from the country
also, quite crowd Of 1ookers-on.
The Chairman. q. II. Singer, stated his ob}ec
In calling the Committee together. It was sim.
| ply to determine upon time and manner Of Sc,
| lecttng delegates to the State Convention b.
the call, Cook County is cutup into districts and
The representation put down by Senatorial Dis
tr7cts. He Was not aware that there WAS any or.
gauizatton in the several districts which hnd a,-
thority to call District Convention for the
| purpose Of selecting delegates. Hence he pre-
snmed IT was tue duty Of the County Central
committee to at least set the wheels IN motion.
! In order to see what sort Of wheels were nee
essary, i occurred to him it was well enough
Tor the Committee to get together.
about calling the couty Conventton naF The he af
for the State Convennon was tho same as that
Tor the last ono. The vote was to be cast by
tion nominated the Delegates without reference
to Senatorial Districts.
- The Chairmnn stated big object again. in order
ton whether the County Convention would Sc
lect delegates; hence the ca1i, he thinking no
harm harm would be dune, even II they adjourned
without transncttng any business.
Mr.. Burke thought they ought to look around
and find out what the feeling was as to the dele
eSps sh9nd1y sn9ssn hy Gqan S
to adjourn, subject to the call OF the Chair.
Mai. Scha11ncr moved as an amendment that.
when the Committee adjourn, it adjourn until
the first Tuesday III May.
After some talk the amendment was agreed to.
The matter Of who was entitled to represent
or George D. Buckley, the former having been
selected by the County Convention against the
wishes Of portion Of tho ward deleganon. who
The friends of Buckley were heard. They
claimed that the member Of the Committee was
the representative Of the people of the district,
and they alone had the right to choose him. the
Convention having no right to interfere Hay-
ing been selected By. minority Of the delegates
geetsd by the people Buckley therefore
satisfactory, the delegation askod that they be
allowed to name another-n representative man.
right to question the action Of the Convention,
Notwithstanding it was without doubt unfair.
He moved that buckley be also admitted;
An amendment by Mr. Whtte' that each have
hnn vote, was accepted
AID. sn,yth didn't think the Committee could
a motion to lay the whole thing on the table
was iost-yeas, Z; nays. 10.
After some talk, similar motion was also
Senator Campbell moved to refer the matter
to a COMMITTEES of FIVE, to be appointed by the
Chair, with instructions to report at the next
Th{s ISL met with some opposition, and, as the de-
sire seemed to be to come to square vote, the
motion was withdrawn.
Mr. pai him himself said he would rather "be
The question Was then put On the motion as
Notwithstanding Buckley and giving each
one.talf o. i, vote'-and it was voted down, ayes,
The Committee then adjourned.
TWELFTH WARD.
The Republicans Of the Twelfth Ward are in
a mixed condition and divided among them
selves, if the meeting held at Owsleys Hall last
evening means anything. There had been two
calls for tho meeting, one Issued by the officers
Of the Ward Club, and the other by some un-
known person,-one to do general business, and
the other to reorganize,-and the consequence
was there was a very largo attendance, which
was not confined to Republicans, nor Jet to resi-
dents of the ward.
G. c. Kohlsaat was In the chair, and on the
start everything was decorous and in order, and
the reputation Of the ward promised to be- main
tained. 1t WIS not long, however, before q
change came, and, ,instoad Of the gathering being
8 decOrous body. it might have been mistaken
for session Of the City Council. Everybody in
were very careful what they said. and if the
gathering had been in Seventeenth Ward base
ment, with the lights turned down, it could
scarcely have been less credtable
As near as could be gotten at, there appeared
to be division. ostcnslbly upon the question OF
the CiuD, DHt really upon the Que6-
ton Of who, and who should not, be given an |
advantage MS candidates in the elections Of the |
year. Factions appeared for and against Cal. |
Duvis and Col. Bennett for Congress, for and !
against AID. RaWleigh for Sheriff and Mayor, !
for and against Nr. Parish for State Senator, |
and for md agulnst f. 3. Williams and |
Alvin Hurlbut for Alderman. In fact, the meet
ing was one Of fucuons,-snme Of the speakers |
were impOlite enough to call 1t 4 mob,-and the |
aim Of each scented to be to gain an advantage |
over tho other in advocating Or opposing q re-
of tho Club; and what added to |
the confusion most was the fact that In the abb
5ence of roll OF members there was no way Of
separating the lanbs and the wolves.
The fight commenced with motion by Judge
Polly to reorganfze at unce, to which he spoke at
nand, ~
PIT nunaiu t;i of+a tha 4Idcrnonic ,.1octon and
IN. mentcd somewhut severely upon the means
:esortod TO to get up tho meeting:
Mr.: Beeoe TOOK neither s!oe OF tae qufsaon, ~
out aesifea ens ,d putaea - ranort a. ffa neTt
nneiin1 'N'
IL RR.y,airh and Everett were fu favor OF re-
,.a [,1a+,nn 10 r. .Sarf Messrs Wor1hin0ron Sui
itSnl Aihrinht. and many others, while against
hem was Quite formidable body, Headed by a.
!. Wright and Messrs. Campbell, Allen, Ferr1er,
md Others all Of whom clalmed taAt ne g9oa
It the purity vas all they nah at hea11 LII ualu-
aiming their Position .,x.,,.u
The auarre1ng was kept up for several nours'
some Of the scenes being excessively 0OlStef-