The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-11-03

meyer, j. NJ. Raft, William Schmitz, |
F. G.. Young, August Schmitz, Alfred
Thomas, w. Stephan, NJ. Kirwan, End /
in view of what appears above, we think |
we ought to add to this list the name |
of John A. Hussey. There are some
other names which we may furnish
when Mr.. Hussey gives US list of
more than four times as many who
made the vote tie.
Mr.. Hussey should not be too posi-
tive that Mr.. Nagle's vote on the fourth
ballot was not SO, if he insists that rs
votes were cast. On the second ballot
the vote stood unquestioned SO for Ma
gle and 81 for Hussey. So far as names
have been mentioned of those who tai
lied the vote, the secretaries excepted,
the evidence is nearly all one way
that the fourth ballot was the same as
the second. And if Mr.. Hussey is dis
posed to lay great stress on the fart that
the vote on the third ballot was tie,
we venture to remind him that few
persons know better than he how that
tie was brought about. And on refec-
ton he will remember that the little
maneuver which secured the tie on the
third ballot was again attempted ON
the fourth ballot but failed in the exc
cution, as he has since admitted. And
none can know better than he, that be-
cause of that failure, the fourth ballot
was in all probability the same as the
second, if rs votes were cast, as he
contends.
Mr.. Hussey would have the public
think or infer that a majority of the
delegates supported him; that the ma
jority was bulldozed, as he expresses it,
by the minority; that the majority de-
handed and insisted on fair play and
couldn't get it,-though he don't ex-
plain why they didn't take it, being a
majority; and that the votes were not
honestly counted. In thus intimating
that his delegates were awed and con-
fused by the very brief, plain and tenn
perate argument which Mr.. Carey
made, Mr.. Hussey pays them doubt
full compliment. Respect for their feel
ings and gratitude for their support
should have restrained him from in any
way impugning either their courage or
their ability, We have too much re-
gard for them to deny that they
could secure another ballot if they
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Justice. The facts are that at no time
did he receive majority of the votes
cast; that the bull-dozing consisted in
a short and decorous argument to the
chair and the convention, to which ev-
cry delegate had an opportunity to
| reply and no reply was offered; that
| no motion to recount or ballot again
| was made by any one; and that the
| convention concurred without word
Of remonstrance in the decision of the
| chair. What the convention might
have done, had Mr.. Hussey's friends
| moved for another ballot must remain
a matter of conjecture. But no such
molten having been offered, the con-
vention no doubt presumed that every
body thought nomination had been
made, and that no further balloting
was desired by DIR. Hussey or any one
| else. The desire for another ballot,
and the conviction that the vote was a
| tie, seem to have seized Mr.. Hussey af-
| ter he had abandoned the convention
and informed persons on the street that
he was beaten by two votes.
Mr.. Hussey argues that the conven-
ton Of two years ago and that Of this
year present cases which are not paral-
lei. There are one or two particulars
that he does not mention which mark
| the chief difference between the two
cases. However keenly Mr.. Maggie may
| have felt his defeat two years ago, he
made no public exhibition of his
wounds. Neither did he publish over
his own signature an address which
| wns Iva SnhStancn an appeal 70 untnr 20
/ nv nj n off oil x1o
publican candidate. Nor did be, a
| dozen times or more during the cam
paign, permit himself to be proclaimed
as an Independent candidate. What
| griefs he had, men knew not from him.
And although his pen indited no re-
cital of his wrongs, for the pretended
purpose of laying all the facts before
the public, the result of that election
would seem to be some proof that the
public in one way OF another managed
to get hold of the facts.
How far political fairness and de-
cency" will be promoted by Mr.. Hus-
sey's letter is question on which its
readers may differ. But Mr.. Hussey
was defeated without being subjected
to any abuse or personal detractien at
the hands of his opponent. He was not
assailed for weeks before the conven-
ton, as Mr.. Nagle was, in a series of
rancorous and inflammatory newspaper
articles written for the sole purpose Of
defeating him. No democratic editor
stood in public places On the day of
the convention, and shouted to dele
gates that his paper would bolt if Mr..
Hussey was nominated, as Carl H.
Schmidt did to weaken Mr.. Maggie
Mr.. Hussey was defeated after having
made personal canvass of nearly two
years duration, compared with which
the efforts of his opponent were insig-
niticant. And in the convention his
friends listened in silence to and ac-
| guessed in the announcement of the
vote which defeated him, and about
which he now complains. Consider
ing all these things, most men will
have pretty decided opinions as to the
course which Mr.. Hussey should take
in the interests of political fairness
and decency."
| MICHAEL KIRWAN.
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