The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-11-03
Mr.. HUSSEY'S LETTER.

OF ''tQe IIldIlueT III WulCu luC piCoChe
candidate of the democratic party for
the superintendency secured place
upon the ticket"
He asserts that Mr.. Cooney, one of
the secretaries, declares the vote to-
have been 76. and tie; but that the
other secretary, ''Mr. Walsh made the
vote as given in The Pilot and so an
nounced it." We reply that Mr.. Coo
ney tailed the vote and heard the re-
suit announced by the chair 3S to 81.
He made no objection to the figures
stated. 1t was the general understand
ing. and is so still, that the secretaries
agreed upon the vote as announced.
But if that is not the case, perhaps Mr..
Hussey will explain why Mr.. Cooney
remained silent, and permitted his own
candidate to be defeated by count
which he knew to be wrong, and Of
which word from him would compel
a review. Mr.. Cooney heard Mr.. Ca
rey state in his address to the conven-
ton that the vote as tailed by the sec
retaries stood 80 to 81. He heard the
chair announce it SO to 81. We have
too much respect for Mr.. Cooney's fair
ness and intelligence to believe that he
listened silently to all this, knowing
all the time that the vote was a tie.
He certainly stated on the evening of
the convention that the count was cor
rect and honest, and it is but common
Justice to him to believe that he
thought so, or he would have protest
ed Mr.. Hussey's reference to Mr..
Walsh is answered by The Chronicle
thus:
ITO charge Mr.. Walsh, secretary of the con-
vention, even by implication with any dis
fairly expressed viii Of the convention is
charging what we simply cannot believe"
And that is the answer in which
every man will concur who knows
Henry G. Walsh. Any argument of
the question would be wrong to the
respected gentleman to whom Mr.. Hus-
sey refers. Perhaps, however, Mr..
Hussey is quite as discreet as he is
wont to be, when he brings those char
ges against Mr.. Cooney and Mr.. Walsh
at SO late day that they can have no
opportunity to answer him before the
election is held.
Mr.. Hussey alleges that one Of the
tellers, Mr.. Gustave Mueller, informed
him that rs votes were cast, But Mr..
| HusSey does not say that Mr.. Mueller
thought the vote was tie. Nearly
every one who tailed the vote made it
| 76. the secretaries excepted: but the
same TALES showed the vote to be 80
to 81. Mr.. Hussey, however, is the
first to intimate that the secretaries, or
either of them, were guilty of misrep-
resenting the true state of the vote, or
| in permitting it to be done without
| challenge. Whether Mr.. Mueller said
| 76 votes were cast, we do not know !;
| but it is safe to assume that he did not
pronounce the vote tie or Mr.. Hussey
| would have SO Informed US.
| 1t is simply not true that Mr.. Nagle's
supporters would not permit Mr. Cayo
| and others to obtain a recount Of the
vote or another ballot, Mr.. Hussey is
aware that in political conventions no
contestant is likely to get favors for
which he does not ask. And neither
Mr.. Cayo, Mr.. Brownreiter, Mr.. Wei
lep, Mr.. Sechrist nor any other supper
ter of Mr.. Hussey asked for q recount
or another ballot, in the proper and on
| " way in which they could ask, name
| ly: by addressing the chair and pre-
| senting motion. What those gentle
men may have said to Mr.. Hussey or to
one another, pending the decision of the
chair, was not known to the convention.
| But every member Of the convention
does know that no motion was made to
recount or to ballot again, and there
roIp no suyII LIUJ1Un was VppUeCu ny
the supporters of Mr., Maggie. Mr.. Ca
rev, on behalf Of the delegates who
supported Mr.. Maggie, made a calm, re-
spectful and convincing argument to
the point that, inasmuch as one of the
candidates had a majority Of all the
votes cast, it was the duty Of the chair
man to declare that 9 nomination was
reached. And Mr.. Carey was the only
man on either side who addressed the
convention ON the subject. When he
had concluded, the chairman waited a
reasonable time to give other delegates
/ an opportunity to be recognized, but
no delegate sought recognition, and
the chairman then declared Mr.. Nagle
nominated. Mr.. Nagle's supporters
showed no disposition ''to listen to
nothing in the line of fairplay," because
the convention was not informed that
| the play was not fair. Mr.. Hussey's
delegates accepted the decision of the
Ichair without a word of objection.
| If Mr.. Hussey and his friends believ-
ed the count to be incorrect, why did
then not move for another ballot! 1t
| would have been very easy to have Ia
ken the sense of the convention on the
subject. Mr., Hussey's delegates &C
quiesced in what wss done, and the con-
vention had no knowledge that those
delegates were at all dissatisfied.
Mr.. Hussey says further that he
knows of only three persons who count
ed the vote SO to 81; while he knows
of nore than four times that number
who called it a tie. And then he pro-
ceeds to mention those whose count
showed a tie, viz: Mr.. Hussey, Mr..
Hewitt, Mr.. Nagle, and "the delegate
from Meme who sprang to his feet
with an OATH" We submit to Mr..
| Hussey that he has indicated but fonr
persons who made it tie; and with
his confessed knowledge of mathe-
MATES we need not remind him that
four is not more than four times three.
| But we must reduce his list somewhat.
What Mr.. Hewitt's talley was we
don't know. Rut Mr.. Maggie did not
make it tie. The delegate from Nee
me did not exclaim it was tie, and as
to the ''oath," it is probable that Mr..
Hussey for once confounds himself
with the gentleman from Meme. And
| then we understand that Mr.. Hussey
himself did not make it tie, altho' he
says he did. We are told that Mr.
Hussey made no score of the fourth bal
lot, but stood as he himselfstated .swith
| his arms folded" while that vote was
counted. He saw another gentleman
tally the vote, and he watched the
score until it indicated SO for Nagle
and 81 for Hussey, Then he left the
| convention before the nomination was
announced by the chairman. Going
down town he was asked by E. G.
Nash and Charles Fechter how the
vote stood, and he answered that he
was ''beaten by two votes" Now Mr..
Hussey, if you made the vote tie as
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