Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-29

republican congressional convention
at Monroe. and deserted to the
Hazelton ranks before the convention
was fairly organized. Mr.. Stickney
was one os the fourteen delegates
from Dan county elected to sup
port Reyes and nobody else; the
local convention by which he was
chosen passed unanimously resolu-
tions instructing him 10 support
keyes; he was present at this local
convention and voted himself for
those resolutions; he solicited the
privilege of being delegate, and
he was elected on his personal pledge
to support Keyes; lastly, he could
not have been elected q delegate ex-
cept for this personal promise, made
upon his honor as man. Soon
after the convention at Monroe was
called to order, he commenced
voting in the interest of Hazelton,
and at length openly deserted 10
Hazelton's camp. 1t is now said
that he had been in conference
with Hazelton before he was elected
a delegate, and that he secured his
election under the circumstances
and by the means described, for
the express purpose of betraying
Reyes, keyes' friends and keyes'
interests when the emergency should
arise by which his treachery could
be most efficient against the man
to whom Lis plighted faith was
given, and in favor of the man
whom he was commissioned to
oppose and defeat. 1t is the worst
case in political annals. There is
nothing like it in the dark and
Shiny course of political falsehood
and rascality. 1t is the dirtiest
trick in the history of political
conspiracy and fraud. Mr.. Stick
ney, a man of good repute, hereto
fore, must have temporarily lost
his moral sense-he could have
had no adequate idea of the vile
and shameful nature of the trans
action, or he would not have been
guilty, as he is admitted to have
been.
1t must also be that Mr.. Hazel
ton became a party to this trans
action without consideration, and
that its disrepltable character, with
the disastrous results which must
follow, were not appreciated by him
when he consented to profit by the
rascality which had been planned.
He cannot continue to participate
! in the results of this fraud with
out ruin to his character as i dis
tinguished citizen of the state and
representative of its culture, its
decency and its integrity. Stolen
goods do not prosper either in pol
itics or business life, and this will
prove no exception to the rule.
These criticisms are entirely II
respective of any considerations as
/ to whether keyes or Hazelton
should have oeen nominated as the
republican candidate for congress
i'll that district: This is not the
question. 1t is a question of honesty
or corruption and that of the
meanest and most disgraceful kind
i'll politics.
Nebraska State Journal
The "..Cnhesiv~ nnwnr Of ""h1io
/ pluhder" seems to be changing
into dynamite qualities in sundry
! parts of the republican camp. In
the Third congressional district of
Wisconsin, Reyes, the late noted
boss, and Hazelton, the present
congressman, we're contestants for
the nomination. The convention
divided into two factions, and both
men named we're nominated, and
they promise TO stand. They are
both leading politicians, and re-
publican fur will fly furiously in
the scrimmage Hazelton had the
advantage of the disposal of con