Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-07-13
From urspeci1 Reporfcr.l
Republicans Pii-EIc.

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sstss 10 the Defiance Convention met In Nspoleon |
on Mondsy, ana thoss Who si,ended The entertain |
neat Witnessed one % the srsaiess houoeensOus |
nsssss Of cOntorted, bulheaded Republicanlin that
ever eiagraeed community.
The "Bosses" fos thepakt week have ben In close
eonsuliation In the engine room Of the Republican
maehine-ths rear Of Reeders store. There the
NortOniies met and conceived plans for the over
throw Of the Granger Of Fulton county, Who n vas
understood, had visited every farmer IN the county.
taking sei win them. sshing about the Htss ones
and all that hind OF thing to win the producer and
his vote at the convention, and ts mir 70 suppose
that soodly number Of tha tillers Of the soil had
promised 70 DO their might for their friend.
No wonder, then, that the bosses In the town, who
wereas equally determineds 10 put Morton 70 The
'front.' speeuated a. to the weather. One would say,
'f II would only start In and rain good and hard for
a few days the srangers couldn't get into town;"
when another throttle puller would chime In that's
Just where you're OF; II It rains the granger can't
harvest and he viii come 10 town n he has TO come
on stts." The latter speaker decided to be the
sachem, and the bosses all prayed for fine harvest
weather. At length the day dawned and ominous
clouds hovcred over the;oountry and the shadows
were reflected back from the faces Of the "bossee,"
who went about eursing the weather and their luck
True to the prophecy the granger was seen coming
and he came numerous; he done powerful lot Of
thinking" and Cooking around"
The machinists gathered together and concocted
scheme to subvert the granger and his friend, the
weather As they appeared on the street their faces
bore the bold touch-us-if.you-can sslfreliant ex-
expression and were not seen again together until
80 p. m when the clans gathered In the town hall.
The granger did not, has been his custom. take
back seat did he look though he intended TO be
wall-hower. He was up in front; he was q crowd,
and as he looked across the aisle through his hay
seed bangs at his well-fed well-dressed, confident
looking "bossn y he not only thought but looked
words that they given tongue, they would have
made the bones Of Captain Kid rattle In his grave,
and even make Ben Butterworth blush for shame.
The curtain arose at rs and the performance be-
gan by the selection of Dr. E. L. viers chairman,
and J. S. Fouke as Secretary. The living imperson-
alton Of the proverbiai Uncle SAM Stevenson, arose
and in his blandest manner moved that committee
of ve be appointed to select IA delegates to the De-
hance Convention. This let the feline out Of the
SACK and four Ave hayseed heads arose in an in
sant and loud and long did they utter their protests
against that way Of selecting delegates. They came
there as representatives of the people of their town
ships and they proposed to go to that convention,
and would not submit to be run by the Norton
sharpers. They wereawarc of the schemes, and ma
chnery they had to buck against All this and much
more was said but no amendment to the mo-
tion oreyen suggestion for any other method I'M
til out Of the chaos lank individual from Monroe
township arose and moved an amendment to the
motion; that each township select its delegates
This would never do for the ssbosses.n Norton
would not get corporal's guard in that case. And
1t brought to his feet the man with the calliope
voice, who had been stationed back in the flies for
just such an emergency, and moved an amendment
to the amendment "that a committee of seven In
stead Of one from each township be appointed by the
chair to select the IA delegates" About this time the
pandenonium was at its height when white head
was seen to rise up and cautiously look around.
This was Justin Tyler, the representative Of Henry
county, man who is looked up to as o parliament
tartan, and is without a doubt very good man. On
looking about him he saw the ruralist was thick.
The fumes Of new mown hay filled his nostrils and
4 gave zest to his ambitions. He would drive nail
| in Norton's political coffin and at the same time
make step or two up the political ladder by the
hayseed route. He turned on the 'bosses'' on the
other side and for a while poured in solid shot on
the tboss' SYSTEM, machine politics, and turning
to the granger he claimed they we're and citi.
gems who came there from their distant homes, from,
the plow, and they were entitled to be heard and
must have representation. He then moved an
Amendment to the amendment already.amended that
committee OF one from each OF the thirteen towns
ships be appointed to select the fourteen delegates
He was not called to order this terrible stretch
Of parliamentary tactics, but the citizen from
Idaho arose and In language that fairly made the
adipose tissue tremble on his jovial jaws, he sat
down on the granger champion, inasmuch as he
showed him where his parliamentary education had
been neglected. Justin arose and admitted his ig-
norance and hoped the gentleman would not insist
upon parliamentary techncality, as those men did
not Understand them, and wanted honesty and JUS
| tice. ssts s3s Us s. Il y4,fs 5.t.f b, s
4 Cries Of question from the "bosses then brought
down the chairrnan,s gave, and he put the amend
ment whichwas offered by the gang, of whom he waf
tool. 1t was carried, of course, the house wal
packed by Che machine gang and while the grangerl
yelled themselves hoarse in opposition, they were
sadiyin the. minority. Then came war; one old
granger from Damascus township arose and said hi
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machine politicians and they would hear from the
'granger In October as they could not be heart
to-day and called out he turned to go aycu mer
with hayseed in your hair might as well go home
Some is or 20 arose and followed others stayed te
see the farce out but looked awful hard ct the othe
side. Conciliatory speeches were, then made p,
several the "bosses," and Tyler losing his hay
seed friends fell into the open arms Of the Norton
ties. ias @ ~ teal'
granger from Washington township who wished
to say word arose and laid down point or two to
the effect that Norton had through trckery carried
that convention. But will he carry it in octoberi
\ Votes are what count, 'and don't you forget it,
Blackman, who, Up TO this time, had said nothing
walked up the center Of the aisle and pointing hi
bony index finger at the speaker, and the color Of
his face beed his name he was 80 pale that had ht
4 been amongst = crowd Of Irish they would begir
preparations for wake) he arrained the speaker q
q bolter to which there was no response. The dele
gates were then announced the names being read of
just as they had been prepared In the "boss" head
4 quarters week before. f@F 8
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The following table will show the extent
4 Of the land business in this county tor the
year ending June 80, 1882, as taken from
| the report of the Recorder to the Secretary