Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-04-05
HUTTON
A Plain Statement OF Facts by an
interested Democrat.

Jurisprudence III The i.'siScr- 7
MEXICO, Mo, April 5.-In pursu-
lnceo of 4 call to nominate a democratic
,lty ticket there has been a conven-
ton held. By the democrats present
Ohm T.. Hutton was requested 10
preside over this convention. Now,
suppose We consider the conduct of
this gentleman from this time until
present. First, he stepped out
side of the duties of a chairman by
attempting to dictate to the conven-
ton what it should do. He under
took, while occupying the chair, to
mark out the course which the con-
vention should follow. In other
words, while presiding V e this as
and without v~acating the
Chair. upon the very Threshold of the
meeting and in his acceptance of the
position of chairman, made Il speech
concerning Il matter which he must
have known would be for discussion
before the convention. He had q
to state the object of the meet
ing but he had no right, and he knew
it. to dictate to the convention what
should be It's action on matters which
were to come before it. During the
progress of this meeting a certain
party vas understood by others to
accuse those who were directly in
strumental in bringing out John ii.
Buckley for mayor with having at
tempted to forestall the convention
ami coming &c it with Il view of bos-
sing it and debating to it what it
should do; and when this accusation
was afterward referred to and stated
to he false, what did the editor of the
Mteljgencer say? Il am satisfied
you misunderstood the gentleman.
l don't think anything of the kind
intended and l hope no personal
remarks will he made When the
action of the parties who were di-.
rectly instrumental in bringing out
Buckley was set forth before the con-
vention and the reasons therefor, who
denied the truthfulness of the state
ment or said that any one had acted
from any impure motive: If any
II considered that any unfair
ness had been attempted to be
practiced. l ask, in justice to all,
when was the proper time for such a
charge to be made: Was it then and
there, when everyone could hear the
answer, or was it the next day through
the medium of a paper, when no n
had.a chance to answer? There was
but one man who said anything which
could he construed to mean that any
Il had, in their action, been prompt
ell by improper motives either in the
convention or put of it, and that gen-
tleman afterwards stated privately,
but positively, that he meant to make
no such charge. But in the next
days issue of the IteNigeacer, when
the convention had done its work and
everything. it seemed, had passed off
satisfactorily, except that some DEM
ocrats thought it not a wise policy to
nominate any one for mayor, and
others thought it was, and the chair
man of said convention, the editor of
said paper, expressed no dissatisfac-
ton with what was or had been done
by anyone, among other things the
following appeared:
1.-The attempt To fOrestall the Demo-
cratic convention by public announce
m ent of a candidate a few hours in ad-
vance of the meeting received a most Sc
we're and emphatic rebuke by the conven-
tTon last night. The action of the self
constituted ~nomInators, or fOrestallers,
or bull-dozers, as they have %variously been
denOminated, was, it was conceived, in
tended either to force Mr.. Buckley as Il
candidate upon the convention, or to de-
feat the convention and prevent %actionto-
gether. Whether 1t was done for the one
or the other purpose it was wrong. 1t
was a violation of both the spirit an
usages of the Democracy. 1t was with
out a parallel, and was recognized as an
outrage. For a few to arrogate to them
selves the prerosatives which belong to
the party, was rightly construed, and the
effort to defeat the convention was sound
" r%ebuked." =
There is no one who can say that
the matters published IN the above
article are true. They were uncalled
for, and are false, and the editor of
the MteNigencer, who wrote the arti-
Gle, has so admitted since: that he
knew nothing about whether the
charges made in said article were
true or false; yet Notwithstanding
this, he has published them to the
public as facts, and failed to publicly
correct them. He has been requested
and has agreed to do this. What
does Col. Hutton do again? He pub
fishes the above article in full III his
weekly paper without giving any state
ment, or explanation of any n who
had been directly accused of rascal
ity, and Notwithstanding, too, thai
he admitted privately that in view O.
such statements the above article IL
his paper was unjustiiable and I'M
called for. And what does the gen
tlemen say after the election as to the
causes which contributed to the de
feat of Buckley?
0OtherS CONSUMING the n0uDcem