The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-16

/ a tame dish for the intellectual Stomachs,
which SO recently digested the highly
| seasoned proceedings Of Missouri char
| mouy' gathering, Notwithstanding
the fact that the stakes here are
rich official plums, while the
stakes there were only Scalps. The as
/ >embltd delegates and lobbyists imagine
| that they are having
AZ AWFUL EXCITING TINE,
vet your correspondent has mingled
among them for half day without hear
ing anybody called "boss" or chief, or
q putrc>ceut aristocrat, or a public cor.
Nptoui>t. What they call real lively
convention would give any Missouri Re-
publican the blues,
There is great prcponderance OF silk
plug hats in the Northern delegations.
he difference between Il silk hat here
aud Il silk hat at Sedaia is that the silk
lat here hasn't got dough under it,
In fact, that sort of tile al
! most uniformly covers fellow who is up
TO snuff, and who, therefore, had schOoled
I himself in the use OF the machine. 1t is
not at all an eXaggeratiOn to state that
the gathering here averages fully an hun
bred per cent, higher than that at Soda
liza, not because it represents such SUI
ptrior constituency, but because its con-
Sl.tuency insists on beng represented
ami hl, learned the Importance Of eXer-
C.>lug the franchise, as statistics show
FOR GOVERNOR.
All concede the nomination on the first
..Il1 4 L. a L..
at no time since he announced himself
candidate has anybody for moment
doubted the triumphant termination Of
his canvass.
Governor Hamilton who is here, and
receiving royalty, has evidently made up
his mind to rooSt low, and be statistic
with an appointment a. delegate at large
to the Chicago CONVENTION an honor
which will probably be rendered him in
view of his little disappointment in his
hope to succeed himself.
The convention is to nominate candi-
dates for the following Offices, besides
Governor; Secretary of state, Lieutcn-
aut-GJyernor, state Auditor, State
Treasurer and Acknowledgement. In ad-
ditJn to this it elects four delcgates-at-
r.T.r,I Con,ro,+,ac and forms an oIactnr-
al ,frLat
............. 1890.
HI NN>''''N' - ioi '''' Z h'''> wv
H"N"H
are J. c. Smith Of Chicago, General John
| Rnaker, Of CarlinyiIle; J. II. jaeger,
Of Alton; w =. Bradshaw, Of Edwards
vile; and J. NJ. Southworth, OF Wood
stock. The fight seems 10 be between
SmltA VINO claims to nave l35 votes from
,Ae Nortn' ana h,haNef' VINO claims
'a' - UNIV M ~ '''' o0"'H 'nu'
FOX sh'RE lAhi OF STATE,
II, ID. Dement,, the present incumbent,
ana l.. +. VOL, who edits Peoria paper,
are the only candidates. Mr.. dement,
has the call for the nomination in the con-
vention.
For Auditor, Mr.. c. p. Swlgart, the
one-arned hero OF kankakee, will have
walk around, or walk away, or whatever
1t IS.
Ihe nomination Tor treasurer Will be
the most exciting episode OF the gathering.
The candidates are Charles Becker, acrIp-
pea veteran, strongly DachedDy II. GAR
County; JACOB NToss, VINO goes INTO the
tight backed by the vote OF the iull Cook
County delegatlon-I5l votes, The re-
suit in this matter VIII depend largely
upon who IS successful in the race for
Licutcha nl-uoFc.h"I'
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FOR lIoRNEf-"hNhRAir
the candidates are Jas. Mccartney, the
present incumbent, aud Geo. Hunt, Of
Paris. \ short time ago some short
sighted parties issued circular in which
heart-brcaking account was given
of how Mccartney had damned his
four-year Old son with cane
because he wouldn't pick his hat up
out OF the mud. The story has been re.
pcated aud magnilcd by one side till the
cane has assumed the proportions Of
fence rail with spikes in it, and Mozart
ney's scion has been converted into a
bloody ruin, and the other side i.
ready to demonstrate that the implement
was a bunch Of straw, or stuffed club.
On the whole Mccartney seems to have
proiited rather than suffered by the circu.
lar, and he has slightly the advantage in
a..