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BUTLER IN THE FIELD !

Gen. Butler has issued card in which
he says he will stand by his Greenback and
Anti Monopoly nominations and make the
run for the presidency He is only await.
| ing Cleveland letter Of acceptance to issue
his own He says he will open the cam
paign in Michigan, IA state he feels sure OF
carrying He will then speak in Chicago,
then make a few speeches in Ohio and one
at Pittsburg, attending a grand outdoor rat
iiication meeting in New York Aug, Both.
1t is to be personal campaign, in which
he will throw all his energy and make
the fur fly!'
The candidacy Of Butler will unquestion
ably bring about many changes in the pre-
sent aspects of the contest He will take
! from Blaine the whole of the "dynamlte'
portion of the Irish vote, and he will draw
off large workingmen's vote that Blaine
confidently counted on carrying by ringing
the changes on the tariff question and Tor
cling il into prominence in the contest. On
the other hand many laboring men in New
York who have hitherto voted with the
Democrats, especially those under Tamma-
ny influence, and who would otherwise
have generally voted for Cleveland, may
now follow John Kelly and the Tammany
leaders, with the New York Suu as organ,
into the Butler camp.
1t is too early yet, however to estimate
with any definiteness the probable effects
of Buffers candidacy. If there was any
certainty of his carrying two or three Nor
thern states, its rdtiOndle could be under
stood, for then its effect would be to throw
the election into the house where Cleveland
has sure and safe majority Butas there
is no chance for that, the Butler candidacy
can only be looked upon in the light of
turning bull loose in both the Democrat |
ic and Republican china shops, and the |
question is, in which will he work the |
greater havoc?
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same time cannot refrain from putting in a
good word for DR.. Clendenen, present I'M
cumbent of the Coroner's Office and candi'
date for reelection ON the Democratic tick
en- He has all the requisite virtues but
that of being republican He is Grip.
pied soldier, and a prominent member of
the Grand Army of the Republic, He will
undoubtedly get the nomination of his par
~, as no one seems predisposed 10 enter the
field against him, II the Republicans do
not put up their very strongest man for Co
roner DR.. Clendenen will sit on cadavers
for another term suse,
The above was written before the recent
Republican county convention was held
What does the Dispatch think of DR.. App
lington as "the very strongest man" the Re
puplicans could PIT up against Dr. Glen
deneny
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THE TICKET

The Ottawa Rep,tblicaR admits that the
county ticket nominated by the convention
on Tuesday "could have been made strong
or" which, without cirCumlocution, means
that il is weak, and il attributes the failure
of the convention to do better TO its having
been oyershadowed by the congressional
contest, (which prevented that careful con
sideraton of localities ana fitness which
the importance of judicious nominations
demands in time when a nomination is
MT equivalent to an election"
All of which is undeniably true. For
example, the candidates representatives
at the head of the ticket are badly chosen
on the score both of locality and fitness
What claim had Mendoza for representa-
tive when she already had the important
office Of Recorder? Then what is the fit
ness" Of either Burns or Snyder? The for
mer is unknown outside of the shop of
! King, Hamilton " Co., in which he is an
engineer and the little circle of the Knights
of Labor, in which he holds some position
is without a particle of political expert.
ence, education or qualification for such a
position Mr.. Snyder is a little two penny
Mendoza lawyer of a class always too nu.
merOus in our legislature and whose pres
ence there is chronic calamity. Are such
men fit to be placed in charge of the impor.
tant interests Of the great county of La
Sale in our State Legislature?
For States Attorney Royal Mcdonald a
fifth-rate lawyer Of La Sale, Is another no
minaton not fit to be made. His fate is
foreshadowed by the ease with which he
was beaten for County Judge by Dan Ev-
ans two years ago.
Capt, Ed. Smith, for Circuit Clerk, is re.
garded as the best man upon the ticket, and
on the score of fitness and personal merit
the claim is no doubt just But it is his
misfortune to have Billy Taylor to run
against, and that, with other serious ad- |
verse influences working againt him in
Ottawa and elsewhere, gives him.a very |
flattering chance to be the worst beat man
on the ticket
Stephen Arnold, for Recorder, has his
old and only claim to fall back upon of be
ing German and from Mendoza. He has
made a very good recorder, however, and
that, for a republican official, is so rare that
the party probably think him entitled to "a
life tenure
Col Hit the nominee for county Sur
veyor, after an association with him of
nearly 40years as a democrat, we are sorry
to see in such company. However, if cleo
ted the Office will be in good hands.
The most astounding nomination upon
the ticket is that of DR.. Applington for Co
roner As a representative of "the party of
great moral ideas" he's daisy. We have
no personal acquaintance with the man, but
unless he is fearfully belied by his neigh.
bors, he is few removes above the grade of
a common loafer The mystery is how the
was fooled into making such a
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clared 1T was strictly confidential, and |
am surprised that il should appear in
print" He was then informed that he had
SAID in the letter 10 Rev Mr. West that he
had made IA personal investigation Of the
charges, and knew them TO be true, and he
W Is asked 10 what extent he had investiga,
ted them, In reply TO this he was forced
TO admit that he knew nothing personally
of the matters set forth, and had made nc
investigation, unless conversation with one
or two individuals, who knew no more
than he did, could be called an investiga
ton. The scandals that have been pub
llshcd about Gov. Cleveland are evidently
campaign lies of the vilest sort and will
rebound 10 the injury of their authors and
the party that is using them.
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out moments notice on Sunday evening
The hotel has frontage Of 125 feet on
Pennsylvania avenue, and IN extreme depth
of lS5. The portion that fell was about 90
feet wide and 60 feet deep, and . stories
high, On the ground floor were the din
ing room and kitchen. The next two floors
were guests rooms the fourth floor was
servants quarters, and the fifth floor was
unused, None Of the guests rooms in this
portion of the building were occupied In
the front portion of the building there
were thirty.iye or forty guests. The por.
ton that fell was mainly used for servants
rooms, and seven were buried in the ruins,
i've Of them being colored
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Speaker Keifer, of Ohio, has gone the
way of ColfaX, Robson and Belknap, in
being permanently kicked out of politics
and laid upon the shelf At the primaries
in his district in Ohio last Saturday he was
badly laid ont, getting hardly delegate in
favor of his denomination When big
republican rascal manifests a lack of pluck
and impudence and shows the white feath.
er, the party has no mercy on him. ColfaX,
Robeson Belknap, &c, showed such weak.
ness and went under. On the other hand
much greater rascals, like Blaine, Garfield,
Dorsey, Elkins, &c, by boldly defying
public opinion and manifesting magniti.
cent impudence, have not only maintained
their standpoint in the party, but are put
forward as honored leaders
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CAMPAIGN NOTES.

A personal canvass of two wards in
Wheeling, w, Va, by the editor of the
Times, developed the fact that 100 German
Republicans-nearly all the German voters
in the wards-have bolted Blaine and will
vote for Cleveland in November.
The Prohibitionists of Rockford held a
ratification meeting on Saturday night and
organized st. John club with III mem
bers, all but hitherto Republicans.
c. c. p. Holden, of Chicago, Mexican
veteran, writes to Jonathan Barrett, of Lex
ington, KY that so far as he knows every
Mexican veteran in Illinois will vote
against Blaine and Logan, on account of the
hostility of both, and especially of the
treachery of the latter, to the Mexican pen
sion bill. Logan professed great friend
ship for the measure until it came up for
final action in the senate, and then he de
serted ii sneakingly and shamefully, while
his colleague, Senator Cullom, killed it.
AT Kentland Ind, on Monday evening a
Cleveland and Hendricks club was organ
lied with membership of 204, of whom
25 were Independent Republicans.
Gen Sherman has declared himself
against Blaine, 1t will now be in order for
the loyal" Republicans to assert that "old
Tecumseh" has never been anything but a
Confederate brigadier in disguise.
AT Republican ratification meeting in
Utica, n. Y, last week, when Judge VIM
Bacon, who had been Republican men,
Der of congress from the Oneida district
and had voted the Republican ticket at
every election since 1854, being called upon
to speak, arose and astounded the audience
by saying he could not conscientiously vote
for man unless he believed him to be
honest upright and sincere He did not
believe Blaine to be such man, and he
would not vote for him.
A spiritualist tells the New York Sun
he has recently received in writing,
through well-known lady medium, the
following communication: cleveland will
be the next President A. LINCOLN
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The result was received with tremendous
cheers and applause on the Plumb side,
which lasted for several minutes.
As soon as comparative quiet was res
tored, Mr. Trimble, in the name of Mr..
Cullen, Ottawa and South Ottawa, and "to
show that we prize success above all con-
siderations," moved that the choice be made
unanimous. Then the cheers went up
again,
On motion Of Reeves, Mr.. Plumb was
given time to select his delegates and when
so selected by him that the officers of this
convention issue them the credentials.
Agreed to-
On motion the resignation of the secre-
tary of the county committee was accepted
and the committee empowered TO appoint
another
PLUMB.
Mr. Plumb was then called for and re-
sponded, of course. He is not a great
speaker, but says what he has to say in
dignitied manner free from flourish or ora
torical display, speaking slowly and delib-
erately. He returned his heartfelt thanks
for the verdict of the day; he forgave all
who had said ugly things about him-he
knew how it was during campaign; he
priced this verdict more than the seat in con-
gress--to get; he regarded it high honor to
represent this district whose equal it would
be hard to find in diversity Of industries;
he pledged all he is or hoped to be to the
interest of the district if elected, God had
given him material success, and all he has
-left-shall be brought to bear for the in
terest of this district he would be the
champion of labor and the republican
party. He had been charged with being
other than a republican, but he would like
to find a man who is or had been better
republican than he, having been one first
last and all the time'-present at the birth and
rise and to be in at the death but he claimed
always the right to use his reason to decide
political questions for himself. Belongs
to the dude" family.l Just now his rea-
son makes him republican. He will
"see you later" he said, and would tap his
barrel for the benefit of the whole ticket.
all of whom he hoped to see elected. If
they are not it WON'T be his fault, he
pledged.
After more cheers the convention al !
journed SINE die.
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CULLEN CRUSHED.
Republican County Convention-The
Tlcket--Plumb Captures the Con-
gressional Delegates.
nomination

The republican county convention met
at Turn Hall in this city on Tuesday after
noon last and nominated their county ticket
and expressed their preference for member
of congress. The convention was large
one, the town of Richland only not being
represented. Both the floor and galleries
were packed with spectators, and the room
was in such "A constant uproar that it was
almost impossible to transact the business
with comfort.
Capt Fullerton Of the central committee
called the convention to order at o'clock,
and named Hon Elmer Baldwin as tenn
porary chairman--the selection of the com
mittee The Cullen men wanted to sub
stitute L. B. Croker but he pleaded sick
ness and Baldwin was allowed to preside.
ID. H. Slagle, Marseilles, and L. S. Els
worth Deer Park, were chosen secretaries
A committee on credentials was APP
pointed and sent out, as was also com
mittee on permanent organization. On the
committee on permanent organization the
chair named Delos Robinson, which imme-
diately precipitated small war between
the oppbsing congressional factions Cope,
of Streator, said Robinsons seat was con
tested and he was not II delegate and
wanted DR. Ensign's name substituted.
Trimble objected. DIR. Corbus raised
the point that the matter was in the hands
of the chair and the convention had moth
ing to do with it. The chair said he had
not expected any political significance in
the appointment, and to be fair TO all would
reject both names and appoint David Dick.
After a long wait of two hours or more
McDougall was called on for speech, TO
explain how matters looked down east As
he could not be found, Loosh Croker was
hauled out He whooped il up, of course.
He said that If ever the republicans
had the "other fellows" on the run they
had them now, and they know it! We
have, he said, the best men that the party
could have named-a ticket in every way
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,ast year

One Of the peculiar features of the Iowa
prohibitory law has made its appearance
in Council Bluffs Several half barrels of
beer were noticed on the way from the
depot TO a saloon in that city, and the Globe
says that IAN inquiry how the railroad com
pany came transport il resulted in the in
formation that the beer was imported from
Germany direct, and neither the railroad
company nor the state of Iowa can step in
and stop II in transit. Should such an at
tempt be made the United States govern
ment would step in and tell the state TO
stand back. This is one of the peculiar
things that state law cannot provide
against"
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| Snyder was declared unanimously nom
mated on the first ballot. Before begin
ming a second ballot, Mr.. Barnes urged the
convention to listen to the claims of the
farmers, who are now and would probably
be entirely unrepresented at Springfield,
and they had a right to be heard. Before
the vote was announced Trimble wanted
to know whether the two delegates repre-
senting Ophir had the right to cast votes.
A moment or two before 1t was agreed alb
sentees could not be counted, but in this
case it was announced by Walter Reeves
that they could! The chair said the Gre
dentials would settle it. If these gave
them the power to cast the full vote they
could, otherwise not but the credentials
remained unreferred to. Corbus bobbed
up again and wanted to know" about La
Sales II votes; but he was crushed
again, everybody, Trimble and all, giving
up in disgust as soon as he opened out and
Trimble's motion to allow them to cast but
ten votes was tabled. Burns was then de-
clared nominated on the second ballot,
The representatives being nominated,
Mr.. Barnes offered resolution, instructing
them, if elected, to refuse all offers of rail
road passes! 1t was adopted amid great
laughter, drowning out the Plumb men
who asked to have it referred to a myth
ical committee on resolutions.
CORONER.
Nominations being in order for coroner,
Garfield, of La Sale, nominated DR.. APP
lington, the unknown man by the way, in
the gallery, conspicuous by an enormous
sidney, black silk plug hat about four sizes
too big for him, topping white suit of
clothes. Elmer Baldwin named DIR. Weis.
An Usage man came to the front again
with plea for the panhandle, and named
F. c. Nandervoort. Hib Corwin wanted
DIR. Ziesing. The ballots We're as follows:
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Rev. George ii. Ball, of Buffalo, n y.
who, il is claimed, wrote the scurrilous ar
ticle concerning Mr.. Clevelands private
life, now in circulation in the disreputahle
class Of republican journals, was interview.
ed the other day by "A Buffalo newspaper
man, and asked If he knew the truth of
the allegations therein made He turned
pale, acknowledged that he had written a
letter to Mr.. West of Chicago, but de
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Between the second and third ballots
Postmaster Corbus moved to cut out of the
list the two lowest. Crushed again.
CIRCUIT CLERK.
For circuit clerk, Reinhart of Peru,
named c. l.. Stamate. A Streator man
named Capt. F. H. Smith, on his war rec
ord There was but one ballot, Smith get
ting 1903 and Stamate 70, and Smith was
declared nominated
SURVEYOR.
For Surveyor, ID. F. Hit, of Ottawa, and
VIM. p. Warren, of Serena, were named.
Hit received 1870 votes and Warren "A, and
Hit was declared the nominee.
STATES ATTORNEY.
For states attorney Jivor Montgomery
placed in nomination Jesse b. Ruger. F.
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Democratic County Convention.

The Democratic voters OF the various townships "i -
Sale county are requested to select delegates 10 repre-
sent them nj Democratic County Convention 10 DE-
held In the Board of Supervisors Room, In the city OF
Ottawa, on Wednesday, the 10Th day Of August 1884, at
The hour Of two O'Clock p NJ such convention to nom
mate candidates for the following offices, viz: Clerk
Of the Circuit Court Coroner States Attorney, County
s,.o, ,r pooorder ~ Deods and Two Members ~ thr
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satisfactory TO all, except "a few dudes,
and the fact that the ticket doesn't please
the dudes Is what wakes II please the noisy
rest The head has "A record we can stanC
on, and for the first time in our history We
have man for yice-president 1t is 1
double-ender, Blaine's record was conspic
uously discussed by profound silence or
the subject, but young English, of Indiana
was fearfully scored! and Logan's record
was lauded Fact Is, according 90 LoOsh,
the tail waggles this dog Loosh know,
his friends-better now than when he went
TO Springfield some years ago on an anti
Logan ticket.
The committee on credentials had long
session, dragged out by "A contest on Mis-
sion, II seems the caucus was held ana
the credentials given on Saturday; but on
Sunday some one digging out the stove
found the ballots and as they did not count
up even with the count Of the caucus man.
ayers, Il contest was started
The committee, however, admitted the
delegates credentiaed by the caucus, ma
! king unanimous report,
Corbus, postmaster of La Sale, as usual
objected, and wanted TO know about the
| La Sale delegation, One of the men chO-
sen was resident of Peru, and the delega-
ton had filled his place themselves which
Corb said was illegal as the caucus had
not given them that power, and they were
entitled to 10 instead of II delegates, He
offered a protest against admitting more
than 10 delegates. The chairman of the
delegation denied the truth of CORDS state
ment and offered copy of the ticket voted
In evidence Corbus was sat down on, no
one paying any attention to him
The committee on permanent organiza
ton named J. c. Corbus, of Mendoza, as
permanent chairman, and he was elected
without opposition, and was conducted to
the chair by Walter Reeves and W. II.
Hull.
The call being read, to find out what to do
next, Corbus, postmaster, wanted to know
about" La Sale, whether she had 10 or II
delegates He was ruled out of order
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
Nominations being in order, l.. B.
Croker nominated his old law student, +.
p. Snyder, of Mendoza
Mr. Barnes, of Rutland, nominated Eze-
kiel Rowland, of Prairie Center, on the
principle that 1.-THE office should seek the
man.
Whitmore, of Sheridan, in an elaborate
spread-eagle sort of speech nominated "the
peerless Thos. w. Burns" of Ottawa.
j. r. Corbus nominated Ole Oleson, of
Mission, and voted for Snyder.
r. p Hoge, of Usage, man from the
Egyptian pan handle, land that is never
listened to or had fair show, put in nom
ination farmer, Squire Roberts, of Usage,
and voted for some one else.
In balloting the chairman of the del |
egations announced the vote Of each on call
of the towns.
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A good.natured prohibition Republican
says there are lots of people who drink
and drink and can't help it, but who long
for temperance laws" and then adds
-.maybe Ogelsby is that kind, poor fellow
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NJ Robinson named that terror to the
democrats" r. ID. Mcdonald, of La Sale,
whom Judge Evans beat so easily two years
ago, and L. 5. Ellsworth, ia glowing terms,
named that great capturer of democratic
votes, Thos w d. Crane, Two ballots de-
cided il, ms follows:
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The cattle disease in Kansas, Nebraska
and at the Chicago Union Stock Yards has
been entirely stamped out" by the prompt
and vigorous measures adopted.
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The state of Kansas has an immense
wheat harvest. The total acreage of wheat
In the state exceeds 2,147,5SS; the total
yield is estimated at nearly 10000, 600 bush
els. The assessors returns indicate that
Kansas now has a population of 1,l30,000,
which is an increase of 10 per cent. over
act wear
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John b. Alley expresses the opinion that
there is no industry in Massachusetts which
is benefited by the tariff; yet he claims
that the Republicans will carry that state
because the laboring class will vote for
Drotaction
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Albany Argus" Mr., Cleveland contin
ues TO work about eighteen hours day, in
order, perhaps, to show that he is not u
friend of labor"
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CONGRESS.

CONGRESS.
The congressional squabble was Of
course, the interesting part OF the pro
gramme That ii proved so comparatively
tame an affair was unexpected and as dis
couraging 10 the great body of spectators.
When the chair announced that the next
business was the appointment of delegates
to the congressional convention the fur
was expected to fly. But it did not Both
factions We're so badly scared over the
probable result Of the vote that each was
anxious to see the other side begin the tus-
tie.
The Plumb side first opened its mouth
through Postmaster Corbus who has es-
sayed to be a leader on that side of the
house His indifferent success in the past
and the anything but kindly way in which
the convention treated him had not damp
ened his ardor; aud he moved that com
mittee of five be appointed to select the
delegates Quicker than "scat" the mo-
ton was tabled, and Corbus was crushed
again"
Mr.. Trimble moved that the convention
proceed to take the sense of the convention
on choice for congressman by call of
the towns, to which A. c. McIntire added
that the person so preferred have the priv
ilege of naming the delegates to receive
credentials. This was agreed to by Mr.,
Trimble, and the vote was taken as follows: