The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-23
ON assembline after dinner the attendance

On assembling after dinner the attendance
had increased to thirty-two. The committee
on credentials reported seven townships rep
resented, viz: Decatur, Arlington, Porter,
Lawrence, Bloomingdale, Hartford and Paw
Paw. Report adopted and a vote passed adj
hitting all persons present-meaning all
greenbackers-as delegates. The committee
on permanent organization reported in favor
of retaining the temporary officers, which
was done. A conference committee was APP
pointed, consisting of W. ii. Heath, j. ID.
Harris and A. III. Hathaway.
While the conference committee was absent
arranging the terms of the ante-nuptial con-
tract, Sui. Cook ESQ. of Hartford, entertained
the convention with speech. He began by
saying that he did not know whether they
had swallowed the democrats or the demo-
Gratis had swallowed them. AT all events the
old democratic party had been resurrected
and made alive by the greenbackers, and in
the hands of Providence-although he didn't
believe much in Providence-perhaps it
might become an instrument of good. He
never favored fusion; always protested
against il; the greenback party was weaker
to-day than it would have been if it had
never fused. He said he was willing to give
the devil his due, and in one respect he
right than the republicans, and that was on
the tariff question. He illustrated the OPP
pressiveness of protective tariff by stating
that gentleman purchased $1,000 hippo
potamus to exhibit III the interest of natural
history and actually had to pay 500 for the
privilege of landing il on our shores. He
thought immigration should be restrained, a
proposition that pleased his hearers, and with
which, we think, majority of the Ameri-
can people will agree. His scheme to make
the rich man bear his share of the public
burden was to exempt the domicile of every
individual from taxation, and to enact a stat
ute whereby the owner of any other proper
ty should be compelled to sell it to anybody
who desired to purchase at the price at which
il was listed for taxation; novel plan at
least and one which Mr.. Cook will probably
introduce into the next legislature of Michi-
gan-if he secures an election. He said, 1--WE
are forced to travel with the old democratic
party, but, for one, am not proud of the
company The democrats would endorse
anything if the greenbackers would only let
them make the nominations, but they would
find that it takes greenback votes TO elect
them. The democrats had taken all the
offices worth having aud had better take the
rest. If they wanted to put up the money
and take the offices, all right. If they didn't
want TO put up they had better shut up.
Speaking of Mr.. Sherwood, the democratic
nominee for Congress- Mr.. Cook said he was
not his kind of a man: he wore boiled shirt
and was an aristocrat. but he thought that he
would endorse the greenback PLATFORM and,
if he did so, he would vote for HIM. If he
didn't, he wouldn't, and he hoped none of
the greenbackers would. The speaker then
launched out into dissertation on theology
and the Darwinian theory that was amusing,
but had no particular political significance.
Returning 10 politics, he said that he ex-
pected that the epitaph inscribed on his
tombstone, as well as on those of the chair
man and secretary of the convention, would
be, "Died by transit from the greenback to
the democratic party"
The committee OF conference returned and
reported the division of the ticket as hereto
fore stated and said the democrats were only
too willing to give them whatever they de-
sired. Report adopted.
Candidates were then nominated by ACCLAIM
alton: Sheriff, Lyman Bridges of Hartford;
treasurer, George III. Xix of Antwerp; sur
veyor, Fabius Miles of Hartford; circuit
court commissioner, VIM. III. Mason of Paw
Paw; coroner, DIR. 5. Rowe of Lawrence. A
ballot being taken for representative from
the first district resulted as follows: Sullivan
Cook of Hartford, fourteen votes; Barney
O'Dell of Decatur, seven votes. Mr.. Cooks
nomination was made unanimous.
The question of raising funds being under
discussion, Nj. +. Hogmire said there was
but one officer that the fusionists stood any
show of electing and that was register of
deeds, and their bedfellow had got his spurs
on for that. Chairman Maynard said candi-
dates would not be assessed, as there was a
slim chance for their election. The repub-
lcans outnumbered them and they might as
well acknowledge the fact; but he advised all
greenbackers to put their shoulders, etc, "
and by hard work, peradventure part Of the
ticket might be elected Mr.. Cook returned
thanks for the honor. etc, and was glad that
candidates were not TO be assessed, that was
an outrage: it was bad enough TO be defeated
without having to pay for the privilege. DIR.
Rowe deprecated all this talk about defeat,
he believed the whole ticket would be elected.
He noticed the NoRTHERNER's scribe had use
for his pencil every time anything was said
about the defeat Of their candidates.
The business being concluded, the happy
bride adjourned TO the hall occupied by the
groom, where she-he-it was most cordially
received and the twain were with all due sol
emnity pronounced to be of one flesh, until
after election at least.