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Ol ( airull eouniy.
Eemocratic Congressional Convention. -
A (h let'ate ennrenllon le called to meet ul .TolU-t Sep-ti-nihiT
Mil. lbKi. ill '.' e. M . f"r the purpiine of plneliiit
m ii'miiiiiilloti a eanillilale fir Member of t.'onrens for
the KlKhtli t oiii:re. iiml l)ltrlct, and Ininmet wu h
other hui- lie. limy he hroiiKht tH'fore the Cornell
t on. The neeenil countlm will lie entitled to reire
ru iitathin by delenuten an fullown:
Iu l'iwe 4 I (inmdy
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fly order of Committee.
T. M CIIOXIN". S y.
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Democratic Connly Convention.
Hie Il. iiKM ratle v.. tent of the vai loun t" iikIiIjih of
La Salle onnty are reiiieteil to tteleet tleleptles to rep
resent them at a Democratic Coimiy r'onventlon, to he
held nt Turn Hall, In Ottawa, on Wkdnk-iia v, tub
i i ii l)tv (iK Oi ToitKii, ISftl, lo put In nomination can
Uiilati'iinrilloVH: County . I ihIkp, I'robute Jtide, Cmihi
ty Clerk, I'rohalc Clerk, Sheriff, Treiimirer. and County
Superintendent of Sctiooln. AImi the following leMa
tie otflera: Hlate Senator and Two KeiirewntallM;
and t iransaet any and all mifh other Imalnewt ua may
propi rly come lief. ire the convention. The tuwiihl
ul ihe eoiinty Khali ea ii he enlllleil in repieni'litalloli in
I lie eonvi'iillnn hrrehy eiitled mi tint b.ihlH of one tli-le
for every 50 volca, and almi every fraelluu of S)
oti i an aler than 15, eiml In lu ll lowiikhliw fur the
( u h1iii'I mid Heiiilrli kH elietnrn In 1SWI. The com
miller rteiiinmi ld (hat (lie llemoerallc voti m of (lie
lai'liiim lownxhips hold (hell limnhlp eaiu linen fur the
fci'li't'ihui of deli Kattta on Monday, Ihe fotnth titty of (i
toher, net ween the hoiim nf three n'rlnek anil Ihe
b'lloek In the aflttrniHiu, iinlenit another day and ollu r
I. ours (hail be denlKHitleil by the varloin, lowimhlp com
un'tee a. The eniiiinlilee fin llier leeiiniineiitl thai kiii'Ii
Iowa fihlps At failed Ut eleel e.oiiiinittees aL lint Jail vau
ti held elect Ihein. The neveinl lownnlilw kIihII he
ealitieil In the following mimher of viiten In the cull
i utlon:
AilaiiiH
Allen
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lf liee ,
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Iteer rark
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Cattle
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4 Vermillion V
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IH Waltham 9
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Kin. All S. llltOVVS'K, Mendnia.
I.ol ls ItOIIKKK, Norlhvllle.
H AMI Kl. K I'AKIi, Itiiliaml.
CHAKI.Km II. KUICKstiN, Miller.
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8AMI Kl. L MILI.KU, Farm FlldKit.
lly.lAMKn II. Ki'kiL" Seeielary.
Current Events.
Clu'lera Is gaining ground In Austria.
Ormonde, owned by tho Duke of Wtt
luiur-tei, who won the KuHhIi Derby In
.Mny, rniitured t he 8t. 1.4'gt.T stakes Wed
ut'sdiiy.
Uabilel Rouck, of Oshkimh, Lavlu joh
i'.ivnly refuued ti) bciiiiu the tiemiMTiitic
iioinltiftf for jiovernorof Wl:onsln, (Jllbi-H
M. Woodward was pluced In the Held. ,1,
T. l'uttiain was nomlnatPd for llntfrntnt
.'uvcripir, Jolin A. John.ia for btute trcs
urer, and John U. l.uilwlf for HWretury of
tate.
On thP rduht f tlie 12Ui In-.t. nn atteinr
was made to blow i.p the I.akr sihore and
Michigan Mtuitheru IUihoad Co.'a signal
tower, at tbe Intersection of the Stock
Yards and Lake Whore main lines. The
t,.iv.r is Hbotit .i0 feet hlsh. IU use Is to
turn the electric switches and slirnal gutes,
The explosion was loud and much damage
done. As a passenger train was due from
th nn.t. tne evident Intention was to
wreck it reL'ardle.n of life. It was doubt
less the work of Lake Shore strikers.
(union S. Hubbard, one of the most fa
tm iii4 of the pioneers of the north west
died at his home lu Chicago, on Tuesday,
thP 11th. tit 11:13 A. M. He had been an
invalid for a vear previous and totally
blind. Oulng to biota poisoning one of
hi eves was removed' three years ago, and
it was found necessary u year ago to take
nut the other. He was bmn In Vermont,
A ii ir. W2. went to Montreal w ith h
parents In 1 SI o, and soon after be entered
into the American fcr company, at
per year. He escorted 1,' men on an p.vpe
ilitlou lor the Illinois ihvr, cim-tmg along
t!,o slioie of Li'ke Michigan, readiing
the jTeserit site of Chicago In 1-US. Tlie
party then made their way ti; the Smith
liiai'icli, to where Ihltlg.'port afterwards
nppe-ired ; thence on Mini Lake to lc
p'lalnes river antl down to the Illinois,
which stream they followed to where llen
tit pin now stands, and there thy wintered
among (he Indians. Ileie he built tin
lirst log house ever erected in this whole
region by uny white man. Ii learned the
Indian language and becaiiie familiar with
tlieir manlier-, customs and superstitions,
and comjilettdy won tlitdr friendship and
confidence, wiiicn ne ever retaineii. ne
next year went to Macinaw, and the fol
low In'' sniinir was made chief in command
and manager of his company's business in
Illinois. He returned to Hennepin, estaD
llshed a tradlm: iiostiind ran It successfully
until the final exodus of the Indians after
the JMackhawk war, ftnd was fif great ad
vantage to the settlers In getting supplies.
In lN'iri, when trouble broke out in Chica
go between the Winnebago Indians and
the whites, he volunteered to go to the Wa
bash settlements In Indiana for aid. He
went alone and returned prom ply w ith l -io
mounted men, only neceii days ufter his de
purture! He erected the first brick build
lug In Chicago, in ls:J4, and called "Hub
bard's Folly," because "it was a monstrous
outlay of money In a bog htle which never
could be anything but a miserable swamp !"
He once engaged w ith a linn In building a
line of lake steamers. The liritlsh Hag
ship captured by Commodore I'erry uml
the Couimttdore'H own flag ship were of
this line He was a member of the legis
lature and a great friend of the Illinois it
Michigan canal. His record as n pioneer
is one of which his state mav well be
proud.
et.
He believes that In a great many towns
In this county money was fieely used, both
prior to tlie day of tlie primaries and upon
the day they were held. He believe that
without such a prodigal use of money Mr
I'luinb would never have received an en
dorseuient at the hands of a party upon
whose generosity he hud no claim and to
which be had In the pat given but the
most tiie.stionabln allegiance.
Mr. Fornof, the editor of the Fhki. Tua
dkii is not fighting Mr. Plumb on personal
grounds; he Is fighting him because he
believes it to be disgraceful to the voters
of the district to be represented In cotiLTes
by one whose political prominence is due
to dishonorable and dishonest methods.
lnt! the voters at the primaries in his Inter- back candidate Tor senator! but the face
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v. i we 1 1!.-.
Credentials were declared In order, and
on being handed In, showed up as follow?;
Du Page, entitled to (5 delegates, present,
none; Will, 17, on hind, 11; (Jruuiiy, 5, on
exhiblticn, .'1; Lit Salle, 17, on duty, 10
Kendall, 7, on deck, 1. The delegates
present were Win. Watklns, C. C. Smith,
James H. Ferris, Will; T. L. Thrall, Ken
dall; J. W. Porter, Aaron Harford, Ilarrl
son KniK-hs, Orundy ; K. U. Weeks, David
Westgate. John S. Armstrong, G. K. Class,
A. J. Maker, John Dougherty, H. J. Wood,
Henry Zeers, W. A. Morgiu and John Mc
Lauchlan, La Salle.
Weeks broke tlie ensuing silence with
the remark: "The greenback doctrine Is
so plain that any man among us can down
a giant against it " After allowing this
startling observation to get in its work
awhile, Porter arose and stated that he
iidn't know Mr. Lumry, but he knew his
wile, and if tlie man was half as smart as
the woman, he's a clipper," and would d
for Congress. Dougherty replied : "We
have too many smart men in the green
hack par'y now. The come in, get a nom
ination from our hands, and then try to de
ii'.er ii-, boiiud ban 1 an 1 Liot, iiit-) tie- cump
ol the enemy ! ' Ju.stut this point "Jivor" 1
a.'ain pa veil tin iloni and was seen nv
many, but unseen by Dougherty. Tin
secretary le.nl Limny' letter at length
Coiutnissioiittr Atkins states that since
thu removal of Agent McUilctiddy at Pine
iildge it has Iteen clearly shown that the
number of Indians at that point is 2,2 1 1
less than were reported as drawing sup
plies. The democracy of Cook county on Wed
nesday nominated William ilest for sher
llf, Michael Mclnerny for county clerk,
.Michael Schwelsthal for county treasurer,
Lghett Jamleson for judge of the superior
coiirt, J. C. Knickerbocker for probate
judge, Hlchard Prendergant for county
judge, and St. Clair .Sutherland for county
commissioner. The ticket Is conceded to
be uousu-dly strong, and will be elected.
Senator Harrison opened the Republican
c ampaign in Indiana on Wednesday, rjieak-
lng at inaianapoiis.
OCTOBER SIXTH.
The democratic county central commit
tee have now issued a call for a convention
to be held In the city of Ottawa, on Wed
nesday, October Cth, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the offices of
county judge, probate judge, county clerk,
sheriff, treasurer, county superintendent of
schools, sfite senator ami two representa
tives. Having done this, the woik of the
committee is ended, as far ns the convention
is concerned; and upon the democratic
voters of the county Is placed the responsi
bility of saying who shall be placed before
the voters to seek their suffrages.
W hen the delegates In convention shall
have named their candidates then the active
work of the canvass will be entered upon,
and the nominees us well as the party at
large may rest assured that each and every
member of the committee will work earn
estly for the election of each and every
nominee of the democratic party. The
committee In common with every right
minded tlemtx rat tilmply ask of the con
vention that good men be named for the
various Kisltions, that they may enter upon
their work with some assurances of success.
When the men for party honors are
named, the members of the committee w ill
then constitute of tbemselvei "a ring" "a
ling" bound together for the purpose of
electing the democratic candidates. Thus
far they have not made of themselves
such a body, and they will, not until after
the nominations are made. Candidates who
are talking about antl convention "rings"
are simply making themselves ridiculous,
weakening their own standing in the party
and pushing the nomination they desire
beyond their reach.
JUDGE CCDY.
The folhnving Is taken from tlie Chicago
'',' .nr, iiud.:) "Ihe re. nomination of
Col. llalph PiUlilb by the republicans ol
the Sth congressional district of this state
means that there is to be a hard tight in
the distiict. Col. Plumb was elected t'.io
years ago by a maj' iri'y of about .VK) and
n plurality of nearly :!,oiK) over Haley, the
lciinx r.it, but since that time a p-inarkable
revulsiou has taken place among the repub
licans in virions quarters of the t'i-tii t,
where it Is ch:g.'d th:itth-cl- md bought!
lis way t'i congress and t;ien did uothini:
) tiie credit of the di-tiict alter he got
there. It may be safely predicted tli.it
many meun-eis ol the jnity reiiise io
ote for Col. I'lumo this year. On the
ther hand, the demon at ;ij -pear to bej
preparing to do a w ise thing in selecting
udge Hiram H. Co'jy of Du Page county !
as their nominee, for the judge is a man!
whose long service on the circuit bench!
h is raised him out of the sloug'i of p.uti-J
sansliip If Indeed he ever was in it and'
made him very acceptable to those republi
cans who are not so firmly youed to their
party as to feel that it would be a crime to
support a democratic nominee. The nom
iuatlou of Judge Cody woulu be a sub-tan-tial
Indorsement of President Cleveland's
administration, since the judge is plainly
outspoken In his belief in those reforms to
which the President is trying t give effect.
Judge Cody is the gentleman who last
year was urged to ruu as a dem.icrat for
the Supreme Court vacancy, but declined,
saying he would take no part in partisan
nominations for judicial places, and ad
vised his friends to support Judge Magru
der. That his non-partisanship in judicial
mutters Is not a new departure is attested
by the I act that for many years, though al
ways known as a democrat, he sat as one
of the judges in the banner republican
circles of Illinois. If be is nominated now
it will make an interesting contest."
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in'- in ill"!, mil. 1. lll t r-ii. inn irtiruiijr Uriel
at W aukeg m, and in th?s way: Ills sup
porters got possession of the hall and put
him In nomination before his opponents
could rn!lze the situation. When thev
had caught breath they adopted a resolu
tion denouncing him and his methods, and
repudiated him entirely by nominating
George Walte. But Haines treats their
proceedings w ith contempt, and goes about
among the people proclaiming himself as
the real "shnou pure" u ominee of the par
ty, and laughs at the other fellow, whom
he denounces as a "bolter." The dermic
racy of the entire state will watch the re
suit in that district w ith interest.
Ti is is the way the republican papers
of Grundy and De Kalb take to J. Ivor
Montgomery's nomination as senator for
the Seventeenth S-natorlal District: Mr
Mar-hall, of the Kendall County Jiiconl
says :
The metliitds observed by Mr. Montgom
ery and his triends are unworthy of re
publicans.
Joe Mackin is in the penitentiary. He
thought he had a moral right to tarn per
with the ballot box.
I he writer "yeained
plact under bd to do
for some humble
something for tlie
greenback and labor cause-..'' Westgate
a.-ked: "If tiie labollng party is wild to
join us, why in thunder ain't they here';
The Society of the Army of the Ten
nesse- held Its annual reunion at Kock Is
land during the present week.
Much Inter at Lai been e.xclted , by a
yacht race which took place on the m enu
iienr New York recently. The contestant
were the Galatea, English, and the .May.
flower, American, and a easily won by
flj latter, In w hat the horse joc key would
call "two straight heats."
The A' tlng Secretary of the Treasury
Las Issued a ctll for f 13,K),(MK) three per
cent bonds. The treasury officials are well
Mttsfletl with the results of the prevloun
Toluutttry call, although barely a million
THE OBJECTIONS.
Mr. Fornof, of the Streator
is greatly In error wheu he states that the
editor of the Fkkf. Tkahkk has Inaugur
ated a war of "mud slinging" upon Colonel
Plumb, w ho was on Tuesday re-nominated
by the republicans of this district for con
gressional honors. The editor of the Fiif.k
Tiudkk Is quite as strenuously opposed to
bitter personalities as Is the virtuous gen
tit man who couducts the republican organ
at Streator, and indulges less in them.
The objections raised to Halph Plumb
are of a mwre serious nature than those of
a purely personal character. They are of
a character that affect very grievously the
luterests of good government. The editor
of the KhekThaoku objects to Mr. Plumb,
not because of any personal dislike for
him, but because of a firm conviction that
the imly thing he represents In olItics Is
money because tf. a beliet that Mr.
Plumb would not to day be" at the head of
the republican orgaoaVntion of this district
If It was not for the fact that he is a rich
man -one w ho has spent liberally ami Is
willing to sjtend liberally his funds to lu
sure olitlcal preferment.
Mr. Plumb has been charged by respect
able and respected men of his own party
with being "a political corruptionlst," and
tlie editor of the Fukk Tkadkr believes
that he is. He beiievea that two years
since he purchased the Influence f news
pijenj and paid political tricksters for trav
eling the county of La Salle and debauch.
THE GREENBACK CO.N VEYII0.V.
If there Is any thing extant that Is deep
er, wider, thicker, and more ponderous
than another it is a greenback convention'
Such gatherings are profoundly "brainy."
In irdinary political assemblages a few do
the talking; In a greenback conclave,
every blessed mother's son of them Is an
orator, full fledged and crammed full of
statestlcs, logic, learning, language, logar
ithms, and gab. Such a convention was
held in the janitor's room in tlie court
house, an humble place, it is true. Dio
genes lectured In a tub. It was a conven
tion of the greenbacks cif the "-'th district,
comprising the counties of Grundy, Ken
dall, La Salle and Du Pnj,e, to select a
candidate for cougress. Du Page alone
failed to send a delegate, tue others were
represented. Geo. Glass, of stioator was
made permanent chairman and J. II Fer
ris, of Joliet, Secretary, before it was ast er
tained who were delegates. Greenbacks
are not tied to parliamentary usages,
Glass sjsike. He admitted the party was
under a cloud at present, but lo, "It Is not
dead but sleepeth," thus neatly warning
the world not to tickle the nose nor "yank"
the tail of the Hon when he is taking his
fii'xlt ! "all the noble party needs to do Is to
rouse up, put on its war paint, shy Its cas
tor into the ring ami win ! The secretary
read a printed circular from Prof. (). F.
Lumry, of Wheaton college, Du Page, In
which that gentleman demolishes all other
political parties at one fell swoop of his
glittering pen and points out tlie beneficent
perfections and ineffable goutiness tif the
g. b's. He nuxlestly asked to be nominated
for congress. This, he seemed to thluK,
added to the fact that he Is an independent
candidate, ought to boost him through!
Porter of Grundy wanted all to speak-
He wanted to speak, and lie knew that all
wanted to speak; he wanted a "love feat"
of speaking, and moved that every on be
given five minutes. Westgate of Troy
Grove wanted ten minutes he knew some
w ho would need an hour. Woixls oi' Strea
tor figured It out: IS present, 10 minutes to
each, three hours time. Five lubiutes each
would take an hour and fifty minutes,
Let's make it f minutes (voices, "Oh, oh,
no, no! too snort: ) nut at length the
shrewd mathsinatlclal po'nt embraced in
the WihhIs motion prevailed, because a
gteenbacker can't resist figures.
Porter spoke: Let's unite with the lalatr
party and sweep things generally ; w e have
ti led greenbacks tlone aud got left. Let's
join with them and call ourselves the
grand Labor Union, or soiaethlug. The
chair called 'Mine," ami Porter sat.
Wntklns, .f Will, thought It would be a
gtanl schevte to hav a committee tin cre
dentials. End "find out who Is who." Mc
Laugidim, of La Salle, with Ids eye In a
sort of oratorical freny rolling, exclaimed :
"All faces are greetihae k faces, and they
are theli own credentials." (Applause by
our "eporter.) McLanghlan unconsciously
duted toward the front door. Half the
delegates looked that way and saw the face
of J. Ivor Montgomery, the whilom green
jiiave they no candidates 'no sun. IV I
j vas (nice in Men Ima when 1 saw a friend
j who had written to John A. Logan, advis
ing him to get into tlie greenback party as
iiick as God Almighty would let Lim.
John is with us, so is Col. Plumb, but he
dasn't own it. 1 tell you Plumb in a green
backer."
McLauchlan said: "I notice that the
men to be hanged in Chicago are either
democrats or republicans. (Laughter.) The
aaurchlats have been drawn to it by the
bad government of tlie country, given by
republicans and democrats. They organ
ized because neither party of these two
would give them their rights. Hung the
tieiuocr.'its anu repumicans, i say! (i.augn
t r.) The greenback party alone can pre
vent anarchism and socialism. 1 favor John
S. Armstrong of Mission for congress. (Ap
llause.) Armstrong declined w ith thanks.
"I am too old."
Woods grew eloquent in seconding the
nomination. Armstrong again declined for
tue reason offered before. Westgate thirded
tiie nomination, but Armstrong again said
no. "Cieser thrice declined a kingly crown."
A delegate from Will county flew aloft hid
eagle on general principles: "we must re
vive the greenback party, for it's now-
stuck in the mud. The old parties are de
moralized. The democrats are not sure
they won at tlie last election, ami the re
publicans don't know that they were
whipped! Lets 'up and at 'em!'" He
wanted JudgeLocey fur congress. Morgan
of Streator was down on Locey. For why?
I'ecause "I tried him at a Mortis conven
tion and he was found wanting. I asked
him to answer a plain greenback question,
(for which 1 came near being assaulted on
the streets afterwards by one of Locey's
bruisers whom he brought up from La
faille to bully him through) and Locey
dodged it. No, Locey is mine!" More
debate ensued in which all took a hand,
during which some contended, and It finally
seemed to be the general belief that the
('emocrHts,1 too, would nominate Locey.
Some opposed nis nomination for that very
reason, others favored it on the same ac
count. 1 hen on leave, Hev 1). 15. I uruey,
who Is the prohibition candidate for con
gress In this district, (another Uichmond in
the .1ld) aJdressed the convention. He
claimed to be as good a greenbacker as
any of them, and read a long speech of his
in the Joliet Xac to prove it, and he
claimed ttiey should also nominate him
here. Dougnerty said "the labor party
will neyer vote for a lawyer unless a re
tnarkably unexceptional one." Westgate
objected to Turuey because to nominate
him hers would put him on two plat
forms, linker in grant! eloquent terms
proved that both are identical on the fin
ance uuestlon. Dougherty said the g. b. s,
woultf not touch Turnev nor prohibi
tion. An Informal ballot resulted: Judge
Locey 11, E. H. Weeks 17, Turney 1Q.
The formal ballot was: Locey 20, Turney
i and Ltx-ey was then unanimously
nominated ami a motion put and unani
mously carried that, In case Locey de-
clined, Mr. Turney should be the nomi
nee. At this point Turnev arose and made
the remarkable announcement: "Gentle-
men, 1 am now your candidate for con
uress, for Judge Locey told me the otker
day that If he could not secure the demo
cratic nomination, ttx he would not run.
He w ill not get that nomination, and I am
now nominated! "This was received with
astonishment by most of thej delegates.
Zeers of Streator, Indignantly, to Turney :
"Why didn't you tell us this before?"
But Turney 's crowing was ill timed for
the convention crushed him, by empow.
erlng McLauchlan to call another conven
tion should Locey decline. The conven
tion appointed a district central commit
tee and anjourned.
II,.- II,
bone, hiit !
democrats.
' ! republican to the back
n't have to suppoit greenback
TI.
be 1-
cantp
-e hunltvd dollar delegates slum
t at home. Republican conventions
t 1 nig nil' -id to k-ep them in front.
The oiionank i-vi''V fears that Mar
shall w ill be called a limgw iiinii. because
he opp o.-es Montgomery. We support re
publican nmuiriees, but all the conventions
in the univer-e can't make a republican
out of Montgomery.
Had the three Hood by them, with
Grundy's the votes, Motitgonieiy could
never have been nominated, and after a
few ballots De Kalb would have been glad
to drop the illegal moral voter, and put up
a man whose Republicanism aud Integrity
;ire unqiiestinned.
The lesult of the convention at Piano
lust Thursdav is one to bring shame on the
republicans of the 17th Senatorial District,
and the nominees of that convention tuny
find, when the votes are counted In -November,
that the people are not to be trad
ed for like cuttle, lu the interest of any
man.
Eat a wrong has been done the Repub
licans of this district that cannot be re
paired. .Mr. Faxon ami his two associates
have forced upon us a candidate for state
senator that even delegates w ho voted for
him repudiate. They have given Kendall
county an unsavory reputation for political
traflicing, and we do not deserve It.
Blulue element in the Green Mountain
state.
Maine has now been heard from, nnd
the comfort that It was to give Mr. Blaine
and Mr. Blaine's admirers Is wholly want
ing. If.to the canvass Mr. Blaine entered
with all his zeal. He made speech after
speech, lie was aided by his distinguish
ed lieutenants at home and by republicans
of prominence from abroad The Issues
discussed were of a wider scope than state
issues, taking in as they did acts of the na
tional administration. Mr. Blaine hoped
fur great things from his own state, but his
hopes have ended in the making of ttiem.
The complete returns from Tuesday's
election show that the republicans polled"
O'.i.OOO votes; the democrats 50,000, and the
prohlbitiouists 4,000.
In comparison with the vote in 189-1, this
shows a lepubllcan loss of 9,000, a demo
cratic loss of 2,000 and a ptohibition gain
of :J,000. It would seem from all this that
Mr. Blaine has not accomplished enough
In his own state to warrant his friends In
growing very exuberant over his "magnet
ic" qualities. i
lit publican Cnugrranlouitl Con vt-nl inn.
The republicans ot the eighth congres
ional convention met at Turn Hall In this
city, on Tuesday, and nominated Colonel
Plumb for re-election, Major McLaughry
ot Joliet making the nominating speeclr.
The seconding speech was made by Wal
er 1 Jeeves. Senator Kay of Grundy acted
as chairman, and F. L. Sels of Du Page as
ecretary. After his nomination Col. Plumb
was called upon and made a characteristic
sjieei u one very siusiiy iiud very deiua-
igieal. At the close of his remarks a
congressional central committee was chos
en, con. posed of the following named per
sons: ini j'age, li. A. Childs, .1. V. Uas-
ford; Giundy, W. S. Pierce: Kendall, G.
W. Greenfield; La Salle, D. McDoug'ill,
John C. Ames, Casper Fischer; Will, E.
W. Willard, M. Walton.
Mr. Montgomery says he did vote in La
Salle county" while he was a resident of
De Kalb county, but he thought he had a
moral right to do so. He had been engag
ed all summer working tor Colonel Plumb,
and wanted to help him all he could, so he
did the final act vo'ed for him, though
living in another ilistiict. Congressman
Hopkins has some ten thousand majority
in the De Kalb district; Colonel Plumb's
majority may not reach one thousand in
this district, and his election will be very
close. .Now, why can't Congressman Hop
kins spare a few hundred voters from De
Kalb to come over here and give enough
"moral" votes to Colt uel Plumb to make
nls election sure. It has long been a the
ory with republicans that the democrats
carry Indiana by borrowing a number of
"mural" voters from Kentucky, where they
have dein'XTats to spare, antl our people
never liked it.
A ( Hl'tl
In yesterday's Issue of the new Plumb
ind vengeful lawyers peisoBal journalism
organ, called "the Ottawa (Uvhe," l am
charged with being willing to take the
county Judgeship at a salary of "g00 a
ear and board.' 1 his charge is false, and
made, evidently for the puriwise of dls-
aragement and ridicule. 1 have neither
ourted or merited such an assault, and no
tice it now, only for the purixise of brand
ing its author as a coward and a liar.
While I am not a millionaire, nor does my
annual income reach up into the thousands,
yet my clients are respectable people and
my fees only for actual services rendered
which enables me to pay my way as 1 go,
leaving a nice little bank account lor a
"ralny day." My notions of life are plain.
I live within my means aud don't think it
right for a lawyer to rob the widow and or
phan, or cloud the titles, or absorb the
estates of decrepit or demented old farm
ers, simply to keep up style. 1 am Pro
hibition candidate foi county Judge on
terms and conditions preset i bed by the
Statutes of Illinois, and flatter myself that
when the election is over, uo law bmkers,
or crime makers, will answer at the roll
call of my friends.
Noli MAN Kii.iu KN.
Ottawa, III., Sept, 17, 10.
PURELY POLITICAL.
The republicans of Kendall, De Kalb
aud Grundy counties, who cannot stand the
nomination of "Jivor," haTe brought out
W. F. Coe, of Sandwich, for senator, and
Dr. Hanna, of Lisbon, for representative.
The pair of republicans for the senate will
now be known as Jivor x ixe'i a nrni
that will be declared Insolvent after the
electlou.
Elijah M. Haines, the Irrepressible, by a
trick and Haines ts nothing if not tricky
managed to secure a nomination from
Mr. Fletcher, of the Morris ITernld, re
lieves himself in the following manner:
"Why did the Grundy and Kendall dele
gates remain out of the convention ? Be
cause J. Ivor Montgomery has not been
recognized as a republican; because the
ouly act of his since making the claim for
consideration as a republicau was the cast
ing of a fraudulent vote in the tswn of
Northville, La Salle county, in November,
1884; because of deception and fraud
practiced against Kendall county in 1881,
and repeated in 18(5, by securing to E. W.
Faxon the pledge of the De Kalb delega
tion to him for representative In return for
his, Faxon's, vote with De Kalb county for
senator, unbeknown to the voteis of Ken
dall county, debarring them from the right
of expression of choice as to their repre
sentative; because of the general and nu
merous charges against J. Ivor Montgom
ery as a political trickster, as a legal sharp
whose maw has been the receptacle for
pelf fleeced from litigants whose misfor
tune It has been to fall into bis hands as
clients. But why prolong the reasons.
They are sufficiently numerous, and any
one of them sufficiently strong to impress
the delegates whu did not enter the con
vention that the course taken was proper,
and that the action of the convention was
not binding upon tlie voters of Grundy
couuty republicans by any act of their del
egates."
The Grundy county delegates assign the
following, among others, as the first rea
sons for withdrawing from "J Ivor's" sana
toria! convention :
1st. They were informed that Mr.
Montgomery, candidate for senator, while
conducting a canvass In 1881 In the Inter
est of Hon. Halph Plumb, in whose service
he was working, claims to have been a
cltien of De Kalb county, but to have
cast a vote Illegally In La Salle county,
knowing It to have been illegal at that
time.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
After the Edmund triumph over Mr.
Blaine In the Vermont election, the friends
of the "mcntebank statesman" eagerly as
lerted that when Maine was heMrJ from
their beau Ideal would be so unanlmonsly
endorsed as to make his choice as the re
publican standard learer in bey ond
the peradventure of a doubt They felt
sore when it was found that but six antl
Edmunds republicans hail been elected to
seats In the legislature, the six apparently
representing the full itrength of the
The ladies of St. Columba church are
getting up a splendid bazar, which will
open in Armory hall, on Monday, Oct. 11,
und continue ten days. They will have
two larve table3 ami a refreshment table.
The town table will be in charge of Mrs.
M. T, Moloney and Miss Lizzie Burke, and
others; the country table will be In charge
of the Misses Fogarty, Carey and others.
Mrs P.Burke and Mrs. J. Farrell will be
In charge at the refreshment table. The
efforts of the ladles to hold a successful
fair have always been sustained by the
people of Ottawa, nnd this year will be no
exception. A number of valuable articles
will be disposed of. The f',ur Ilenonl will
be issued every day, as usual.
The Chicago dailies last Saturday gave a
sensational account of the fearful death of
Mrs. Commerford, in that city, who poison
el her two little children and then herself.
The facts as to her effort to lake her babes
and herself out of all worldly trouble were
probably correctly given, but the main de
tails bearing on the case were fearfullv wrong
and unjusi to her memory, as well as to her
relatives, and the little dailies here seem to
have made no effort to correct them. Mrs.
Commerford was formerly Miss Dwyer, a
waitress at White's Hotel, a prettv and
sprightly girl, and a belle in her circle. She
married Mr. Frank Commerford, a respecta
ble young gentleman, and they went to Chi
cago to live. He died there uot long ago.
Her father-in-law, Mr. Patrick Cimmerford,
one of the kindest of old gentlemen, a man
having some means, finding that the widow
was giving way to fits of crying by Ihe hour,
and becoming more and more the subject of
deep melancholia, for her sake and his grand
children's happiness, went to live with her
and provided ihe family wiiu all the neces
saries of life. So the story of her destitu
tion is the mere imagination of newspaper
cranks, who are insane on sensatious. She
came to her death by poison, having first
given each of her children corrosive subli
mate, but in such large doses as to overdo
ihe matter, and both survived. She resisted
all the efforts of the doctors to sa7e her un
til relieved by dtath. She was buried here
en Surnlay lat.
..
. I'lalu Fart.
The Sterling '.'i?'ff' Printing Co. has
failed aijd been closed up on a claim of $20.
000 because it did all sorts of work at star
vation prices. Agents of that and similar
coucerns canvass the country towus and take
orders at nominal rates, and merchants and
business men fix these ruinous figures as the
standard, and -kick because responsible
papers ask living and not dying prices ! When
the printer wants sack of rlour or a dollar's
worth of sugar, or a sail of clotbes, he don't
beat down the merchant s price, nor je does
be send abroad for bis goods, as many busi
neas,ca de for their printing.