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« » "jr"- » • • r '• ;* *• , 'VL *" " V «*<" *> '• & isY"' " fV" '* V mtj piiiMer, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13th, 1876. VAN SLYKE, Editor. ̂ W&* The Fourth Congressional Repub- 3 lican Convention, met at Elgin yester- 4*y( Thursday) and nominated Wn&. 1 Xathrop, of Winnebago county. Boone Jtnd McHenry counties refused to rote throughout the meeting, claiming that le delegation known as the "Lor<1 Relegation" from Kane county was i|lected in a fraudulent manner, and if 11 reports are true, they did right in voting.--JoHet Sun. tiiL-- .v fgflt is such men as Mr. T^ordWho are by their villainous, unjust and ty­ rannical conduct, rapidly reducing the Republican majority in the Fourth dis­ trict. Everj7 step of Mr. Lord and his jpackers on Saturday, will swell the Democratic vote in November, and count heavily against the party which lie misrepresents. Words fail to convey the deep feel­ ing indignation which all honest men have rtt heart, throughout the county * against the petty tyrant whose brief moments of power were so replete with chicanery and corruption.-Elgin Citizen. The Congressional Convention The Fraud Commenoed at Ceneva Carried out atKlgln* Gten. Hurlbut Carrie* the District by a Large Majority but it Cheated out of the Nomination by the mott Damnable iJi y 1 ,'r. <> -r 11,1 'i rt ,'>-*•'5 t/i v "--f : 1 • • r*t> •« -tttwf.M } Abe 8mtth Doinsr the Dirty Work tor the Bins* •m'wmi 1W T1TR GENEVA CONVKKTION. The editor of the St Charles Leader, a Democratic paper, who was merely present as a spectator, thus speaks of the Geneva Convention: "We must lay the blame of the out­ rageous proceedings of this republican mob. upon the Lathrop minority. We firmly belive that the Hurlbut majority only wanted a fair, honorable showing, "and if beaten, would have accepted the result with good grace, and given Lath­ rop a willing, hearty support. Every word and act of every Hurlbut delegate present tended to establish and strength en this belief. < There is no palliation or excuse for the ungentleraanly, dis­ honorable course pursued by the Lathrop men. By all the rules of honor and fairness the convention belonged to Mr.Hurlbut, The rights of a fair majority were pal­ pably unsurped by the minority; and if Lathrop receives) the nomination, it is through as contemptible and vile a fraud as was ever prepetrated in Amer­ ica. And every man who supports him with his ballot, thereby becomes a par­ ty to this fraud. We do not believe that there were a half, dozen Lathrop men in that convention, who will defend the course pursued by Lathrop'8 part­ isans; and we do believe that nineteen- twentieths of the entire convention will denounce the proceedings as noth­ ing less than damnable." M-.&t TWENTY- THREE LMALLY ELECTED DELEGATES, Being DEBARRED FROM THEIR RIGHTS BY AN ORGANIZED MOB, WITHDRAW FROM TlIM CONVENTION IN DISGUST. Eighteen 8tool Plgeo Lat Ring Delegates and Six Noi n# Nominate athrop. The Voters of the 4th District Asked to Endorfe the Fraud. Republicans of the * Banner Dis­ trict of Illinois, WILL YOU, CAN YOU AFFORD to do it? Are the Majority or tie Minority to Rile this District ? That is Now the Question. KXD OF THE SIOUX CAMPAIGN. General Crook and Terry have failed to overtake Sitting Bull and his warri­ ors. The.latest reports are to the effect that the main body of tbo Indians have made a precipitate retreat, and have passed over the line into the British Possessions. The trail was found to be two miles wide. Indications are that the hostiles have been greatly rein­ forced by agency Indians, and their numbers swelled to a very large army. Our troops have gone into camp--some on the Yellowstone, and others are moving back to favorable points for winter quarters. Thus ended the Sioux cam paign of 1876. With what follows Gen. Bull can call around him from the British American tribes he will bs able early hi the spring of 1877 to recrost the line and open a campaign with an army, of immense proportions. Perhaps by that time Bishop Whipple and the otiier peace lunatics, will have all the aborgines settled into farming commu­ nities and engaged in building educa­ tional institutions. Whoknows?. I6TA wild-looking old man, with a confused nose and an ugly looking scutch down his left cheek, went into, a drug store on Main street last Friday and said to the clerk: "I'm going' ter git sot up ter day, cuss me if I don't Gimme soiuethiu' that'll make me's ugly as Satin--whisky, kerosene, any­ thing so's 1 can get up courage enough ter pretect myself from my wife. Great Scott, I'd like ter chaw giant powder, vulcan powder, rendrock pow­ der, dynamite or suthin'. I'd like ter be as strong as a steam ingine, and I'd make things different in my house! She's wus'n a piriC' The clerk said: Will you take your oath that you,11 never tell if I give you something strong enough to rend the ramparts of the world?" The old man bowed his bead and solemnly made the promise, The clerk then gave him a glass of plain soda, and the man went out to chaw up things.--Boston Courier,, BS&' The Sandy Creek N. Y. News reports the following about the strange phenomenon in Bear creek: "A singular freak of nature occurred on the farui of P. K. Graves, near Ellis Village on sun- day, the 13th ult., which day will be remembered as a very warm one. Peo- ble iu the vicinity felt a shock which was found on examination to have been produced by the upheaving of a mass of rock in the bed of bear creek. Its appearance now is like that of a furrow plowed iu the solid rock about four iuches deep and six rods in length The only theory advanced as to its cause is the intense heat, whichjprobably struck a seam and followed it. On Thursday last the Republican Congressional Convention, for the pur­ pose of nominating a Congressman for this, the Fourth Congressional District of Illiuois, was held in the city of El­ gin, and as the Republican voters had, in the primary meetings throughout the different counties comprising said District, expressed a decided prefer­ ence as to their choice for said office and sent their delegates instructed ac­ cordingly, it was reasonable to suppose that their wishes would be carried out in the matter. But the result proved that the Ring leaders and political tricksters, who were bound to rule or ruin, had decreed otherwise. The Convention was called to meet at one o'clock p. M. but abeut ten min­ utes before that time, and when it was well known that the chairman of the Congressional Committee, was present, A. E. Smith, of Rockford, without the least authority except from those Ring leaders whose dirty work he was doing, called the Convention to order and nominated one Babcock of Dekalb, (another tool of the Ring) as chairman, who at once took the chair, but the chairman of tne Committee and a large majority of the Convention decidely objected to this mode of procedure and Mr. Babcock was obliged to take a back seat, Hon. A. B. Coon of Marengo, being chosen temporary chairman. But the plans of the Ring were well laid, and as they had been fairly beaten by the vote of the people, they pro­ posed to win by one of the most glaring frauds ever perpetrated on an intelli­ gent people. This they commenced by getting up a bogus delegation from | Sane county, and as the rival delega­ tions could neither take seats until their claims had been decided upon by that body, and Winnebago and Dekalb counties having formed a com' bination, they of course run things in the interest of the Ring entirely. A committee on credentials was appoin­ ted by the four remaining counties, before whom it was clearly proven that the Lathrop delegation from Kane county wff^not a legal representation, that they were not appointed by a legally organized body, that the chair­ man of the County Convention that nominated them, one Lord, violated all Parliamentary Rules, and even rulei) of decency; that the County Convention had a clear majority of twenty-one opposed to Mr. Lathrop, and that it was only by a snap game, and the aid of this unprincipled tool Lord, that they succeeded in getting control of the Geneva meeting before the balance of the delegates could get into the Hall All this we say was clearly proven Yet in the face of this, these friends of this great good and moral man? eighteen delegates and six stool pigeons, refused to admit the legally elected delegates and admitted those chosen by the fraud above named against the solemu protest of the best men of the Republican party in the District. When all appeals for the right, for the good of the Republican party, to their honor as foen,liad failed, the delegates from Boone, McHenry and Kane, being unwilling to counte­ nance such a glaring fraud by their presence, withdrew from the Conven­ tion. This was undoubtedly just what these eighteen Ring tools wanted, as they immediately organized by ap­ pointing their pet chairman,rand went through with the fraud,passing a series of resolutions, copied from Hay's letter of acceptance, and finished up by nomi­ nating a man who is willing to accept f tbe nomination even though it be ob­ tained through the greatest fraud ever perpetrated upon a free people. Great God, has Republicanism, that principle whlcH we have cherished since our youth, come to this? Are all princi­ ples of justice and right to be trampled in the dust by a Ring of demagogues and political thieves, whose only aim Is to get their fingers Into the public crib, and shape the offices of the District to suit their own endsf Are we to be asked to swallow this fraud for fear harm may come to the cause we advo­ cate ? Are the people willing that their will shall be thus and these corrupt and unscrupulous knaves be allowed to control the once proud Fourth District, a District that to-day, through her present able Representa­ tive, Hon. S. A. Hurlbut, stands first in the rank of Republican Districts in the United States? We do not believe It. As for ourselves, if we were to uphold so unjust and unprincipled an action as that at Elgin on Thursday last, we should expect our good right arm to wither at the shoulder and our tongue cleave to the roof of our month. These men call themselves Republi­ cans, but they are deserving of no such name. They are political buzzards, preying upon the party, and while pro­ fessing to advocate its principles are constantly by their actions, casting odium upon it. Rule or ruin is *their motto, and now that the mass of the party have seen fit to take the lead out of their hands they have adopted the new dodge of Caucus and Convention packing. How well they have succeed­ ed in their first attempt in this new role the Elgin Convention too plainly shows. Republicans of the Fourth Congres­ sional District will yon allow this fraud to be carried out ? We appeal to you, as one who has only the welfare of true Republican principles at heart, can yon in justice to yourselves, in jus­ tice to the people, in justice to the Republican party,pass this frand by? By a clear and unmistakeable majority Gen. S. A. Hurlbnt received the en­ dorsement of the voters of the Dis­ trict. Then why sit quietly down and see a tool of a small and unscrupulous Ring, a man of mere ordinary abilities, forced upon you to fill a position just at this time of so much importance to us all. We say why do this? We are told by some weak-kueed individ­ uals "oA it will hurt the party! Let tbe matter pass quietly by. It is a bad , ob, but we will try and right it next time" What, hurt the party to insist that the rights of the people shall be re­ spected; that the majority and not the minority shall rule; that honest men and not tricksters shall fill our offices? Out upon such nonsense. There is not a man in the Fourth Congressional District to-day who has more reverence for true Republican principles than our­ selves, but rather than uphold such a damnable and glaring fraud as that committed upon the people at Elgin on Thursday, we would rather see the party. Ring-leaders and all, sunk so deep that Gabriels trumpet would fail to call them forth. Republicans we again appeal to you to weigh this matter well and act as to you seems best, but act you must, as the eyes'of the whole State, aye we might say the whole United States are upon you. You should act and act at once, for a delay until the ides of No­ vember will be a delay that is danger^ ous. : ^GBAIVD ' COL Q80BM H. HARLOW SECRETARY OP STATE, And Other Speakers, will Ad­ dress the voters of .McHenry and vicinity AT RiyERSIiDM HALL, The Old Goods to be Closed Out Regardless of Cost, TO MAKE BOOM FOR NEW We would respectfully announce to our friends ani patrons of McHenry and vicinity, that we nave concluded to make .a sweeping sale oi our Goods, and have in consequence thereof reduced the prices to such figures that will ensure a speedy sale. The Goods in question consist in part of - McHENRY, ILL. 18,'76 Monday, AT 7* O'i On the Political Issues of the day. CK P. Col. Harlow is one of the most eloquent and pleasing speakers in the State, and all should turn out and give him a hearing. The Ladies are cordially invi­ ted. Per Order Executive Committee Republican Club. " Now is the Time to Buy FURNITURE -AT-- MgrAU the United States mints are running on subsidiary silver coins to their fhllest capacity, and the monthly coinage of silver is about 96,500,000, During the present month the average of fractional currency redeemed in sil­ ver coin at the treasury has been 963000 per day, or 1,6000,000 per month. The treasurer estimates that this daily av­ erage will continue during the balance of the month. This is about 1,000,000 per month below the amount now being coined. Should the mints continue to coin silver at the present rate, no ap­ prehension need be felt about scarcity of small change. Since the passage of the Silver act the amount of fractional currency presented for redemption has steadily fallen off. At first the dally average presented for redemption was nearly 9100,000. In July It was 965,000, and the treasurer estimatesthat in Sep­ tember it will fall below 960,000. The Philadelphia mint alone can supply enough small coin to meet »this demaud. New Cabinet Warerooms, NEAR THE DEPOT, MCHENRY, - ILLINOIS. Come and See Before you purchase elsewhere, as I have a full and complete Stock of everything in the Furniture Line. Don't be afraid to Come. Anything in my line Manufac­ tured to order and satisfaction guaranteed. Repairing done to order, JOHN SHOEN. McHenry, 111., Sept'.Stb, 187& ) W1UUIU1&1 : Hats anil Caps, Groceries, Crocterj, R, k We arejeonstantly in receipt of new and desirable lines of Goods, which we are selling at lowest market quotations. Call early and secure Bargains. f^TTlie lyghest market price paid for all kinds of Produce. LANSING & EVANSON. 1876. 1876. AND SUMMER TRADE, BUCKLIN & STEVENS, NEAR THE DEPOT, M'HENEY. Have a Full and Complete General Stock for the Spring an<| Summer Trade. _ £ ' Uniformly Low Prices FOR C ASH. The Highest Market Price for BUTTER AND EGGS, in Caeh or Trade. BUCKLIN & STEVENS. McHenry,"111., April M, 1876. . i + If You Want BARGAINS -IN-- wo Hardware, *1 THE FAIR. SKCRETAKY'B OFFICE OF THB MCHENRY COUNTY AOKICULTB'L BOARD, Woodstock, I1L, Aug. 96th, 1876. At meeting held at the Court House, In Woodstock, Saturday, Aug. 26th, the President and Secretary were authorized to reduce the entrance fee on Lots 57 and 68 for Trotting, from 20 per cent to 10 per cent. Also to offer the following premiums: For best Brass Band in the County, 930 2d " M » u « £20 To compete on the last day of the Fair; no entrance fee. For beet Base Ball Club in County, $10 Games to be played on Thursday, 3d day of Fair. Entrees to be made five days before the first day of the Fair; ho entrance fee. L. WOODABD, President. Attest, E. E. RICHARDS, Secretary. THKEgHINU MACHINE MEN. -Get your String Leather of O. W, Owen, McHenry, 111. FOR THECAMPAIGN. O. BISHOP, At his Agricultural Warehouse, McHenry, in addition to his large stock of Has also put in & Full stock of Builders and Heavy Hardware ! Hand Rakes, Scythes, Shoes, Iron, and Forks, Nails, Horse Blacksmith's Supplies Generally, which lie now offers to the buying Public. WRemcmber these goods are being sold at Prices to suit the times. Call and 8ee. O. BISHOP. McHenry, 111., August 8th, 1876. Stoves, AND Tin-Ware, --GO TO-- REMOVAL. & HAVE removed to their new Store oa the corner opposite the Brick Church, where they will be nappy to see their old enstomerf and as many new ones as may see lit to call. A Full Stock of Furniturt of all kinds, *t prlces *%low as the lowest. BLAKE & BBO. McHcnry, Attg. 14th, WW. FOUNDRY AND Mine SIiob , YOLO, ILL. Amies, Gale & Co., Proprietors. The unilersipned have just started a Foun­ dry and Machine Shop, and are now prepared to do all kinds ot Casting for Machinery, on short notice and in the best of manner. We also manufacture the celebrated Gale Wind Mill. Repairing of all kinds done promptly and satisfaction Guaranteed. Threshing Machines repaired on short ne» tice. Orders solicited. „ , ANNES, GALE ft OOL Volo, 111., July 5th 1876. RE - OPENED. The Riverside House, McHENRY, ILL. The undersigned having leased tho a^>ove ears, newly Furnished e best of manner, hafc East Side Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILL. Hotel for a term of y« and Re-litted it in th opened it For the accommodation of the Traveling public, and all others who may favorhim with a call. This House is l>eautifully situated on the bunks of the Fox River, and but a short distance from the Steamboat Landing. Two Steamboats run iaily to Fox and Fistaqun Lakes, a few miles above, the best Hunting and Fishing Grounds in the Northwest. Large and airv Apartments for families during the, Summer. Iioats and Oarsmen furnished Reasonable Kates. Free M to aid from the Cars. No pains will be snared to promote the com| fort of guests, and from a long experience in the business I flatter myself that I can please the most fastidious. A GOOD LIvSBT IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOUSE. eS-^oarders by the Day or Week on the most Reasonable Terms. JACOB WEBER, Proprietor. Good dress Prints, fast colore, only 6 cts., per yard, at P. D. Smith's.