Bull Ring In Its Nose

The republican county convention of Washtenajv, caüed for the purpose of choosing 21 delegates for Rich, at the state convention, met at the court house last Tuesday and performed the purpose above named with neatness if not with dispatch. The job in Rich's favor had been so well planned that not a man got on a delegation from any town or ward, who in all his born days had ever heard of such a man as Hazen S. Pingree. The bosses of the caucuses saw to this as faithfully as a Russianguard, whose head depended for safety on the alertness and loyalty of the brain inside. As far as is now known, the only republican in the county who ventured to reveal in low breath, that he had the remotest conception of theexistence of Pingree, was Farmer Platt, of Pittsfield; and he was left at home bound and gagged. County Clerk Reynolds, County Treasurer Cariton and a slick looking duffer named Hough, all of Wayne, were here to do the potato farmer mayor good it they could. But their errand failed. They stood no more show than a decaudalized raasculine bovine in a fly infested pasture, bare of shade trees. The Rich machine was rnanaged with the most consummate ski 11 in Washtenaw. It is a known fact that Pingree has a large throng of republican admirers, but they were unorganized, and nothing can be done without organization. The convention was called to order by Dr. W. B. Smith and H. W. Newkirk, of Dexter, was chosen temporary chairman. Seth Randall, of this city, was made secretary. COMMITTEES. Permanent Organization and Order of Business- W. B. Smith, W. M. Osband, Geo. S. Wheeler, Chas. Stannard and Edward Ball. Credentials - Evart H. Scott, A. F. Freeman, Wm. Judson, J. W. Blakesley and A. C. Schumacher. Resolutions - John Lawrence, C. P. McKinstry, Theo. Birkett, Thos. Sears and Henry VV-aldron. After this the Rich crowd was anhungered and a reces was taken for dinner. un reassemming the temporary organization was made permanent and Chairman Newkirk, arose with fire in his eyc. Everyone rould see that he was loaded with a declamation. He gave his shoulders a shrug, shoved things back on the desk, let out his joints two inches all around and then, shade of the immortal Dan Webster! For twenty minutes that man squirted heavy tragedy over the convention. Teil us not of Cicero, Sócrates no more, No one thought of Henry Clay While Newkirk had the tloor. O, poor democracy! thrust through and through with the cruel dagger of Newkirkian invective! O, unhappy Grover! prodded again and again in the larded layers of abdominal fat, with the merciless javelin of accusation. O, Témpora! O, Moses! O, Pshaw! When the chairman had made an end of speaking, the applause that went up brought down a number of dead straddlebugs, and J. F. Lawrence having grabbed the speaker's eye said the committee on resolutions had made a short job of their work and had simmered it down to one resolve as follows. "Whereas, The administraron of John T. Rich has been eminently satisfactory; "Resolved, That the delegates from Washtenaw county be instructed to use all honorable means to bring about his renomination." 'Dopted on a standup vote. Hon. E. P. Allen, who had left his thoroughbred 50-cent wool ram tied up in the back lot down at Ypsilanti, nominated J. F. Lawrence for delega'e at large. This was a jab in the vitáis of Hon. A. J. Sawyer, who riz and vowed that no little suburb like Ypsilanti could down Ann Arbor, and he, therefore, seconded Lawrence. Lawyer Vreeman, of Manchester, and Hon. Jay Jacobs, city, also seconded Lawrence, and he was elected with a whoop. Lawrence said he had been greatly amused at the alacrity with which the incipient candidates for congress had rushed him to the front; whereat the convention applauded and the candidates tried to blush, but made a dismal failure. The convention then separated into districts, (the southern district taking the supervisors' room), tor the purpose of selecting Rich delegates to the state conventior.. The end of the business with Ann Arbor in it, made short work of the job, everything running as slick as a river of goose-grease. Not so with the Ypsilanti end. Everybody in that part of the county had an ambition to become delegates, and thereupon aróse a tnighty struggle, that made the cockroaches come out of the cracks to see what was the matter. The oroid, süver-plated voice of Capt. Allen, who was chairman, was heard, soothing the assembly with amicable words, but the struggle went on. Like a herd of pigs under a barn on a winter night, wrangling because all wanted to lie in the middle, so the district wrangled almost to a man for the position of state delégate. It was over at last, however, and all returned pretty goodnatured, with wilted shirt collars and many with wilted hopes. Northern district delegates: H. W. Newkirk, James L. Gilbert, Geo. S. Wheeler, H. S. Dean, Evart H. Scott, Fred C. Brown, William Judson, Henry Dodge and Edwin Ball. Southern delegates: Hon. E. P. Allen, John Thompson, C. P. McKinstry, Andrew Campbell, A. F. Freeman, E. B. Stone, A. M. Humphrey, G. D. VViard, R. H. Marsh, and J. W. Blakeley. The delegates having been chosen, they proceeded to spike them through for Rich and clinch the nails on the other side, with a resolution offered by Dr. W. B. Smith, instructing absolutely for Rich. H. G. Prettyman was made chairman of the county committee and N. D. Corbin secretary.