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The Republican Congressional

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Day
28
Month
August
Year
1874
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Public Domain
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tion for this district was held at Adrián on Tuesday, for the purpose of ratifying the nomination of Hon. Henry WaldRON, present incumbent, already predetermiued by the managing politicians of the district. Everything went off according to the programme, for his nomination was unanimously made and without the formality of a ballot, the motion to nominate being made by Mr. Campbeix, of this county, who it was understood went to the convention to present and pross the name of J. Webster Ciiiids, on behalf of the great agricultural interests of the district, too long overlooked and held for nothing. In moving the nomination of Mr. Wat.dron, Mr. Campbell said that he did so because he and his friends (the Childs men) had learned that he (Waldrox) was the chcico of a majority of the delegates. Mr. Waldron sppeared in the convention, and accepted the nomination in a brief speach, in which he defended the policy of the Republican party, a policy so mixed and indefinite that it would puzzle him to explain or even announce it. And so ended the formal farce of the day. - As it was kno wn that three of the delegation from this county were earnest friends of Mr. Childs, and also understood that Mr. Ckilds had friends in the , Lenawee and Monroe dnlegations, we viere at a loss to understand why his name was withdrawn before a ballot. But inquiring of a Waldron delégate as to what inducementa were offered to bring about such unanimity, we were surpnsed to hear that the Waldkon mea pledged themselves to go in for Childs for United States Senator ; and, further, that Childs beliere his chancea for that pósition good. Since so niany men believe the 8toriea of Tiiton, Beecher, MoulTON & Co., we have little doubt that this ttory of our informer will also be credited in some circles. The position and reputation of our informant ought to leave no doubt. - P. 8. We have been terribly " codded" by the aforeeaid Waldron (delégate). Childs was made President of the Republican State Convention on Wednesday, a sufficient aalve for wounded pride. And from another source we learn that he might have been tlie' candidate for Auditor General had he not given a pledge to his Brother Grangor, Ltjce, that he wouldn't go on to the State ticket. Well, the County Convention is yet to be held, and his services will probably be demanded in an honorable position (if not a profitable one), as they always have been in a pinch. Anybody is good enough for a place when success is certain. The Detroit Post is an anti-inflation journal, and iavors an early reaumption of specie payments, yet it is happy over the renomination of Moses W. Field by the Eepublicans of the First district. In announcing and indorsing Ruch renomination the Post says : On one question - that of the currency - we have strongly differed from Mr. Field during the iïnancml discussion at the last Bession of Congress. The question has now, however, been practically settled by the veto of the President, and by the financiar measure passed just before Congress adjourned, and approved by the President. It ia an issue of the past, and not likely to be again revived. If it should again arise, however, the Bepublican Bepresentatives in Congress from Michigan will be guided by the will of the party and of the people of the State. The same or similar reasouing is what bringB the the Lansing Republican to the support of BbQOLE; the reconstructed Kalamazoo Telegraph to go in for BüERows, and the other hard money Republican journaliste in all the districts of the State gave the Socond and Third to indorse full-blooded inflationists. Jf the Post imagines that the currency question is one of the dead issues it will awake one of theso days to find that it has been indulging in a delusion. And if it believes that Field, when the day of trial comes, will be governed by the wishes of his constituent any more in the next Congress than in the present onp, it will, when too late, find itself the viotim of misplaced confidenco. He is too ignorant and too conceïted to sacriflce his own financia! ideas, crude and false as even a novice would projiouuce thein, and accept others baaed on commozi sonse and sound financial principies. , A.vxi iíqw the Republicana are makirg ! up the county " eltdt" i Onk Geo. W. Lawtox, of Van Buren County, propounds a " baksr's dozen" of "Prohibition Conundrums" to the editor of the Detroit Tribune, conundrumi whicb he imagines provo, without anwera, that the Democratie party faTored prohibition in 18.0 (the dat; of the prohibitory clause in the Constitution), and that the Republican party ha favored prohibition ever since, and that, therofore, mnjority of the people of the Stute favor prohibition to-day. Hia first conundrum may be answered yes. In ÏKÓO the State was strongly Democratie, and the Convention whioh framed tho Constitution of IR.'iO was a body His second conundrum readn : 2. Was npt the Legislatura of ISfió, which cna",ted the "liquor act," made uji with a large raajority of ita members trom the Detnoofa&ic fold f Deoidedly, NO ! The Sonate of 1H.V stood, Republicaus, 2 ; Demócrata, 7. In the House tuero was a large Republi. can majority, say full twothirds of the body being Republicans. His third couundrutn, rculs : :i. Was not the Ooveriior who signed the law an original Democrat ? The Governor who signed the law was Kinsley S. Brioham, Republican of the " first water." Mr. Lawtox should have a better memory. And yet were he right, tho sentiment of a party or of the State in 18ÖÓ is no indication of the santiment of parties or people to-day. Experience and obiervation have taught some lessons not then loarned. A fairer way to get at the sentiment of the people of the State would be the submission of alternativo propositions - one containing prohibition and another permitting lieense with restraining logialation. That tho last Legislature refused : fearing, we presume, that a majority of the people of the State have had enough of prohibition which neither prohibits nor restrains, and prefer lioense with regulation and restraint. That this conuudruni propounders' logical and reasoning faculties are no better than his memory we havo the following in proof, - the ninth in his series : 9. Are not the Iaws against adultery, lascivious cohabitation, et id omne genus, as constantly violated throughout the State os is the linuor law? If coMlantly means gencrally, no ! If that is not what is meant it is not a parallel conundrum. The Van Buren County Eepublicana have showed the politicians a new way of doing it. At their convention held on the 21et inst., a member who goeshispile on the " Columbian Orator" (probably a reader in his boyhood days of that once popular school book), offered the following resolution : Resolvred, That we heartily inrtorse J. C Burrows as Congressman of tliis district, and instructthe delegates oi this county to support hi renomination at the convention to be held at Three Kivers. Another member, who admired the past of Burrows, but preferred not to instruct in his favor (a sort o' arf and arf indorser), moved to strike out all after the word " district." Which rnotion was further amended by one to strike out all after the word "Resolved," which pre - Taiied, and the amended resolution as adopted, read Resolved, - This, we presume, on the principio that " a short horae is soon curried." That convention evidently wasn't a Bl'REO'WS body. Ths Republican Congressional Convention for the First district (Wayne County) was held on Monday, and .Moses W. Field, the convicted bounty cribber, and present member, was norainated with two dissenting votes. That job seemed to fully meet the Scriptural requirement, " SufEcient unto the day is the evil thereof," for no resolutions were passed. Is the record of Moses so objectionable that there was a scarcity of white-wash 'Í or do the Wayne County Republicana fully indorse his speeches in favor of inflation, his votes in favor of protection, his opposition to the pending " Reciprocity Treaty"!' Moses was not born great ; Moses has achieved no greatness ; but greatne8s seems to be thrust upon MosesThe long delayed statement (as well as the long statement) of " Mutual Friend"MoULTON,detailing"WhatIknow about the Tilon-Beecher scandal" -was given to the public through the daily journals on Saturday last. The written documenta he weaves into his narrative throw little new light upon the canvas, and its chief itnportance ia in the assertions of Moulton that both Mr. Beecheb and Mrs. Tilton had time and again confessed their adulteries to hini : notwithstanding which he, Moulton, had labored to restore the most friendly relations between Beechek and Tiltox ; had himself maintained the most intimate friendship with Mr. Beecher ; had continued to inake him a welcome guest at his fireside, bringing him into companionship with his wife, and bosides, with his wife, sitting weekly under his ministrations. If Moulton's statements as to Beeciier's oonfessions be true- which his own andBEEcnER's letters, old or new, in no wise admit, but in faot deny- then Moulton has all along held nd acted upon the view that adultery is no sin, and that there was nothing to prevent a compromiso at the last hour, and tho continuanco of friendly relations between tho cuckuld and the cuckolder. That is all our corament now. - Tii.ton has commouced suit against Beecher, for alienating tho affections of his wifo and criminal intercourse with her, laying his damages at $100,000. Mr. Beecher has answered tho complaint under oath, denying the chargfis marie against him in the oomplaint. i The Republican Congressional Uonvention for the Sixth district was held at Owosso on Tuesday. One of the resolutions adopted, declared that " We are in " favor of the resumption of specio piy" ments at the earliest possiöle moment," and anotber approved the official record of Congressman Begole, who voted for inflating an irredeomable currency, and, therefore, for an infinite postponeinent of a return to specie payments. Añd thcn Beoole was nnanimously placed in nomination for second term. Looking one way and rowing the other. The Ohio Democratie State Convention was held on Wednesday. The ticket nominated may be a good one, but the platform nominated is a disreputable piece of patch-work ; very wordy and not up to the true Democratie idea, especially on the financial question. The sooner the Ohio Democracy ceases such rant tho better will it be for the Democraoy of the whole country.

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