Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — THE WINAMAG CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

THE WINAMAG CONVENTION.

The firm, of Marshall and Over4cker is dissolved by mutual consent. G. E. Marshall will continue the business, and conduct the Republican alone hereafter. He will take peculiar pleasure in collecting any accounts, due the firm, and will also discharge the painful duty of paying the debts of the same.

This weeks Republican is accompanied with a supplement containing a full account of the Republican Congressional Convention held at Winamac last Thursday. The supplement will contain everything regarding the convention that can be of interest to Jaspen county people unless it bp a few words of explanation in regard to the votes, some 27 in number, cast for Judge Hammond. The Judge attended the, convention but not in the capacity of a candidate. A strong effort was made *>t Winamac to induce him to become p candidate; this he absolutly. and peremptorily declined to do, and at the first announce.pent of, votes cast for him, (and jie very, first county that voted gave him 17,) he arose and stated tp the convention that he could not accept the nomination. It is no exaggeration to say that no man, in the Tenth congressional district stands higher in the estimation of x£s people than. Judge Hammond, and had hp chosen to have been a candidate his vote in the convention would have been very large, pud possible a majority. Esq. Moore says that he prefers being a Big Man in a convention than a barking cur at the rear end qf his party. —Sentinel. And was “Esq. Moore” unanimous in that opinion: or was His Ponderosity as much divided on that question as it was on all votes at the convention? The fact that he murders the English Grammar in the above quotation throws no light on the question of the Big Man’s unanimity.