Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — Tom Wood is Wrathful. [ARTICLE]

Tom Wood is Wrathful.

There is no question but what Thomas J. Wood was defeated for the democratic nomination for Cengress, by a rascally trick, and Thomas, appreciating that fact, is not the man to submit to such treatment without a protest. He has issued the following card. Crown Point, Indiana, Aug. 26, 1886. To the Democrats of Lake County: "'UwasTshamefuily and most outrageously defeated for the nomination for Congress at Delphi on'the 25th, through a bad split in the delegate vote of Lake county, which was Mnequivocally and completely instructed to vote for me in the convention all the time, I steadily gained with every vote over my competitors until I was lacking only one vote and a fraction of being nominated. and on the next ballot the Lake county delegation only gave me six votes and four for my Opponent, which defeated nie against the unanimous will of the Democrats of Lake county. I thank and honor the sterling Demo cratic delegates of Lake county who fought for me like true men . -I thank all my friends. lam now entirely out !of politics and will,itfit again eyfoF-the. political field for any consideration that 1 knoyY of now. lam now engaged in the practice of law with all my energy, and will not mix my business qny longer with polities. I ask the patronage of the people of the county. Thomas J. Wood.