Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1870 — The Gama of Bluff-How it Will Operate. [ARTICLE]

The Gama of Bluff-How it Will Operate.

* * * * “We shall not support a bolt *r. We shall not oppose a nomi ice of the party. Both tnese utterances are true. The Ftrfeffc will not oppose Mr. Wolcott, it he is the nominee of the convention. But if the Republican party should nominate Auson Wolcott for Congress after the odious record he made in the State Senate, we are free to say liis nomination will not be binding upon any Republican, for if he is free to boil for reasons satisfactory to himself, and thereafter remain in good standing in the party, every oilier member of the party haff the same right. From the moment that the Republican e party shall, by the nomination oT Anson Wolcott, say that nominations do not bind members of the party, from that moment all Republicans will have a precedent for refusing to vote for the nominee, and if any man objects, tfie ready and conclusive answer will be, ‘The custom of the Republican party is to reward bolters with the highest office in the reach of this district.’ “In Mr. Wolcott’s case men will make swift use of the precedent, and he will find that ‘curses, like chickens, come home to roost.’ We desire the success of the Republican party. We deprecate the nomination of Anson Wolcott, and sincerely hope that the people of this district will be wise enough to heed in time the warning that we give them against committing hari tarsi'or as certain as Anson Wolcott shall be nominated, so certain w ill this district pass into the hands of the Democracy, and it ought to.” — Valparaiso Vidette. Here is an opportunity for the good offices of the Winamac Republican and the Kentland Gazette, and we shall expect to see our neighbors after Brother Gurney with a sharp stick. With a solitary exception—the Laporte Herald— we know of no paper north of the Kankakee river willing to concede that a man south of that line shall represent this district in congressr. —They have furnished us in candidates for the last sixteen or eighteen years and we have as regularly furnished them with majorities. They seem to think that holding office is their birthright, and that our votes are their legitimate tribute. One other idea: If bluff is the game the Barnstabbers propose trying in the convention let them chalk this fact down on their slates, if they can stand to be represented in congress by a democrat we can, and if they propose to bolt Hon. Anson Wolcott, or any othet; man from this side of the Kankakee who may be strong enough to receive the nomination in the convention, they will find their own candidates having a lively time to secure an election. \