Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — HALF A CONVERT TO HAYES. [ARTICLE]

HALF A CONVERT TO HAYES.

It has been told us by several gentlemen (more than ope, or two, or three,) that after the St. Louis convention had completed its work and announced its candidates to the public, Mr. O. B. Mclntire endorsed the action of that convention and declared his intention to vote for Mr. Tilden; thaton several occasions, and to several persona, he urged Mr. Tilden as tbe best man of the three candidates for the presidency. Of course those who were acquainted with Mr. McIntire’s antecedents expected him to take this stand, and were not surprised at it. The democracy of Jasper county, who were represented in the Bradford convention which nominated a joint candidate to represent White and Jasper counties in the legislature, controlled the action of that aonvention to suit themselvgs. Among others of the Jasper democracy present in that convention and actively participating were John G. Culp, Dan iel B. Miller, Henry A. Barkley, Al. J Kitt, Dr. Marion G. Tr’augh, Charles Hathaway, and Nau Batea. Without decency or respect to precedent, the convention threw overboard Hon. Geo. H Brown, and bestowed the nomination upon Mr. Mdntire, and the true-blue democrats of White county who were watching proceedings outside immediately “ratified” the nomination thus made. •

In White county they proclaimed Mr. Mclntire as a democrat, really believing him to be one in sympathy and in truth. Mr. Cowden, the democratic candidate for auditor Of White county, brought around bis friends, on the 2d day of September, at the Voorhees-Williams rally at Monticello, and introduced to them “Mr. Mclntire, of Jasper county, democratic candidate for the legislature.” But, h Th* best hM sehamet es mice and men Aft gang agley I Our democratic friends had counted too much on blood. Blood is mighty, but truth will prevail. Mr. Mclntire has cut loose from democracy, and gone half way to the support of Hayes, and publicly announces his determination to vote for honest, but deluded, Peter Cooper. Upon the principle that half a loaf of bread is better than none, it rejoices The Union to be able to announce that Hon. Jesse D. Bright's nephew, who repudiated Horace Greeley when run by the democracy, now repudiates Tilden and Hendricks and proposes to throw his vote away on Cooper. Mr. Mclntire is a gentleman of excellent character, a strict temperance man in principle and practice, aud before many years will probably be thoroughly converted to the doctrine of republicanism.