Show The Republican convention was one of many conventions that have bean fceld in this city in times past but i S more farreach than most tiny convention that has taken place in many moons I was peculiar in many respects Strajige things would happen and < the most expert reader of the political heavens could not forestall what was going to happen in some Instances whIe in other cases a blind man who was deaf and dumb could understand what was in store for some people although al-though the victims did not seem to realize what was the matter until after the earthquake No one would for a moment have supposed that this particular titular Republican convention would have resented an insult to President Cleveland but it did for when Mr TIendershot moved to have the presidents presi-dents picture brought in and hung with the face to the wall the members of the convention waited impatiently in placed until Mr Hendershot was nomination for I place on the ticket when they promptly turned his face to the wall by defeating him by an overwhelming over-whelming majority Slates were in the possession of every delegate Mr Heywood it is said car h ned the biggest slate of anyone and he had a number of nartners in the busl T ness i1Citis said to be a notorious fact that every name on Mr Heywoods late which had been placed there by himself and friends went through without with-out much trouble Mr Hurlbut was on the slate and while the odds were against him Heywood pulled him ithrough Nothing hut his wonderful presence of mind at the supreme moment mo-ment saved the Little Giant from the Fifth Mr He wood had to load his batteries bat-teries with heavy shot else the day was lost The ringing volley of Are you curs meanest dogs to come ando and-o at any mans beck and cal laid out the advance guard of the Critchlow Chambers combination and before there the-re 1 res could rally the charge of the I yight brigade under Lieutenant Patter lon of the Second routed the opposition r r opposi-tion and Hurlbut was nominated This was a severe punishment for the rebellious factions of the czar and he doubtless regretted having to inflict I but Hurlbut had been promised the nomination and he got it ri J R Rogers gravely informed the convention that he knew 3 lawyer when he saw one and that lawyers I knew who ought to be county attorney I but I he spoke for the fraternity as a i whole or himself individually it would seem that he was looking at the opposition op-position through the large end of his I opera glasses because it was larger evidently than he had reckoned and i he knew a lawyer he did not know the one who was to be county attorney The country delegates think they were plajed for suckers and as one of them remarked yesterday they bit like bloomed fools and got very little for thwr pains L In summing up the result conservative conserva-tive Republicans are not enthusiastic over the all day and night work of the delegates Better men than the great majority of candidates selected could have been chosen while the contention among the several candidates and their friends will not subside as readily a many suppose because the unfair methods meth-ods employed in many instances will certainly be avenged One of the wise men among the Republicans Re-publicans is W F Adams exchairman of the county committee Some time ago The Herald announced that Mr Adams would retire from active political ical work when the convention met and he has done s Mr Adams Democratic Dem-ocratic frineds know that he never retires re-tires as long as there is anything in might I His inactivity now ought to be ticnificant to Republicans He is the smoothest political worker they have in this county He does not attempt to crush opposition like Heywood nor deal out taffy like Rogers His method is conciliation and reason but he saw that reason was not possible with them the-m n who wanted office this time and conciliation was impossible so he is watching the fight from a distance When i is over and the present leaders lead-ers are numbered with the slain he will bosts be within call to rally the scattered |