Lyon County Times

THE SOLID MEN.

Their Primary Proceedings of Saturday - Wonderful Reticence of Candidates.

According to announcement issued from Odeon Hall, Dayton, the week previous, the Democrats, Independents, dissatisfied Republicans and pure-minded citizens in ordinary assembled at Armory Hall on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. They commenced gathering about that hour, but it was fully 9 before enough had assembled to encourage the disinterested leaders to call the meeting to order. The Times reporter in the interim plied his laborious calling and assiduously endeavored to get an inkling of probable coming political events. He asked several men of reputed integrity and out-spoken frankness who the candidate for the Senate, on their side of the house, was to be. With a reticence that betokened a deep undercurrent of primary political sagacity or fear for impending possibilities the gentlemen all gravely shook their heads. One of them ventured a remark in sotto voice that his party, unlike the Republicans, had no conspicuous candidates. "We are," said he "a congregation of citizens who have been drawn together at these unpretentious precincts and in this unostentatious manner by the loadstone of a loud-mouthed public necessity. We propose to put our combined shoulders to the wheel and move, if possible, the anachronism of rottenness that now stinks in the nostrils of honest residents of this county out of the present quagmire of corruption into which it has settled. We want no emoluments ourselves. With us the office must seek the man. We have no candidate among us that I know of. The exigencies and occasion will always call forth men equal to those exigencies. Look at Grant's humble position before the war and"--Here a pure minded patriot at the bar called all hands up to drink, and our interlocutor disappeared in that direction without finishing his edifying discourse.

At length the reporter found a communicative person, who was not present as a participant in the proceedings and who has resided in this vicinity for a score of years. He vouchsafed a candid statement calculated to undermine the strongest confidence one might have in the integrity of men who assemble informally for political purposes. He said that not fewer than a dozen of those in the struggling assemblage had been chronic office-seekers since he first knew them, and that they thirsted with the same thirst and hunger still. He was about to point out, specify and particularize, when the reporter, fearing that he might alight upon the self-same men whom he but a moment before interrogated and found painfully reticent, begged him, in order that his faith might not be shaken in all humanity, to desist and take a good Republican cigar. We are not prepared to vouch for all that this disinterested man said, but he is known among his fellows as truthful and reliable.

When the meeting was called to order there were twenty four persons present, by actual count. R. A. Young was elected to the chair and Frank Dunn was chosen Secretary. The balloting for delegates was at once begun, and resulted in the choice of the following: J. F. Angell, F. Dunn, R. Armstrong, H. Shields, M. Fallon, J. W. Kelly, W. W. Shirtt, Col. Robinson and W. G. Stevens. After balloting the meeting adjourned sine die, without the least ebullition of enthusiasm.

The Convention will be held in Dayton on the 23d inst.