Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-04-02
NOMINATING COUNTY OFFICERS.

They viii not deny that themselves, anc
d almost everybody else, are almost invara
9 bly, governed bypoliica considerations in
I casting their votes for these Offices. Why
{ then, the evil of doing directly, and above
board, what is almost always indirectly
donol These officers, as all know, WELD
= much influence. But, it is said, their du-
ties have no connection whatever with po-
litics What connection have the Offices
Of Secretary Of State, Auditor, Treasurer,
Mayors Of cities, and hundreds of others,
always bestowed on party grounds in eve
ry State in the Union, with national poll
ilcsl II would be hard to prove that worse
selections are likely 10 be made by the de-
liberato action of party in convention or
public meeting, than by the chance choice
by plurality of votes from among half do
zen candidates. Those who participate in
such meeting or convention would feel
double solictude that the Offices should be
well filled and tho whole party would be-
come, in measure, responsible for the
faithful discharge of their duties.
We will NOT say that The two papers to
which wo particularly allude, the Missis-
sippian and Vcksburg Sentinel, are inhu-
enced in their conclusions by tho fact that
they are located in strong wing counties.
Nor can il be said that we favor the system
from our location in democratic county !;
for if there is any one county in the State
the political complexion of which is more
doubtful than all others, it is CarolI-and
hence the necessity of strict organization.
The Sentinel, in alusion to the proposed
nominations breaks out in the following
bombastic strain;
"Evory true friend of popular elections,
wing and democrat, will irown down such
anti.republican attempts to corrupt the peo-
Pile. =. II would at once destroy eve
ry argument'lor the capacity of the people.
for sell.government, and would be the Sc
verest blow Republication could receive"
Whew Do tell us how, Mr.. Sentinel
In New York, and most Of the States north
and east of us, where strict and effective
party organization prevails, nominations
are made for all county and town offices,
by both parties; the system has been in
operation for many years, and we have yet
to learn that the people in those States
have exhibited less "capacty for self-go-
vernmoni" than the inhabitants of other
States where every candidate "runs on his
own hook" in the last number Of the
" Weekly Atlas" Albany, N. Y, received
at this office, we find the following, which
will serve to show the admirable method by
which the adverse claims of applicants for
Office are settled by our friends in the En-.
pire Staie'
"Pursuant to resolution Of Tie last
town caucus, the Democratic electors of
the town OF Auburn, are requested to meet
at the courthouse on Thursday, eth inst.
10 nominate candidate to be presented to
the President OF the U. States for postmas-
ter atAuburn." [Signed by committee.
And in tho same paper We have the pro-
coedings Of the meeting, at which A. S.
Rathbun, was designated as the choice of
the party, over five or six competitors. AT
the opening of canvass in that great de-
mocratic State, candidates for all county
offices are put in nomination by county
conventions in every county in the State.
This "anti-republcan attempt TO corrupt
NE people, has been CARED into full opera
ration there, and yet Ropublicansm has
survived the "sevoro blow! If different
result should follow here, our people might
abandon the system ere the gloomy antici-
pations OF our contemporaries become reali-
ty. AS far as we can learn, the democratic
party in this county is almost unanimous in
the determination to try the experiment.
OF The Grenada Harry of the West