Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-03-28
JOLIET SIGNAL.
JOLIET, ILL.
TUESDAY, MARCH IS, 1sAs.
District Convention.

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Some time since the district committee
appointed circuit convention, to be held
a NaperviIle on the 18th of April, to nom
mate elector and delegate to the Nation
al convention. On Thursdsy last post.
cript appeared in the Chicago Democrat
daily appended to said call, rec0mmen
ding that candidates for Circuit Judge and
DistrictAttorney be also nominated at that
convention. We were not "a little sur.
prised that one or two of the members OF
the committee joined in this recommen
dation..-this supplement tucked on the end
OF call long before issued. This sup
plement did not appear at lI,until the 23d
inst, and then only in the Daily Chicago
Democrat. Allowing that the appendage
could be circulated through the circuit in
one week, it could not be generally obser
we'd in that time, il would then bring the
time to the 3Oth Of March. It would still
take several days togather the county
committees, (for we have no great city in
the country where eUrrybody lives,) VIII
would have to issue their calls for county
CO INVENTIONS. There ought to be at least
ten days notice given for the several pre-.
cincts, that they may learn in time for
precinct meeting. Blu, before this time.
the circuit convention will have been held;
and there would be left to hold a county
convention, which must necessarily be
several days after the precinct meetings,
and then it would take some days for the
delegates to travel from Middleport to Ma.
pervilIe, saying nothing about the points in
the circuit equally distant from the centre.
When these delegates should arrive, al
lowing the utmost expedition to be used,
they would find themselves some days
'after the fair"
But If it is said that the calls in the
several counties were, or could have been
made, under the notice as at first given by
the district committee, and that delegates
chosen under such county calls could go
on and nominate those additional officers.
Judge and Dist. Atty, we have to observe
that the people wish TO be consulted about
these matters. When call is made by
the county, they wish to know what it is
made for. They do not wish to delegate
underlined power to men, for the benefit of
political wire pul!ers. So far as eIector
and delegate to Baltimore are concerned,
there would be but little anxiety felt
but small turn out in the precincts. But
in filling the Offices of Judge and District
Atty, the people have deep interest,"
They wish to participate in their selection
from the commencement. When a call
is properly made for such purpose. they
will he ready at their primary meetings.
now they cannot.
This county. by the appropriate com
mittee, called county convention. in
obedience to the call of the State Com.
mittee, before the call by the circuit
committee. That convention was appoint
ed on the 18th of April-atteruards the
circuit convention was called for the 18th
of April. which would, OF course, render it
impossible for the Will Co. convention to
send delegates. And the postscript, sin.
gnlar and unprecedented as it is, with a
design at the bottom, was issued too late
to enable this county to call convention
so as to be represented at Naperville. 1t
is not possible to effect the object,so as to
send a fair representation of the wishes of
the democracy Of Will to Narerville on
the 1lth of April. That democracy then.
and the democrats of Iroquois, and per.
haps of other counties, are to have no
representation on the subject of Judge
and Dist. Atty. They cannot have. But
perhaps the committee deemed it unnec
essary that certain portions ofthe circuit
should be represented. A number Of that
committee reside in Chicago, which may
be deemed sufficient reason 10 ensure a
compliance with postscripts and provisos
We object to all these supplementary
calis-they are calculated to deceive. and
place the whole power of conventions, on
particular subjects, in a few hands. One
thing is ceriain,the people Mill be heard. A
recommendation to nominate these add.
tional officers, m ght almost as well have
been made at the meeting of the circuit