The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-03-02
The Convention.

The Convention.
All good citizens, who have thought and
spoken on the selection of Delegates to the
Convention TO remodel the State Constitution
have felt the Importance of throwing aside
all political feelings, preferences and preju-
dicies, in the election Of these Delegates. 1t
lie indeed important that this should be done,
fer the duties devolving on these Delegates
will require prudence, ability, knowledge of
the Constitution as it is, and the remedies de- |
manded for its proper improvement, so that
it may be made an instrument of perfect pro-
lection to the property and interests of the
State and people. Ifpolitics be permitted 10
interfere, men will be selected for popularity
alone, without reference to the proper quail
ifcatIons. Our Legislature has an abundance
ofthese popular men in its halls. the majority
of whom would be utterly untitled to occupy
q seat in this Convention. The different
newspapers Of the State, without reference to
party, have strongly urged the disturbance
of politics in this matter. In the several ed !,
itorials which have appeared in the Journal
relative to the Convention, we have mildly
yet forcibly insisted upon politics being so far
as possible thrown aside in the selection of
Delegates from this county and district.
With these facts before US, we have been
astonished, with every good citizen, at the at
tempt made in the Weekly Advertiser Of
Thursday, to place US in party aspect toward
the subject, itself seeking indirectly to do
the very thing which, as we have stated
all good men and papers in the State, are
seeking to avoid.
On Wednesday last, the following article
appeared in the Journal, with a few other re-
marks urging the people this State, to avoid
the selection of such takers and men of little
work, as those forming the Kentucky Con
vention:
CONSTITUTIONAL CoNvENTIoN--Mo
ments are being made in different parts of the
State Tor the nomination of candidates for the
Convention. No movement of authoritive
nature has yet been made in this county or
district Tor the election Of Delegates. A nun
Der oil names have been mentioned as those of
suitable persons for candidates, and private
~ they are now under discussion. There
Is no necessity for haste in this matter. as its
the characters and qualifications of those
whose names will be most likely brought be-
lore the Convention. In the consideration Of
these persons, and in the whole action Of Sc
IecIlng the candidate, party politics so far as
posi- Die, should be eschewed The whole OBJ
lect should be, to select the best men. as the
Importance of the questions which will arise
In the Convention demand prudence ability.
and knowledge of our laws as they are and
as they should be, in the Delegate
Now we submit to the public the following
disgusting article from the Advertiser o!
the next day. No comment is needed. The
writer who would thus maliciousIy misrepre-
sent the remarks of another. cannot possess
moral feelings sufficient to respect the pockets
or property Of others, or to prevent him felo-
nlously transferring the latter to his own pos
session whenever the opportunity might offer.
We do not think Stinson wrote or would
father the article. 1t sounds like Hulchen
and if he did write it, then not even this evi.
dence is required to render indisputabIe our
remark above about the morality CT its au-
thor:
DELEGATES TO TIE CoNvENTIoN-SECRET
TRAPPING !-LooK OUT by an article in
yesterdays Journal we discover that the leire-
'1oorkers of whiggery are secretly canvassina
the pretensions of individuals for the posts OF
Delegates and the editor says that party
politics should be disregarded as far as prac-
eticable in the selection That is an indefinite
expression entirely too ambiguous for ordi-
nary comprehension. Does the editor desire
to call convention, gotten up legiimately.
irrespective of party politics, for the selection
ofcandidates What does he mean by say
ing that the pretensions of gentlemen whose
names are informally before the people are
undergoing the ordeal of priUate scrutiny /;
where is the nquisition held, and who are
the censors When may report be looked
for?
We desire the people TO be let into the Sc
cTet as early as convenient, and if the editor
of the Journal fails to draw aside the curtain.
we shall feel it our duty to expose the occult
spring which moves to action the patriots
whose will Sanders reflects.
INFORMATION WANTED.-Can any of our
contemporaries give US any information of the
whereabouts of certain George Pratt who
announces himself American and Foreign