Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-05-11

persons no mao fabricated paper for The
purpose OF carrying their favorite. and w;n
Mr. Lewis-claim nomination by snch
means. suon
But the Memorandum was incorr.,t
inssaying that Upshur county was disfran.
chised, or that the convention desired -
to do.
vote of Upshur should be cas, 'ue
decided, as will be seen by the nnb,;. -
ed proceedings, but were not w;l,,nr M.
those who claimed to be alternates should
cast that vote the convention was viii
ling that friend of Mr.. Lewis should
cast that vote, but they were not willing
thatsstiose tloo friends Of Mr.. Lewis should
cast the vote of the Democracy of Upshur
county. The Cd ground is that the alter
mates from the county of Upshur were ex-l
cluded by per capita vote The con-
duct of the alternates from Randolph and
Upshur was to be criticised in their indi-
vidual capacity. In their individual ca
pacity they had endeavored to cast the
vote OF the county of Randolph, as they
themselves acknowledged, without the
proper authority. Were they in their ca
pacity as delegates from the county of
Harrison to cast three and one third Votes
apiece on the question of whether or not
their conduct was right ? 81,
Were they to cast six and two-third
votes to exculpate themselves from a
charge preferred and sustained against
them? sassl Ii
j think. then, that the vote by per capi-
Ia was the only proper manner of voting,
until it was ascertained who were dele
gates, either in their own proper person or
as alternates to the convention, and that
delegates had no right TO cast more than
one vote until it was ascertained that they
were delegates, for if such had been the,
case, then the alternates from the coun-'
ties of Randolph and Upshur would have
been entitled to cast the whole votes of
those counties on the question whetheror
not those counties were represented, when
in reality it appeared that the authority
from one of those counties had been fab
ricated.
This believe to be the practice in all
Democratic conventions, and has been par
ticularly the practice in the national con-
ventions. That il has been the practice
in Congressional Conventions in this dis
trict as it was formerly constituted, Il need
but refer to the Ripley Convention. in
which the present Governor of this State
was the nominee. and in which l believe
all the voting done WAS per capita. except
when the votes were taken on the selec-
ton of a candidate. The proceedings of
the convention just alluded to, are the on
" proceedings of conventions held in this
District / have been able TO pl
The committee of investigation into the
rODIurt of tho al frn,,, The os.,,o,.,
of Randolph. WAS composed OF three of
the friends of Mr.. Snod grass, and two of
the friends of Mr., Lewis,
The Memorandum" charges that the
seeding members of the Convention with
drew and offered their protest. The ME
morandum" is again incorrect. 1t is true
that gentleman made an effort on the
evening of the I'd day Tuesday, of the
Convention, to offer protest of part of
the members of the convention. which at
the solicitation of his friends he withdrew,
and about l2 o'clock NJ, on Wednesday,
sought to offer it again, but did not suc-
coed in getting it to the attention of the
House, and was even then solicited by
some of his friends to withdraw it, and az
the moment II was offered, motion to-
adjourn 20 dinner was actually being put.
and was carried. No vote was taken up
on the reception of the protest, ami the
President decided that in no case could it
be received. unless those whose names
were affixed to it were pollcd TO ascertain
whether or not they had signed it, which
was never done, and it was never regular
ly before the convention. How then.
could the official report of the proceed
ings contain any notice OF it? But who dv-
or heard of majority against the action
of n MINORITY
The Memorandum" is equally incor-
rect in supposing, that those who with
drew from the Convention had any right
to cast any vote at all besides what they
cast in the convention, they having by
their own action given to those present and
voting the power TO cast the full vote of
each county represented, as will be seen
by the following resolution which was
unanimously adopted, as an amendment
to the report of the committee on creden-
tials.
RESOLVED, That in fixing the number of
votes that shall be necessary TO the ma
king OF nomination of candidate by
this convention, the scale of voting shall
be that herein prescribed, and il any of
the delegates herein named shall not be
present at the time of voting. the vote Of
the county of the absent delegate shall
be divided according to tho rates herein
reported between the delegates present
and voting, and if delegates shall arrive
who are not reported, the vote to which
the county is entitled, shall be. in like
manner divided between the whole num-
Der of delegates present and voting.
nd IL .af hn hae.,o =. ~ a.
above resolution was passed whilst the
friends of Mr. Iawis nara 1890. =: a.