Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-02-12
COnventiOns,--Their Organization Sc

ne last Monroe democrat, contains well tempered edito-
RAJ III reply 70 some comments of the Vicksburg Sentinel in
reference to the Organization of State Conventions is
fact Well known and generally lamented the convention
system In this State deficient and that heretofore it has on
Grated SO as to exclude from nomination. who were no.
tonousy known be the choice of the party in those sections
OF the State upon the united Of which, the success of the
party depends But few of the Southern counties give demo-
cratic maoes and yet of them exercise greater in
uence in the choice of candidates. than those counties which
roll larger than there democratic votes cast
in the counties controlling the nominations This is not right
as every Each county should be permitted
send up delegates in proportion the number of the demo-
cratic vote cast and This will give the party the
men OF its choice Let illustrate this In our conventions
as now organized each county vote for each men,
Der i'll the representative branch Of the legislature Adams
county for instance, entitled members in the egisa
re and two votes in convention Monroe county has two
members and two votes in convention Adams county casts
only 442 democratic votes and Monroe 92 The democratic
majority in Monroe 5O6 being larger than the demo-
cratic vote OF Adams by a. Yet convention Adams
Y exercises the influence that Monroe does No man
Will that this is right The people are not represented un-
DER THIS systematic order of things is changed mnores and
not moores rule and this is in opposition the great prn-
pe lying at the very foundation of the party which says that
mnores shall rule Run this parallel through every county
in the State and compare with action of the convention
for the past ten years and will be found that most
that numerically the candidates have been selected by mi
lOIy vi purify our contemporary Monroe well
that there arguments sustain this system
well to knock it in the head now any future time.
In this connection propose say few plain words to
our contemporaries of the press North Mississippi We have
opposed for past the Southern inuenceha is to say
we have fought against this very system noted above that
too single handed The North has done the labor and the
South has reapd the reward The leaders of the South have
had things their way and they secuted the counse
OF the North while they have only used but abused her
power and tobearance All abuses should have end and
hope under the leadership of the North Mississippi
press this nuisance abated" Let the North throw Off now
and forever this central control Let do what right de-
spite OF threats and combinations We only want to see the
partyhe people represented and few managers and
men in buckra Give good hearty men, selected by the
pcoplemen with heads, hearts and hands, who dare face
any emergency and who sneak back after defeat in
honest glorious cause, and beg for place place place.
Our Monroe contemporary has led off galantly-we will fol
low his banner. Let Houston, Caolton Pontotoc Herman
do, Oxford and Holly Springs send up their voices