Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-09-30

: W inquire, Wnlcn was the most numel
ously attended, but l propose to co-sid,
r the reasons urged in justifi eation of you
Convention. There is one importar
1 fact, which is omitted in your publishe
+ proceedings. You do net inform tn
voters, at which end of your tick,
r you commenced to nominate. Did 70
commence at Reeves, and nominate a
5 to Williams, or at Williams, and nom
mate dorm TO Reeves. The fairnes
r of a ticket may depend upon the en-
you commence 10 nominate at. The vo
tiers would like to know which end G
your ticket is up, the other end, of course
will be down-but to the reasons. Rea
son first. You say:
The Republican Convention of thi
County in their recent nominations, 70
the purpose of defeating us. instituted al
unprecedented mode Of making nomiIa
tons, by commencing at the lowest Off
Ger on the list to be nominated instead o
the highest, in direct opposition TO tn,
long established usage of the party.
Is this assertion true? If so, a MAORI
ty of the Convention was opposed Il
your nomination. You say this wa.
done to defeat you. 1t took a majority
to change ''long established asaye," and
it was done by a majority vote. If the
purpose of their change was TO defeat you
in particular, then by your wi show
ing, you were not the choice of majority
of The Convention. You charge your
defeat to the Republican Convention
and the Convention, not a minority Of it,
did defeat you. You are not the only
men who were defeated in that Conven-
ton. You were not nominated because
you did not get votes enough; a quite
usual mode of losing a nomination OF
an election. The Convention did not
change the usual order of nomination
for the purpose of defeating you
The motion vas made By a delegate
who electioneered and voted for You,
Mr.. Williams, for sheriff. The real
object of the motion was to secure
a full attendance of delegates till the
close ofthe convention. Experience has
shown that as soon as the important off
GERS are nominated, the delegates com.
mence dispensing, leaving the nomination
Of the rest Of the ticket, and other bust.
ness OF the convention 10 a few delegates.
The change vas wise, and ] trust will
be followed by other Conventions
Failing TO secure a majority of votes in
the Republican Convention, you re-
sorted 10 a Convention, where l pre-
sumo the nominations were nearly uRGn,
imOus. 1t is hardly to be supposed, that
you voted for yourselves. l presume
that Williams voted for Reeves and that
Reeves voted for Williams, and upon
that principle you of curse received a
majority Of all the vo;es cast. There
was very little chance for "wire pulling
politicians" in that Convention. There
were but two wires to pull at, and but
two hands to pull them. But 1 more
than halt suspect that there was a wire Of
Communication between the "clique" at
the American House, and your Conven-
ton.
Your enemies. the Democrats, are
claiming that in the event of your cleo
ton. you will give the printing patron
age of your office to the Democratic
press; but we all know that they calcu-
"without their host" in this. Be-
ing "Independent Republican, candi-
dates, you will Of course, give it 20 the
Republican Paper, and the understand
ing that you would do so. is, probably,
very reason why the Democratic
Convention omitted to nominate candi-
for Sheriff and Treasurer. This
omission on their part, proves as cOnelu
this fact, as your manifesto proves
that you were unfairly defeated in the
Convention. Both facts
prove something, and the Republican
of Trumbull will not be slow in
concluding what the thing proved. is.
JUNIUS.
EnIrnRs OLE TIE CHRnNIcLE.