Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-09-01

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ton at Harlem Springs, Carroll county had
been advocating her claims for the nomi.
nee. She presented Gen. Eckley, a gen.
tleman in many respects qualified TO fill
the office with credit TO himself and con-
stituents. In fact nearly every prominent
Republican IN the county was warmly en-
listed in the contest. Not because they
had any fault to find with Mr.. Bingham,
but simply because they desired one Of
their own number, taken from their own
county. To get the other counties in the
District TO share with US in these views,
every honorable argument was used, and
everything done that seemed TO promise
success, The Convention met, and the
result was as we have above stated. Col
umbiana, Jefferson and Harrison. almost
unanimously preferred Mr.. Bingham to
any one else. Hence the heavy vote with
which be came into the Convention.
NOW WHAT IS TO DE DoNE9
Did Mr.. Bingham secure the votes be
brought with him into the Convention in
a fraudulent manner? Did be practice
dishonorable conduct throughout the can.
yassl Did Le max, use of any means
that were unbecoming bis position ! or that
would reflect upon either his public or pri-
vate life? If so, Republicans might well
pause before engaging in bis support, but
in the absence of any charges of this kind,
or in the absence of a particle of evidence
upon which 10 base them, we think it
clearly The duty of the Republican party
of this county to take its position in the
ranks, and to battle as in OIL
den times for the whole, and nothing but
the Republican ticket.
TIE WRONG IN PURSUING ANY OTHER
COURSE.
Tho fom counties, composing the Dis.
trict, have term after term nominated as
they have done at this time. If, as true,
there was no written agreement binding
each county TO abide the decision of the
District Convention, there was at least a
clear mutual and unequivocal understand.
ing that this should be the case. Every
candidate was TO do the very best he could
prior to the assembling of the Convention,
but when that body met its duty was to
decide between the disputants, and TO say
to the District upon whom the choice fell.
Each county was then expected to DO sat.
isfed with the result, expected SO go into
the contest, and expected to battle as stead
lily and as vigorously as though tue NOM
inee had been taken from their own num-
Der. Let US try how the reverse of this
would operate. Suppose Gen Eckley had
boen the nominee, and Harrison county,
after submitting her claims and candidate
to the people, would have retired from
the Convention, gone home, and refused
to support the Carroll county candidate
What thenG Wo would have held that
she had violated not a written, but what
was equally rs binding, an implied pledge.
Wa could have no faith in her in District
Conventions hereafter. She deceived us
once, she should not do SO again. That
would 10 the natural response we would
make to conduct Of this kind. But let
It's iook again. II oao county has the
right s dissent fo.u .Ae action of a Dis
trict Convention, in which it participated,
why would not Brown township, in Car
roll county, have an equal right to socede
from any action which the rest of the
townships IN tie county agreed upon?-
We have oau d together throughout the
county for political purposes. Each town
ship is heard in our political assemblies, 4,
and when majority of them have deci,
dod either this thing or that we take it
for granted aud as fact, that Brown tp
or no other would dissent from the decis-
ion, In fact it would be looked upon as
tho basest political heresy to do so. Ifthe
lule then is held inviolable in our county
why will it not be clung to with tho same
tenaeity in the District. Both are organ
lied for political purposes, and the rules
and regulations that MAINTAIN and are ob-
served in the one, shonld be held as sacred
and inviolable in the other.
TIE EFFECT OF PURSUING A DIFFERENT
COURSE,
1t is not to be denied that the Demo
erats of CarrolIton and perhaps through.
out the District, are doing their utmost to
secure division in our ranks. They
have no hope ofelecting any one for whom
they may cast their votes for Congress
yet they are strsining every nerve to gel
sufficient rumber of Republicans dissat
isfed with Mr.. Bingham's nomination a
70 induce them to take up an Independent