Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
For the Gazette.
The Congressional Canvass.

EDITOR 0ALEIIE HotlCc Uy yOuE IsSuC Vi
the 18th inst. that Convention for the pur
pose of nominating candidate for Congress
to be supported by the Republicans of this
district, is to meet at Urbana on the l4th of
August. What is to be the action of Della
ware county in reference to this matter? Are
we, as heretofore, 10 remain quiet and permit
some other county to appropriate the candi
date, and by SO doing add strength to the i'm
preston which seems always to have prevailed
and been acted upon by those with whom we
have been connected for Congressional pur-
poses, that Delaware docs not aspire to the
honor of furnishing a candidate, being fully
content with performing the more humble and
unpretending duty Of furnishing an essential
portion of the votes necessary TO elect? l
hope the day for such things has passed /; and
as we have never been thus distinguished, and
as our present worthy Representative, whom
Delaware lias always delighted 10 honor, is to
retire fraa the field, WHEN could there be a
better Or more appropriate time to assert our
long-dcfrrrcd rights--which. if properly assert
ed and with becoming spirit insisted upon can-
not think. fail to be recognized by our breth-
ren of the western counties. Delaware, in
point Of population, wealth, intelligence, and
the number and reliability of her Republican
voters, does not occupy a position inferior To
that OF any county i'll the district and this
being the case, thcre can be 10 satisfactory
reason for her being thus constantly neglected
except it be the failure to ask her rights an
tbs behalf and TO do At IN such manner as TO
! FIVE counties composing the district, and since
the day when the Democratic party was inau
guratcl under Gcncrcl jackson and the custom
of holding conventions and making nonina-
tions ushered into being, Clark. Champaign.
and Logan have monopolized the honor Of fur
! nishing the Congressman-Ge Mason, Of
Clark, Gov. Vance and Mr.. Corwin. Of Cham
paign, and Mr.. Canhy and Mr. Stanton of I4,-
gan, having one or the other of them occupied
a scat in Congress nearly, if not quite that en-
tire length of time. During all this period
Delairdre has f,erer eren had a enndtddfe-it
being of course understood that am speaking
| of the opponents of the party of which the
present corrupt and prohgatc Administration
is the representative BY regular succ' ssion.-
True, Delaware las not ali his lime been con-
nected with her present district associates ;
but this does not affect the justice or propricty
honor she has not, while 10 one will deny but
that she is fully entitled TO that distinction
as either of them.
| / hope, therefore, we will be mp and doing
and by our action show that we are in earnest.
In order to secure success it is highly essential
that the county should appear in convention
under such circumstances as to give her moral
force and make her action effective. And to
effect this end it is indispensably necessary she
should present a united front, that she should
designate a candidate and send suitable dele
cation prepared to back him by rtgor
Gus, cordial and persistent support. AS
a Republican possessed of a full share of coun-
ty pride, and anxious to see justice, so long
deferred, at length accorded to US, having more
regard for the cause than anxiety for the sue
cess of any individual, ] hope hat our Central
Committee will take suitable steps for securing
an expression Of the sentiment of our Repubi-
can voters on the subject of the candidacy, and
that such decision, whatever it may be, will
control the action of our delegates to the Con-
vention. l do not stop to enquire what may
be the views of aspirants in reference to the
proposal i take it for granted that any gen
tleman who aspires to become a candidate will
cordially approve of it. 1t is the only proper
and recognized means of disposing of questions
of the kind, and is adopted on all occasions
from the selection of Presidential candidate
down 10 that of the lowest municipal officer in
cases of contest for precedence by individuals
True, another plan could be pursued, but the
result would be divided delegation and the
consequent loss Of that force and efficiency
which attaches to an unbroken delegation and
united action. REPUBLICAN.