The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-02-24
POPULAR NOMINATIONS.

claim the parentage Of the system of Sc
lecting candidates for Office by popular
nomination at the Spring Elections. The
editor manifests as much delight at the
thought of having been the means of oar
conversion to the doctrine, as his associ-
ate did at the wonderful discovery he an
nounced to the world that he had made in
the art of photographing, with which he
had fondly hoped to KNOCK the Borks"
off of the tree of fortune and make his
way to a competency, and both with equal
truth as to the claim set up.
The plan was first introduced by Mr..
William Yeaman, in lieu of the Conven
ton system, in a communication to the
Poladiun. We advocated and hearty
endorsed it then, and have never seen
sufficient cause to abandon it yet. This
is the origin Of popular nominations in
this county, and it was introduced some
time before the Broadare had an existance,
and at the precise time when the dlscov
erer of the new chemicals used SO
cessfuHy in taking the pictures of some of
our leading citizens, and who is now one
Of the distinguished editors of that sheet, J
was ..mewling and puking in his nurses
arms
About the first trial of this new plan Of
nominating candidates, a little incident
occurred, which we commend to the notice
of sub rosa Hammond, who is using the
dull Dire in trying to make Julian !'chips."
A State Senator was to be chosen and
there were two candidates of the Wing
party for the nomination, to-wit: ID. p.
Holloway and Geo W. Julian. The
Wings thought that Mr.. Holloway was
the better of the two to represent them,
and they accordingly selected him by an
overwhelming majority. This proved to
be entirely too much for George to bear
"a lawyer beaten by mechanic, was en-
tirely too bad-it was an outrage he
would not submit to. Accordingly, he
at once repudiated the popular vote sys-
tem-abandoned the Wing party that had
adopted it, and Joined what was then
termed The Liberty Guard or Free
Sellers" George, who was always am
bilious to be leader, and is a live speci-
men of that genus that would .'sooner
reign in hell than serve IN heaven" at
once became the Great Mogul of that par
ty Popular nominations had nausiated
his political stomach, and his passion for
Conventions returned with ten fold vigor
He could pull the wires to suit himself
hence we saw the Liberty Guard''-the
:. Free Sellers" of that day, transferred
bodily to the support of Jim Elder to the
Legislature, and the consideration for
which service, was the support of the
Great Mogul himself, by the Democrats,
for Il seat in Congress-he pledging him
self to carry out Democratic measures at
Washington, while Elder pledged himself
to get the black laws abolished at Indian
apolis, and do everything else that his
Abolition friends wanted done.
But enough of past reminiscences-we
only brought them out to show who were
and who were not the true friends of pop
ular nominations, and will conclude by
making prediction, although we do not
profess to be "a prophet nor the son of a
prophet Should Gen. Meredith beat
Geo w. Julian at the popular nominal
ion next April, WHICH He WILL DO, (mark
that, he will again be SO .'down on" the
plan, that he will leave the State of 1ndi-
ana and flee to s.Cheesedom," where the
lion roareth,' &c, and where he can re
ceive the full force and virtue of that eel
ebrateJ MANTLE" that Milton of the Are.
saw in his vision, descending from Josh
ua to the shoulders of his son in law,
Mr. Julian"
For the purpose Of covering up its
false charges and insinuations, made prior
TO the Mass Convention on the 13th at
Centreville, that Gen. Meredith and his
friends were opposed to popular nomin
ations, and would oppose that mode of
selecting candidates, we see the last
True (Julian) Republican now says that,
although the convention was composed
in large measure of the late bitter foes of
that system" yet they "now meekly kiss
the rod" The editor is evidently cha
grined that the system was mol opposed
by the majority Of that Convention. so
that he could have had credit for telling
the truth for once! As we have shown
above, the true friends of popular nom
nations are the friends of Gen Mere
dith. and they will triumphantly vindi-
cate their claim to be thus regarded. by
giving the brave soldier, who has periled
his life on SO many hard fought and
bloody battle fields, and who has shed
his blood SO freely that the Nation might
live and the Union be preserved, not one
vote less than TWO THOUSAND MAJORITY in
WAYNE, over the :. Honorable" NJ. c. who
left no stone unturned. and no mean, con
temptible and dirty trick untried, to keep
men from joining his Regiment, by hiss
o,I