Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-01
The ronrth ward EIecfIon.

CLEVELAND, March 81, 1865.
EDITOR LEADER:- IL notice in the Herald
of this evening a call signed by Mr.. C. s.
Ransom. for meeting of the Fourth Ward
on Saturday evening next, to nominate
Trustee for that Ward. This call appears
to me rather a strange one, and requiring
some explanation. There was Union
caucus" held in the Fourth Ward on the
evening of last Wednesday, at which a
Trustee and an Assessor were nominated,
and certain delegates selected to represent
the Ward at the Convention held the fol-
lowing day. Mr.. C. S. Ransom, the signer,
of this call, was one Of those delegates,
and by virtue of the sction of this meeting,
he and his coHtreTss took their seats in the
Convention, Now, if the appointment of
Mr.. Ransom as q delegate was a bona fde
one, the nomination for Trustee must be
the same. If the nomination for Trustee be
not bona ide one, the meeting at which
| Mr.. Ransom, with eight others, were nomi-
mated as delegates, was humbug and a
! sWindle on the Union voters of the Fourth
| Ward, And, again, why does not Mr.. Ran
som include in his call the nomination for
Assessor? ? for there are two claimants for
that honor also. There were certain de-
cisions made by Mr.. Charles Bradburn,
the chairman iOf the meeting, 70 which
l have alluded, which to me appeared so
novel and original, that think it necessa-
ry to place them before the public, in order
| that hereafter they may be referred to as
precedents, and be taken notice of by the
| next editor of Jefferson on parliamentary
/ rules" A Mr.. A. proposed resolution
| that nine delegates TO the Convention be
selected by ballot. A Mr., B. proposed as
an amendment, that q Committee be ap-
pointed to select delegates, such selection
to be referred to the meeting for its action.
The amendment being put, the Chairman
decided it carried; but q division
of the house being called for and
| granted, the Chairman decided that his
| previous decision was errOn eOus, andk that
the amendment was lost. The original
motion was then called for, but it was put
bv the Chairman. But he permits Mr.. B.
to propose a second amendmentto the orig
insl motion, to the effect that delegates be
selected uiua Uocc, and declared it carried.
A call for division Of the House being
again made, the Chairman refused to grant
il. and a motion to adjourn, being made and
seconded, was decided by the Chairman to
be out of order
What appeared strange to me in the pro-
ceedings was that q Chairman would per-
init an individual % propose two amend
ments TO one motion, and put both in con-
secutive order before putting the original
motion; and again thought that amOtior
TO adjourn was always in order.
But to return to the case Of Mr.. Ransom
I think, seriously speaking, that the course
proposed by that gentleman and those few
who act with him, to be calculated to
produce the disruption Of the Union Party
in the Fourth Ward. They hold meet
ing for the nomination of ward officers and
delegates to the Union Convention, which
they claim to be the only legitimate meet
ing held that night, they nominate officers
and delegates. Those delegates take part
in the Convention, and now they turn
round and repudiste their own action in
regard to the nomination for the office o.
Trustee. That for the nomination Of As
SCISSOR is all right. Such Inconsistency aud
regeneration appear to me never ~ have
been equalled. "7Here IS something Tottei
IN Denmark" The Union voters Of th'
Ward had better "look shsrP"-there il
treason in their midst.
4 UNION VOTER OF TIE Ara WARD.