Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-07-22
communicated

FDs. GAZETTE The communication
from 'sScioto in the last issue of your i
DaDer s'takinp exceptions" to the action I
/ of the Central Committee, has gwen rlse |
to few thoughts and suggestions that,
with your permission, will submit IN
reply. r..-;o.,1
Convention have not almost always
been chosen by Townships. but nave
beer. sometimes chosen by townships
/ sometimes by mass conventions, and
frequently by the delegates to the Coun-
ty Convention, as is proposed IN the
,3yraeent call of the Central Committee.
ID. The delegates to the Congress
-ional Convention are and have always
been aDDortioned by the Congressional
= Central Committee, or by the JOINT &C
fion of County Committees of each
County in the Congressional District, to
rhe Counties and not to the townships
of the District.
! I'D The Central Committee followed
@ tbe DIan adopted in at least two other
Counties of this District, and have not
e learned that any other County has yet
z adonted a different method in the ap-
] continent of delegates to the coming
= Convention.
Atb. The basis of representation IS
one delegate for every one hundred votes
S ~ast for Governor Hayes, which gives
n Delaware County twenty-seven dele
rates and makes it almost impossible tc
fairly divide this number among the
several Townships. At least sever
e Townships in the CountY-to-wlt, Con
:, cord. Genoa, Harlem, Marlboro, lhomP
son. Trenton and Troy-cast less tnal
AZ 100 votes, the required number to entitt
j A.afn
Id either of them to a separate uSiGS1S0
Q; The highest vote cast by eltheI OF III
1e seven townships named was 90.
rtb AS to the selection of delegate
ne ro eiIber the State or Judicial Conven
70. tons by the primary meetings.
y wholly 'impracticable. Take for exam
Dle the Judicial, in which Convendo
Delaware County is entitled to FIVE deli
\ oates. In what way could this num0t
- Be fairly apportioned to the sever
7id Townships
sar 9th. Should the Central Commits
rs change their programme Whatev
NAV Be thought of the plan adopted
J. must be admitted that It is questlc
d. upon which different minds are apt
ey, reach different conclusions, and shou
no change be made there would likely
as manv exceptions to the change
there now are to the plan proposed, al
m there will be abundant time before Z
nu- Congressional Convention IS held
to the County Convention to refer the
- lection of Congressional delegates pa
to the several townships II IS
ows sense of the Convention that It IS D.
:, for the Townships to elect them.
o,-i "Scioto" is right IN saying that eve
thing should be done fairly and hon
rom ably;" and he is not far from the tn
in the assertion that there has alrea
been too much of this manipulating
coates and conventions" but IS tn
LN p9,t as little chance, in fact IS there
tded less chance, for "pipe-laying, as 1t
4 as sometimes called, under the plan
tbeir nosed bv the Central Committee Il
i. there would be if the delegates were
10. Iected at the Township meetings. To
SUD ships having a special preference
Tiers some one for Congressional delegate
instruct their delegates to the COT
Convention to present his name, and
also instruct the delegate as to
i'ion- Congressional candidate they wish
3 for to vote for in the Congressional COM
2 met ton if they see proper. 1t IS not IL
the Central Committee were actuatet
any design to favor the prospects OF
IS OF one in the Congressional canvass. a
owen, IS generally understood that no on'
Cole Delaware County expects to secure
l. 9omlaaron S :. aier lIseilf9 e tbev I'D ii is
Rev. cIesT eiLss r-f in what way one candidate W
/, Col. have an advantage over another IN IN
n A selection of Congressional delegate
CHAM, Ihe aeiG'IT9 1res,,nsd ~ 11s that township
, and will send delegations of honorable
O our ~ the County Convention, and 1t Is
Al ali clear that they can not be tr
have I'd select honorable delegates to the
80 g. gessional Convention, as well as
80 lar Charge fairly and'impartialllly all tn
portant duties which the Central
'le on ! mittee have proposed to intr'lst 70 Q.