The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-07-06
The Democratic standard Bearer.

The fact made public by oar Wash
) inSt0n correspondent that a bIuuda
: vas made in computing the votes a
The Ohio Democratic Convention. tina
ten Ewing actually received twenty
2 two votes more than Col. NIeCoOk
; places the party in an enbarI5issin.
Predlcament, from which it can p.
: eNtrIcated only by heroic treatment.
III Will be remembered that III,
: struggle over the new departure plat
iornI, IN the committees, made tn,
nominating proceedings very late
Anu, besides, not every democrat Is
eXsct enough to keep a tally sheet
from which the result was announced
was used twice, and thereby the
Lgures got mixed. But our cOrrespOn-
ueht states automatically that two
I gentlemen Of fPrOminencein in the PARTY.
who kept full and careful tally
sheets, agree that Ewing received 2i3
votes, and AeCOOk only OBJ, being the
nomination of Ewing hy a majority Of
Here is a tally by men who kept it
because they knew how to do II.
Their exhibit can be refIIted bv the
chairman Of the various delegations.
/ Il 4 Is not correct. On the other hand,
the tally sheets kept by the secretaries
Of the convention will show positive
/ ly that McCOOk received a majority
of the votes, if that WAS the fact. if
they fail to do this, the evidences Of
the other must be taken az conclusive
unless refuted by the delegations.
We suppose that il may be set up
Ihat the formal announcement of the
result To the convention is n nnalitv,
ana that, the convention having dis
solved, 1t cannot be revived. This
would be similar to the ground taken
by the democrats of Connecticut with
regard 10 the return of a ward in New
Haven, which gave 100 votes more
than were pOIed, and by a singular
coincidence gave them TO the demo-
cratic candidate for governOrin excess
of his party ticket.
But clerical finalities which defeat
The legitimate vote are not popular
with the majority which is thus over
come. -'-.. f =
We suppose it may also be set up
that Col. McCOOk, having been for
malLy declared the choice of the con.
VentiOn, and the convention, uBOn
the suppOsitiOn that lac had received
the majority, having made tile nomi-
nation unanimous by acclamatiOn, I
and Colonel AIcCoOk having formally 4
accepted the nomination, and made 4 7
speech defining his position on the (
platform, and having received the 4
first republican fire in that position, 4
he has acquired a vested right in the f.
which cannot be taken /
from him by any authority.
This, We confess, seems to us strong Z
ground. Col. McCoOk has incurred all (
the perils of the candidacy. He has 4
committed himself by speech defin-
ing his position. This is always a per-
ilOus performance. 1t was made pai-
ticularly so in this case by the late
ness of the hour, the heat Of the room
and the transition state of the demo-
cratic party at that particular time
Col. McCOOk took the hazard of de-
claring his position rs tOthe cOnstitu-
tiOnal amendmentsa and the executOry f.
legislation. And he made a pretty 1.
muss OF the new departure. The re-
pUblicans have recognized him rs the
democratic standard bearer. The I.
democrats had resigned themselVes to
The dispensation, and had shaped their
lips to cries of encouragement, and
'olonel &leCOOk has appointed ms \
lay for opening the campaign. I,
To be required now to give way 10
would be like the ease of the !.
levoutly emotional eOlOred person !
who soiled his best clothes by rolling 4
ln the ground with the "pOwer'' i'm
.he suppOsition that Whitfield WasI
preaching, aud was greatly disgustedI \ 4,
when iIe found il was another preach
lr.
IL will be hard to replace Col Me-
'OOk in the position he was before, as /
{ would be to restore 4 woman who !
aneied herself married and found she
vas not. To depose him after all that Z
las trlnspired will be great wrong F.,
o an innocent man. II
On the other hand, the convention i
nominated General Ewing, and has [
he inalienable right TO have its nom [
nation .carried out. And General ]
Ewing has the right TO the nomina-
ion, and duty to himself and to the
demands that he should
lain il.
It is n very difficult ease. We
loubt if Solomon could deal with this
IS easily as he did with the disputed
;hild. IL IS very embarrassing 10 Col
mel McCoOk but he must adhere to j
he nomination thus awarded him il !
egitimate form, and which he has in
lue form accepted. 1t is very embar- ,
assing to General Ewing; but he !
must insist that the voice Of the con-
'entiOn shall be respected, and that
10 mere clerical error Of clumsy ac- /
.Ountants shall defeat the desire of the
of the Ohio Democracy
t isvery embarrassing to the Democ- ,
'acy; for between the two stools they :
ave slipped to the ground.
There is a scripture which declares
impossible to go forth to successful
,attle if the trumpet gives an uncer- ,
ain sound. How can the democracy I
20 forth to battle when il is disputed !
..-l.- IL.