Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-22
SEVEN GENTLEMEN FROM GEORGIA.

tional Republican Convention was
issued, the Republican State Com
mittee of Georgia appointed dele
gates, and among them several of
it's own members. We can not
learn that there is any thing in the
customs or traditions of political
management in Georgia which makes
a precedent for this extraordinary
action. It is as if the State COM
mittees of New York or Ohio should
quietly disregard the party, and
send such delegates as they might
prefer. OF course the Georgia COM
mittee can not suppose that its de-
legates will be accepted by the con-
vention without very vigorous ex-
position of all the circumstances.
A convention of delegates appoint
ed by State committees elected in
the preceding year, and without
authority for the action, would not
be of great moral weight with any
party. Especially in a Presidential
convention nothing would be more
impatiently rejected than a claim of
regularity involving a disregard of
the ordinary methods of ascertain
ing the preferences of the party.
Regularity, however, would prob
ably be the claim of the delegates
of the Georgia committee. They
would insist that regular commit |
tee represented the regular organ
ization, and that a convention called
without their authority could not
be recognized by the National Con-
vontion. But this argument is
swiftly disposed OF. For it is really
the assertion that the committee is
The party, and that whatever it does,
authorized or unauthorized, must
be regarded as the regular party
action. But if the committee should
appoint the delegates to the State
Convention to nominate a Governor,
would it expect its action to be rati-
led? The committee is the agent
# the party to arrange convenient
lines and means for the action of
he party. 1t is not the attorney of
he party for any purpose whatever.
The action Of the Georgia commit
ee, therefore, in appointing dele
rates to Philadelphia, is as void as
{ it had nominated q Governor.
indeed, the proceeding becomes
more extraordinary as the facts ap-
'ear. For it is now stated that at
he meeting of the committee nine
nembers were present in person
nd fourteen by proxy, and that the
inc personally present appointed
even Of themselves as delegates
The alternative for the party is to
ield all it's rights to this committee,
r to reclaim them by original &C
ion, and it is not surprising that
of Republicans has been
allied for the ed of May, which {
I'LL undoubtedly reorganize the
arty. {
The managers of this performance
the Georgia committee profess to
Q favorable to the denomination of
ne President, and the seven gen {
emen, having elected themselves
elegates, proceeded to instruct L
to use all honorable
eans to secure the denomination. /
ut if any thing can defeat that re- a
ut it will be conduct like this. 1t
a trick which we trust that the {
invention will expose. When the
disappointed seven present them
Ives the convention will ask for
eir credentials from the Repub- o
ANS of Georgia. But if they can Il
low only the authority Of the COM e
ittee, the convention will ask when G
at authority was conferred, and
ON whom it was derived. The u
'ntlemen from Georgia should be Il
'epared to answer those questions n
Acknowledgment Weekly. III