The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-08-01
THE ENTERPRISE.
THURSDAY, AUGUST |, 1879.
Third Congressional District.

. speaks an LuI4uNN uu tue SUI JcCl OF lLe cGil
for Congresioua! Conyeution at CIcye.
land, on the 18th inst
"A call for Congressional Convention,
to assemble at cleveland, Bradley county,
Oh the 18th Of August, to nominate a ran.
didate for Representative from tho Third
District, appears III our paper to-day
The time selected for holding the Conyeu.
tion aud the place, no one can object TO-.
bat the proposition TO nominate canli>
dates at the same time and place for the
Sixth and Seventh Scnatjial Districts,
and for two or three Pictorial Districts,
strikes US as being not only prcpostorous,
lut susccl tib.e OF too much mischief 10
allow to pass witheut word Of criticism,
if not protest. We cherish lively re-.
pect for the wisdom, Intelligence and good
sense Of each individual member of the
Congressional Committee, and especially
for its worthy Chairman, Col. Eakin. At
the same timc, we arc bound to dissent
from a part of the proposed programme.
The Committee is travelling outside its
Legitimate jurisdiction, is spreading itself
too much, trying to stradd!o to much ter.
ritory, and is in danger Of splitting its
trousers. !; has even got across lie Dor.
der into the Second District, which we be.
Iieyc has Congressional Committee of
its own. TO illustrate our meaning, there
is the Pictorial District composed of Lou
dyn and Monroe. There is said to be
several aspirautI for Representative. and
the people would We doubt prefer that
the Convention to d. ytermine between them
should be held On their own territory
not outside Of it. So Of the District com
posed Of the counties Of james, Meirs,
Rhea and Cumberland. the last of which
is in the Second Congressional District 4;
and so Of the Marion, Sequatchie, Bled,
soc, Hamilton. Grundy and Van Burcn
Flotorial District, and the Seventh Sena-
torial. All these Districts would no
doubt prefer to act within their own re-
spcctjyo limits, and not to 60 to Con-
gro:sicnal Convention assembled beyond
their boundaries to determine who shall
be their candidates for tie Legislature.
Doubtless the idea dominating the minds
Of the Committee, as developed through
their worthy Chairman, was to economics
time and kill half dozen birds with oLo
stouo. But tho programme un2el cdU-
sideration Is a mistake in reference to tho
Legislative Districts; Il grave mistake. 1t
would afford nice field for log.rolling,
pipe-Iaying, hCneyfugling, trading and
swapping, with a large amount of dissatis-
faction aud feeling at the end. We don't
mean to insinuato that the Committee
designed anything of the kindly no
means; but that the proposed action would
furnish the opportunity, and some of us
have had experience enough in nomina.
ting bodies to know that such opportuni-
ties are rarely permitted to pass unjm-
proved.
We are an advocate Of the Convention
system; we dou's believe that efficient OIL.
ganization can be maintained in any other
way; and wo are always ready and willing
to cooperate with our friends in any
movement that promises most abundant'y
for success, no matter how much it may
conflict with our personal preferences or
individual views. Yet We have a right to
expect that they who have been appointed
or called to the position Of leadership, will
exercise at least ordinary Judgment and
discretion, tact aud Intelligence and that
before acting upon any matter involving
the public interest or affecting the sue.
cess Of the party in greater or less de-
gree, they will enlarge and expand their
vision over all the territory committed
to their supervision and make themselves
thoroughly acquainted with the condition
Of things within its limits. We say thus
much in no spirit of carping, but because
we believe the Congressional Committee
has made a serious mistake in the respect
criticised, and with hopo that it will be
corrected. While fighting Capitalization
at Washington, we ought to avoid every.
thing that looks like it at home.
Since the above was in type, irrorma
ton las reached us from an official source
that 50 much Of the Call as refers to can.
ddates for tho Legislature was intended
to be simply odrisory--nothing more
which puts the matter in quite diferen
light from that in which we had construed
it. So it is not necessary there should bc
any trouble about it,
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JeSting on Sacred Things.
There is scarcely week passes but th'
ear Of such as reverence Gods Wor,
and Hisnamei is panied by coarse iests ol
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