Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-10-08
POLITICAL DIALOGUE.

tue 4Tee L TesS III eSety way approves, put W
whom some of the party, as matter of course,
object
The following dialogue may then take place,
if not IN ipsissimis uerJis, in substance:
PLACE. Street corner. TINE after
some future Conveztion has made a momina-
ton Which has not pleased ETERYB ODY
FREE PREss-Rslly around your nominee
all We Democratic>C Conservatives. Our Con-
vention has nominated good man, and true.
No substantial objection can be urged against
him. Party necessity requires you to stand
by him.
MALcoNrENr-I won't support the nomi-
nee. The delegates to the Convention didn't
represent the sentiments of their constituents,
and, therefore, I am not bound by their action.
FREE Press But whether they did OF not,
they we're left by the Primary meetings abso-
lutely untrammelled in their action, and ac>
cordingly did as they thought best for the in.
teresss of their party.
MISUNDERSTANDING that to be true,
you at least are the last person to be urging
me to support the nominee-either upon the
ground that the delegates were left untram>
,melled and acted as they believed would ac-
cord with the wishes of their constituents,
and conduce to party harmony, or upon the
ground of party necessity. To the Primary
meeting for the election of delegates to the
Grafton Convention, resolution was offered
to instruct the delegates from the Charlestown
township to cast the vote of that township for
the Hon. G. j. Faulkner, should Dan'l. B.
Lucas, Esq, be dropped upon any of the ball
lots, and that resolution was emphatically
voted down |; leaving the delegates to act as
they thought would most accord with the
wishes Of their constituents, aud would con-
duce to party harmony. Nevertheless, when
some of the delegates from the Charlestown
township exercised their undoubted right of
voting as they thought best, without any par
ticular reference to your wishes upon the sub
ject, you not only attacked their motives by
accusing them of having acted from pred
jndice, and of betraying their party, but you
actually bolted by refusing to hoist the name
Of the regular nominee to your mast head
Yoa knew before the Convention that Mr..
Martin would be before it, and that he stood
a chance of receiving the nomination yet as
soon as he did receive it, you Jolted. You at
least say nothing to me. won't support
the nominee.
FREE PREss-But how unreasonable you
T., this
offered to make the nomination unanimous,
and it was carried without single dissenting
voice. Now obviously it is the duty of the
party to stand by their nominee.
MALcoNTENr (wiM tndignation)-Wha |!
Is it possible you have the hardihood to urge
mat as reason for my supporting the nomi
nee. l was not a delegate to this Convention.
! claim to be misrepresented constituent
But you were delegate to the Grafton Cou>
vention. You either voted to make its nomi-
nation unanimous, or you sat in absolute
silence while the vote was being taken. Yet,
after having either voted to make the nomna>
tion unanimous or remained silent while the
vote was being taken, you, delegate in the
Convention. returned home, and raised the
flag Of rebellion by refusing to hoist the name
of the nominee whose nomination you had,
either expressly or by implication, voted to
make unanimous.
FREE PRESS ,ca1hs off s2enced and NOR
tJfed
Spirit Of Jefferson steps up]
SPIRIT-See here, Mr. Malcontent, un.
derstand you talk Of boiling our Convention.
Now let us talk upon the subject. When the
Cincinnati Convention startled the country by
nominating Horace Greeley, did my very
best, however little it may have been, to pre-
vent the nomination by the Democratic Con-
sentative party of man who, in my opinion,
had been its bi'tcrcst opponent.
MALcoNTENT (9rn6H)-Yes, you did.
SPIRlT-But When the united wisdom of
our party nominated man whom it thought
the most available opponent of our present
military dictator, gave in my adherence at
once, and did my best to contribute to the
election of man whose nomination did not
approve
MALCoNTENr-Well! That'sso! You did.
SpIEIr-When the Parkersburg Couven-
ton made nine nominations without giving me
my choice for either one of the only two po-
sitions for which had a choice, I was dis
satisfied OF course but nevertheless, for the
sake of party harmony, gave in my adherence
to what there was no evidence was not the
wish of the party
MALco>TENT (medHatively)-That's so.
SPIRIT-When the Judicial Senatorial
Convention at Martinsburg put slight upon
our county, as I conceived, by no. giving us
nominee from our county who was the de-
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