Middletown transcript., 1874-07-25
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
An August Convention.

The Wilmington advertiser Of Saturday last in
review Of the letters of Messrs Dean and Town
send, in the TRANscRIrr the week BEFORE on the
subject Of county nominations, urges the calling
of a county convention in August, and intimates
that the responsibility of denying this act of
"simple justice to the Democracy" rests with
Mr.. Cochran, chairman of the late county
meeting.
The object of this, so strongly urged, meeting
Is not stated in the article referred to- but from
the connection and from suggestion in former
article in the same paper on this same subject, it
is fair to presume that the object of the proposed
meeting is for the purpose of hearing and acting
upon the report Of the committee, appointed at
the last county meeting, to revise the party rules.
If that be the sole object for holding the meeting
then it is utterly useless to call it. for in addition
to the requirement of the " Rules y that altera-
tions shall be made at the September convention
only, the motion itself, made by Mr.. Hayes, of
Wilmington under which the committee was ap-
pointed, requires that that committee shall re-
port at the regular September convention. Now,
if il be true that the rules have been SO often
violated, as is so frequently said, that they
longer binding, yet we opine that even the advo-
Gates of the proposed meeting themselves will not
ask, or wish, that the party shall act with so
much Inconsistency as to proceed SO directly con-
trary to the tenor of that motion. That COM
mittee, therefore, thus restricted to the Septem-
her convention can make its report to no other.
When that convention assemblies the report of
the committee will, doubtless, be first heard and
if it is the will of the Democrats of New Castle
c,unty, as expressed by the voice of the delegates
there assembled that the nomination Of candi-
dates for the Levy Court and Legislature shall
Re made by ballot, the convention, having first
made the necessary provisions (appoint judges
etc., for holding the nomination elections will
adjourn and leave the selection of candidates to
the people. If those who advocate the calling of
a convention in August can assign any valid
reason for such meeting, and can show that ii
Is the wish of any reasonable number of the
members Of the party that il shall be called, the
chairman stands ever ready and willing 1--WE
speak auihoritirely) to obey the wishes of the
party in regard to this matter, but we beg that
those gentlemen that call SO Justify for the meet
ing will assign their reasons for it, IF they
have other object than to hear an early report
from the committee on Rules, then as we before
stated, it is of no use whatever TO call the con.
vention. for without an open violation of the or
dinary rules that govern all legislative bodies
whether popular or delegated, that committee
cannot report at any other than the September
convention. If, however, they merely wish to
hold county mass meeting in order to stir uI
the people and listen to some good speeches either
on this subject or on general State or National
politics, and discuss the best plan of conducting
stand in their way.