The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-06-13
Counly CONVENTION,

Mn EpTORi ! have been recently
shown u paper containing u ehll lnl
county convention ~ assemble ~ llils
place on The lslh of the present mouth
i0r the purpose Ut selecting delegates ~
represent Dallas county 10 tho district
convention shortly ~ convene, inns
call has been lnluslrlopsly circulated
aud somewhat nllnefolsly hlglltd Ny
the citizens Of this town aud vicinity
aud, understand, will appear IN your
neXt Issue, For the purpose Oi placing
myself upon the record In opposition
To this movement permit mo ~ SAY u
few words through your paper IN my
fellow pltllens of this community
Early In April last u call was made
through the columns Of TnE DALLAS
HERALD 10y Judge William II, llord,
chairman Of the democrat 10 committee
for this county, Tor u meeting ol llle
democracy ~ assemble NJ tho court
house IN the city of Dallas on
Monday tho first day Of the criminal
district court, The express object Of
that meeting, IN SGT forth In the cnll,
was tO ascertain the Views Of the de-
mocracy Of thls county In regard 10
the eXpedlGnGy OF aendlng Delegates
10 n district convention should one
bo called. Az tho gentleman who
had been made chairman Of said
committee, not by his own solicitations
hut by the free Offering Of the people
IN their representative capacity, did
not wish 20 net arbitrarily In this mat
ter, ~ he might have done had he
been disposed 10 take his cue from the
acts Of some others placed In similar
positions, he referred the question
directly 10 the people Of the county,
That meeting WIS thinly attended, II
IN true, but thnt was not the fault OF
Judge lIord, The question Of conyon-
ton or no convention was freely dis
cussed by those present, aud u wNg
unanimously agreed by then, aud the
meeting was not alone constituted 10y
gentlemen Of the city, that from 0bser-
walton und the general expression Of
the people In different parts of the
county that the democracy Of Dallas
county did not desire II convention, at
lcnst at thnt time, and Judge llord con.
sidcrcd himself so instructed. This
meeting, II N true, took place before
the manifesto Of Judge Ireland had
reached nv and, Of course, some time
before that of Major Van Xnndt Ind
been promulgated. What changes have
been wrought In the minds 0f tho pco-
pie ON this question by the appearance
of the calls above alluded TO- and how
far they regard themselves M bound 10
obey those calls am unable 10 deter
mino. But 80 far ~ my own pre-
cinct II concerned, fit should now he
decided that II desires n convention, n
considerable change hns taken place or
| was entirely mistaken when | told
the meeting IN Dallas that the people
of this part of the county did not desire
n convention. | had talked TO many
up to that time, and ! certainly
thought the universal feeling among
this people was against u convention.
| don't believe the chairman of any
committee, either state, district or
county, Is empowered with authority
TO convene conventions among the
| people of his party nOlens volens, But
| | do believe that when u call for Il
nominating convention Is made that
call should cmanntc from the chair
man of the appropriate committee, and
that individual members of y party
have no right to assume such authority
unless II he clearly demonstrated that
the said chairman, by refusing to issue
such call, has placed himself in antng.
onism with ma jority OF those he rep
resents. No voice has been raised for
II convention In any part of this county
until within and around Lancaster in
the last few days, II the people of the
county want county convention TO
elect delegates to the so-cNlled district
convention let them appeal to the APP
propriatc chairman to call such CON
vention, If he refuse to do 80, then
let them call n mass meeting of the
democracy at some central point in
the county, and let the question then
| and there be settled.
But sir, | not only do not believe
the people OF Dallas county, nor any
considerable portion of them, want
convention, tut do not believe the
slightest necessity exists for the calling
Of one at the present time. lfTarrant
AID Ellis counties wish to assemble at
this place or any other to nominate
candidates for themselves, let them do
so; |, for one, very cheerNllly accord
to them the right to do so. But do
hope the people of this part of Dallas
county will not suffer themselves to be
made instruments of 10y Tarrant and
Ellis to effect Il purpose merely be-
cause some prominent gentlemen in
the counties aforesaid think they have
discovered terrible monster lurking
in ambush for them, aud from whose
power they alone can he saved through
the medium of II district convention.
| do not now wish to do in Justice TO
those counties, nor do | believe that
such n thing is contemplated by the
people Of Dallas county, notwithstand-
Ing some gentlemen in the counties
aforesaid who are now shouting ain
Justice loudest, We're not always dis
tinguished rs being in the van to do |
"justice' to Dallas county.
In conclusion permit mo to hope that |
II the people do meet at this place on
the 18th instant, which il in their un. |
doubted right to do, and find, which
| think they will, that the county il
not fully represented from every por-
ton that they will quietly dispense
without attempting to elect delegates
OF make nominations, and permit the
people one time more to vote for whom
they please. Yours truly,
Pure Water