The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-07-03
DALLAS, TEXAS.
SATURDAY MORNING iiiiiWT o.
TuE COUNTY CONVENTION,


has already been advanced by The
HERALD, In opposition 10 tho Dallas
county Convention, which assem-
bloa at tho court house today, max
Ing u nomination for tho third can
didate for this district For tho
benefit, however, ofsuch ofour Dom
ooratlc follow-oltizons M dlilcr from
us, wo will briefly rccopituIoto what
wo have already advanced.
We will premise by reminding
our readers that wo have never OPP
posed nominating conventions N
general, or in our district, on tho
grounds OF any fears We entertained
that Constitutional Convention,
whose members should DO nomina'
tod by county and district con
vcntions, might franc n
partisan organic law. Such fears
havc been expressed by the Austin
Statesman, tho Galveston News and
some of tho other journals Of the
State, whose Democracy is M sound
az our own, but wo have ncvcrshar-
cd them. Our objections to n nom
mating Convention in this district,
declared before there were any can
ddatcs in tho fold, were (l) that
with Democratic majority of
perhaps seven thousand, there was
no danger that Radical would
be elected; (2) that nomi'
nations would DO regarded as
equivalent to election, thereby keep
ing hundreds of Democrats from ut
tending tho polls and casting their
ballots for u Constitutional Con.
vention. These were our sole OBJ
jections, at n time when tho qucs-
ton was IT no way complicated by
tho other two counties composing
this district, taking n different
course.
II our reasoning was good at tho
outset, it has been greatly strength
ened, we think, by subsequent de-
velopmonts. Notwithstanding the
known wish of tho Democrats OF
Dallas county, not to make nomi-
nations, and in the face of their
persistent refusal to send authorized
delegates to the so-called district
convention at Lancaster, that body
saw proper TO put two candidates
in the field, graciously according US
the privilege of naming tho third,
Up to this time, in this whole mat
ter, we have been entirely passive,
and arc in no way bound to accept
the invitation extended us. IL is
true, on n matter of Democratic
courtesy, the Chairman of our
Executive County Committee has
called primary meetings in the pre-
cincts to name delegates to the
County Concentration to DO held
here to day. In this he was proba-
bly, right, at least we know no acted
for the best. Well, what has been
the resultof this call We gave, in
our issue of the lst instant, tho pre-
cincts which had held primaries to
nominate delegates to the county
convention, from which it appears
that only eight out of the seventeen
precincts, 80 far as we have heard,
have responded to the call, and of
these the fourth, fifth, seventh and
sixteenth either refused to send
delegates or instructed them to
make no nomination, while the Lam
caster, Cedar Hill, Five Mile church
and Hutchins precincts send dele
gates without instr uctions. But the
most conclusive fact as to the pub
lie sentiment of the county on this
question, is shown in this that
out Of o population, according to
the election returns Of 1873, of three
thousand eight hundred and seven.
ty.four, which now probably
amounts to five or six thousand, the
phole number Of Democrats participant
mg IN these primaries amount to less
than t,co hundred
Under this state of facts, we have
no idea that the delegates from
the precincts represented at
the Court house to-day will dream
OF making nomination. TO do so
would, we hold, be clear violation
of the popular will and would not
be ratified at the polls.
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