The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
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TnE,OUNTY CONVENTION.
We have little new to add to what
has already been advanced by TIE
HERALD, in opposition to the Dallas
county Convention, which assem-.
bles at the court house to-day, max
ing nomination for the thiri can
didate for this district. For the
benefit, however, Of such orour Dem
ocratic fellow citizens us differ from
us, we will briefly rccapitulatc what
we have already advanced.
We will premise by reminding
our readers that we have never op-
posed nominating conventions in
general, or in our district, on the
grounds Of any fears we entertained
that II Constitutional Convention,
whose members should be nomina.
ted by county and district con-
vcntions, might frame a
partisan organic law. Such fears
have been expressed by the Austin
Statesman, the Galveston News and
some of the other Journals Of the
State, whose Democracy is as sound
as our own, but we have never shar-
ed them. Our objections to NOM
mating Convention in this district,
declared before there were any cam
didates in the field, were CD that
with Democratic majority of
perhaps seven thousand, there was
no danger that Il Radical would
be elected; (2) that nomi-
nations would be regarded as
equivalent to election, thereby keep
ing hundre Is of Democrats from at
tending the polls and casting their
ballots for Constitutional Con-
vention. These were our sole OBJ
iections, at u time when the ques-
ton was Ir no way complicated by
the other two counties composing
this district, taking n different
course.
If our reasoning was good at the
outset, it has been greatly strength
ened, we think, by subsequent de-
velopmonts. Notwithstanding the
known wish of the Democrats of
Dallas county, not to make nomi-
and in the face of their
persistent refusal to send authorized
delegates to the so-called district
at Lancaster. that body
saw proper to put two candidates
in the field, graciously according us
The privilege of naming the third.
Up to this time. in this whole mat
Ter, we have been entirely passive,
and are in no way bound to accept
he invitation extended us. 1t is
rue, on q matter of Democratic
the Chairman of our
Executive County Committee has
called primary meetings in the pre-
,ncts to name delegates to the
County Conventiontion TO be held
here today. In this he was proba-
,ly right, at least we know he acted
or the best. Well, what has been
he result of this call? We gave, in
,ur issue of the lst instant, tho pre-
;incts which had held primaries to
dominate delegates to the county
from which it appears
hat only eight out of the seventeen
so far as we have heard,
rave responded to the call, and of
hese the fourth, fifth, seventh and /,
sixteenth either refused to send '
delegates or instructed them to
make no nomination, while the Lam
.aster, Cedar Hill, Five Mile church
md Hutchins precincts send dele /
,ates without instructions. But the I
most conclusive fact as to the pub. {
ic sentiment of the county on this
is shown in this that
'ut of population, according to
he election returns of 1873, of three
housand eight hundred and seven
y.four, which now probably
mounts to five or six thousand, tie
rhole number of Democrats participant
ng in these primaries amount to less 4,
han t,co hundred
Under this state of facts, we have 4,
10 idea that the delegates from :
he precincts represented at
he Court house to-day will dream
4 making a nomination. To do so \,
would, we hold, be clear violation /,
f the popular will and would not 4,
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