The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-29
OHIO COUNTY DEMOCRACY.

The Charleston Courier has this to say
about the Ohio county Democratic Con-
vention;
It now seems that some Of the re-
formers who drank in honesty at the
mothers knee, as they have imbibed all
other kinds of liquors elsewhere, have
undertaken to show the old fogy Demo-
Gratis of OHIO county reformed method
of conducting Democratic Convention.
, The approved plan Is worthy the Cen
tenniai wear. The reformers meet and
select chairman. an honest man, who
will resort TO no trick or fnesse, but do
everything open and above board on the
square.
They then furnish this reform chair
man with two lists of reform committee
men to elect reform delegates in the in
terest of the great reformer. This chair
man, when he comes to appoint his COM
mittee to the State convention, in the
presence of all, draws forth list from
his pocket and commences to announce
the favored ones when some gentleman
informs him that he is not placing 'the
right peg in the right hole" Thereupon
this model chairman reaches down in
his pocket without any concealments or
legerdemain and produces the proper
timber. This is all done amid the en-
eouraging smiles and applause of the
multitude. The gentlemen who are
learning the old dogs new tricks,
escort their committee to private
room, and furnish them with a
list of names proper, to be delegates
to the State and Congressional Conven-
tions, which in ali candor and fairness,
they present to the Convention as the
chosen few. 1t is truly model plan
and one well worthy its originators. 1t
is decided improvement on the plan
adopted in the Kanawha county Con-
vention, in which every man was
allowed to vote for or against the
candidate for the position Of delegate
to the State Convention. We have no
doubt that such reformation in holding
Democratic Conventions will carry the
candidate who desires to facilitate his
way to Congress, with such happy appll-
ances, through that doubtful district, with
an increased majority.
1t is true some tricky old ringsters
wanted to mar the beauty and symetry
ofthis model convention by adopting res.
olution allowing any gentleman present
from Ohio county to act rs delegate to
the Congressional or State Convention.
But the indignation of the retormers
against the unparalleled effront-
cry and outrageous villlany en-
bodied in the resolution, knew
no bounds, and to signalize their disgust,
and heap re6uke and approbium upon
the mover they broke the convention up
in a row. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Some correspondent of the Wheeling
Standard, who calls himself "Demo-
craft" lacking the genius to appreciate
great conceptions, says "a worse buugie
and more unmitigatcd swindle was
never enacted before an intelligent audi
eror.' The Wheeling REGISTER "leaves
il, ,a'5'' and goes back on the movement,
M ,nounces this convention because
i, cut and dried" Styles it 'fraud
palpaply laid bare" But that time
honored Independent Reform paper, the
Wheeling Stdndard, comes up TO the work
nobly, tells the REGISTER there will be no
further Convention called, but if there
should be one, it will reafiirm the model
plan. We have long been wondering Of
what that independent paper was
standard, besides Hubbard meanness. We
know now. 1t is beautiful fight the
way it stands, and we don't want to
spoil it, but we suggest to the Democrats
of Ohio county, to harmonic by the time
they come to the State convention. They
will need harmony, for there will DO
questions presented to that convention
tina: will tax their concentrated energies.