The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
SHALL We HAVE A CoNvE JTIoNy

SHALL WE HAVE A C0NVE JTION2
The Winona Advance su.,sr,sr,
that the Democratic State Exec
utive Committee call a stale CON
vention on the 23d day of Nav TO
appoint delegates to- the National
Convention, To be held IN ST. LOUIS
on the 9th of June. As Il state
convention woald cost conSiderail d.
We believe the people of the safe
would be satisfied il the Executive
Committee should meet and an
point the delegates. The pcopi.
have great confidence in the cor
mittee. and Will endorse whatever
1t does. What says the public to
this suggestion
The Meridian Gazette, comment
ing on the above, says:
While it is desirable to accom-
Piish a perfect organization of the
party, it is n matter of prime ne
eessity that it should be done at as
little cost, and with as little tax up
on time Is possible. 1t cannot be
denied that planting is more back
ward this season than for many pre-
vIous years, and it is fact no less
alarming than true, that the river
counties, without an exception, are
threatened with that most dreadful
calamity general overflow. The
most important and urgent period
for political work reaches beyond
the first summer months, henre the
chief consideration now should be
to perfect an organization without
diverting the people from the plow
or the plantation /; it becomes, then,
only question of confidence, and
% we have in almost every county,
perhaps in every county in the stare,
the same County Executive Com
mittees that we had last year, and
all county clubs in a state of
perfect organization and rs the
people have had. as far as we know,
no reason to doubt the practical
wisdom or the patriotism OF these
committees, we suggest to the State
Central Committee to pass a reSo-
luton authorizing the Executive
Committee of each county to ap-
point delegates to State Conven-
ton to select delegates to the Ma
tional Convention at St. Louis.
The plan suggested by our able
contemporary, the Meridian Gazette,
is a most excellent one, and, if we
are to have a state convention for
the purpose of electing delegates to
tho National Convention at St.
Louis on the 9th of June, we hope
Its plan will be carried out. But
we give it as our humble opinion
that Mississippi and every other
extreme Southern state could very
well afford to decline to send dele
gates to the National Convention.
We think it will be best for the
South, and do more to carry out
the plans and purposes of the Ma
tional Democratic party for South
srn delegates to remain at home,
and leave it to our political friends
of other sections to conduct the
convention, draft the platform and
make the nominations The neral
effect would be good, especially on
the Northern masses, and on the
other hand, if the South is repre-
seated in the convention some SEN
timent may be let fall, some utter
ance made, that may be dam
aging not only to Us but
to the party. We do not say
this because we have not confidence
in the wisdom, integrity and pru-
dsnce OF Southern Democrats, but
these are times when men and
measures are falsely stated by our
political opponents, and it is not
safe to trust ourselves with them.
Some Southern delegate may say or
do something, insignificant in itself,
that would be tortured into some
thing entirely its opposite. Again,
We have an abiding faith in the pur-
ity. and integrity of the National
Democracy and its purposes, and
feel that we can with safety leave
our political destiny in its hands.