The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-15
CHAIRMAN LBAR'S VETO.
Cooper's Call For the Harrisbur.

Cooper's Call For the Harrisburg
Convention Pronounced Null.
AN OLD MANS ADVICE TO THE
PARTY
The Recall Of the Old Convention Moth.
Ing But Cameron Affair.
AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR COOPER
IN WHICH THE EHARR1sBURG CHAIR
MAN ExPoUNDs SOUND LOGIC AND
SOUND SENSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF
REPUBLICANS.
philadelphia Press.)
Hon. George Lear. Chairman of the
Harrisburg Convention, furnishes
The Press with the following open
letter to Chairman Cooper:
DoYLEsTowN. Pa, June 8, 1882.
Hon. THOMAS V. COOPER.
MY DEAR SIR: Mr.. E, G. Harrison.
the Bucks County member of the Re-
publican State Committee, has for
warded to me your notice of call upon
the delegates to the Republican State
Convention held at Harrisburg on the
10th of May, to meet again on the 2lst
of June, for the purpose of nominating
congressman. .at-Large, purporting
to be by order of the State Committee,
and signed by you as chairman. Mr..
Harrison Informed me that, although
he is within three-fourths of an hours
ride of the Republican Headquarters.
and always willing to attend any meet.
ing of the Committee, he had no no.
tice of any such meeting as the order
imports, and does not know that one
was held.
Until l received this information, I
supposed there had been call for the
meeting of the Convention ordered by
the Committee, although in my view
of the matter 1t Is not important
whether the order by the Committee
was actual or constructive. Ny reasons
for not recognizing and obeying any
such call are already partially under
stood but as 1 shall not attend the
Convention, l propose to state them
more fully, and as others MS well as
you have right to an explanation for
my absence, and especially the dele
gates, | will communicate with YOU
through the medium of the public
press
The PERSONS are based both upon
principle and policy, and grow out of
the peculiar political complications of
this campaign. The Republican party
of the state is divided into two sec
tions. one under the Regular organ
lzation and the other OH an Independ-
ent basis; and while the former has
the prestige of regularity according to
ancient customs, the latter is of s1ffi-
cient magnitude to be feAred, and of
such substantial character rs 10 COM
mand respect.
And what Is remarkable about these
two branches of the party, they both
| subscribe to the same political faith,
cherish the same principles of public
policy, and equally admire the achieve
ments and are prOud of the history OF
the great Republican party; and,
moreover, they have both placed in
nomination candidates for State offices
whose characters are without reproach,
and Whose qualifications are above
criticism. Under such circumstances,
what Is the difficulty which separates
| them?
THE PEACE CONFERENCE pIsKE.
GARDED.
The principal. If not the only, uues-
tions between the contending parties
which have caused this unfortunate
division are the modes of making
appointments to offices and the man
ner Of selecting delegates to nominat-
Ing conventions. 1t Is not so much
charged that official duties are imper-
fectly or improperly performed as that
the appointments are made in the in
terests OF ambitions politicians for the
purpose OF increasing or perpetuating
their power, and that conventions for
the nomination of candidates are
packed with delegates for the same
purpose by methods inconsistent with
fair representation of the Republi-
can masses, and that such conventions
90 not express the real sentiments of
the people. The justness and truth of
these allegations were recognized and
admitted by the Peace Conference, to
which you were party, by the declar-
alton OF new code of party principles,
ana the adoption of new rules and
regulations for the selections and gov
ernment of delegates to nominating
conventions, which principles and
rules were ratified and adopted as part
of the platform by the Regular Con-
vention, held at Harrisburg Nav 10
They were presented to the party as
peace offering in answer to the charges
OF favoritism, partiality and Injustice,
ana they were sanctioned and adopted
with the same unanimity with which
the candidates were nominated. and
were proclaimed as an assurance to
the people that their rights would be
respected, and that they should be
heard at the nominating conventions
as well as at the polls. Good faith re-
qulres that this compact between that
Convention and the people shall be
vigorously maintained in letter and
spirit. ANY other course will be
equlValent 10 an attempt TO obtain
votes under false pretenses, and would
and ought to be resented by the voters
as an insult to their intelligence and
fraud upon their rights.
Having nominated a ticket and
adopted platform containing the rules
above referred to, the Convention adj
journed sine die, and passed out of ex-
istence. Among the rules it was resol-
we'd and ordained that delegates to
nominating conventions shall be el.
ected in the several districts as candi-
dates for the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiyes are nominated. Within
two weeks after the adjournment of
the Convention there was a vacancy
on the ticket by the deelinatiou of Mr..
Marshall, and the question was at once
asked, how shall it be filled? The
answer which l gave was that it must
be done by new convention composed
of delegates elected under the rules
adopted by the old one, and / gave
notice that if any other course was at
tempted there would be trouble.
THE COMMITTEE ACTING WITHOUT
POWER.
The State Committeeis body crea-
ted by and subordinated to the conven-
ton, and, in calling upon the mem