The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

s'h'PiJ Hiallut VI ColV'hIohCe, hhu ho
chairman or even a majority of delegation
has got y right to stitle the voice or vote of
single delegate. But the doctor does not
state the case fairly. He would have you
believe the secretaries were responsible.
He lodges little when he says "as slow
ly called the counties alphabetically, the
secretary and assistant each by himself
recorded the vote as announced by the chair
man of each county delegation" Now
if The doctor had but reflected for a
moment, | think his statement would have
been, that the vote was recorded by the
secretaries asldireCted by himself Every one
who was present knows this 10 have been
the case Immediately after, the six John
son county delegates had requested the
chairman toshto, for the information of the
convention, how ther votes were to be re-
corded. | think this was proper question,
He declined to answer and proceeded to
Slowly call the roll Of the counties.
assert here that the record made by the
secretaries of the vote of the delegates
from Johnson county was just as directed
by the doctor himself; and as this was the
only vote in controversy, of course the tai.
with the count Of the chairman why should
il not2 Who ever heard of man dlsa
grcaing with himself especially in the per.
tormance Of any dirty work. And | desire
now to say, that in my opinion, the secre
tarles in the convention, were in no
way responsible for the nsurpations of tho
chairman, and by which the minority were
allowed to assume the rights which be
longed To the majority, and through whose
untairncss the Republican voters Of Alex.
ander county were deprived of any repre-
sentation in the deliberations of the conycn.
tion,
But suppose we have the figures Of the
N'Nt ItNplhN" ~ NNNt HuN ~ nv lllI HltH
must admit, it should have been counted,
and they would have read as follows, VIZ:
For substituting the minority report
Perry, is; Jackson, 22 Williamson, 10;
Union, 3 Pulaski, 3, johnson, o Total
tor--14, Against substituting Randolph,
% Massac, Is; Pope Is, Uaion, s pu-
laski, Q; Johnson, G. Total against ST.
Here is q majority of seven votes against
the proposition sui ye, the chairman de,
cides the motion carried But quoting the
language ot the d 'ctor he says. But
at this point scene Of
confusion was witnessed that beggars de-
scription.' Why2 It was his duty to 50
conduct the convention ~ TO preserve or
der and decorum.
How By deciding all questions hon
esty and fairly AMI in accordance with
the rules and regulations layed down TOR
the government Of all deibcratiye Assem-.
blies by avoiding all appearance ofchican-
airy and fraud.
These scenes Of confusion always do, and
always will occur, when decisions are not
made in accordance with what is right and
proper. When attempts are made to de-
liberately defeat the will of the majority,
or in other words to count them out The
doctor says demands we're made to have
the count verified before the result of
the vote vas announced; but did he take any
steps to have it done? This was his plain
and imperative duty and should have been
done under the circumstances without any
demand, yet he failed to do it.
If the majority Of the Johnson
county delegation had right
to cast the full vote Of the county as aunt;
the same rightmust be conceded to p ulaski
and Union, a majority Of whose delegates
were against the substitution Of the minority
report. This would have offset the six
votes from johnson county, but knowing
as they did it was a right which belonged
to the humblest delegate in that convention
to cast his vote aud have it recorded in
accordance with his conviction, and that
any other position was erroneous, they pre-.
icrred to be apparently defeated rather
than succeed by means Of such trckery.
The Doctor says chat "the vote had been
properly taken and counted and he de-
clared the result and no parliamentary rule
or principle laid down in the books was
violated or invaded. The Doctors decis.
sion was that this vote, which was simply
to substitute the minority for the majority
report Of the committee, carried with it
the adoption Of the minority report This
deny. No minority report OF committee
can come before au assembly for action un-
til vote is taken upon that question.
Not the question Of its adoption, but the
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