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Schssl District Convention.
In reply to a letter Of inquiry, W.
n. KEENAN, of this city writing to the
Paris appeal in favor Of the school
district convention, advances the fol-
ideas:
The district plan gives more room
or places In which the people can
meet, and puts the places Of meeting
right at the very doors Of the people.
Does the township plan do that? 1
answer no! 1t gives them but one
place to meet in the township. with
many VI the voters miles far away
from the place OF meeting. I claim
there is an equitable basis ofrepresen-
tation. We take the Hancock vote
Of a township in 1880, and divide it
by the number of delegates that are
elected from each township by school
districts, and each delegate will east
the q%uotient in the Convention. 1
will say right here, the aim of the
plan is to
LIST Give democratic voters room
and . convenient place to meet.
2ud. 1t gives them a chance to
meet with their neighbors with whom
they are in the habit of meeting and
express themselves as to their choice,
free from the influence Of designing
parties to promote selfish ends.
3rd. 1t encourages democrats to
take part in democratic nominating
conventions, who have been disgust
ed heretofore. by the old plan, See
ing them run by the few.
4th. 1t distributes the delegates
equally over the townships, who are
elected by the people and not by the
contrivances of designing men, as in
the old plan of township mass con-
ventions
The plan is the Democrats meet in
the various school districts in their
townships, and elect one delegate
from each school district to . County
Convention, and the delegates from
each township sit together, and each
delegate casts his proportional part
Of the vote cast for Hancock in 1880,
or Sherwood in 1882, Gas the COM
mittee may adopt) in said Conveu-
ton, thereby casting the whole DEM
ocratic vote Of the county cast for
Hancock in 1880, or Sherwood in
1882 in the Convention. What rep
fascination is fairer or more equita-
Bile?
/ hold that a convention Is just
like our State legislature-one meets
to legislate for the state-the other
for the party. How is our State leg
islaturc formed? In this way:
Every subdivision or county in the
state is represented by nothing less
than a unit, or in other words, each
county In the state has one represen-
tative in the legislature. Little Rip
ley County, with its population Of
5,377 has one representative in the
legislature, while that grand old
Democratic County Of Monroe, with
its 2I,l33 Of population, only has
one representative in the Legislature.
Now is it not fair that each sub-di-
vision OF school district composing a
county, should be represented by
nothing less than a unit? 1t is true.
some Of the school districts have
more democratic voters than others /;
but we have the precedent Of the
plan of representation, adopted by a
grave body Of men, making the Con.
stitution, under which we live, and
readopted by a vote of the people
} Yes, l say it is right to give all the
, districts in your county a representa-
tive, not less than q unit. 1t will en-
courage and make Democrats grow
in number where they are now bui
few, il you will only give them rep
resentation and a chance to attend Il
their own business.
;, Audrain has tried the plan for the
: four past years, and it is more pop
ular to-day than The Demo
I cratic voters here would not surren
s der the right they have under it
You can't wrest it from them.
4 Montgomery County has adopte'
e it, and they tell me down there 1t ha
given perfect satisfaction, aud tina
they will adopt it again. 1 say I.
you if you will only try it once, yo'
will never do without it.
You can say to your countrymet
that If they want TO know how Oh
plan works to write to those gsllan
democrats, Thos. Yates and j. y
!" Snidow, who formerly lived in Mon
H. roe, and doubtless, are known b
many Of your democratic readers. 9
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