Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-04-20
COUNTY CONTENTION.

The Democratic State Executive
Committee has called the State Con
vention to meet on Tuesday July
10th. \
This early call will ~neccssitate
corresponding action in the counties.
Two years ago our county conyen-
ton met on the gosh of August.
Usually il has been called on Tues
day of the week before the meeting
Of the S ate convention, the precinct
meetings on the Saturday previous
to, the county convention. No
doubt similar action will be taken by
the present Executive Committee
The following named gentlemen
constitute this committee;
r. M. McGehee, Chairman ;
w. P. S. ventress, Secretary ;
Hiram Smith, Henry Johnson, W.
". Babers, w. II. Swan, II. II
Hays, G. c. Simpson, j. A. Redhead,
I. NJ. Milestone, NJ. D.. johnson,
T. A. Leak, B. w. Brannan, A. d.
Nash and A. N. RatclIff.
Where members have removed
from the precincts or from the
county, it would be advisable for
the precincts 70 supply their places
at once, that the whole county, may
at least have the opportunity, Of
being represented.
Attention to tie following resolu-
ton unanimously adopted by the
last convention is specially directed:
Resolved; "That it is the sense
Of this convention that hereafter in
convention the minorities and the
majorities from the precincts shall
come into convention and shall be
counted, under such regulations as
the Executive Committee shall here
after prescribe"
1t will be observed that the reso.
luton is mandatory, and that there
is no authority in the Executive
Committee or anywhere else this side
Of a regular delegate convention to
alter or in any way modify this
action of the late convention. The
wranglings and errors of primary
elections are avoided by this
means and the minorities in the
precincts are heard as long as the
candidate is before the convention.
An investigation of the subject
will show that the delegates will
have to be chosen in the usual way.
who will be bound to cast the votes
of the precincts in proportion to the
strength Of candidates in the pre-
cinct meetings. In The case of
dropping a candidate, where there
r more than two offering for the
Office, we believe that the vote he
represented should be cast by the
precinct delegation as the majority
of that delegation shah decide.
Because with a multiplicity of candi-
dates for various Offices no precinct
delegation could be agreed on to
represent individual candidates,
therefore delegates of representative
men should be sent up TO represent
the precincts, chosen in the usual
way. And where a candidate is
dropped from the ballot by order of
the convention, it is fair to every
one that the precinct delegation
should control the vote the dropped
man received, and is much the
simplest, if not the only just way of
determining that vote.
The fact that every candidate will
get every fraction Of his voting
strength from each precinct counted
for him, whether much or little, is a
great advance upon our previous
method, which shut ont large minor
tiles entirely.
No man can reasonably ask more
than that his full strength from every
precinct be given him so long as he is
before the convention. We take it
therefore that any fair and simple
regulation of this matter by the
Executive Commute will he heartily
acquiesced in by the Democracy of
the county.
THE PPEss AssoCIAT1oN did VOL