The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-06-14

ventio1 meets at Ronceverte in Au-
gust. Fairness to each of the can
didates and to the people who SUI
port or oppose them would require
instructions in each county to be set
aside and some plan devised by
which each candidate shall re-
ceive his just proportion of the vote
of each county.
Now, as We have before conten-
ded. unIess Il can be demonstrated
that th4 Democratic sentiment in
these counties was absolutely solid
in favor Of the candidate for whom
the instructions were given, then
the instructions, we insist, were
wrong, for, whilst we do not quest
ion the po,rer, we do most emphati-
calIy deny the right of a majority
in county convention, favoring
the nomination of one candidate, to
instruct the other out of court or,
in other words, to force the friends
of the minority candidate to vote
and be counted for man to whose
nomination they are opposed.
"Who believes that the Demo
Gratis OF Fayette county were abso-
lutely unanimous for Mr.. Mac
Corklc? Is it reasonable to sup
pose that neither Sydenstricker,
Bennett, Eastman or Woolford had
any following whatever in that
county, Who believes that Fayette
was solid for Mr.. Thompson as
against Duffy, Garden, Tippett and
all the other candidates for Auditor2
We doubt if there is man in the
State who can command the solid
Democratic vote of any one of our
fifty-fo counties as against any
one or all other Democratic can
didates, and, unless he can do SO,
then he has no right to an instruct-
ion, the effect of which is to give
him the benefit, in the nominating
convention, not only of his own fol
lowing, but of that of every other
candidate seeking the nomination
We do not wish to be understood
as advocating or opposing, directly
or Indirectly, the nomination of any
candidate now seeking nomina
ton from the Democratic party
We arc under no sort of pledge OF
promise to any one, except in SO fal
as we have advocated the return oi
Mr.. Faulkner to the Senate; nor arc
we opposing any one. We are
simply contcnding for principle
and making war upon practice
which all admit to be wrong, which
has brought our county convention
Into disrepute with the people anc
which, for years, has been a source
of much complaint and dissatisfied
ion.
1t is to be regretted that the pres
of the State does not come out il
vigorous protest against this unfai
and mischievous practice. The con
demnation of the press would sooi
put an end to it.
4 We have uniformly and consist
entity opposed instructions to dele
gates to nominating convention
and cannot re call an instance whel
we ever voted yea in such case
AS far back as 1880, when dele
gate to the State convention at Mar
tinsburg, We prepared and present
ed to the committee on platform
resolution condemning the practice
This resolution was reported to tn
convention as a plank in the plat
form and was unanimously agree
to. Thus the State convention wa
put upon record as expressing il
condemnation of the practice. N
heed, however, has been given I
this resolution of the State CONVEX
ton. The ambition and selhshnes
of officeseekers, who care more fo
personal than party success, hay
operated to render it dead Iette
and our county conventions instea
of rejecting the will of the pcopl
by meteing out handed justic
to every candidate, are held,
seems, simply to register the will {
the Office seeker. He, by importt
mites, promises and every oths
trick known to modern politics, gei
his friends into the convention wit
instructions to shout, hurrah, STAN
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