The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29


satellites and immediate representatives
while here tomorrow to deliver the Bac-
caaureate address, all that is going on
lust now in the matter of the coming
election in the 18th Congressional Dis
trict. The Democrats have made a nom
ination that suggests a purpose to really
conflict. and it is our intention at this
time to call the attention of Mr.. Douglas
and his immediate friends to the situa
ton and to remind him of certain cir
cumstances over which, apparently, he
ought to have entire control and which
will make for success or defeat in
November.
"The Republicans of this Congress
sional district are not aware of the fact
that there was no nomination of Mr..
Douglas two years ago in any proper
sense of the word Not single delegate
who made his appearance at the So
called Congressional convention in
Lancaster in 1906, had been elected to
the position by the vote of the Repub-
Leans of the districts not in single in
stance 1t will not be forgotten that
the persons who made their appearance
there at the convention and protesting
to be representatives from Athens and
Hooking, had no possible title that
would have been recognized for one min
ute in convention of honorable. upright
Republicans. For the first time in
the history of politics in Ohio the Con
gressional Committee called the conven-
ton and settled the title to two sets of
bogus representatives in advance of the
rent with the call therefor Here is
paragraph from the call:
I" 'The delegates and alternates for
each county shall be chosen in such
manner as the Republican Central Com
mittee of each county shall determine;
provided that any delegates now selected
or who may hereafter be selected in ac
cordance with the action of the County
Central Committee and County Conven-
tion of Athens county at their meeting
of April 2nd, 1905, and also any dele
gates selected pursuant to the meeting
and action of the Hooking County Cen
trail Committee held July sth, 1905, shall
he recognized as delegates to said con
vrntion.
"From this it will be seen that no
contest for seats was possible. The
temporary chairman was instructed by
this call officially to recognize nobody
who moved to contest these seats, or to
raise any question Whatever of their
eligibility or the propriety of their
presence.
The powers that made them had not
been created for the purpose of this Con
gressional convention and it was abso-
lutely beyond parallel that a call for a
convention should settle the seats and
forbid contest, but so it was, and Mr..
Douglas over and over during his canvas
two years ago admitted the frailty of
his title and declared umhesitatingly and
constantly that it should never be done
again and that he would see TO it that
fair play thereafter should be had.
What has happened since? The two
county committees of Hooking and
Athens that were in existence three
years ago are in existence now and were
in existence at the date of the convention
that assembled at Logan and went
through the perfunctory performance of
re-nominating Mr. Douglas.
Not single delegate to the recent
convention was selected by any voter of
the Republican party. Not a single
primary was held anywhere in the seven
counties or in the county of Athens and
delegates were not named or known ex.
cept to one or two men until few of
them made their appearance at Logan.
The majority of those selected in this
county were not notified in time to be
at Logan, and it turns out that had they
gone and voted, Mr. Douglas would not
have been nominated, and he would not
have been as it was but for the stern re-
fusal of a leading man from Meigs eoun-
ty to yield to the propositions made to
him from some of the leaders of Mr.