Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — Explaining the County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Explaining the County Convention.

•We occa.-ion .lly hear ff asserted flTaTnffiiiy- voters <l> not vet quite und: Y rstm'.d~rhe method adopted by the Republican Ceniral Committee !’■ r man mating the Comity ticket thi_<Aear. In lew v.ords Ave may say that the-method is iff combination ofjthe Primary Election and th? Delegate C ■uventi-on. On the duy--am-jointed. Tnursd.ty. Aynl ‘2‘Jih the Republican voters will meet at their regular voting plain's, or some other convenient place dm ignited by- t ownsh ip committee. I. y will then vote for their .choice for county- caudi‘dates in the same nianneft’ they iljkl in 1884 ami in ISS2. Ita addition to voting for county candidates, ■’ilrby wilt'atso chobse a'< many 'dete“gates to th?iswpty 7 conveiition of Saturday, May Ist. as the township or pieeinct is entiled to, as see the official call, published in the Reitblican. The result of the voting for candidates is to be reported to the county convention, and if any candidate for any office has a majority of all the votes cast iii-the county, for ciftut?dates for

& that ollie.', he will be declared, nominated, without further proceedings. For instance: -Should Brown, Jones and Smith all be candidates for Coroner, and. should the total number of votes east for Coroner be, say 1000, and should Browm receive 501 df these, or a clear majority over all, he will be nominated. Thus far the proceedings have been the same as in any ordinary primary convention; but in* case Brown should have received, say 400 votes, and each of his competitors 300, then Brown not have a clear ma jority pf ah the votes fast for Coroner, and; in that case, the convention would proceed to nominate a candidate, the same as in any ordinary delegate convention; and Brown would have to stand his chances against the field. The convention -would lie equally, at liberty to nominate either him, or Smith, of Jones; or they might even take up a new man, who had not been voted for at the primary at all. To sum up in few words, then, the method of nominating is like i any ordinary jjrimary . election, so | far as any candidate, has a clear majority of the popular vote over ALL of his competitors; and it is like any ordinary delegate .couvenTibn in cases wlTefe ho _ c indidate has a clear majority of the popular vote over ALL of Iris competitors.

The Sentinel asserts, in effect, that this paper received for years from a Democratic Clerk, on the demand of partisan attorneys, nine-tenths of the legal printing connected with his office. And yet the Sentinel knows that the books in the Clerks office will show that during the incumbency of said Democratic Clerk, that paper received at least half of the printing referred to, and that in face of the fact that nearly all of the printing from that offices is placed by law, in the hands of the parties concerned in the litigation, or their attorneys, and that the Clerk really has no printing to dispose of. On the other hand the Sheriff has full control of his printing, and although our neighbor asserts that his "observations of the Democratic officials in other counties in this matter” leads him to a different conclusion from what we hold, he does not undertake to mention any Democratic officials who have given any patronage to Republican papers which was in their power to give to Democratic papers; and he knows very well that if any such instances occur they are exceedingly rare exceptions, to an almost invariable rule.