Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — Unfairness of Tippecanoe County. [ARTICLE]

Unfairness of Tippecanoe County.

In tftUisanc will be teen a eontinunication in relation to the officers to be elected in thia, the 12th, Judicial Circuit. The Central Committee have ordered the convention to be held at Kentland, on the 7th of Jane next. In that convention, on the basis of one delegate to one hundred republican voters, Tippecanoe county would have thirtyeight delegates while the balance of the eircait would havo only thirty delegates, giving to Tippecanoe ’county a majority of eight in the convention, it they voted as a nnit, and to secure that result the republican candidates of that county, had the rule adopted, that the candidate who received a plurality of votes at their primary election, should in the State, Congressional and Judicial conventions receive the entire vote of that county. As a consequence of that rule, candidates for Circuit Prosecutor miding in Tippeesnoe county are not running for that office tn the circuit, but only in their immediate neighborhood, or simply in Lafayette, while those who are candidates in other parts of the circuit are candidates for the whole circuit. S. P. Thompson and J. M. Justice are candidates for the office of Prosecuting Attorney, and are announced in every county in the circuit, while Tippecanoe county has two candidates who are not known as such by any considerable number of republicans outside of that county. We think that in all fairness the republicans of Tippe•mMe county should rescind the.rule they Save adopted, and give to each the vote he can get in that ceun ty, and the»4n»trad of having in that county candidates who care nothing about the wishes of the people of the other parts of the circuit, they will come before the whole people and be more than mere sectional candidates as they now are. In 1867 Tippecanoe county had a criminal court organized which takes cut of the circuit court of that county all criminal business, and if a prosecutor for this circuit was nominated it ~we«kl be about the same as going outside of the circuit for candidates. We are well satisfied that all the other counties want is fairness, and they do-not want any little cut and dried game practiced on the convention as was attempted in 1868 by a few Lafayette politicians* at Remington, and winch would have defeated Mr. J. M. Justice but for the manly and unselfish stand.taken by Hon. W. D. Lee, of that eky.