The Hickman courier., 1872-10-05
The Congressional Race

Coils Grassland and Martin speak
to day at Cadiz, in Trigg county; and
from thence they go into Caldwell and
Livingston and the counties above the
Cumberland Col. Trabue, the Radical
candidate, it appears is not meeting
them, but is cangassiug alone
From a private correspondent writ
ing to US of the debate between Cross
land and Martin, ut Benton, the county
seat of Marshall, we quote;
"Martin is furious about your pub
lication and abuses you soundly. Col.
Grassland defends you, aud insists that
you only publish what Martin admits
to be facts-Rutter evidence aud the
letters. Grassland stated in reply to
Martins speech, that he (Martin) had
made foul charges against the editor
of the Hickman COURIER. Martin
demanded to know what they we're; and
Grassland replied that he he8asaid that
"Crcssland had bought Geo. Warren"
Martin deaied haUia9 said 50; and de-
manded Crosslaud's authority, which
was promptly given. Grassland then
went on to denouuce the school fund
robbers, and especially Rutter. at some
length. Crossland then referred to the
publication in Col Martin paper that
he had subscribed for 200 copies OF the
Hickman Courier, by stating that at
the solicitation Of Capt Randle, and
others, who were desirous Of retaining
the publication of the COURIER at the
town Of Hickman, and OF giving 1t a
District circulation; and knowing that
those gentlemen and the COURIER had
been his friends, he agreed to take 80
copies, which he supposed were being
furnished atprecisely the same cost to
the publisher as any other subscribers
He said further, that about the same
time, Mr. Sears, the political editor Of
Col Martin 5 paper, the Kentuckian,
said to him that he (Crosslaud) ought
to help the Keuluckiau, and that be
let him have the same amount Of money
and took i IN stock, which was not
worth quarter Of cent On the $1,000.
He felt that he was only discharging a
duty IN aiding these Journals; but the
public must see, that if he bought the
COURIER, he had also bought the Ken
tuckian.
FROM PRINCETON, caldwell Co.
4 correspondent, who Is a public
man and resident Of Princeton, un-
der date Of Sept p, write thus of the
feeling in the counties above the Cum.
berland
"In regard to Martin. have regard
ed him and still regard him. as with
out doubt, the poorest candidate for
Congress I ever knew; and or this sjde
Of the ber2au9,, he viii not get
seriously, any gotes Jt all. I hear
Of but one man who will vote for him
1t was plain from the beginning that
he wanted row with the editors in the
District because of their uuauim 5us
expression of preference for Grassland
Martin is really laughed at up here,
and from the information given NE in
Paducah, he will be the worst beaten
man that ever ran for Congress in this
District
spondenoc Of the Louisville Ledger
EDDYyILLE. KY, sept. 80, 1872
1.-The congressional race in this dis
trict is exciting very little interest,
from the fact that there Is 10 contest
Colonel Crosslaud viii be returned by
au almost unanimous Democratic vote.
The Radicals have virtually no caudi-
date in the field. Paducah tried hard
to patch one up for the occasion out of
a so called Bourbon, but the effort was
a failure from some cause or other.