The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-22
s. Keller from a;oI. Oscar Tar
Der.
70 the Citizens Of Callotooy County
WoonyILLE. SEM. 2. 1876.

" N II Curd, DEL Curd. y r. Mil |
Ter " l. Harding, j W Fergeson
ENTLEMEN: | am just in receip
OF Jour le4er Of 26th August, ana
hasten to reply
The Paducah Herald and News have
published c4Id, purporting to be
signed By Hale. of Graves; Poore. of
Hickman; Warren, OF Fulton; Nor
row, OF McCracken; Darby, OF Ca.d
well; Linn Boyd, of Galloway. ard
Leonard, Of Lyon. calling upon me to
call meeting of the Congressional
Committee Oh the 23d of August, and
stating that | refused to do it, This
l. false. These gentlemen all knew
where my post-ofice was, aud they
also know the ordinary rules of cOur
iesy; and it they had desired a reply
rom me, woud certainly have written
/ e letter to me, directed to my pOstoihcc,
or sent by some Que. This they did
not do, but published the card in the
/ Paducah News, paper that | do not
/ take, and seldom see. They knew that
/ | was confined AZ home by the extreme
aud dangerous illness of my wife, aud
/ have been for weeks. DR.. Saunders,
I # Paducah. had been with her at my
/ house for seven days, and three other
/ physicians In constant attendance
These were facts notorious In Paducah,
aud yet those gentlemen would not
condesceud TO address me a note to
my Office. | did not see their card
until three days before Obi, when "a
81 ~ 4
me the caId. | therefore take It HAT
they did not want me to see thier card;
for II had seen it in time, | would
have written them response, and had
1t published too, showing tuat there
was no necessity for convention, and
that the Democratic party did not de
sire one. They could have then gone
on aud done what they have done, and
doubtless would have doue so, to wit
Set the wishes IF the Democratic par
~ at defiance and called a convention
You will observe from the proceedings
thar on the 23d, when they called TIE
convention, only six chaiimen Of the
counties were present..
There had not been meeting in q
single county, OF the Democracy, call
ing Tor a convention. None was de-
sired. and none was ncce7s airy Th'
Auditors report shows that We havl
over 2S 900 voters in this district; anC
no Radical candidate for Congress il
this district ever received over 2,60t
votes. SO it must be evident 10 any
one that there was 10 possibility o
elee3ing a Radical, and therefore NJ
necessity for a convention.
My majority over ;he Radical can
didafe IN the last race was q 300
and it is we'll known all over the di,
trict that my vote will be increased
largely at the ensuing election.
The tricksters at Paducah did al
.hey could to get out multiplicity o
candidates 20 create a necessity OF
convention, but sigually filled. Prom
inent men were unwilling to have thei
names used, or themselves used as mcr,
tools to get up a convention.
| have received letters from promi
neut Democrats all over the district
assuring me that it was not the desir,
of the Democracy to hold conven
ton. aud that the people would have
nothing to do with it, and advising N,
not to submit to any such trickery
have therefore determined to sub
nit my cluims 30 the uDhougbt, FREE
and independent Democracy OF this dis
trict, at the polls on the 9Th day o
November next. where there will bt
sworn Iudges-whcre the people vii
---.-------- v.-t-e-e-.,t where rtul-s and
clqneS viii be Powerless. But TO graf
ity these convention gentlemen"
was perfectly willing to submit 20 a
primary election at the August cleo
non, and made the proposition ia
Judge Trmblc TO do 20. but this did
not suit the "cliques. for it still
left the power in the hands Of the
people.
l have never opposed convention
when they were necessary, or when
they were desired by the Democratic
party. but when they are gotten up a.
a mere trick by few Rugs and cliqge>
who desire TO take the power out Of
the hands Of the people, where the
constitution vests it. to control the
elections aud put in Office their favor
ties. | DO not think | ought TO submit
10 them Please communicate these
views TO my friends.
With ASSURANCES Of my highest re-
/ CARDS, l remain your
Obedicnt servant,
ORCAR TURNER.
p. s. There was not even a major
ity Of the Chairmen of the District
Committee present who called this
convention, there being only six
Their act is in violation Of the rules
of the party. mere nullity and
faree-an attempted trick to take the
power out Of the hands Of the people.
Ballard. Fulton, Livingston, Trigg.
Lyon aud Galloway had no chairman
present
As for the meeting being for the
bencdt OF the party, this IS not true,
for the Democratic party Of this dis
was thoroughly organized before this
meeting took place. The organization
Of the party in each county is the duty
of each County Committee, and the
district committee has nothing to DO
with it.
The party 10 Ballard was thorough
ly organized for one month before this
meeting, having It's County Elector,
Tildeu and Hendricks clubs, &c, and
[ supposed that each county committe,
had attended fully to its duties, as We
had done in Ballard, without any die