The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-28
HON. a. II. BOONE.
Is he the leader of a Faction.

Is he the leader of "a Faction.
JuLr 10, 1876.
Eaitor Hickman Courier:
do not believe that you would inten-
| tionally do Judge Boone injustice, but in
/ sdvertently you have. You say, IN re
cent issue of your paper that there is
| Turner faction" aud a Boone focGou in
this District l cannot conceive how you
/ have come to the conclusion that Boone is
/ either the leader OF, or connected with eng
! agetion. / am quite sure he has done moth
! inc 10 produce faction, or even to pro
| duce division in our party, unless 1t be
/ that to accept a nomination and run as Il
/ candidate OF the party, against disor-
/ rnuizcr and a man who refused to be gov
/ erned by the rules of his party, coHsti
| tutes him the leader of faction. lie has
never sought to run for any Office contra
/ ry to the wishes OF his party, and has al
/ ways been aud is now ready TO yield TO
/ the wishes of the party or the people; and
1 surely he has done nothing which would
| subject hin to the criticism OF being ia
anyway connected with faction. The
mere fact OF his running against Cot
Turner ought not TO subject him to such
charge Your Friend, A
The COURIER wishes TO treat the
candidates for Congress with that dis
tinguished courtesy due each; and
above all to be fair in its representa-
lions, The line of independence acted
upon by this paper was not expected
to be applauded By the partisan friends
of either; but to reach the tru9h, and
to contribute our mite to the reharmo,
nizing of the Democracy of this Dis
trict, is the object aimed at. Hence. /
we have avoided arguing the dispatedt
questions bsrween the roptendiae eie.
ments, believing that such discussions
would aggravate and not harmonic ex
isting differences. The personal or /
gans can sneeze when their favorite /
takes suuffs, il tits their ambition; but
il is not in our line. In a or .tical
sense the use Of the word faction as
applied to Judge Boone was incorrect;
but in the sense intended, was correct.
In the last race Booue lcas the nomi
nee Of his party, but in the present
race stands only as an individual can
didate. What precedence former
nomination gives him, is a question for
his special supporters to argue. The
eonvt ntion which nominated him in the
last race was right; or it was ,croRg
There is DOW the same number of can
didates in the field, and the same Dis
trict committee in existence that pro
nounced the former convention neces
sary If they were right, why have
they not repeated their aclion2 Do
they mean by uon-action to confess
that they were ,erong? Certainly they
do not claim that they aeere right and
thereby admit themselves political
towards, afraid to face the formid
able opposition to their work II they
were the party, and now yield thatpre
tention, our correspondent should not
object to our use of the word faction -
The COURIER Is willing to conccde
every compliment to Boone, Turner
Trimble, or any other candidate, that
heir most ardent friends may desire
10 be~tow They may underrare each
other, but it is not our province to en-
such feuds. The rugged fact
is before the people that Grant pollcd
8 ,079 votes in this District, and thar
neither B or 7. received that many.
This Is exciting the ire Of the partizaus
of each. but it Is stubborn SIC,
Those who voted for Grant mag vote
for the Republican candidate for Con
gress.
Our view Is that. a new man would
harmonizo all discussions. Such
me for instance as Dow Husbands, Of
NcCracken; a man of splendid abili
les, large reputation, never in life an
,Gce seeker, entirely disconnected i
-ect!y or remotely with past or present
discussions. and who wouI3 maintain
he high fame of the Gibralter Dis
rict in Washington, SO justly earned
or it by Lynn Boyd, Grassland, and
'thers. We don't care for the person
however, SO he is honest, capable, and
Il position to calm the troubled waters.
Since there has grown up such
ceiling between "conventionists" and
anti conventionists," the aspirants a
rue democrats, if they hold the inter
st of democracy above indiciduaL ad
aacement, should suggest and agree a
Ipou a plan for harmony.