The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19

Since orr suggestion OF Col. Warren
! of the H,ck man CoUBIEE. as = caHltcato
| for Congress Hs haSs freguently kearI
his name mentioned in that connection
I IL is thought thar be coa.d capture The
I 5000 Mississippi leYes votss in MS por-
/ ton OF the aisirtci. and VIII the heavy
vote he wonld get elsewhere he could
eyerlastIngiy ''vocl tho old OUTLAW -
May hela Ds.noeIa;.
Yes, but that District Committee
made u mad. aod We are oot goiag t.
rake the office. Il the people thus
lose a good representative they must
blame them We favored primary
election direct appeal aud ssbu.is
sion to The people On their regular
August election DAY. bat the Commit
tee place the p4rfy 10 the awkward AZ.
titsde Of being afraid 10 thus NEE,
the issue Believing that the Deno
cratic party Is the peoples party. az a
Democrat, 80 iesI hnDi!isred st thi.
confession on The part of our part,
authorities. We know. and they know
that large element Of the Dsnoers
cy preferred primary election We
know. ani they know. sha. Of the
seven or eight Democratic candidates
for Congress, neyor a one OF them
dared 10 oppose primary election on
the stump bslofs the people Il
therefore. they dared not oppose II
before the people. why should the7
privately or covsrtIy oppose IN We
know. and they know. ,hat if thes
l>s-aa -aassz=sas.4saA-.4-A,a A,aua.atss-ss~<-.Ls n-~.,
nit'ee oeu.d not have refused 10 sob
nit II to 1ha people. l. II puasleie,
that from Al tie 3reat Democratic
st4iermen OF this Di.,ric, 10, a QUE
could be found wiling 10 measure
arms directly before the people Why
iutcTpose cooysntign2 D ,es con
ven.ion Prefsai 20 bo anything else
than ri c:i,a of the goica OF Tie .
Dem eerscy. aud eau il be less Demo
cratic ~heu you % direct Il hsPegPle9
Surely not. How. after this conres
sion Of "dol2ics" the will Of the
people. will one Of ihcse candidates
appear. y hen the springs Of he ma
chine. are touched 10 Pijucah, and be
pops out flll lsdgel aomiYes before
the aaniriag Dem Jcrscy The Dem
ocraric ao1niase. and ye, self confessed
afraid 10 !e,t III, claims before tho De
mocracy on equal terms wi'h other
democrats We feel ham.ii4ted at Ibis
,onies~ion Of toeutaess
Some Of these papers. some ef these
po!iiician-. affect nov to rilianle .be
coCR:ER's etf9r. in behalf Of this
appeal 10 the people They call it "a
lash 10 The pln. "a li;lle flsoo, "a
yood joke, etc, WY this jssring
his iaan'inx + /. crime for
Democratic paper to urge 90 appeal 0
he people? We argued the case be.
ere the Dis,rie: Committee "a jung Of
welva democrats We wanted them
0 submit {; to The Democratic voters
..'hs regelAr August election They
lscidsa 10 prefer oon"sniion At Ps-
lucsh They arc The authority. We
re not One thing We ask Of these
iapsr'. aud these politicians, which ,
hey Won't do. aud which they dare
OF do, srd that ia 70 keep clear and
tandng before she public The number
{ Democrats who will participate in
he 4aug7st eieciion. ard the auBe~---
rbo will participate ia the Paducah ,
onreniion. Do .hi-. if you dare, and
ee where thu ieering viii rest Under
ur plan Is. .O00 democrats would have
pcksn, while the Pa1ucah convention
viii not number as m1ny hundred The
'oURIEa is proud of is position. 1t
years 20 collar, uor is it padlocked to
ny set Of men Oteying the party Is
me thing, and discussing iis policies
: snolher We mike no ascriptiou
gainst the committee They are
honorable gentlemen aud good demo
rats. We hope their aetiou may re-
nit in the good of the party, aud for
me, while binding our faith uursserv-
dly 10 no ono. Ee contemplate no fac
ious course. Our action is 10 The in
crest of the people ana he DoHOcra
y, and not for any a-pirant, real OF
lroSrecr;ys