The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-11-07
JACKSON COUNTY ELECTION.

quently there was a very light vote
polled, which resulted, however, III
the election of the entire ticket
nominated by the democratic party
in primary election.
Most of our people were sur
prised on the morning of the elec.
ton to find opposition tickets
scattered broadcast around the
polls headed "Democratic Ticket
of jackson County, with the
names of all the county nominees
printed thereon with the exception
of the name of A. G.. DelmaS, can,
didate for clerk of the courts,
which was substituted by the name
of Hubert f. Krebs. We say our
citizens were surprised, and some
Of them mortified, because Mr..
Krebs was a candidate in the pri-
mary election for this position, and
announced himself in the columns
of the DEMOCRAT-STAR as Il can
didate for the Office of clerk OF the
courts subject to the action Of the
democratic party. What the action
of the democratic party was in the
primary election every voter i'll
jackson county knows; that Gcci-
sion being the nomination of Mr..
Deimas by quite Il large majority,
his majority over Mr.. krehS being
almost double. Why the latter
gentleman should come out as an
independent candidate, after being
so badly defeated IN the primary
election, is something unaccounta.
BILE to our mind, unless he thought
probably by keeping his candidacy
a secret until the morning of the
election and then Springing it sud.
denly upon the people he might
stand a chance of election through
the apathy of the democratic
voters, and by receiving the united
vote of the republicans and Il few
sore-heads, who alwas stand ready
and willing to vote for anybody
against the regular nominees Of
the democratic party.
The action OF Mr.. KrebS in run
ming as an independent candidate
against the regular nominee, after
having announced himself as sub
ject to the action of the democratic
party, appears to us as in very bad
faith, even to put it in the mildest
terms, and certainly places that
gentleman in the position of a
bolter before the democratic party;
he, therefore, having gone outside
OF the party to seek Office surely
cannot expect to again obtain an
office through the voice of that
party, which he has so recently de-
serted. Had there been any doubt
of the nomination of Mr.. Delmas,
had there been any contest over
the result of the primary election,
then Mr.. KrebS might have had
some reason to test the matter
through the suffrage of the people
Of the county. But such was not
the case. There was no charges Of
intimidation or fraud in the nomi.
nation of Mr.. Delmas; his maiori-
ty over both his opponents being
so great (he having received a ma
jorlty of all the votes cast no
thought Of fraud everpresSed itself
upon the minds of any. We hope
now that the severe rebuke given
to Mr.. krebS, and the independent
faction in this county, will teach
them a lesson which will not soon
be forgotten, and that in the future
they will give up all hope of split.
ting up the democratic party, or of
electing independents to Office in
this county.
We are rejoiced to know that
whenever independent candidates
appear in an election the old de.
mOcracy of Jackson county-the
solid, substantial element-unite
as one man and rush to the rescue
to defeat and put down this dis
affected element, which if once al
to get a foothold, would de-
stroy and ruin the tried and true
party, which has so safely steered
our people over the stormy sea OF
radicalism and ruin.
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