The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-01
10 the Democracy Of H&en-
AUckV

- INC AScAAhOcfacy OF AAens
tucky.
The undersigned, the Central Com
mittee commissioned by your late State
Convention, which met in Louisville
on the first day of May last, desire to
address to you few words pending the
August election. 10 less than forts
night you will be called upon to vote
for one hundred Representatives and
nineteen Senators, who are to be your
legislatOrs-the former for two, the
latter for four years; and on the same
day you are to vote for seven State
officers, including the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, who are to ad-
minister your laws. The large major
ity welded by the Democratic party
of Kentucky for the past twelve years
has led to a feeling of apathy and
overweening confidence, which, to the
casual observer, is construed iuto in
difference. An ever-vigilant foe hopes,
at the ensuing election, to profit by
this apparent want of interest which
springs from your sense OF confidence
and security. We address you for the
purpose of invoking you to disappoiut
these expectations. 1t is true that, for
practical purposes, it is not essential
that we should have an overwhelming
majority, either in the General Assem-
bly, or for the State ticket. But re-
member that Kentucky, being the State
which leads of in the elections for the
current year, should see we'll to it that
encouragement is not given to our
political enemies by permitting our
majority to fall of through lethargy.
Should this happen, it would be pro
claimed far and wide as au evidence of
the increased strength of the Repub-
lican cause, and nerve its advocates in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
other States, to increased efforts to
perpetuate the power which, now CEN
tralized at Washington, presses so
heavily upon the people.
Then throw off your lethargy. Heal
your local differences, which are being
so assiduously famed into fame by
our opponents. Organize in your
counties, precincts, and wards, an let
every man who claims the name of
Democrat, or to whom the principles
of our party, as opposed to Republican
misrule, are dear, see to it, as a duty
to his State and his family as we'll as
his party, that he does not neglect to
vote on the day of election.
The short time which has elapsed
since our appointment, the fact that
the head of our ticket has been unable,
on aocoun. of i'll health, to make
canvass, and other circumstances need
less to enumerate, have prevented your
Committee from organizing the cam
paign as thoroughly as usual in respect
to public speaking. They. therefore,
appeal to the Democracy of the State
to make up for this deficiency by local
organization and activity within their
respective counties and legislative dis
tricts, and see to it in each county
that they do not permit their repre-
sentation in future conventions, State
and Congressional, to be diminished
by falling off in the vote of their
counties in the approaching election.
In addition to the political questions
referred to above as at issue, you will
be called upon to express your sense
as to the propriety of calling con-
vention to revise the State Cons ustitution.
This is not a political question, but
the late Democratic State Convention
having, without q dissenting vote,
adopted a resolution favoring the call,
we deem it our duty to remind you Of
the fact, aud to urge you TO vote for
the convention, bearing in mind that,
since it requires a majority of all the
legal voters of the State, every Que
who does not vote for the Convention
will be counted against it.
J. STODDARD JOHNSTON, Chm.
J. w. TATE, Seo'y.
/. T0BIN.
! J. w. SOUTH.
w. P. d. BUSH.
A. DUVALL.
WM. LINDSAY.
FRASKFoRr, KY, July %, 1879.