The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-23

,,os not anvasseu-'he Who'o ah' VIC pun
nose Of the meeting being to devl u means
whereby the candidates who weT' known
10 be Democrats should be defea d, and
the candidates who were known be Re
publicans, should be elected. at was
the purpose; and there Is not oneV Of the
committee who will have the effroftery to
deny the charge.
That the Republican party, miscalculat-
inc lis strength in the district, intended
to make political contest, was plainly in
dicated last summer, when it appointed its
Judicial Central Committee. The circuit,
or the counties composingit it, hadbeen DEM
ocratic for fifty years, yet such
thing as Democratic Judicial Central
Committee was never even suggested. 1t
remained for the Republicans, the very mo-
ment they saw the remotest possibility OF
success, TO organize their forces for the pur-
pose of precipitating political judicial con-
tests. These facts are now matters Of his
tory, and there is not Republican in the
district who dares to interpose a denial Of
their truth.
The Democrats, in view of the palpable
designs Of their oponents would have been
recreant TO themselves, 10 their party and
their duty as citizens, had they neglected to
take up the gauntlet thus defantly thrown
down TO them. And, taking It up, they
called general, open convention, 10 name
their candidates. Every county in the cir
cult had its delegates present, and the man
doesn't live who can truthfully say that the
candidates were not fairly and honestly
chosen, because they were the choice Of the
convention, and the apparent choice al
least, OF the party. These nominees had
not been in the field an hour
before the Republican Central
, Committee, the members ofwhich had come
to this city for that purpose, met in some
back room, closed the doors upon them
selves, admitted no outsiders, and thu:
: secluded, and assuming to act for the Re
publican party, nominated Baker, Harke,
and Mccartney as the Republican candi
dates. By what processes Dougharty anC
Clark were Modified, no man knows out
side of the managing ring. We only know
that they acQuiesced in the action Of the
caucus and now support its nominees.
Hence it is plain that from the very
. inception of the canvass the wire.pullers OF
, the Republican party intended to fill all
three of the seats on the bench with Re-
publcans, utterly regardless of the ability
or general fitness of the men, or of any
other consideration but that of the parties of
the candidates.
All this being true, the responsibility for
introducing politics rests nowhere but upon
the shoulders of those who manipulate the
Republican party; and Republicans, Dem
ocrats and Greenbackers who de-
precate poltico-judicial contests,
will, if honest in their resent
ment, vote against the nominees Of the Re
publican caucus. For consistent right
thinking Democrats, only one course is
open, and that is to vote for Crawford,
Browning and Lansden. They form the
better ticket, are men Of superior attain;
mcnts, Of spotless integrity, have never
been politicians, and would honor the DO
sitions for which their party has named
them. Let every Democrat 90 to the polls,
then, and vote for his party nominees. This
done, the ballots will tell the story Of the
triumphant election of Lansden, Browning
and Crawford.