The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-28
A CAIRO RADICAL REPUBLICAN
WHAT HE HAS TO SAY THROUGH THE COL
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CAIRO, LIZ, July 90, 1880.
Editor Free Press;
l think Thomas ought not to be noml-
mated. Many of our most prominent Re-
publicans do not think he will be elected
if nominated. Many will vote for him, if
at all, under protest; will not work for
him; and there are some--not merely few
who will not vote for him at all, and
some who will work and vote against him.
His denomination will cast damper on
many, and have bad effect on our county
tickets. The proper thing for John Robert
Thomas to do, is to announce publicly
that he will not be q candidate before the
Republican convention for denomination.
such a course Oh his part would leave the
delegates to exercise their judgment in the
| light OF the evidence before them, and to
select some one of the many good and
worthy Republicans of the district as a
candidate for congressman-so one who
has not forfeited the respect and confidence
Of the Republican party, and who could,
therefore, reasonably expect the support of
the entire party, and thus secure Repub-
lican congressman to represent the Eigh-
teenth district.
|
The Eighteenth district Republican by
a majority too small to admit of any oppo-
sition, discomfort or apathy in its own
ranks. That there is much opposition to
the denomination of John Robert Thomas,
not even his most subservlent followers will
deny. Yea, more, they do not deny that
the opposition is well grounded, and the ex-
cuses and apologies they offer in his behalf
can be considered anything but compli-
mentary to him. If heis forced upon the
party as candidate, no doubt the people
of the district will hear some Of the COM
plimentary things that have been said of
him.
That the opposition to Thomas is breed.
ing bitter discomfort, will, perhaps, be
denied by no observing person in the dis
trict. That discomfort manifests itself, not
only in a state Of open and aggressive hos
tility, but il state Of apathy and luke
warmness-as people are differently con.
stituted that bodies no good to the person
who has caused 1t, is also evident to all OBJ
servers.
Has the Republican party In the
Eighteenth district FIVE hundred; three
hundred, or even one hundred votes to
throw away, and thus favor the election of
Democratic congressman, by nominating
a man who has been tried in the balance Of
public opinion and found wantingl Are
we sure that we can spare even the small
number Of one hundred Republican votes
to the Democratic candidate, but yet elect
our MANI Who will be surprised if John
| Robert should run one thousand votes be.
| hind the ticket if he is nominated Did he
not run three hundred votes behind John
{. Smith, the Republican candidate for
state treasurer two years agoS Has not his
record and his course tended to weaken
him largely in the district since he has
been in congress1
Why, in the name OF common sense,
nominate man who villas every person
knows--ran far behind his ticket---a man
who is not only weak within himself, but
also weskens the candidacy Of others, and
endangers the election Of Republican can
didates in closely contested counties, such
as Randolph, Perry, Jackson, Williamson
and Alexander, one.halt the counties in the
distrlct'
Has any man such claims on the party
that the party MUST take him up, as q dead
weight, aud undertake to carry him through
at the risk OF MORE THAN PROBABLE de.
fes.S II so, that man is NOT John Robert
Thomas.
Thomas claims to have redeemed tho
district from the Democracy" aud is there.
fore, the Great Aul, and deserving Of all
honors Such, however is not the case A
Republican Legislature created the district
and made il Republican, and Mr.. Clements
was elected by majority of about three
thousand, Col. Wiley, though defeated, re.
ceived about two thousand votes more than
Thomas received, Thomas "redceming'