The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-07-28

that while Ohio county was for him
he could not hope for vote sufficient
to. Offset the. majorities Of. the other
counties, and thus he would be beaten.
Something must be'done. He-survey-
ed the ground, seized hold of the mac
ton of majority of the Ohio County
Committee, and made that an excuse.
He prepared letter and on the 2lst
of June he presents it to Mr.. Noe ask
ing him to join him in letter to our
committee. That letter was address
ell TO the committee, and contained the
follow ing;
1--WE desire the Democrats of Ohio
county shall have a voice in selecting
their representative for this position.
1t is their inalienable right, and fail
ure on your part to order the primary
election in your county in the manner
and at the lime indicated by the Dis.
trict Committee, will, IN our opinion,
serve in effect and in fact to defeat the
object aud aim of the primary election
ordered by the District Committee.
Mark the language, "a failure on
your part"-whose part-the Ohio
County Committee-to order the pri.
mary election in your county IN the
manner and at the time indicated by
the District Committee, will, in our
opinion, whose opinion ?-Haycraft's
and Noes serve, &C." Now ut the
time Major Haycraft prepared and
presented this letter he knew that the
majority of our committee would not
act, he also knew that the Democrats
had met together in various precincts
of Ohio county, and announced through
the HERALD that II primary election
should be held all the same. He knew
this, and all he had wanted was the
votes of the Democrats, and he would
thus get them just as forciblv and free
ly AS if the primary was called by the
majority. Mr.. Noe declined to sign
the letter, which was right, as no true
Democrat should have signed it. Mr..
Haycraft goes to his friend Tounpkins
and gets him TO see Jones and get II
letter from him. The object present
ed to Jones was to get a letter from
him to Haycraft and Noe jointly, ask
ing them TO join a letter to the Ohio
County Committee to act. MIR. Temp
kins says, this letter was written by
him, yet it contained the following:
1T is my opinion that unless all the
counties in the district unite in the
primary election under the call of the
District Committee, there will be no
election as contemplated by the Dis
trict Committee, and the real spirit,
intent and object of the call and of the
primary election for the third day of
July will he defeated"
The reader will see that the letter
contained in substance the part of Ma
jOr Haycraft's letter that Noe had oh.
jected to, and Haycraft knew that Noe
of course would object to joining Jones
and himself in a letter containing the
same Objectionable part. Query: How
did Tompkins happen to write Il letter
that Haycraft never saw and embrace
in it the very point embraced in Hay
crafts letter to Noe. The conclusion
is forced upon fair mind that Hay
craft drilled him well and entreated
him not TO leave that point out, and
the object in getting the letter from
Jones was, while apparently in the in
terest of organization, really for the
purpose of securing letter from Jones
to be used as II prize pole to prize
himself Haycrait) off the track. He
already knew that Noe would not sign
letter with that feature in it. He
knew that Jones was his supporter and
friend. and could be entrapped into
giving such n letter. A further fact
is, he did not present 1t to Noe until
in speech; he did not send it to the
committee, but made public use of it,
which was not intended by Jones, and
it was procured purposely to help him
to get off. But if Jones had authority
to act there and get Haycrait off the
track, he had the same power, infiu-
ence and authority to get him back
and he did what he could to place him
back by endorsing the action of the
minority committee of Ohio county.
The State Central Committee also
endorsed their action, and the fact
that primary election ~ouh be held
in Ohio county had been published
from week to week, from June 9Th up
to the day Haycra., withdrew. The
fact is patent t. al'v one who will in
vestigate it tina he withdrew from be-
fore the primary erection 10 save HIM
self from defeat. and is so anxious to
hold on to an office hat furnishes fat
Jobs and $4,000 fe&s, lie lays down his
Democracy and getF Inside the pale
of the party, and relies on the Repub-
licans for the bull ais support, but
will endeavor to bamboozle MS many
Democrats us possible, and thus hope
to be elected. This is the true i'll
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