The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-07-07

II ia pitiable to see how distasteful il i.
for the HIckHAS COURIER to he compelled
to support Oscar Turner for Congress, still
be says he is compelled to do so in order To
get shut of "popinjay politicians" Never
mind George, Oscar Turner has never done
us, or the district any harm TIigg County
telephone.
Never more mistaken, Col Nc. With
an earnest effort to sec in public affairs only
id,ds and pOtieio and not men, and with per-
haIs the least regard for the personal aims
of public men, the COURIER has sometimes
endorsed Col. Turner and.some times oppos-
ed him. In the suicidal issue in this dis
trict of "eonre''tion or and -eonpentioH," Tur-
ner dared to make himself the exponent Of
an idea, and to lay his personal aims along
with the cause he espoused, TO stand or fail
with it. Honestly preferring primary cleo
tons ourselves, we could but yield an hon
est admiration to the manhood and ability
displayed by Col. Turner IN that struggle
We confess loyalty TO such courage and
10 such ability wherever found; and il
blindness and faulty again make that que-
ton the .pirotaI issue, the COURIER shall
not regard it ~ n crime 10 again endorse
Col. Turner. But endorsing him ON one or
dozen questions does not mean that the
COURIER has surrendered one iota Of its
rights to desert its own Independent eoDvic-
tions, or that IA is bound to follow wher'ere
he leads the way. II there are papers in
the District who are ever ready to shut
their eyes and hollow 'hurra for Turner, ("
no matter what he does or what he says,
our Trigg County neighbor can open the
bowels of his compassion toward them--the
Courier is not of that class Or, if there
are papers ready to abuse and condemn Tur-
nerf mo matter what he does or what he
says our neighbor caEi empty upon them
the walls of his wrath-the COURIER is not
Of their class.
The COURIER thinks there are many
worse men IN this District than Turner, and
but few his equal in ability. 1t also thinks
that Turner is welded to certain ideas that
make him an Obstruction to the material
development and Improvement Of his Sec
hon and that this idea has led him to an
tagonize the improvements of the rivers
an6. that antagonizing the rivers means
playing into the hands OF the great railroad
monopolies Of the country; and we believe
that these great railroad monopoliss viii
continue their grinding exactions nPon ouI
J people until the rivers are improved, thus
atforling the people a free, untramnIeIlcd
competition. The business men understand
this question, and politicians must learn it
Improve the rivers-the great thorough
fares that belong to no corporations. but
must always be owned and controlled BY
> the people, and you will certainly reduce
the freight on all the railroads within theil
radius. Antasonise the improvement Of
the rivers and you as certainly leave the
great railroad corperstots in full sweep and
control Of the psssent enormous charges 70,
carrying our farmer's wheat, corn. oats
tobacco. &C., 10 market. 1t is such ques
'ionS as questions that affect ou'
material welfare, that we want to Sc,
a ''o''tn' 70 the front, in preference TO th'
J question Of -conven,ion or anti-convention.