The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-08-31

Johnnie Trimmer is out in a circu-
lar, which he is sending to his bench
men through the district begging their
support, which reads as follows:
THE CIRCULAR.
Sedalia, Mo-, Aug. 2j, 1856.
DEAR SIR:-You are doubtless aware that
/ am candidate for Congress in the Sixth
District OF Missouri, and that at the late
convention at Sedalia lacked only four
votes of the ninety-three delegates in the
convention. The vote standing during the
900 ballots: Heard, 43; Yeaman, IS; Cos
grove, %. Having so strong an endorse
ment, my friends in the convention did not
feel that ii was my duty to withdraw in the
interest Of either of the other gentlemen
opposed to me, but in the interest OF the
Democratic party, as my friends thought,
they offered the following resolution in the
convention at the end OF the nine hundred
and fOrty-second ballot:
Resolved, In view of the improbability of
any nomination being made by this con-
vention, under the existing rules and In
structions, that il is the sense of the con-
vention, that in the interest of harmony in
the Democratic party of the district, each
! of the candidates now IN nomination should
file with the secretary his written release to
all delegates instructed To vote for him
from the obligations of such instructions
and authorize them to exercise Individual
| ly his ire choice under the existing con-
ditions in order that the convention NAV
proceed untrameled to make a nomination
This was defeated by Ihe friends OF nv
opponents by vote of nifty to forty-three.
The matter is now before you again to
be decided at primary electiO to be held
on Saturday, September 4th, 1886
Since the matter has been sent back to
the people, both MesSrs. Cosgrove and J ed
man have Withdrawn from the contest and
Col. f. c. More, OF Boone County, has en-
tered the race. Having laid these few
facts before you, | respectfully suggest that
it is the duty of every democrat to go to
the polls to settle this matter, and as for
my.elf, l am willing to submit my claims
to the candid decision of the people at the
polls. | therefore hope you will assist In
getting out full vote in your precinct.
Your Obedient servant,
JNo. T. HEARD.
This is all well enough 50 far as it
goes but Mr.. Trimmer uses his usual
prerogative and trims out OF the cir
cular any allusiOn to the fact that he
had an undoubted minority Of seven
of being the choice of the democracy
of the Sixth district, the vote stand
ing 90 to 43 against him, nor does he
allude to the packed and paid pri-
maries and other questionable means
by which he was able 10 secure the 43
votes. The best evidence in the
world that there was more than mere
personal preferences against his nom
nation is the fact that he came into
the convention with all the votes he
could possibly get and was unable to
secure a single convert. But this is
not the only trimming he does, He
fails to state that his adherents intro
duced the resolution to refer back to
the people the question and also that
they refused to rescind the rules made
in the beginning which the "resolu-
ton" quoted seems to have had in
view and which he knew and his adj
herents knew could not be adopted by
the convention, since the candidates
had no authority to release the dele
gates from pledges made to their
constituency. Neither does he
call attention to the fact that
when invited by Messrs.
Cosgrove and Yeaman to unite with
them in Withdrawing and leave the
field open for a new deal all around.
He refused to do so and let them 60
out without him.
The circular, however, contains as
good advice to Mr.. More's friends and
democrats for principle sake as it does
the Heard leaders. Let every democrat
go to the poles September 4th and let
him cast his vote to uphold the honor
of his party and rebuke such con,
temptible jugglery as has been indulg'
ed in by Heard and the result will be
that Heard and his questionable tricks
viii not again be heard of.