Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-29
CRANK AND EILEa SOLID = ONE
GONvEN ZION,

deed that the editor at the latellgeh~
Ger feels hurt at my allnaion 10 hia hay-
Ing recently become a citizen Of our
county, | here assure him l referred
10 the fact with no intention to wound
him any way IN the least. ! referred to
it merely to allow the further fact that
he vas unaeQaainted with the eharae-
ter of the Democrats of Audrain and
their manner of holding the eonvea'
ton. to refnte the charge he made
against them as being liable to trades,
&C., In their convention, for this alone
and for no other purpose-not to deny
him the right to discuss the policy
and course Of the party" Far from II.
For l hold every Democrat has the
right to express himself concerning the
policy and coarse of the party"
In his reply he frankly says 1.-The
party instructs at the district meetings
for county officers. and thus trading
is successfully prevented in tho selec-l
ton of a county ticket but We hardly
az the primary meetings for all state
and district officers, If this is done,
then the objection to II convention is
largely removed, But is this done p
am glad the editor of the lntelli-
gencer has shown himself frank and
manly In this confession. | can say in
answer to his ~inserrogatory, that in ev-
cry school district in this county in
1884, the delegates were instructed al
to whom to cast their votes for for
many Of them were instructed for the
most prominent candidates for state
officers. The Democrats of Audrain are
uniformly intelligent and self thinking.
The committee has but to make a rec
ommendation, and if it be a good one
they are sure to adopt it. The Demo-
cratic Executive Committee (of which
l then had the honor to be a member}
on the 10Th day of May, 1884, adopted
the following resolution together with
others:
1.-THE committee recommends that the
Democratic voters in each school dis
trict and ward, instruct their delegates
i eS w AAAoN~ ANt Eftlt vi 4
dates before them for their various of.
fees"
The result was, although they had
not heretofore instructed generally, on
this suggestion, every school district in
the county instructed as to first and
second choice for county officers, and in
many for the prominent state officers.
All the committee needsI.o do is to
call the attention of the Democrats and
recommend that they instruct for both
county, state and district offices, and
distribute largely a strip with the
names of the candidates for the various
offices printed thereon, SO as to inform
SO desire they will and can do it AT
one CONVENTION.
He further says "there is no reason
why there should not be as large an at
tendance at the primaries to select
! state and district delegates, as at the
one to nominate a county ticket"
Z The county candidates, as everybody
here knows, are active in their own be
half their friends are nearly as mucf
so, and, as / have observed, Away
bring out a full attendance. While
have observed On the other hand at
second convention, but few attend
Such was the case in 1884, as those VIII
took notice at the time will remember
when a second convention was hell
I to select delegates to a congressional
| .op rarfIar ut Nau nnIoo ,I+Ior-i
\ there was. a spirited contest In thii
), county between the friends of gu
worthy congressman, Hon. John E
fulton, who would ike to see succeet
himself, and Judge Elijah Robinson
-. there was a very slim turn out, l thel
learned, all over the county, and il
many school districts the Democrat
failed to meet and send up a delegate
1t takes the excitement of the count
., canvass, made by the county candi
dates, 1 have observed, to bring out tn
Democratic voters in force, and whel
they are out in force then is the time t
do all the work-to select delegates t
n State, Congressional and Judicial con
ventions. When the Democrats ar
i, out in full force there is no danger c
% any wrong being done any one. Som
h one has said ''the people are alway
right" and believe it.
# The illusions of the editor of til
+, lntelligencer to nee as slippery politi
\, cian," as "a schemer who can talk louC
J. ly all day of the rights of the people
and cheat them when the sun goe
If down. is not argument. Such flag
a hurt the author much worse than tn
g one it is aimed at.
s. Mr.. Editor, to ease the editor of th
il Intelllgencer from the trouble b
m seems to be in at my writing uEdt
the ''nom de plume" of IRAN
4, and File" you are at liberty
to give to him or to any one who cares
K know, the author of Crank and File,
q, my name if called for. / did not rep
o to the first article written by the edltt
re- of the Intelligencer on the subject
!. 1.-TWO Conventions" to enter into
U personal controversy with him, no
4. deny him any right he is entitled to
its q DCLiObiob, oue W pAC'Cht tuC uOiutI
" of second convention, which / though
r. in my honest opinion would prove de
I'd rimental to the organization of tt
e Democratic party of Audrain count
rs to the perfection of which l have
10 the last six years lent much of my tin
and am proud to-day that ii
at plan which the Democrats of Au
10 rain are now working under 1.-THE scho
district pian) for which /, aided
others, labored SO hard to ado
q and afterwards to defend, and
it which they are SO deeply wedde
is being talked of favorably
% the Democrats of many of the So
". rounding counties, and if adopted
II, them will deliver them from the pol
10 ical thraldom by which many of the
have long been bound, and put Il
power where it belongs, in the han
of the people.
tn Let the committee call but One Co
If vention and recommend that at tn
he convention the Democrats instru
for state and district candidates,
uall os for ,u,fy,ap5;dat and fc