Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-09
A LONE LoRN cR1TTER.

The Democrat is not happy. There
may be a feeble smile fitting across
its careworn features, but it covers a
heart of woe. All this because the
Democracy Of Montgomery county is
made of sterner stuff than to follow
the dictations of its bevy olive like
to have said bevy of beauties well
they are bevy of beautiful boilers !;
and this bevy of beauties-beautiful
bolters-refuse to be comforted be-
cause the people will not meet in con-
vention again and undo their work
and adjust matters to suit the whims,
fancies and favorites of an immacu-
late Democratic paper, which refuses
to carry the names of Democratic
nominees at its masthead.
The Democrat after wiggling and
wobbling on the gudgeon promises
''if and" etc-to support the nominees.
Nobody was inclined to believe this,
but the CHRONICLES trusting, hope
full nature was willing to give its
penitent contemporary one more
chance. 1t has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting for it
announces that it has enlisted for
enduring war and proposes to fight
out this primary battle if it takes all
summer" Bless your dear heart!
the summer has gone; this is the
winter of your discomfort and all the
clouds that lowered upon the DEM
ocratic house are in the deep bosom
Of the past-buried.
"The people are entitled to say
who they prefer for U. s. Senate"
Why, certainly they are and they
will say through their Legislators as
the mediators of their wishes. The
people have placed the nominees in
the field and they can trust them to
vote the sentiment not only of Mont
gomery county but of the entire
State Of Tennessee.
These Legislators represent the in
terests of their constituency in Mont
gomery county of course, but their
labors will not be confined to the
limits of Montgomery county alone;
they are the servants of the entire
people and cannot properly carry out
the wishes of the entire people until
they have met in deliberatioR with
the balance of the peoples representa-
tives.
The County Executive Committee
has met and taken due consideration
of the necessities of primary to in
struct our Representatives as to their
vote for U. S. Senator. BY vote of
thirteen to four, the committee de-
cided that it was not Democratic
usage or prestige in Montgomery
county and that there was no demand
for holding primary, and that the
committee had no right to foster any
candidate for us. Senate upon the
nominees Of our Convention. The
matter was settled in Convention,
and there it must remain the "d-m
kickers" to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The Democrat desires to know why
the people Of Montgomery county
hav'nt the same right to a primary
that the people of Stewart, Cheatham
or Davidson have. Well, of course,
they have; if there was q demand
for such. Mr.. f. w. Carmack, the
trainer and groom of "the old war
hoss," said in his speech at Columbia
that a primary election tended to
create a strife in the party ranks,
and that the results only arrayed one
faction in bitterness against the
other. If the theory holds good in
Maury county, what's the reason it
wont hold good in Montgomery
county? Our contemporary will
please be consistent before drawing
parallels.
Ex-senator Harris submits quietly
to the attempted disorganization of
the Democratic party in this county
by his friends who would defeat
Cleveland for the sake of Harris
election, then he must shoulder the
esponsibilities that now threaten and
endanger the party in Tennessee.
Tennessee is not out of danger.
The loss of Tennessee may be the
loss of the Democratic Presidency.