Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-24
TAKE IN THE PRIMARIES.


 TAKE IN THE PRIMARIES.
 According to announcement, on next Thursday evening the democratic prima ries will be held for the selection of dele gates to the various conventions that will name candidates for the different places on the city, town and school tickets. We hope that every democratic voter in Waterbury will make note of the fact and esteem it his duty to partici- pate in these primaries, at least to the extent of casting his vote. It is by such interest in the primaries and their results that good candidates will be in- sured for election day.
 It has been too frequently the case that the average democratic voter has shown little or no interest in the prima- ries, leaving them entirely to the ma nipulation of the politicians and ward bosses. And too often it has happened that dissatisfaction has been the result of this lethargy with disposition to bolt the candidates named by the ward delegates in convention. This ought not to be the case. Voters who have ideas concerning the men who should be put forward for the suffrages of the party should attend the caucuses and primaries and give ex- pression to their views there. It is there the preliminary work of nomination is done, and it is there that voters should express the dissatisfaction, discontent or want of confidence they may feel in re- gard to any that may aspire to places on the party tickets. It is not fair to men who have the good fortune to receive a nomination fairly from the party to knife them at the polls after the oppor- tunlty has been thrown away to do the knifing where it is legitimate, honorable and decent. The place for knifing is at the caucuses and primaries; that's where the real sentiment of the party, the wishes of the greater number, is SUD- posed to mature itself and determine the men whom the party is desirous of hon. bring. It is neither fair nor honorable, 1t IS not democratic, to absent oneself from the caucuses and primaries and then seek to square oneself by using the knife at the polls. 1t ought to be the case that when a man has run the gauntlet of the primaries and nominating conventions he may count to certainty on the full, un. reserved and enthusiastic support of the whole party. We have no sympathy or encouragement for those men who absent themselves from these prelim mary meetings and then go abor breathing fury and slaughter agains the fairly nominated candidates of the party. They have brought their un happy condition upon themselves by negligence which can offer no excuse o1 palliation.
 The DEMOCRAT is aware that every year there are individuals in the party who rail at certain candidates for whom they are expected as good democrats tt vote, and it is equally we'll aware tha these very individuals are in many case most notorious for neglecting the plai1 duty that belongs to them as party mel of making the fight at the primaries We are aware, too, that certain dem ocrats are even now, before the prima ries have been held, engaged in pro claiming that, in the event of certai, persons being nominated, they will bol them. This talk is outrageous in it childish pettishness. We say to thes men that it is their duty to attend tn primaries next Thursday evening an, there fight out. the dissatisfaction the, feel in regard to obnoxious members o the party. The DEMOCRAT has no always been satisfied with the result o primaries, nor does it expect that tn men most acceptable to it will always b successful in these preliminary expres sions of the party will. But it has n hesitation in announcing in advanc that 1t proposes to be guided by the vii of the party and to support heartily an enthusiastically the men who shall hay won fairly through the primaries. An this is the course which we advise a good democrats to pursue.
 Take in the primaries, do what yo can there either for or against certai individuals, and then joln in and hel to swell the majority for the men wh secure the nomination. That is the tru democratic party spirit.
 VIRTUOUS REPUBLICANS.
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