Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-06
TUcsoN. Ariz.. Nov. D. 1890.

To THE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM
 MTTEE:
 GENTLEMEN
 Your communication Of the 18th, ius:. was received in due course of mail. ana have carefully considered its oOn-cnts.
 The presumption of the Executive Committee in assuming to request the resignation of a member of the County Committee Is only aqualled b. ts iguOr ance of the laws and rules governing such bodies.
 My intelligence" tells me that a com mIttee chosen to perform certain limited dutie has no pOWer to request the r5sig nation of a member of the ody winch created it, and y UT committee rGCOg nlzed this fact when it refused to request the withdrawal Of a nominee for the legislature after lt was satisfactorily
 proven that he had baseiv betrayed ana violated his pledges to his cOrstitaent l and had traded off the votes of instructed proxies in order to secure his r-r and l another nomination, thus uefe. Iag Ja5
 will of the majority of the democratic party as to whom It's candidates for two of the principal offices on me JlclZet should be.
 After remaining inactive and silent while cogniZant of these facts it lily be- comes you to prate about the sacred wishes of our party n convention as sembled." It is because 1 aln demo crat from ''principie" that l Iopposej the election af those two men on the demo cractic S;ket who not only failed to re- present the true wishes Of cur party in convention assembled" but who as your committee well knows, represent cor rupt methods and dishonest machine politics. Parties are organized ID order that ''principles, not men," may be put in active operation m the government of bodies policies. The party nominee is presumed to represent the prime ples Of the party, and no mem OeTis at liberty to vote against him unless such nomnee Is known to be dishonest or IS utterly incompetent and unfit to fill any office Of trust or profit or usless his nomination Is known to haze been procured by dis honest and corrupt methods. In either of these cases It not only becomes the privilege of every man tO vote against him but 1t becomes the sacred duty of every gOOC citizen to com pass the defeat of such a candidate by every honorable means III hIs power. Such nominee does not represent the principles of the party, he IS the representative of dis. honesty and corruption. Patriotism and manhood must rise above party fealty in such a case, to rebuke the ma chine bosses who would sacrifice the public veal and party welfare to their own gain.
 The democrats hail with joy the es- tablishment of this doctrine in Penn sylvania by the election Of Pattison over Delmater. My party can well afford to purify itself by temporary de feat.
 My charges against the nominees whom 1 opposed were publicly made 1 against one of them prior to his nom!na- tion, and long before election l demand ed publicly that both men be taken of | the ticket upon the ground that one O. l them had corruptly traded for the nomi- 1 nation of both, and that the ot,.er was | dishonest and unfit to hold any Cilice of !! trust. The democratic voters Of my precinct whom I directly represent in | the committee have endorsed my action. and have pledged their belief in the | charges preferred against these can didates by their vo,es at the polls on the 4th. day of November last. To them and to them alone do hold myself re Sponsible.
 In conclusion let me say that it is with much regret l have learned | there is dishonesty even in the Demo cratic Executive Committee itself. for 1 ind that the statement contained in your communication that the action of .he committee was unanimous, is malici- ously false.
 Very truly yours,