The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1891-02-25

THAT PRIMARY ELECTION, ETC.

THAT PRIMARY ELECTION, ETC.
The action of the Democratic County
Committee in calling primary in April
next has caused more or less discussion
among the members Of the party in va
rious sections of the county. Some con-
tend that the action of the committee
was ill-timed, unwise and out Of place.
Such talk as this, If it does anything, in
dicates that the party managers, had
they not made a call, had become
alarmed, and were therefore afraid to do
ANYTHING. Such was in fact not the
case. and Chairman Sewers was only fol-
lowing in the steps of his predecessors
when he issued the call. Suppose no ac-
ton had been taken in the premises,
and after the committee had come to-
gether and looked over the ground, they
had then adjourned without action.
Then what would have been the cry
Most assuredly our antagonists would
have at once said that the Democracy
was all broken up; that she was afraid
to speak out.
Reviewing the situation in the light OF
all the circumstances, we frankly claim
that the committee did the proper and
wise thing. The Democratic party is no
trumped-up political organization with
brief history. 1t has been in existence
for fifty years, and claims the right to
follow in the line of its established ira
ditions. 1t will not suffer dictation from
indiscriminate sources. 1t is governed
by long established rules, and they must
be obeyed when the proper time arrives.
There was no reason, therefore, that the
primary election should have been post
poned. The Democracy doesn't propose
TO step down and out and surrender the
field TO third party, or to any party for
that matter. She is emphatically here
to stay, and those who don't like her
manner of doing business on the cam
paign order, can be knowing on The
time had arrived when, according to all
presidents, the manner of choosing
candidate for the Legislature must be
announced. There are two or more can
didates in the field submitting their
claims, and it does seem that for the
committee to have ignored these things
and awaited the movements OF some 9TH
er organization, would have been abso-
lutte folly. In the name of high heaven,
what do you take us for?
If the Farmers Alliance, the Wheel
ers, Changers, Republicans, or any other
body want to put up a candidate for the
Legislature in this county, certainly all
they have to do is to "let him go, Gal
lager" All the Democracy asks is
'free ballot and fair count" AS to
certain parties who claim to be Demo
Gratis, but say they will not support the
nominee of the party, we ask OF you,
why not? What have you in the secret
caucuses of the Farmers Alliance that
offers more than your own party? Read
us plutlOTnl Vi plliIiIlNo' ihNiN'A ."
guaranteed to all men of whatever race
or color equal and exact justice before
the law. Moreover it is pledged to puri-
fy the administration from corruption, to
restore economy and to reduce taxation
TO its lowest limit. Again, tariff for
revenue only, or a sufficient revenue to
pay all expenses of the Government
economically administered. And further,
honest money as basis for a circulat-
ing medium worth one hundred cents to
the dollar.
These are some OF the salient princi-
pies of Democracy, and what better can
YOU find elsewhere? This is the ques-
ton. And if nothing better, why do
you desert her? We haven't aught
against the Farmers Alliance, for we
take it that the ends sought to be ac-
complished are materially the same as
those of the Democracy. II such be
true, why abandon the party that you
have struggled with for the past thirty
years to accomplish these things? The
end, if we will but stand together, is un-
doubleday about reached, and can be
reached through the Democratic party
quicker than through any other chan
mel. We appeal to all Democrats, there
fore, TO stand by their colors.