Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-06
auosr Method Or Counting.

party committee in this county yes
terday they take the rather curious
position that the primary of last Sat-
urday was void because the Turney
delegates only received about a
thousand votes, while the Cleveland
vote of four years ago amounted to
twenty-six hundred. The Turney
delegates having failed to get ma
jority Of the vote cast for Cleveland,
are not entitled, they think, to repre-
sent the county 10 the next State con-
vention.
This convenient method OF calcu.
lation puts in the Buchanan column
all the men who were busy, all who
were Indifferent, and all who stayed
at home last Saturday because they
knew Turney had walk over and
their votes were not needed. 1t is
a unique way of carrying a county
in political contest and our Third
party friends are entitled to credit for
having devised so novel plan for
giving the governor an appearance
of strength in the county. Our dele.
gates, ii seems, are all badly beaten
because their friends felt so sure Of
their success last Satul day that many
of them did not take the trouble to
go to the polls. A thousand men
went and voted, but they are defeat
ed by the six hundred who stayed at
home and didn't vote.
Last year Esq. Slaughter was nom.
mated for State Senator. The Dem
ocrats did their very best to get a full
vote for him, but he only received in
the county 1,l95 votes, while the
Cleveland vote was 2,628. 1t was
thought the Squire was elected, anu
he went to Nashville and was sworn
in. 1t seems now, however, that he
was badly beaten, more than ] 400
Democrats having voted against him
by staying at home. The opposition
to him, too, was worse in the country
districts than in town. Outside of
the Twelfth District Esq. Slaughter
received $40 votes, while Cleveland
had received 1 ,943 votes. Here were
more than a thouso nd farmers who
displayed their hostility to the
Squire by staying at home, and
whose votes ought, therefore, to have
been counted against him.
On last Saturday primary cleo
tiCn was held in Cannon county, as
well as in Montgomery. The Buch.
anan delegates were elected in Can.
non county, and the friends of the
Governor" have croWod good deal
over it. Cannon county gave Cleve-
land l 200 votes, While the Buchanan
delegates last Saturday received only
400 votes. The other voters did not
turn out because there was hardly
any opposition to the Buchanan tick
ct. 1t seems now, however, that We
must count $50 votes for Buchanan
and $50 against him in Cannon coun-
ty, and he has lost he county.
The fact is, it taxes regular cleo
ton and a contest TO get out Il full at
tendance of voters. In the primaries
in New York last spring Mr.. Hill got
less than thirty per cent. of the Dem.
ocratic vote, though he carried the
State and secured the delegation.
Gov. Buchanan got less than thirty
per cent. Of the Democratic vote in
his own county of Rutherford, some
time back, but he claims the solid
vote of the county in the next State
convention. In Montgomery, con-
sidering the fact that the Buchanan
men had abandoned the fight, the
vote for Turney was surprisingly
large one. Nearly five hundred men
in the country, at busy season, left
their homes and went to the polls
and cast Turuey votes though eacn OF
them knew his vote was not needed.
In Robertson county last week there
was fight over the delegation and
yet neither Turney or Buchanan got
MS large a per cent, of the Democratic
vote as Turney got in Montgomery.
We sympathize deeply with our
Third party friends in theil effort to
find a grievance in this canvass,
They are doing their best to break up
the Democratic party, and not one OF
them seems to know himself why he
is trying to do it. Mr.. Mcdowell,
we are informed, will open his can
vass for the United States Senate
down at Shiloh next Saturday and
we sincerely hope he will furnish his
followers with reason for their
course. He is not treating his sup
porters justly when he compels them
to follow him blindiy, as he seems to
be doing. they are clever gentlemen
and II they are to do his fighting in
this county he should provide them
with an issue.
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Deserving Praise.