The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-04-27

held aloft the banner OF Democracy?
God forbid. The Democratic party has
never made law requiring this test of
democratic faith, and until such law is
made we are ali entitled to stay ''in our
fathers house unless we 60 out yolun-
tarily This is not so much question
of power as it is who is the power.
The other test required by the com
mittee, and the ultima thule of demo-
cratic faith in the opinion of the com
mittee, is that all the counties shall hold
their primaries on July Both, and coun-
ties holding their primaries on any other
day are to be debarred representation in
the convention 50 far as the edict of the
committee can control it, We have been
very much inclined to view this as but an
ebullition of the nature Irish humOr of
our friend, Capt. Hobbs, but upon in
quiry we find that the commi ttee is seri-
Gus in its demands, and that the coun-
ties that decline to order and hold their
primaries on the day set forth in the
edict of Albany, will have trouble in get.
ting into the convention so far as the
committees influence can make it. We
must not only swear that we e, have
always been and will always be, demo
Gratis, but we must all swear it on the
same day. When, before this, in the
history of the democratic party, has an
executive committee assumed to name
the date on which the various counties
should act, and require such action as a
test of democratic loyalty? AS we'll might
the ltiOnal committee assume t. name
the day on which all the states must act
We see no objection to all the counties
acting on the same day, and we have no
objection to July 30th, provided the
county committees see fit to call the pri-
maries on that day, but we do insist that
it is not only not democratic, but CEN
tralzatiOn in its highest and most obnox-
ious form, for the district committees to
assume to dictate to the county commit
tees in this wise. The democratic party
has always been the party of strict con-
struction, ever maintaining from Jeffer-
son to this day that ''all rights not ex.
pressly delegated were reserved" If
this be democratic doctrine. then we ask
in all seriousness, to what faith does this
assumed dictatorship and Capitalization
belong? Carry out this doctrine to it's
legitimate conclusion and where will it
lead us?
If the congressional committee, under
democratic law, has power to name a
day on which all counties shall act. then
the National committee has power to
name day on which all states shall act;
indeed, it could go further and require
all the townships and districts in all the
counties of all the states to act on some
day named by it, thus putting the great
est pa ty of the greatest country on earth
in the hands of fOrty-fOur national com
mitteemen. This is the logical sequence
OF the doctrine promulgated by the com
mittee, and will be disastrous in it's con
sequences if allowed to stand unoues-
toned.
The county committees are the author
lty to which the democratic people have
delegated the power of calling county pri-
maries, no matter whether the question
be Legislative, congressional, senatorial
or presidential, and the calls of these
committees are the calls that ought to
and will be needed by the democracy of
this district.
Wouldn't it be a sight to see the
democratic hosts, on the day appointed
Tor the grand ''round up" GATHERING
from all points of the compass in all the
counties of the district under the whip
of the genial Triplett, the affable Irwin
and the sedate Spence, submissively
marching into the committees carol above
whose gates is inscribed in blazing let
tiers: "These are good, sworn democ-
Gratis, and they are ours"
One word more in regard to the ac-
ton of The committee. Appointed, as
they were, for the purpose of holding
| the party organization intact, they sug-
gest division in our ranks and do advise
the democrats to refrain from all pri
maries and conventions held not in ac
cord with the instructions of the COM
mittee. Even if such conventions elect
delegates to the State convention at
the same time the congressional dele
gates should be turned out as untrue
to democratic faith, and the delegates