The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-13

Louisville, KY, Sept. PA special
TO the Commercial from Lexington, KY,
says:
The most sensational manifesto ever
issued in the political history of Ken
lucky, was given out by the Breckin-
ridge people tonight. The Owens men
claim that they will not abide by what
they term the Breckenridge "gag law"
and predict bloodshed. The card reads:
Breckenridge Organization Headquar-
ters,
Lexington, KY. Sept. II, 1894.
ITO Democratic voters of the Ashland
District:
''The district committee, by its ac-
ton on last Saturday, has effecutally
blocked the brace game which the ex-
pert candidate from Scott and his
organization have been preparing to
place in the approaching primary
For the first time in Kentucky.
contestant for a Democratic nomina-
ton, driven to desperation by the
demonstrated strength of his opponent,
claimed through his mouthpieceS every
where that participation in the primary
involved no obligation in honor to sup
port the nominee if he should be that
opponent.
ut was never contemplated by the
party authorities before that such
double-dealing was possible, or that it
should be necessary to guard the party
organization against such treachery,
but when this proclamation of dishonor
was made, the district committee at
once met it, as honest men jealous of
the fair fame of the great organization
committed to their keeping, and by
their resolution of the Sth inst. have
made it impossible for any man, except
a perjurer, to have voice in the selec-
ton of a candidate while premeditating
in any event treachery to the Demo-
cratic party.
with that reckless denunciation of
all who cross the path of his ambi-
ton, and that effrontery which has
marked his whole canvass, Mr.. Owens
and his following have impugned the
honor of the committee, have denounc-
ed its members as towards and fools,
while in the same breath and with an
inconsistency borne of mad desperation,
they proclaim themselves satisfied with
the situation, admit that the COM
mittee's action is simply the enforce
ment of rule recognized as an in
tegral part of the law, and endeavor
to pursue themselves and the public
that its application will work to their
advantage. If it be right that no man
should take part in the selection of
candidate unless he intends to sub
NIT his own individual preferences to
the will of the party; if it be only fair
that no man should be allowed to play
a game of heads 1 win, tails you loose;
if it be simply just that he who sub
mits his claim to his party's action,
should, in good faith, abide the result
of that submission; if it be true that
every Democrat can trust his pollti-
cal conscience to the aggregate judg-
ment of his party. fairly and honestly
ascertained-why do the reckless de-
famers of the chosen leaders and
guardians of the party denounce that
action whose only effect is to make
sure these principles and protest them
in their integrity against the treachery
so openly threatened. Like men foiled
in a contemplated wrong, they charge
as evidences of their opponents weak
ness, what is a sure index of his
strength. None are deceived by this,
for no one considers it proof of weak
ness to bar the door against burglar
of whose visit warning has been given,
or to place your pocket book where ct
will be safe against the pick-pocket
eve announce to the voters of this
district our assured conviction that
this race is now won; that the fair bal
lot which is assured by the commit
tees action will result in overwhelm-
ing success for Colonel Breckenridge,
and we call upon all who are interested
in the maintenance of the true Demo-
cratic faith to see to it that by proper
challenges that only true Democrats
participate in this party contest
I'VE call attention to the provisions
of the law, which require that when a
voter is challenged for the absence Of
any of the qualifications prescribed by
the committee, he must be sworn, and
on his oath and subject to penalties
for perjury. show himself to be pos
sessed of those qualifications as de-
fined by the commissioner; first, that
he shall be a legal voter; second, a
Democrat, known as such by party
affiliation: third, as having an inten-
ton in good faith to support whomso-
ever the party authorities declare to
be the party nominee.
"The reason for calling attention to
this is emphasized by the fact that no
where and under no circumstances has
Mr. Owens announced, in plain and I'M
equivocal terms, his purpose to abide
the result of the primary; but, on this
contrary, in his recent address to his
followers, while urging them to the
polls. he fails to intimate that ii is
either their duty or his purpose to do
so in the event of his own defeat. which
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