Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-02
LETTER TO VOTERS.
JUDGE MORROW WRITES A CARD
ABOUT HIS RACE.
AN Appeal to Democrats 70 Vote For Him
aug .S1-Ciosing with Promise to Lead
the Farty to Victory In November.

Inc recent DemOcIdIlc convention
that assembled at Eddyville, KY,
on July 10th, to nominate candidate
for circuit Judge, having failed to Of
fcially declare any nomination, adj
journed SINE DIE and referred back to
the people the selection of candi-
date for this high and important trust.
In consequence, primary election
has been ordered by the Democratic
district committee to be held in the
different counties on Aug. 31st- 1t is
well-known to most of my fellow citi-
zens that I was a candidate before the
convention and until within the last
few days my inclination was not to
again enter the contest. But in def
erence to the expressed wish of ma
ny friends throughout the district
and in obedience to DEMANDS made
made upon me by perhaps too par
tial friends at home, / again enter
the race, and adopt this circular let
ter as medium of announcing my
candidacy. Because of the shortness
of the time intervening between
now and the 3lst of August, and be-
cause Of the inexorable laws of BUSH
ness to which we all have to yield
obedience, ] find that it will be i'm
possible for me to make anything
like a close and personal canvass of
the district. 1 regret this, since /
believe that in a personal interview
and by giving the facts in truthful
detail, l would have had no difficulty
in convincing all unprejudiced and
conservative thinking Democrats that
had the votes of all my friends in the
convention been counted as they
were cast, 1 would have been de-
clared the nominee by the Eddyville
convention.
In the exercise of an inalienable
privilege and after much solicitation
upon the part of my friends, I entered
the race for circuit judge late in the
canvass, after both county and dis
trict conventions had been called.
There were then three candidates in
the field and afterwards two others
entered men of such ability as Judges
Linn and Cook, of Galloway county;
Judge Watkins, of Lyon county; Col.
Robt. A. Burnett, of Trigg county land
the Hon. John Phelps, of Christian
county, and with scarce three weeks to
canvass the district l entered the
convention with II instructed votes
out of 20 and within less than votes
of the nomination. After nearly $50
ballots had been taken, after the
names of Judge Watkins and the
Hon. r. A. Burnett had been dropped
and the contest had narrowed down
between Judge Linn and myself, the
counties being called alphabetically,
when Lyon county was reached
7-25th of her delegation arose in con-
vention and wanted to vote for me
(which would have given me the
nomination. but the right to do so
was denied them, and this too in
disregard of precedents which have OBJ
tanned in all Democratic conventions
for time almost beyond the memory
of men now living. Several more
ballots being taken, each resulting
i'll l4a votes for Judge Linn and 14t
votes for myself, at this crisis of
the proceedings delegate in the in
terest of harmony and that the object
of the convention might not be de-
feated, proposed that the question of
the right of Lyon county's delegation
to vote as they pleased, (Judge Wat
kins being no longer a contestant,)
should be submitted to the decision
of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, but this COURAGEOUS" propo-
sition was rejected and the conven-
ton declared adjourned by MAORI
ty of l-15 of one vote, and a primary
has since been called, for Aug. 3lst.
Since the convention, the executive
committeeman for the district in
which | reside, @. M. Meacham, adj
dressed letter to the Hon. Charles
r. Long, chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, submitting
the question as to delegates right to
vote for candidate of his choice and
as his decision is in accord with my
ideas Of what ought to be Democratic
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