The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-02-22
THE TiNDIEG FORCE OF
PRIMARIES.

\ correspondent asks "Nlat are the
obligations Of these who took part in
the December primary ;" We assume
that he refers to- the primary election
le1d III, hert nther 9Th. 1898. TO select
DELEGATES Ia :ite state. Judicial ana
Senatorial conventions. and u Eomi-
nate leprtz ettatiyes, paIoclial and
wand ~etliee1s
Tie SfNTiSFL las already discussed
that ltase If rarity usage and party
dlt tr3inisaud shown that TIE olliga-
=1etf rs*n"ta lv every u who nliti-
eitft.t il Ii IT primary election and
ceeZEts vote for any candidates or
~cat3&satt WIS To abide lv the result
nf that election and I" support the
e rajaates INT forth by the STATE. in
dfeial and S~eta!aliat conventions. and
tie candidates receiving the highest
number Of votes before said primary
election for representatives.. OF any
Wald az narachial offices. That is the
obligation @ltiel, every ynter under
took and Is III honor honna to dis
CHARGE. whether the nominees ale men
of bis choice or not. provided they be
~ " tiiEl' IEttftt ava HbV(E
faith among mea require tile discharge
of this solemn duty aud no honorable
man may fer Il moment falter in the
matter. That was the condition i'm
posed npon the right and privilege of
participating in the election and any
one who ueald have refused before
voting To ;tHitie by the result. would
have teen refused participation in the
election. No honorable man could
have taken pat in it, intending in adj
vance not to support its nominees. To
have done 50. would have been to
commit Il disieputable action Of a
most repiehensible kind. one of which
any honest man anght to be heartily
ashamed 1t would have been To play |
the hypoe,ite aud to abuse the conf |
denee of other people.
There are ON people going about
preaching To others that the primary
election he's no binding force and that |
one who has voted in the primary
election Is not bound to support its |
nominees. No honorable man can |
assume suc! a position. The primary |
election has all the binding force of a |
moral obligation upon those who took |
patti It, and while one has the mower
to violate that obligation, he has not
the right III morals to do so. No man |
has the right to disregard his solemn |
pledge on the faith Of which his fellows
have acted. !
Those who seek to avoid the result |
of the primary election and refuse to
stand by the candidates nominated at
said election arc conscious Of this |
moral obligation and feel that it's vio-
latlon is disreputable !; for they en-
aeayor to shield themselves by charg- ;
ing frauds in the election. They give
no specifications hut make the general
charge that more votes were polled
than there are voters. That is al
false statement pure and simple. 1t
is "A plain H~ntiuth It's shown by a COM
parison oTthe vote with the March
primary of 1892 and the election Of
April 1892. The vote in the December
primary fell short of the vote of those
by nearly three hundred
W. most. emphatically deny the
Of fraud in the late primary
aud We challenge proof. Let
those who participated in that cleo
ton act like true Democrats and non
men and stand by, work and
vote for the candidates nominated by
the will OF the majority as expressed
the polls.