Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-10-11

gality of the Warren organization.
IN brief, if the Warren democrats
condoned the action of this commit
tee In the manner mentioned, it is
questionable whether Clarke demo
Gratis are in position to interfere in
their family affair.
After discharging from the MORO
of his fertile mind the questions he
propou nded us about the Warren
committee, Mr.. Kownslar next makes
an attempt to demolish us by the pre-
sentation of part of our political
record. His shells, however, explode
harmlessly about us, because our po-
sition is armored with a never failing
support of party nominees. We have
to our credit this kind of jewel. whose
consistency is borne out by the files
of the COURIER, scrutiny of which
is invited. Has Mr.. Kownslar un-
brokenly permitted conventions to be
his counsellor as to nominees? Some
people think the best type of party
man is he who subordinates his con
victions to the triumph of its candi-
dates. Why should not Mr.. Kowus-
lar take such stand now, since the
fault Of the Warren committee in
1891 was so great?
We accepted in 1892 the declara-
tions of the national democratic par.
ty as our political chart, but when,
in lS96, a radical change was written
in the platform, our convictions were
not rooted so lightly that they could
be torn up by conventions decree.
Nevertheless we acquiesced in its ac-
ton to the extent of supporting lis
nominees as regularly made, reservlng
the right that was not even sought to
be taken from us on that dav of
gloom at Appomattox, to hold on to
cur convictions, despite the necessity
of acquiescing in results. We were
one of those people in Clarke who
"annihilated" our financial views.
We did this for regularity's sake, as
did thousands of other democrats.
and theirs and our action is mistak-
emily appropriated as an endorsement
of the 16 to l scheme. We
do not know what Mr.. Kownslar
means by opportunity" when he
says we never miss one to assail Mr..
Bryan Why there are weeks at
time when the Colonels name does
not appear in our columns. Let us
refresh Mr.. Kownslar with a fact he
seems to have forgotten, that since
the election day in 1896 the Colonel
has not been a nominee, and is as
much a subject for criticism as is
Mr.. Martin.
Mr.. kownslar says we were Gun
fortunate" in the analogy we tried to
draw between his position as a law
yer in appealing to higher court
when a lower one fails to award his
client justice, and calls attention to
the manner in which other appealed
cases have been decided by Martin
committee against the people" The
State committee, and a number of
county committees, have taken ad-
vantage of the power of their position
indeed, we have before complained
of this, and in this discussion will
not retract what we said on this sub
ject-but that is not this case, be-
cause the primary election feature,
as we stated before, was adopted in
Warren county. With this fact be
fore them, and the further fact stated
by Mr.. Kownslar, that the town of
Berryville was full of Tyler demo
Gratis, who had nothing more to do
than to walk up to the court house
and vote down 20 friends of 'the
ring" neither Tyler, nor a Bryan,
nor Croker committee, if moved by
judicial considerations, would award
verdict in favor of Mr.. Kownslar's
party for failing to assert their rights
when the opportunity was given them
to do so.
That the House of Delegates con
vention was legal one is borne out
by the fact that Tyler delegates par
ticipated in the proceedings without
entering protest or Withdrawing; by
the statement of Senator Jackson, the
author of the primary election law,
that the county committees were at