The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-05-09
What Daily Papers Say of Action
Of the Democratic Committee

and revolutionize the practice OF the
party
Unfaithful servants, you have been
recreant to the duties of your high OF
fee. You have derided those who
.rplaced you in authority. You have
| violated the confidence of your con
stituents. You have disappointed
those who had right to expect fan
treatment and square deal in the
most important political campalngn
of generation.
nAs Sound As a Nut" Says the Macon
Telegraph.
The qualification clause for voters
! in the democratic primary, adopted by
/ the state democratic executive commit
tee, is as sound as nut.
/ A persistent effort has been made to
I bull-whip the committee into admitting
to the primary those who are not dem
ocrats, and on terms never enjoyed by
democrats-the right to vote and then
run away to fight the party again from
without. They have been cOntending
that the word "align" used by former
committees in their invitation to pOpu-
lists to return to the party meant to
come in as temporary allies, or Hes
SLAMS, for the time, to vote in the dem
ocratic primary, without impairing
their political alliance or alignment
with Tom Watson's 'PeOples Party, J"
or ony other anti-democratic party.
1t is cause for congratulatiOn
among all democrats that the commit
tee smashed those Interior and exterior
designs to impair and break down
party lines in a party primary. The
committee stood firmly, and in the
face of the w atson-J ournal bull-whip,
heroically for the integrity of the dem
ocratic party. 1t will clear the atmos-
phere and start the democratic pri-
mary campaign off on its own proper
and eminently sound, legs. The APP
peal for support now must be made to
democrats, and to those who, wishing
to "align" or join, in good faith, the
democratic party.
We hope that every populist in the
state will take the obligation and be-
come democrat, participating in the
primary; but we do not believe that
Watson will, and in the event they all
come in it will leave him without a
party in this state
The committee has acted we'll and
wisely.
"The Invitation Is BrOad," Says the At
Ianta Constitution.
The democracy of Georgia, through
its duly constituted state executive
committe, has extended hearty in
vitation to all the white voters Of the
state to participate in its approaching
primary and convention. The com
mittee, with democratic breadth and
| liberahty, cordially bids all the duly
qualified white citizens of Georgia to
free voice in the cOunsels of the
party, STIMULATING only that they shall
come unreservedly and in good faith
as loyal democrats.
The invitation lacks nothing in
hospitality or good will; the stipula-
tions are only those which political
party or any great collective BODY
must enforce in justice to its preser-
walton and integrity.
If a man desiring to participate in
the state democratic primary is a
democrat in good faith he will find
nothing distasteful or prohibitory in
the stipulations framed by the com
mittee If he is not a democrat, he
has no place in a primary intended
only and solely for those of that po-
litical faith. He can be very sure OF
neither his democracy nor his good
intentions if he complains when asked
to declare them both openly and with
out reservation before all men. Not
| a society or an organization of any
Importance or with any care for its
integrity but eXacts pledges even
more binding and stringent.
The Constitution cOngratulateS the