The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-12-07
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THAT CON = ENTION.

THAT CON ENTION.
For several decades the writer
has been an observer, an inno-
cent by-stander, and at one time
and another, a first-trench COM
blatant, IN various kinds and class
rs OF conventions, both political
and otherwise. He has seen the
opposition muzzled, gagged, ham,
strung and sloughed while the
steam-roller rolled merrily on
ward; he has seen a goodly gath
ering of suffragists stampeded
by few innocent mice, inadvert-
emily released by "some horrid
man. he has seen a few honest
political patriots, but more politi-
cal trickery, chicanery, maneuv-
erlng, side-stepping, mugwom-
pism, IN all its various DISCUSSES,
while the near-sighted and blind
Good Old Common People" pa
officially suck their thumbs, and
sighed, In the sweet bye and
bye. " But, by the Shades of
our Eternal ANCESTOR by the
Asbestos Cloak of Old Belias
himself = THAT CONVENTION
of Monday, December the fourth,
In the year of our Lord, Nineteen
Hundred and Sixteen, was rev.
citation.
Gentle Reader, in your perrin
CARNATIONS, did you ever observe
convention that didn't con-
veneY a thing without arms, feet,
body or head, and yet a thing :
We have! Rather, we would be
led to believe that we have seen
this mystical thing. 1t was said,
and the credentials produced and
favOrably accepted by Pro Tenn
Chairman johnson, that a Pre-
cinct Convention was held at
Cayce, KY, on Saturday, the sec
ond for the purpose of electing a
precinct committeeman meet at
Hickman on following Monday
to elect a county chairman, and
yet after diligent inquiry no hui
man being, as yet, has been pro-
duced who saw this Cayce con-
vention convene. While, ON the
other hand, the opposition actual
ly held convention, at the hour
of two p. m, at a place where
the elections are usually held, ac-
cording to the letter of the law,
the credentials of whose commit
teeman went unrecognized at the
Farce Comedy of Monday last.
Nothing wrong, gentle reader, in
the fact that the committeeman,
whose credentials were recogniz-
ed and excepted by Ex-Chairman,
Pro TEN Chairman, Candidate
for Chairman, w. G. johnson, did
eventually vote for the said w.
&. johnson, for the important, tho
gratuitous office of Democratic
Chairman of Fulton county.
Nothing wrong, only one Of those
strange political coincidents, us
ually styled 1.-THE joker in the
deck"
In the annals of parliamentary
rules and practise, there is not a
single precedent Of one individual
occupying the anomalous posi-
lions of Temporary Chairman, and
Candidate for Chairman of any
Body. We have seen it happen,
and the incumbent wear the
thrice-wound laurel with becom-
ing gravity. Of course, the aver
age chairman of an organization
would find it embarrassing to
vote off a tie by voting in favor
of himself, as would have been
the case Monday had the Cayce
committeeman of the opposition
been permitted his vote, as was
the committeeman favorable to
the present organization, but we
feel no doubt that Chairman John
son would have met the dilemma
in way pleasing and favorable
to everybody CD. Equally en-
barassing, was the duty OF our
county chairman to determine
the validity of the credentials OF
the two contending Cayce Com
mitteemen but we have already
shown how successfully he met
that issue, by refusing to hear the
claim of the opposition, or any
proof in its behalf. And, Incl
IDENTIFY, the rule adopted by the
Democratic party of the State,
states specifically that the COM
mitteemen are the judges of the
credentials of their body. Which