Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — PRIMARY vs. DELEGATE. [ARTICLE]

PRIMARY vs. DELEGATE.

Culp, Ind.. June, 1884. En Sentinel: The Rensselaer Re publican frequently contains articles recommending the advantages of a primary election as being the best method for placing a ticket in nomi nation for the many offices to be filled at tho general election November next. It i 3 claimed that by the pri mary system a majority of the votes cas: by the party elect, and is a sure index of the strength of tho lucky men. Now this miulu be trno if there was no lime given candidates to plant their henchmen and strikers In each precinct to s-emv victory by fair mouns or foul; and if t e nominee could secure the uatnmuneled majority of all vo-e*. I think a delegate convention wilt come nearer laminating men that people favor than th primary system. For lost ante: it is a sort< d m this county that two hundred and lifly voters, Py ts« primary plan, w.il nominate.— Concede this, and that there are one ihousand votes oast, that eight of the Dine republican candidates for sheriff should each receive oue nuadred and ten votes making -a tot ll of efght huudred and eighty, and the ninth receives one nundred and twenty, lie is tne nominee, and the oho ce of a small fraction over oue-ninth of the party. Eighty-eight per cent tuust yield their preferences to 12 per cent, and whip into line, vote for the choice of 120 out of 1,000 regardless of qualifications, ha ute, morals, or the questionable method*; he may have practiced to um niph. A convention composed of dele gates from among the people of the several townships, selected a short time before its meeting, instructed or uninstructed as the constituency may elect, is more likely to voice the sen : timents of the people The demoerats have wisely concluded to nomuate by delegate convention, while the republicans, under th§ d rection of the great generalissimo at Rensselaer, will nominate by primary. The methods resorted to by the more unscrupulous will return to plague tnem. REPUBLICAN.

Chicago Times: The pronunciamsn- V to just fu micatqd by ♦be gathering of self appointed president-makers in Chicago is a first-rate example of the conventional party deliverance of which the supreme motive is to hum - bug somebody. This motive, this character of the document, is revealed in every one of the t l ' enty 07 more paragraphs, relating to twenty ot more subject-matters in which tho authors have supposed that twenty or more different classes of voting citizens feel twenty or more different interests that may influence their dis charge of the electoral office. The object in this writing is. how ver, to t eat of only on 9 of those twenty or more samples »f 'he party humbug that h - “dear people” of this blessed country-swallow with the aliment that Is furnished for their consumption by ;he politicastros. The declaration is in these words: “In the administration of President Arth r [cheers]—we recognize a wise, conservative, and patriotic policy, under which the country has been blessed with remarkable pros perity; and we believe nls eminent services are entitled to and will re ceivo the hearty approval of eve.y citizen.” [Loud and prolonged applause.] Approved by “loud and prolonged applause,” that 8 atement was after ward approved by the assembly without a dissenting voice. Nevertheless, as everybody knows perfectly, a majority of the men who thus declared che approbation of Arthur’s presidency, their confidence in his judgment and wisdom their belief in the goodness of the policy that his government has pursued, and their further belief that “every citizen” approves of it. were at that moment intending, at that momont resolved, to put him out of the presidency, and put in his piace some citizen whom they well knew would not enter it posses-ing the like approbation and confidence of the country. What can be the motive of such a purpose? If, as they assert, they find that the course of government under Mr. Arthur has beer, wiae, conservative and patr. Rie, what motive has inspired their desite to disrafss Mr. Arthur? Do they des're a president under whom tho.policy of government will not be wise, couservativo and patriotic? if, as their declaration implies, they believe that the blessing of remarkable pros perity which the country has enjoyed during his reign has been in any way or degree a consequence of the wisdom they Impute to his government, whatis the motive of their resolution to deprive the country of so desirable a chief? Do they think it would be better f©r the country to have a president or a government that wo’d reduce the present measure of general prosperity? If his eminent services are entitled to and will receive the approval of every citisen, what motive impels them to deprive the country and every citizen of his eminent servic.s? Surely the country could not manifest its approval of his eminent set vices in a better or more appropriate way than continuing tnem- What, then, impelled the authors oi the foregoing declaration to resolve that they would exert their utmost strength and employ all the artifices in the armory of partisan chicanery to prevent the country from continuing them? Either their actions give the lie direct to their de durations or they were, even when they framed their declarations in words, actuated by some motive very different to that which guides men who seek to promote the country’s prosperity, safety, happiness, general welsare The latter, in truth, is th« s act— The ond at which they really aim, the purpose in which they came to Chicago, the object which they pursue In the trade of politics,‘he issue they discern in the approaching “cam* paign,” is not stated, is not even suggested but is studiously kept out of sight, in every one of the twenty or more paragraphs of their lengthy and windy pronunciamento. Preten it, u sly, the motive bf that pompous document was to set forth tneir organic purpose. Really, it was to couceul their organic purpose. Freteutiously; it was to set forth to the country a programme of promoting the general welfare. Really, it was to conceal from the country a design of turning out a president whose reign affirm has been wise, prosperous and satisfactory to the conn trv generally, in order to turn in one whose reigu, tLey believe, would be more agreeable to themselves particularly, in that it would enable them to attain their own sinister desires.

A partisan sheet talks admiringly about the bold aud courageous utterances ot the republican platform adopted on Thursday. It finds no shuffling or evasion in them. Tt holds them aloft, so to s ;eak, at the top of o pole, and challenges comparison with utterances which have not been made, but which are expected presently, and which, it is assumed. will be “nuts” for the deep and pious delvers after evidences of hy poerisy in the words of others. Probably the deliverance on the money question will be pointed out as singularly bold and courageous.— “We have always recommended the best money known o the civilized world.”say these valorous men. They once recommended greenbacks. They afterward recommended national bank no.es. They afterward recommended the gold basis- Finally they joined “the enemy” in recommending the impossible double standardTheir courage is seen, probably, iu their omission to state what money to recommend now. Th ey go on to say: “And we urge that efforts should be made to|unite all commercial nations in the establishment of an international standard which shall fix for all the relative value of gold and silver coinage.” Well, that may be under stood as meaning that the recom*

mend an alternative standard under international agreement. Bat the es» forts which they urge somebody to make to bring about such an agree ment ha.e already been made, and two international conferences have been held without much visible effect. Future efforts may prove successful, and they may not. They certainly can not in much less than two years, and the chances are teu to one that they can not in a much longer time. Meanwhile there is a pressing question that m ist be faced long before any international arrangemeut can' become effectual. That question is, shall the coinage of the silver doP.ar be discontinued? The courageous president-makers of the republican name courageously ignore this quostion. They boldly but silently relegate it to Colorado and Nevada until after the election. —Exchange.

The Democratic State Convention will meet at Indianapolis, Wednesday, June 25th. Delegates from this county; E. C. Nowels, John Or. Culp. Frank Lakiu, Hon. Fred Hoover. — Alternates: Madison Makeever, W. L. Rich, William Paxton, Hon. Geo. H. Brown. Time and place for Congressional Convention not yet designated. Del egates: James W. Doutbit, Dr.'J J±. Loughridge, Esq. James Yeoman, P. E Davis Austin.

Mr. Adam Hess, of GiHam town ship, is urged by many friendsjin|that and other localities as a very proper candidate for Sheriff on the Demo crailc ticket. Ad is a first-rate Democrat, a good citizen, and very popular among his acquaintances.