Show A POLITICAL ANOMALY A communication in this issue from woodruff rich county indicates a lack ol of information on the part of the people in some places regarding privileges that is astonishing in the precinct named a primary was held for the purpose of electing delegates to a convention of the peoples party it appears that at this primary there was a preponderance of liberals the chief peculiarity f consisted of the fact that tha ra the ie latter were permitted to vote thre the count being sixteen to fifteen they selected all the delegates to the convention except one the members of the peoples party according to the statement of our correspondent were not aware that liberals had bad no voice in that primary and yet it was accorded them and that gave the opposition a voice in the county convention of the pe peoples les party the whole proceedings from inception to conclusion should have been strictly cori confined fined to the party of the people they were matters with which no others had bad anything whatever to do we observe that in a precinct in cache county the same political anomaly was presented as in woodruff and for aught we know it may have occurred in other places as well it if members of the peoples party were ere to go in into 0 a primary ary called by the position opposition 0 and an attempt atte pt to take lake an active part art in the proceedings of the ga gathering catherin therin I 1 they would perhaps receive ale a lesson son in rela relation on to te the subject of political privileges in that regard r e gard that would be forcible and last log the fact that political primaries and conventions are assemblies assemblies is be which members of the parties which call them hive have the exclusive right to participate t c ate has as been frequently stated in these cola columns vs but many people seem slow to co comprehend what is for their own good As proof of this unwelcome truth we have but to point out that it was repeated over and over again by the that persons who had registered for the last municipal election only must register again in order to entitle them to vote at the general election yesterday notwithstanding those tl lose frequent repetitions of this important fact a large jaree number of members of the peoples party neglected to act upon the statement the consequence was that tile the party lost loot a considerable number of votes land thus people who failed to inform themselves upon so simple a matter were unable to exercise ex the franchise by this 0 omission the liberties of the veople people VW endangered |