Show TO THE PEOPLE on friday evening the ath instant the primary meetings of the people of this county for the election of delegates to the two representative and the council conventions will be held in the various precincts of the county and the wards of the city according to the call in another part of this paper the customary negligence of voters in the matter of attending atten diug these primary meetings would indicate that the fact is not generally understood that the primary is the voters meeting and his duty as a citizen demands his presence there to accuse aman of indifference respecting his primaries should it the people properly sensed their duties bo as deep a wound to ilia pride of citizenship as to charge him with direct disloyalty to hia principles it is at these meetings that he is presumed to select indirectly his representatives in office if he ia loyal to his party affiliations this is his only chance of bis personal choice of men and applying liis influence to he direction of the policy of lils party it by cheer negligence lie absents from this important assembly lie bays plainly by his actions that he hai practically no interest in the government of hia country and he simultaneously declares himself a mercenary interloper with not a shadow of moral liht to the privilege of voting it would perhaps be too much to eay that a law would invalidate the elective of all such citizens would be a national blessing but it ia not too anch to declare eliat a roan who is negligent of this duty Is unworthy of public confidence every friend of popular and american institutions should attend the meetings and nance his friends to do THE as their name implies are the first step in the political lessons for the season peoples party voters do not forget them |