You say that the county delegate plan
is preferable. As we live in a Govern
ment based on the principle that the ma
jority should rule, don’t you think the
county plan of delegates to nominate the
Governor and other officials is fraught
with more danger than that of allowing
the majority of the voters to decide? Sup
pose, for instance, that two men should
be candidates for Governor, and one
should have a slight majority of the dele
gates to the convention, while the other
candidate had a large majority of the
popular vote, and the delegates should ig
nore the question of say fifty thousand
popular majority, and nominate the man
who had received the majority of the del
egates, don’t you think this would mean
that the majority would revolt, as they
did in the Colquitt-Norwood campaign,
and bring on an independent fight, and
result in bringing back into politics the
ignorant negro vote? Is it not strictly
democratic that a majority should ruler
I am out of politics so far as seeking ar
office, and my only interest is that of the
ordinary citizen who desires good Gov
ernment, and in favor of the best means
of obtaining that end.
I am not hunting for a controversy, but
THE JEFFERSONIAN.
would be pleased to see your views in
full on this important question. If the
delegate plan is to prevail, why not
abolish the primary, and go back to the
old court-house plan of choosing dele
gates? That is, allow one hundred men
in the county to say who shall be Gov
ernor, instead of one thousand men.
Yours truly,
J. A. BRANNAN.
W
Answer.
It gives me pleasure t© reply to the
questions of my old friend, Hon. J. A.
Brannan.
