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TO THE VOTERS
Various people have suggested that I reply to an unsigned form letter, recently circulated in the county, telling people how they should vote. 1. I know of no voter who took an oath or signed a pledge before voting in the Primary. Therefore no one need vote according to the orders or dictates of a political boss. 2. The ballot is a secret ballot. No one can tell ifbw anyone votes. No one has a right to know. Each voter marks the ballot as he chooses, then folds and places the ballot in the box himself. , 3. Loyalty oaths were rejected by the .South at the '52 Democratic Convention- No Southern leader of any stature believes in a loyalty oath—even for the convention delegates. Intelligent men will not promise to help elect a candidate before they know who that candidate is. Yet the demand for blind obedience is now made tooths people of this county. 4. There are no political issues in this local campaign —but principles are important. Free elections are the very foundation of our government. Democracy must have a free choice. We have no stomach for dictators who tell us how to vote. 5. In a free country every citizen can be "his own man’s man and speak the truth as he sees it. We can vote to suit ourselves-1 would suggest that every voter put the interests of the county above purely personal or selfish considerations, ana thus vote for the candidate he honestly and fairly believes to be the better qualified. In that way the interests of all’the people will be best served. . '
; <4 ALFRED M. HICKMAN, i
; Candidate for Commonwealth’s Attorney
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