The Arkansas advocate., 1836-07-15
No. .H5.

to act as delegates in caucus to nominate can. didate to the Presidency fine caucus or convenor held by members of Congress, acted under some sor oi responsibility; and. at all events they had the s,pe rior merit and advantage of being chosen by fair ex. presson of tho will of the people whom they represents ed By the new syatctn delegates, srpafae frotr members of Congress, appointed 10 meet in caucu, or convention to nominate, and this is tho only differ enee h the form But under the new system the de. 1 legates act under no adequate responsibility, and be- sides hey are seldom or never chosen by full and fair expression of the popular voice. Most of them. we believe, are nPPoincdby portion of the members ot The legislatures ot the several States and are thus but the subdelegaies of the people. They are oiien appointed by mmoritics in districts and in States. = Thus Massachusetts will have full representation ;n the contemplated Baltimore Convention and vet ths party which will profess 10 be represented in that ven.ion, is not in majority in single district of the State; in many instances few individuals of town or village set together and appoint some one or more df their number 10 ac delegates-they are rarely he true representatives offho people, coming fresh and directly from hem In the State of Gio, ie delegates to the Baltimore Convention were appointed in January 1884, nearly eighteen months in advance of the Coi- venton and nearly three years i'll advance ofhe pres- denial elections before could possibly be known who would be the aYore of the people at the time of no- mnaton at the election A convention thus ofoani- zed and claiming to be authoritative in making nom- nation for the Presidency appears to US to be gross imposiufe. And when We hear one of the pures and most reputable statesmen of the country denounced for daring that his fellow citizens may use his name a candidate for high office, and when wo hear ourselves denounced for daring 10 support such man. without first having obtained the sanction of such ali assembly, t E lime to ponder seriously on our !rus condition, aad to De assured thai ave are free.
 It is most extraordinary, that set or men, who now seek to sur every other question but that of the Bank should be composed chiefly of the same leading politi- clans who we're most conspicuous in tho support of the caucus candidate in 1924. Mr Crawford, who, if iy notorious, acquired character i,i celebrity bv the independence and ability with which he adyoeaed the re-charer of the old United States Bank was therl the favoe statesman Of those who now set themselves up to be the exclusive guardians Of the principles of tho Republican party
 MT Ritchie and the Richmond Junto did not think his course upon that subject sufficient objection 10 him, but sustained him against General Jackson, whose election they affected 10 deprecate as curse to the country J; and urged the electors of Virginia to adhere to him in casting their votes in the electoral college, even after 1t was ascerained that so doing they would bring the election into the House of Represen- tatves. Mr Van Buren supported him with all his in fuencc, and he hnselG far as we know never gave any public expression of opinion against the Bunk un- ii he gave inc celebrated toas at the Fredercksburqh dnner in 1884, afler fl was supposed the question of the Bank had been decided.
 I Mr Forsyth, who stands, as in 1924 in fhs front rank of the caucus party, and who as Secretary of State, fills the first place in the Cabinet not on. fly supported Mir Crawford, the great champion of tho Bank but IS himself noorously was at least year ago, avowedy in favor of re-charfering the present Bank, with some notifications. Besides these cir eunsiances, extraordinary and almost inexpicahle as they are, many of the most distinguished and nluen.
 al paftIzans of he system, in every section of the Union have been in favor Of the Bank and for any tblng we know may now be in favor of if new one, In our own State the most experienced leader among the advocates oi the new system, and MT Va;s Buren, declared in Congress, at former period when speaking on the subject of National Bank, that ho had always been Tn favor of of this sort and he entertained no constitutional scruples about it0- So much for MT Van Buren and the party cnnfending for the succession through the agency of the caucus system, and so much for the guaanties which they can give of ther consistency sincerity, and future fidelity to their prolessed principles Judge White, oh lis part has been the consistent opponent of the caucus sysem consistent and independent advocate of tho necessity o limiting executive patronage; consistent, open and unwaverng opponent of the United States
 Bank, from the time chartered, up the present tme He has been more than rendered the high- est offices in the gift of the President, which he decin- ed because he preferred the more honorable and nde. pendent station of a representative of State in the United States Senate. We offer those circumstances as the pledges of his political integrity; and upon them we submit the question 10 our fellow clizens of every ,aie Tn the Union, whether Hugh Lawson White or Martin Van Buren be THE TRUE AND FIT REPRESENTS ATivE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
 But fl IS alleged that Judge White ought not to run as candidate, and he has even been denounced in very harsh terms for conseniing that his should be used at the risk of dividing the party, and promoting the election of candidate opposed 10 the present ad- minisraion. lfihosc who so forward in deno1r,c- ing Judge White for lhs cause, sincere and really have other object in view than preserve tho unity of the party they have easy remedy at hand in he withdrawal of Alr Van Buren from the canvass But we do not ask his nor do we think it necessary: There s no evidence to satisfy us that any onnosfon