The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-09-07
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WHO Is YOUR CANDIDATES,

The question which heads this article has been
frequently propounded to us since have been in
the situation We occupy at present. We canddly
and truly answer, that although we have per-
sona and political preferences, they are, The ques-
ton agitated by the Democratic party, of Sc
condary consideration with us. Those preferences
| are, however, or Mr.. Van Buren,, because be-
lieve he was beaten by fraud in the elections OF
1910, and not by the voice OF the people. 1t Isl IN
our opinion, or would be, if the Democratic party
acted upon it, full and perfect vndicaon of their
truth and falthiulness, should they place MIR. Van
Buren, in the Presidential chair 1t would show 10
the Wing party and to the world that the Democra-
| tic portion Of Republics, at least, not unmndu
of long and faithful public service nor tickle in heil
| attachments. BY placing him in the Presidential
char, they would administer rcbuke to their oppo
nents which would never be forgotten, and which
would not fail to fix the confidence Of the most wa
vering in the stability and frmness of Democratic
| adhesion to frends.
| On all the great questions which it has been and
ought to be the wish of the Democratic party to set
tie, Mr. Van Buren, is sound to the core on the SUBJ
jects of National Bank Tariff, Distribution, Veto
| he thinks in common with the other distinguished
gentlemen who are prominent before the party for
It's suffrage for the first office in the world and we
depend upon his fahfuness to cooperate in ev-
cry measure OF sautary reform, and fix on lasting
and stable basis every reform contemplated by our
party.
1t is urged against him. that he has been President
tanned by the Democratic party, that no man should
hold the Office for more than that period. Withou,
attempting to weaken the force of that argument we
would respectfully remind those gentlemen that this
Is not The proper period to recognise the prncipe
by the unanimous wish of that party expressed
through the Baltimore Convention in 1910, they have
, laid aside that argument, and made him candidate
for second term, and they will not have done JUS
tice, either to him or themselves, if they throw
him overheard before the system of measures COM
undo
elect another in his place. Such is our opinion as an
indvidua yet we stand ready at moment to yield
those preferences should the Convention fix upon
any other of the distinguished individuals who have
been addressed by the indiana Convention, whose
answers we have given to the public Either of them
would, no doubt, do infinite honor to the station and
each is entitled to the unqualified confidence Of the
party they have been long-tred, and we know they
will prove faithful to the trust committed to their
charge.
We will go further, and place ourselves by the
side Of Mr.. Kendall in this matter, and pledge our
selves to go for Mr. TYLER, should he be nominated
by the Convention. The Globe, we are aware is OPP
posed to even mention Of Mr.. Tyers name in con
necton with the Presidency, and will not believe that
the Democratic party will so far forget itself as to
look into that quarters yet stranger things than that
have happened and some Of them, too, of immedi-
ate interest TO the senior editor of that paper which
placed 1t in his power to commit injustice and make
llsehood and SANDER successful to the destruction OF
lnuvouals oil strict honesty and truth The dictaOra
course pursued by that paper, aided by few other in
nental journals is directly driving the public mind to
| that contingency, much dreaded by is editor
Principles not Men," has been the mott of the De-
mocrac party, since first came on the stage Of ac-
ton, ard being assured that if either of The distn.
guished gentlemen above alluded to are brought into
the Presidential chair, our principles will be safe,
why IS 1t that we find persons piedgng themselves that
they will not support this that man should he be
chosen as the candidate by the Convention Dothese
individuals not know that they have lost sight of prn-
| cipte and are fighting for men F.? Do they not know
that the assertion thus thrown out only tends to
weaken the claims Of their own candidate but must
inevitably destroy the unity and power of the Demo
| cratic party Are they not that they are
| throwing away every chance Of success, and that
their opponents gloatng the prospect of, and
encouraging the division and distractions which ap-
pear to be springng up among us, For shame that
these things should be.
Our course, in this matter, is plain before US We
shall endeavor TO place the claims of each gentleman
who can aspire to the high and honorable Office of
the Presidency before the public drawn from their
own acts, exhibited by their friends until the Con-
venton shall have fixed upon the candidate Of the
party IL VIII Then be our duty, it will be our plea
sure, TO sacrifice every minor consideration and de-
vote our whole energies to the elevation Of that can
dldate-secure the triumph Of the Democratic party
and insure the permanent establishment Of Jenersoni
an principles as the basis Of our Government