Democratic banner., 1847-09-27
For the Banner.

For the Banner.
Ma. MuRRAY:-Our next Gubernatoria
election will probably be more warml!
contested than any that ever yet has taker
place in this State. The Wings are alread!
preparing to organize for the contest. 1t i!
true, as 10 the final result, we have nothing
to fear. There is not any danger that the
" Banner State" will ever descend so fal
from the high and bold stand she has Away:
taken in the great cause Of Democracy.
as to select a man for the highest Office in
her gift from the ranks of Federalism. The
Wings will not run a candidate with any
hope Of electing him. Their object will be
to reduce our majority, and should they sue
coed in this, every federal paper and every
orator from Maine to Georgia, will
hail it as a great Wing gain, and proclaim
from INT end Of the country to the other
that Democratic Missouri is beginning to
I%faulter. These considerations should ad-
monish us of the necessity of our entering
the field at the approaching Gubernatorial
election, in such manner as to concentrate
the entire strength Of our party-and as
much depends on who our standard bearer
is, greater caution should be used in select.
ing one than in any thing else. Numbers
of gentlemen have been spoken of in the
different democratic papers of the State,
in connection with this Office, and their
claims strongly urged by their respective
friends. They are all known as gentlemen
of talents and true DeInocrats-and in the
choice Of either We would doubtless get
an able and efficient Executive. But from
among the different aspirants we must make
a choice, and it certainly will be wise on
our part to ascertain as near as we can, be-
fore the meeting of the State Convention,
which of them will be most likely to unite
the entire party in his support-and this ]
conceive can be more efectually done
through the public prints than in any other
way.
After carefully investigating the claims
Of the different aspirants-their locations
&c-I think the best selection that could
be made, would be the Hon. C. F. JACK
SON, Of Howard county. There is not an
other man more favorably known to the
of Missouri than Mr.. ]. The
of this is obvious. He has from ear
ly life been q citizen of Missouri. In eve
~ canvass he has taken the boldest stand.
and never has he been known under an,
circumstances to finch for a single moment.
although he has at all times been the pecu
liar object of hatred to the Wings, by whom
he has been repeatedly assaulted with all the
violence and bitterness of feeling which
characterized that party. Besides this, he
has several times been a member of our
State Legislature. While in that body he
measures which have made his
name familiar to every member of our par
ty, and furnish the most incontrovertible
evidence that if placed in the Executive
chair, he would administer our State gov
eminent on true Jeffcrsonian principles
With him for our standard bearer, local feel
ings and Prejudices will become merged in
party questions, and the Wings will thus
be deprived of the influences they other
wise might be able to bring to bear on 10
cal grounds.
This sir, it seems to me is the kind of al
man we want for our next GubernatorialI
candidate-and with such an one the De-
mocracy of Missouri will be able to boast
Of a more glorious victory, after the next
than they have ever before achiev-
ed. A DEMOCRAT. !
RdH' County, Sept. 14M, lS47.
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