Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-08-10
JOLIET SIGN AL.
JOLIET, I'LL.
TUESDAY. AUGUST 10. IS4S.


now the matter is all past, be useless to
consider the causes which have aroused
such intense feeling. But one nominee
Of the first ticket. nominated by the con-
ventiOn. has been elected. Three of the
Mass Meeting ticket, and three Wings
are elected. The Democrats of Will,
with fair majority of from four to six
hundred, have suffered the Offices of Pro.
bate Justica. School Commissioner, and
County commissioner to be filed by wings
during the ensuing term. They then can
claim no triumph. The Wings may ex.
ult, though they have fallen far short of
their anticipations. Their organ here
took sides with the mass meeting, thereby
aiding to defeat bis own party, so far as
four officers are concerned, the editor not
dreaming that u secret alliance with mem
bers of an opposition party, is always
sooner or later, equivalent to disgr"cefM
defeat. Even, if he was assured by some
Democrats that they would prefer the
success of the Wings to the triumph of
the first Democratic ticket, the editor
should hare knoUn that these men were
for themselves alone, and that they were
using him as simple tool to further
their own designs. If he has not learned
yet that he was duped, he has got II to
learn BY Notifying experience.
The causes which have; operated to
produce the election results we this week
announce, have been several. In the
first place, the division in our ranks was
mainly caused by personal luminosity ex.
listing between certain men of our own
party, whose names we could readily give
if it was necessary. SelEgratifcation,
even at the expense Of the principles of
our party, has been the practical motto of
certain men. and has b en- one great Sc.
cret Of the disturbance in our ranks
And the result has shown that either total
or partial defeat of our principles must
occur from actions prompted by base mo-
tives. No man can love the party 10
which he belongs, who will not yield his
own private prejudices for The sake Of the
triumph Of the principles which he pro
fesses to espouse.
Another cause of our partial defeat has
been an inordinate desire for Office
This craving ambition backed up by de.
sire for personal revenge, has been an.
other secret ofthese contemplate bicker-
ings in our own party. Another cause of
the Wing success in our county. has been
the zeal which was aroused on the part
Of the Wings, by those Democrats who
declared that they had rather the Wings
would succeed than the first Democratic
ticket. This induced certain Wings ON
the Canal to go the mass meeting ticket
Ito pretend to be Democrats-to "steal
the livery of Heaven to serve the devil
in."
These are some of the causes which
operated to divide and defeat our party
The Democrats had right TO expect the
election of whole Democratic ticket
Such is the voice OF the majority in the
country, but that voice has been FILTERED
away by designing men. And it now
becomes US to profit by the experience
of the past. The farmers Of the country
should look to their interests-every dem.
ocrat should remember that there is hut
one way to victory. A regard for princi.
pies must be above personal prejudice.
And, as much has been said in regard 10
"leading men," it may not be improper
to observe that certain ''leading men," as
some have been pleased to term them,
did all j., their power to heal the division
in our party--bus that proving impossible,
they took the only course, which, as con.
sistent Democrats, they could have taken.
These observations have been forced
upon US by the course Of some individuals
during the last campaign. We make
them in no spirit Of censure-we call at.
teniion TO the facts, that Democrats may
hereafter reflect upon causes when divis.
ions arise, and so act as to secure the
success Of Democratic principles.
OTh will be seen by reference TO the
Election returns. that large number Of
the old allies OF the Wings, the Abolition