The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-11-22
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER
st. paul, nlinnesuta,
Thursday Morning, Nov. %. 1919,
To the Democrats of Minnesota.

Democrats! Next Monday we elect
township and county officers. You
have nominated your candidates. That
every man will be exactly suited with the
ticket, is not to be expected. The very
object Of convention is concession,
harmony. No good democrat carries
away from the convention a spirit of dis
satisfaction with the nominations made.
'sThe ticket-the whole ticket" is rad
zeal principle in the democratic creed.
1t is the key which always opened the
door of victory to the democratic party.
The moment this ceases to be the gov
erning principle of the democracy, the
party is Sold All that wings ask. to
overthrow the democratic party. is SIM
ply an entering wedge to split their tick
ct--open the way for bargaining--for
swapping votes, you are sold. This is
the principle, for the destruction ofwhich
alone they are now contending; for they
know that nothing but that principle rem
dcrs democracy nvincible. To accom-
plish this purpose, they are willing to
vote, or to have you vote, for any man
who was ever called a democrat, so that
he be not regularly nominated. They
make it part oftheir system to hunt up
candidates claiming to be democrats
who are not nominated in convention, to
decoy away den ocratic votes, TO weaken
the party and in the end, to achieve a
victory Distrust the Sou dness Of any
| democrat, who allows his name to be
used one moment TO distract the party.
Mark him.
Democrats, YOU have seen the tactics
used in Minnesota to ensure the defeat of
your party---a scheme originating long
since, plotted at hington-contrive
with all the cunning which the whig par
ty has always found to be their only reli-
ance for success. Office holders appoint
ed from abroad-bringing with them
their dependents and retainers expressly
/ to give more votes and more influence TO
the whig side-a plausible whig governor,
who was expected to effect seeming
harmony of parties, and to gain strong
personal influence and especially to
''keep the German voters all right Ia
Secretary, with a masked whig press
from Ohio, neutrality-suspicious., hesita-
ting at nothing but personal danger, fear
full ofnothing but of bodily harm or of
doing right by some blunder-recklessly
disregarding his oath of office, by with
holding pay from democrats, using public
funds for private speculation, poisoning
the very atmosphere he breathes by the
pestilent conta gion Of his baseness, and
now, like a foul blot, placed over us by
the administration as acting governor of
Minnesota. God Of Heaven! to what
lower depths of degradation can young
territory be thrust STEPPED in the foul
pool of political corruption--with such
whiggery as this surrounding you like an
element---spreading out every way, eve
ry where, in, upon, above, beneath, a.
round everything, like the lice of Egypt,
can democrats be bamboozled any Ion
ger with this stuff about neutralism? ter
ritorial party' Democrats of Minnesota
you have yet to learn, in how many pro-
team forms whiggery knows how to dis
guise itself Ifyou lean upon the slight
est semblance of it, you will be thrust
through as with lance.
Your ticket is nominated; will you sup
port it, This is question for you,
each of you to determine. You will be
told that as this is only an election for
town and county officers, it is not mate
rial whether wings or democrats are cleo
ted. Do not believe single word of it.
1t is material. The eyes Of the whole
World are upon you, to see whether the
democrats here have the nerve to stand
up and act together as a party--to
raily-to unite, to officer-to drill--to
wheel into line with the democratic states
of the Union. Remember that every
name you scratch from the democratic
ticket, to supply in its place the name of
a wing OF of a mongrel, is blow struck
for the benefit ofihe rhig party.
i ~ Will the whole world take notice,
that the name Of our town is Saint Paul,
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