The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-08-08
St. paul, Miunssota,
Our next Delegate.

In the absence of party issues At an cleo
ton, little or nothing remains to be discus
sed but the pcrsoual qualifications Of candi-
dates for office-their merits and their de-
merits; and the tendency Of such canvass
is always to terminate IN bitter personal in
vcctive, and TO engender and perpe,uate
personsal feuds. In the conflict Of political
parties, there is something Of dignity, some
thing consistent with the preservation Of
kind feelings and personal regard toward
our political opponents, feeling That those
who oppose Us, are contentiing, NOT against
us, but against the principles Of our party !;
but in a struggle between competitors for
the same Office, upon merely personal
grounds, we fight men not principles-self
love is at once aroused into dangerous ac-
tivity, and as the canvass wakes hotter, men
are dashed into the fury Of wild beasts; and
where personal instead of party issues are
common, q resort 10 the pistol and the bow
ie knife, and street brawls and street fights
are most prevalent.
No party issues are rIofessed to have
been made at the coming election in Min
nesota. We regret it on many accounts.
Marching under & flag Of no-parryism,
wings and democrats have no confidence in
each other. They are ever watching for
treachery. Their candidate, if elected, is
compelled to devote more attention to bal
lancing skilfuly on political fence, while
in Office, then to the true, substantial inter-
ests Of his constituents; and as nearly every
measure in which he is required to act,
takes party complexion and is adopted or
opposed as party measure, he can take
sides neither way, and is about as impotent
as a bandaged Egyptian mummy; or if he
bursts his no-party cerements, and ventures
to think. and talk, and act like live man,
Is branded with treachery by one siIe of
his constituents, or by both.
We have long entertained this opinion;
and in 10 state or territory is the truth of
our proposition better demonstrated then 10
Minnesota. Without political parties we
have personal parties, and nothing else; and
as long es the people will circle about the
ring and witness fight after fight between
the high-combed cock and the low combed
cock, aud make themselves partizans of the
two competitors, just so long they may con-
time to see those two cocks coming fierce
iy up to the scratch, fighting round after
round for mere mastery "a matter Of no
real importanc. to us.
We have long waited for the action OF
our Central Democratic Committee to call
Convention of the party. We recognize
fully recognize the organization of our par
ty, made las, autumn. We zeaIously sus-
tanned that organization, although, for
reasons not necessary here to give, our sue
cess in the canvass, was not complete. II
was an organization ia which all the party
were. or had right to be represented. We
date It as the commencement of the party
and nothing else. A partial defeat has in no
manner destroyed that organization. We
organized neither Sibley party nor Rice
party, but The DEMOCRATIC PARTY a
name as old as JefFerson's, eudeared to the
friends Of freedom, both now and in gener-
atoms past, it's principles well defined, its
doctrines nobly defended and gloriously vim
d.ca,ed by, Aages dead and living, and its
policy, which for the most Of the time since
jefferson lived has been the national policy
guiding Us to national greatness.
Where the Democratic party placed this
paper last autumn, It now remains. The
Pioneer is anchored in the Democratic par
,y,wi,h the Aukcs grappled in its roots: and
she Democrats Of Minnesota may know
where to find il all the time We do no,
recognize the right of any portion Of the
Democratic party, either by itself or by
any alliance with any portion of the wings,
70 drag this anchor up stream or down
stream, into any eddy, or into the current.
They cannot do il. To the will and the
decision Of the organized democracy, we
yield ready obedience; but TO nothing else.
We have waited forthe'cal of party con-
yenfion: that call has not been made. We
now give notice, that if cali is not made
w the Committee, within a week, for a
Democratic Convention, that we shall fee!
atliberty to nominate good, stauncb, un-
fiinching Democrat, for Delegate to Con-
gress; a man, who, If elected, would deal
honestly by Democrats, and fairly and hon.
estly by WhIgs-a man of proi,ity, of pop
ulariry well earned by long residence and
much intercourse by our people, wholly SUI
perior to all existing factions, aud every
way worthy of the support Of all Democrats
without exception, and of all Wings who
seek for an honorable alternative.
10 regard TO the n,ongrel nomination al
ready made. we have no sympathy with il
nor with any that may be made in ini,a
ton il. We recognize no distinction.
lased upon pettry, and have nothing to do
with their contests. Against the gentleman