Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-09-19
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dufSIticSiueflt III dnOIneT Column.
U The Democratic papers are not very zeal
Gus in the support of the nominee of their con-
vention for the State Superintendent some of
them refusing entirely to put up his name and
others abiding to him very coolly. The reason
for this is as they claim, that this Office is one
of peculiar sacredness and therefore the ordina-
ry mode of getting candidate cannot properly
be employed, which relieves them from any obi
CATION TO support the nominee of the convention.
OF course we have no objection to seeing the
Democratic nominee defeated but we do think
the course OF these papers, is very inconsistent,
and their reason for it remarkably shallow The
duties of the Superintendent are no more purely
executive in their character, than are those of all
the rest of the State officers indeed not near so
much so; SD that if there be better way than
nomination to get cnddate for this office there
is the same better way TO get candidates for all
the Offices; and if the nomination for Superin-
tendent is not binding upon them, no more is the
nomination for any other officer. That's very
sicky and mawkish sensbility in our opinion that
leads party men to cry out against party nomina-
tons, for Judges and such officers as this. If
these men have better way of getting cand-
dates than by nominating conventions, they are
to be blamed for not applying it to all officers
and the plea that one office is so much more sa-
cred than another is simply to imply that rascal
ity is very proper in one place, but not to be toll
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to be entrusted to meetings of the people, they
ought 10 be considered too sacred to be brought
to the polls, so we had better remove them one
or two degrees from the people by returning to
the old mode of legislative or executive appoint
ment.
II In another part of our paper, will be found
brief abstract of the doings of the late Dem
ocratic State Convention.
We know not whether the Convention took
especial pains to accomplish the result, but no
amount of effort would have enabled them to Sc
lect ticket more thoroughly Old Hunker.-
There is not man on it even touched by the
suspicion of ever having had the most remote
sympathy, either with the Free Soil movements,
or Free Soil principles, and the same with these
delegates to Baltimore, and the Presidential cleo
tors. We know not what the south may demand
of the north, in the next Convention, but we do
know, she can demand nothing that their dele
gates will not readily concede. We are quite
confident from our knowledge of the men. that
there is no depth of subserviency to which they
will not readily descend, if success, and the spols
of office, promise to follow. Talk about De-
mocracy and Democratic principle. What is it ?
The good OF the masses--gammon. 1t is office
place. prominence, power, for these wire pulIers
and they have about as much thought of the
real interests of the people-the true Democrat
ic principle as they have of righteousness gen
orally. But we must concede to them at least
the credit ofhonesty. For several years they have
been backing ana filling on this Free Soil ques-
ton, but they have at length distinctly defined
their position, declaring unqualified hostility tic
every thing of the kind-and as might be sup
posed in going back, like the sow to their wal
low in the mire, they discard all the liberal sen.
tments they ever encouraged hope they might
embrace, and Land Reform, goes overheard with
Free Soil
Really, we should like to know what the poo
pie of this State expect will be accomplished
through the fundamentally of such party p
They avow their willingness to yield to the south
all she asks and not one redeeming christian
sentiment or principle, do they put forward
The same subserviency to southern demands
with the same disastrous and paralyzing effects
is to be continued for all time. The government
instead of beingneutral with reference to the ques
tonot slavery is tobe employed hereafter as here.
tofore with all its energies to build up, advance
and sustain the slave power. So these men re.
solve, and the people of Wisconsin are expect
ed to come up 70 the work and ratly the foul de-
termination. 1t is abominable, and if the peo-
pie do it, they well deserve to suffer the disas-
trous effects which will surely follow. WHY
can we not be men-frcemen--repu bcans. Are
we forever to be nosed around by a few inter
ested polticians-gamblers in politics, who play
only to win office and pmoluments-and risk
without scrupe the dearest interests of the peo-
pie in the unholy schemes. Wisconsin has ior
two or three years past, been pointed to by the
lovers of humanity, of human rights. in older
states as pioneer in the glorious work Of rad
ical reform; but this convention, under foreign
dictation, declares that her democracy stands
where they did sixteen years ago Not one step
of progress in sixteen years. The thought is
abomnable, and the resolve is lie-a lie which
we trust will not be endorsed by majority of
the voters at the polls. The subject is pregnant,
but we forbear further remarks for the pres
ent.
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