The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-08-20
The Presidential Contest.

The present campaign will doubtless con.
tinue as it has commenced to present more
novelties in the way of electioneering than
any that hes ever preceded il. The Democ-
racy hitherto, have invariably in their ma
tional councils laid down certain rules which
they have lignifed with the title of platform,
and have as uniformly whipt the party to it's
ratification and support, by the rigid discip-
line which its demagogues know SO well how
to apply to secure its first, and always its
leading principle, ''the spoils." The same
party it will be recollected have been loud
and bitter in their denunciations Of the
Wings, as party, for that they had on one
or two occasions not felt the necessity of
codifying the well known and well settled
principles of the party.
The novelties to which we would alude
are such as are being daily manifested by
the Locofoco party in a desperate cause
The platform adopted at Baltimore, and upon
being submitted to their chosen leader, 'met
an one as Just such a man would be expect
cd to approve. 1t is alledged by the Wings
that the Baltimore code which Gen. Pierce
approved, contains no distinct avowal of any
particular principle or measure heretofore ac-
knowledged by the party.
We propose to call attention to the course
pursued by the Democracy to promote the
election of their candidate, to show that this
allegation of the Wings is tacitly admitted.
Many of the delegates went fresh from the
National Convention to Congress, and what
did they do. Did they there recognize and
maintain the milk and water code prepared
at Baltimorel No! And as the conduct of
those men is familiar to all upon measures
prohibited in the platform, (if it places any
restraint upon the party at all from support
ing measures hitherto eschewed by them)-
we need not here reiterate it. The concur
sion, is nevertheless inevitable that Locofo.
coism has become conscious that they haze no
principles upon which they can build plat
form, acceptable to, and popular with the
masses, and at the same time preserve prop
er consistency with the time honored usages
OF the party.
We hold that no code of principles could
have been adopted, by any body of lntelI-
gent men, so weak and meaningless in its
import, as this so called platform, without a
studied design OH the part of its projectors.
They nominated their man and adapted the
platform to his intellectual dimentions, tho
notin all respects to his principles. Had he
beeu known to them to have been the expo
nent of any one great principle of national
policy, perhaps it might have been incorpo-
rated in the code-tiis important fact not be-
ing understood, consequently no one of their
heretofore cherished principles found its way
into the platform. We infer further, that
the total restitution of any avowed meas
ures to be car led out in case of success,
was an act of design, from the notorious fact
that the Locofoco press, the country over,
have never made their platform an issue in
this campaign-but have as studiousy avoid
ed abiding to it, as its projectors did put
ting anything into it.
The respective letters of acceptance OF
Gems Scott and Pierce, have been held up
to public view by the more shameless of Lo-
cofoco organs as kind of standing matter
filling space which empty heads failed tc
supply, in vain attempt to show by the con-
trast e want of ingenious candor on the part
of Gen Scott, in his acceptance of the nom
ination and the Wing platform.
Permit as also 10 draw contrast &c n.