, 1854-08-12
This and That.

man Vi INC AppOruOuIuchI Collllhlttec, Vi
the recent Wing Convention
MR. EDIToR-In your issue of the 5th inst, you al
lude to the Wing convention Of ThurstOn county held
the 18th ult, and its organization, and say in your
editorial that the convention was composed Of twenty
delegates, ten Of whom were appointed from Olympia
district leaving the inference that the other eight pre-
cincts Of the county were allowed but ten. In this
you were doubtless honestly mistaken The appor-
tonment as made by the committee appointed for
the purpose, assigned Olympia 10, Chambers Prairie
8, Mound Prairie 3, Black Lake q Coal Bank 2, Ms
qualy 3, Rocky Prairie 3, South Bay 2, Yelm 2, ma
king in all 32-thus giving the country precincts %
vote instead of ten might be inferred from the
article alluded to. True some Of the precincts did
not respond by delegates, when called, and some
that did not fully represented but in every in
stance those present were empowered to cast the
whole vote to which their precincts entitled by
the committees apportionment, which in the aggre
gate amounted to Is present On some Of the ballots
the whole vote not cast and some of those
your article was doubtless predicated and hence your
mistake
am, very respectfully, &c.
Chm'n ApporiOnment Committee, Wing County
Convention.
If there is one position in the world
more contemptibly embarrassing and har-
RAISING than another, it is the editorial
management of a political paper in coun-
ty where parties are organized, and where
there is but one paper printed, and where,
whilst that journal is required by choice
to take q positive stand in favor Of the
nominees and principles of one party, it is
expected, at the same time, to give a refu-
tation to everything that might bear the
least semblance Of Misrepresentation that
utterance may have been given to, with re-
gard to the other.
In this dilemma, it is necessary to take
one Of two positions Either to efiectually
bar the door to oil reply of the opposition
no matter how loud the outside clammer,
or else, in a more liberal spirit of party
warfare, inrite the correction Of such real
or imaginary causes Of complaint as the
opposition may honestly deem proper should
be made
The first course pointed out we could on
ly regard as that of the dishonest, design
ing politician, who "would know the right,
and still the wrong pursue Engaged in a
weak and wicked cause-unworthy of sue
cess, save in eternal darkness.
We arc disposed to pursue the latter
course, by what we believe to be duty to
all political parties, and certainly from in
clination. In the first place, VIC have no
inclination to publish anything, in the cam
paign before us, but what we believe to be
strictly true, and will at all times cheer
fully correct any statements we may make
on evidence that they are ERRONEOUS. The
democracy Of this territory does not seek
to purchase a triumph with the price of
falsehood and Misrepresentation, but basing
the Justice Of their cause on the principles
advocated by the democratic founders Of
our faith, appeal to the intelligence Of the
people-to the toiling masses-to the his
tory of the past-tO truth-to bear the par
ty on to victory. As labOrer in the cause
Of democracy, would We not be doing vio-
lencc to the party by resort to falsehood
and Misrepresentation as o means Of secu-
ring the end desired Nay, would we not
by that course actUnlly jeopardize our pros
poets of success, and perchance bring de-
feat upon our party, as it would be echoed
throughout the territory that tie only paper
therein iOas IN the hands of Me democracy,
and that heohig party had no organ through
tchieh to reply?
Being, as yet the only newspaper in the
territory, our position, in political point
of view, is necessarily rendered signally an
noying and no matter how correct and i'm
partial o course might be pursued in its
publication, there are always plenty of per-
sons who are ready to resort to SANDER
Gus course with regard to its publication,
and descend to the most miserable subter-
fuges in order to detFact from its merits,
and impugn the motives of the person hav-
ing the editorial control
This is to be expected, and we do not
murmur at it; indeed, were it otherwise,
wo would not suppose the course of our pa
per a correct one. But as we have no dis
position to turn Don Quixotte and wage q
war against wind-mills, in answer to the ex-
preston of violent invectives, by many Of
members of the opposition party, relative to
an article which appeared in last weeks
paper, concerning the recent whig couven-
tion, we cheorfully give place to the above
explanation of the chairman Of the appor-
tioning committee of the convention and
whilst we would return our acknowledge