Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1854-08-02
The County and District Nominations.

Inc county and District Nomlnatlons.
On Monday next the Democracy of john
son will be called upon to elect certain officers,
whose position il elected, will be necessarily
influential and directly affecting our home in
terssts. In the nomination Of these officers,
we were governed by what is known as the
popular rote system. 1t was the first exreri- |
ment of the kind and SO far as we can learn has
proved satisfactory to the county, in bringing
out candidates at the direct behest of the peo-
pie themselves and under no disreputable or
partizan influences, Of which they were not
themselves the sole originators and must have
been themselves solely cognizant.
The names Of the gentlemen whom you thus
presented TO your own suffrages may be found
at the head of our columns, under the title of
the johnson county Democratic ticket. We
placed them there with pleasure, not merely
because we believed them worthy and able
nominees, but because we were authorized SO
to 60 by your own potent and direct author.
ity.
Since these nominations were made, others
have also been made: nominations affecting n
greater variety Of interests and achieved thro
greater obstacles OF local predictions and d.
versities. We allude to the Senatorial and
Fiosting Rprs(I 1trtixxn EXAMINATIONS made nm
der fHsS y9l0lpas customary and
authorized by long usage. The convention
which presented to you the names Of SAMUEL
WORKMAN and JosEfn f. FALEs.profess 10 have
pursued fair and equitable course Of action;
they have reported the result Of their proceed
ngs to us, and we have discovered in them no
variation from established usagcs, but the
strongest possible prima facie evidence of va
lidity and Justice. For these reasons, We pur.
sued what seemed 10 tie the only honorable
course left open to Us as party organ, hois.
ted the names of the said gentlemen at our
mast head, have recommended them to the
support of the County and District, and shall
continue to do so, with these our last words
before the election.
Soon after the sitting Of the con, ention which
made the last named nominations, the county
of Iowa protested against their validity. repu
dated tie action Of the convention and put in
nomination. JOHN C. BEEN in place Of, and in
opposition to JosEPH Il, FALEs. And contem
poraneously with this reputation, portion
the party in johnson County, issued
similar protest, made similar Reputation and
have put in nomination WILLIAM I. CRoUsE in
place of,and IN opposition to SAMUEL WORKMAN.
With the grounds Of the Justification which
has thus set Mt nought the action of the Maren .
so Convention, We are not acquainted, nor
have we deemed it our duty 10 take upon our.
self the odious responsibility Of Judge and Ju-
ry, TO ferret out the secret springs of this too
lamentable disruption, aud assume the peril.
GUS and futile dictatorship ofopinioD to branc
es OF TIE party titus severed by intestine storms
And in this view of the case We stood by the
nominees, in exact accordance aith the car
dinal maxlns of the political faith which We
were early taught and that too in one Of the
soundest Democratic States in the Union.
twas then with :cgret that we saw the re
suit of that Convention kindling u flame Of
hostility in the Democratic household, and saw
with still greater regret tina, the possibility OF
its extinguishment by amicable compromise
was daily rendered more questionable Il seem
ingly impracticable. And here We may be al
lowed the right Of taking an independent
stard and venturing the prediction, that the
penalty OF dc. ELECTION viii sooner or later fall
in political pros,ration, upon every man, no
matter what his preferences or prejudices,
what his pledges or his faction, what his equi.
ty of position or assumption Of position, who
aids by the influence of word or deed in wide.
ming this breach. We're this all we might
sooner rest content, but remember, Fellow
Democrats. for we profess To be Of yoa, and to
practice what we profess through all vicissi
tudes, that ruin Of the LEADERS involves the ruin
If the led The pillars Of the temple cannot
fall before this hanson of discord, without in
yolving the entire structure and all beneath il
in one common mulilaled wreck.
What then remains to be done? You all wtfI
know. You have been taught by experience
for many years. You learned by observation
in your boyhood. You have studied the sa.
wing tenets in the history Of Democracy
Unite upon your candidates, sacrificing all per
sonal aninosities, all fore ign issues, all prior
predictions. all soreness Of disappointment,
and if that course cannot save the party, God
help it, nothing else can.
If James II. Cover is defeated at the polls
you defeat as able man as stands upon the
ticket, bat it will be done by the Democratic
party itself. To itself must the blame attach.
|! Samuel Workman is defeated. the democrat
ic party will accomplish II at also, and to what
source can the defeat Of either be trbutablc.
but 10 the abandonment Of an ever wise and
all-important unity Of action, without regard to
unan;mity ofchoice!
The seventh of August will answer all our
queries, and whatever the result may be, We
can only ieel that We have earnestly striven to
pesfsrm our duty TO the party. and with
nothing but the best # feelings towards one
and all.