The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-07-21
The Democrat and REORGANIZATION.

Professions without practice, and assump-
tons of purity where none exists. are not
likely to create or sustain public confidence,
and we could not help thinking with what
a smile the Democrats Of Saint Paul, at
least, must have read the following para
graph, which closes an article in the Demo
crat of Thursday evening
We most respectfully decline. publishing the
proceedings of this meeting. The Democrat
under our charge, shall not be used as vehicle
for making public the disorganizing proceed
ings of a rule or ruin clique" e,.
Now this meeting which the Democrat
treats so cavalierly, was regularly called
assemblage of Democrats at Mendoza, and
was attended only by those who had right
to be there The regular usages of the
party were followed by it, and the duty of
appointing Delegates to the Territorial
Convention properly discharged The ex-
preston Of its opinions as made known in
fine resolutions, was fair and manly, and in
uttering them, every Democrat present did
no more nor less than it was not only his
privilege, but his duty to do. And yet the
Democrat chooses to stigmatize it as being
of disorganizing character, and plumply
refuses to publish the proceedings because,
with most amiable regard for the harmony
of the Democratic party, it cannot permit
itself to countenance or do anything which
will produce ill-feeling or differences.
This is truly feeling to be commended,
and we cannot too highly praise the senti-
ment set forth in the choice extract we
have made, but as it is pitiable specimen
of profession without practice, and as the
whole course of the Democrat, since it has
been under its present Editorial direction,
has been disorganizing and misunderstanding
in its character, we must in unquestionable
terms, reprobate the unblushing effrontery
and glaring hypocricy which are linked
with it. If the history of cliques is to be
traced back, and if it is required to show
what paper has advocated the "rule or
ruin" principle in the Democratic ranks,
ample evidence can be found in the files of
the Democrat. 1t is not forgotten that on
one occasion it paraded on the ticket pub
Iished in it's columns, and supported, two
outright Wings, and thus gave practical
specimen of its love for, and devotion to, the
Democratic party. None who have watched
it can forget its course during last winter,
or fail to feel that the motto it had adopted
was "rule or RUM" and the las1 specimen of
its desire to harmonic the party, occurs in
all article in which it praises up disorgan-
izing movement of the most palpable char
acter,-a movement SO broadly fraudulent
and insulting to the Democracy Of the place
where it was held, and the party at large,
that none but the hirelings who mainly
composed it, can be found to attempt its
defence. The recent proceedings in the
Second Ward in this city, have given it
occasion, also, to show its cloven hoof, and
we are very confident that to support a
certain influence to which it is bound by the
strongest ties, it is willing to scatter to
winds everything like party-fealty, all devo-
ton to principles, and at all hazards and all
cost, thrust its particular man into power
THE SECOND WARD.