The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-09-01
Course of the Rice Organs.

make the people believe that the RICE Con
yention was really Depocratic affair, and
the seeding members boilers from the par
ty. They will repeat this silly falsehood
until it may be, they will begin to think
there is some foundation for their assertions.
We have so often exposed the absurdity
Of the position assumed by the RICE organs,
that it seems hardly necessary to recur to
the subject. Still we will take the trouble
to state for the hundredth time, the reas-
ons for refusing to regard the nomination of
Mr.. RICE either as the result Of fair eX-
preston of the wishes of the party, or as a
proof of confidence in him as al man or as a
Democrat. Mr. RICE, until a very short
time before the nominating convention met
at st Paul, had pledged himself repeatedly
and publicly not to be a candidate. Conse-
quently no measures were taken by his nu-
merous opponents to prevent his nomina-
ton. A few of his particular Wing, Flu
sion, pseudo Democratic friends were alone
entrusted with the secret, and instructed to
pull the strings at the proper time, so that,
by snap Judgment, sufficient number of
delegates might be secured to give him a
majority in Convention In order to make
assurance doubly sure, these men, falsely
claiming to represent the Democracy of the
Territory, met in caucus and decided to ad-
NIT any and all who prented themselves for
seats in the Convention, no matter whence
they came, if they were in favor of Mr.
RICE. The outrage committed upon the
Democracy of Dakota and other counties,
by excluding the real delegates Or neutrali-
zing their votes by the admission of bogus
members, is too fresh in the recollection of
our readers to require to be dwelt upon
The meeting voted down all the customary
resolutions, endorsing the Administration
and the Baltimore Platform, and after pas
sing one resolution, and that embracing no
declaration o. principles, but simply eulo-
CYSTIC of the man they had determined to
nominate in defiance of all party usages, it
adjourned. So mu,h for the miscalled
Democratic Convention that nominated II.
NJ RICE 1t was composed of men, some
of whom did not even profess to belong to
the Democratic party. Its acts of omission
and commission have placed its members in
a most unenviable position before the pub
lie, and no effort of the Democrat, or its
kindred prints, can excuse or palliate the
enormity of their offence against political
honesty and common decency
As for Mr. RICE, he has no right to
claim anything from the party, for he is no
Democrat, but is allied with the Know
Nothings and the FusionistS His warmest
supporters are to be found among those
who have always figured as clamorous and
rabd Wigs He supported MITCHELL, the
Wing candidate for Congress, in 1850, with
his money, his influence and his vote. He
and his friends, including his organ, the
Demaorat, repudated and bolted the regu
lar Democratic ticket last fall, and support
ed the men nominated by the Wings and
other opponents of the Democratic party
Mr.. RICE, himself, has been ever distin
guished for his readiness to adoptany cause
or any principles which would probably lead
to his own success We defy any of his
organs to point to a single phase in his po
litical life, which shows any attachment to
the Democratic creed He points to this
and that sum of money obtained, as evl
dence of his ability and inhence, when he
knows, and everybody else ought to know
that most Cf these appropriations would
have been made as matter of course tie
cares for no party and for no set of men
except such as can be used for his own sell
fish purposes To call the men who are his
friends Democrats is to prostitute and de
grade the term. They constitute selfish
clique, nine tenths of whom have their OWL
personal objects in view in aiding RICE. If he
r. should tell them to join the Republicans
they would feel bound to follow his dicta
tion. 1t is to sustain the purity Of Demo
cratic doctrine-to crush political and NOR
al corruption-to elevate and uphold pro
priety and honesty-and to relieve the Ter
ritory from the curse and incubus of Rice
Ism, which has depressed and almost de-
stroyed the influence Of pure Democracy
in our Terri; ory- that DAVID OLMsrEp has