The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-03
THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER l, 1866.
Ohio q Model---Look at Her

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no State has made so few blunders as Ohio.
Will other States lay this fact to heart, and
govern themselves accordingly? The secret
Of our success may be traced to two causes.
In the first place, we called but one State
Convention. Trusting rather to the fusion
by the People, than by their Delegates, we
began the work of fusion in the primary
meetings. There were no Wing meetings in
townships, there were no Wing Conventions
in counties neither were there Free Soil
enes, but striking boldly at the foundation
the calls were made of all those opposed to
the Nebraska pcridy of this Pierce admins
tration. Antecedents were not questioned,
old jeaiousies were buried, and party lines
obliterated. That was fair start all around,
and the result was complete fusion before
the machinery of Conventions was reached.
In the second place, all minor issues were
postponed. We looked straight on" at the
to distract and divide. The result the world
knows. ,ef r.f
How has it been in other States? Maine
has split the Republican cause upon her pro-
hibitory liquor law. Dragging that in. which
to say the least, is of doubtful expediency,
she letg the greater to secure the less, and
lost all. -., = ae7,1gr, g.
Pennsylvania held her party Conventions
Them over, Ciques attempted to elk up''
a ticket, and Republicanism for the time be-
ing has there "gone ashore"
| Indiana dragged in the whisky question,
and not having any general ticket to rally
upon, it became a grocery fight, and Repub-
| licanism there suffered defeat. .er
Massachusetts most foolishly tried the
| flISIOn of Gonvonf;noc Of no
and, although We hope for the best, still no
result will convince us that such is the proper
way to manage. In this State, too, the Ii
quor question is logged into politics, and,
like all moral questions brought into party,
it will retard the cause sought to be advanced,
! and ruin the party which espouses it.
New York, as usual, fights for men. 4
That's no way for men to fight, but that is
New York politics, and we thank Heaven
that we have no "hand in'' the game. In
the Empire State, too, the Prohibtory Law
people are doing all they ''know howl to set
back the cause they have at heart, and swell
the triumph of the party opposed to even
| any regulation of the traffic in intoxicating
liquors. We think the Republicans will come
out ahead, but all these side issues damage
their cause and jeopardize their success, in
New York, too, the iinpracticable plan of
fusing County and State Conventions has
been adopted.
Again VIC say: Ohio is Model-Look at
her !-Geceland Herald.
Well may the Herald point to Ohio as tie
Model Republican State! Well may the
editors call upon other States to initiate
Ohio and profit by her example elf the
Republicans of Ohio can elect Chase, they
can do anything" is the common sentiment
in this region of persons of all parties who
are familiar with the politics and tic political
men of that State. But how did they elect
Chase ? The main element of his success
was the wisdom of the Convention which
nominated him. A plain, simple issue was
made in the platform-thc one issue for which
the Republican party was organized-etermal
hostility to tile ca.ension Of 44ififcaa &aoey orer
tie ItsWories Of this Uniou. Here is the
whole of it:
" Resolred, That the People, who constitute
the supreme power in the United States,
should guard with jealous care the rights of
the several States, as independent govern
ments. No encroachment upon their Leeis-
lative or Judicial prerogatives should be
permitted from any quarter.
We will resist the spread of Slavery under
whater shape or color it may be attempted.
To this end we will labor necessarily to
render imperative and void that portion of
the Kansas and Nebraska bill which abolishes
Freedom in the territory withdrawn from
the influence of Slavery by the Missouri
Compromise of 1920 and we will oppose, by
every lawful and constitutional means, the
existence of Slavery in any National Terri
tory, and the further increase of Slave Ter
ritory or Slave States in this Republican
Confedelacy."
This is something that not only every
man but every child can comprehend. 1t is
the model Platform, and it is no wonder
that Ohio, upon it, has become the model
Republican State. We have seen but one
avowal of Republican principles by State
Convention since then which approaches any
way near to it, and that is the Massachusetts
platform. Still, even it is not so simple and
direct to the point. -
Well would it have been for the Republi-
cans of Minnesota to have adopted simply
the language and sentiments of their breth-
rem of Ohio, ON the 25th of July last-and
stopped there. But when Mr.. Balcombe, of
Winona, and his colleague, Mr.. Wilson, arose
to urge this course, the majority was against
them. Men supposed to be wiser and more
able counsellors than they prevailed and thus
We had ourselves placed upon an omnibus
platform. The Maine Lava measure which
we never desire to see upon the Statute
Book of Minnesota until it can be enforced,
like any other law, without political party
opposition engrafted upon it. with other
incongruities, which we declared at the time,
and still believe, had about as much place
there as an expression of faith in the doc
trines of the Trinity and of infant baptism.
The counsels of Seward, of Chase, of Hale, of
Sumner, of Greeley, of Weed, and of Bailey
were spurned in Minnesota as they were in
Maine; and the Republicans of Minnesota
were defeated as were the Republicans of
Maine. But for this, WILLIAM r. MARSHALL
would to-day be arranging his affairs prepar-
atory to nine months residence at Wash
ington as our Delegate, instead of Henry NJ.