Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-07-05
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KEN OSHA, WIS.
THURSDAY, JULY S, 1855.
The Democratic Candidate for Governor

a1aOR0DA JOL D, 1000.
The Democratic Candidate for Governor.
The Republican press of the State have gene
rally expressed the hope that Barstow would be
renominated by the opposition for Governor, I'M
der the impression that he could be easily beaten;
and judging from what we hear, such appears to
be the wish and opinion of our party generally.
We have no doubt whatever but Gov. Barstow
will be re-nominated. We know he has author
lied his friends to get him nominated If they can
and that they can we DO not think there is room
to doubt. But that he will be weak candidate
or easily beaten we doubt. Its possible he may
encounter opposition in his own ranks; and it is
not impossible, though by no means probable,
that one or two democratic papers will bolt him
if nominated but in spite of this we candidly
think him the strongest man that party NOM
mate, and the only one who will stand any chance
of success. Other men in that party are spoken
of for the nomination in opposition to him, and
are urged from their negative qualifications more
than any thing else; but the negative men can't
win. There was a time in the history Of the De-
mocratic party-when it aimed at great and vital
principles and labored fer thcm--that Men were
of secondary Importance but that time has gone
by. 1t is no longer the progressive but the con-
sentative party, and like all such parties its
strength lies entirely in its men, and to nominate
a negative mana man who had offended no per-
son because he is himself nothing, would be SIM
ply to consign the party to death from mere ina
milton. Pray tell US, some one, upon what the
party could rally with such a man, what it could
say or do during the campaign or on what posi-
BILE ground or foundation it could build success.
We have not heard man mentioned in that par
ty whose nomination we would not prefer to that
of Barstow.
/ And this, because Barstow is the man who re-
presents most thoroughly and decidedly what the
party wishes to prevent being accomplished To
defeat a prohbtory Liquor Law is the present
governing motive of the party. Norman can raj
ly that interest as can Barstow, and it cannot be
diverted from him. He has also friends such as
no other candidate has, and as no negative can
ddate could command, and his nomination would
induce an action and labor in the ranks OF the
Democracy that no other nomination Would or
could. We say again, that with candidate who
inspires no personal enthusiasm, the socalled
Democracy will expire in the next canvass with
scarcely a struggle. We do not really believe
that party can be successful under any crcum-
stances but its chances, we honestly believe, lay
only in the direction we have Indicated And
there is another point about this worth consider
ing. The effort is making to throw the Know
Nothing strength of the state in favor of Barstow.
OF course we know there are hundreds, and per-
haps thousands, Of men belonging to the order,
who will not vote for Barstow under any circum-
stances, and mean when we speak Of that
strength, the men who are moved and governed
by the machinery Of the order. We have relia-
bic knowledge that such is the calculation and
expectation of himself and friends, and we think
from what we know in tie premises, they will
not be disappointed.
| We allude to the matter to call the attention
of our Republican friends to what they may OK.
pect to encounter. The idea that we are to have
an undoubted and easy victory, especially if Bar
stow is candidate, looks to us like mistake
and one which may prove fatal, if persisted in.
The hopes based on the effects of the undoubted
corruptions of the Barstow administration. to
crush it with the people, viii prove fallacioua
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its favor are not to be influenced by such things
Talk as you please about fraud, and corruption,
and prove it too, and you viii not affect in the
slightest degree the influences upon which that
party bases the hope of success. The liquor in
terest will be united to a man in favor of Barstow
the strength which yet pertains to Democratic
nominations will be his-the energies of the ma
ny who are personally interested in the specula-
tons, populations, and corruptions of the Exec
utive department win be untiringly active la his
behalf-and what influence the machinery Of
Known othingism can WELD viii he his. All thi>
we shall have to contend with and it is unreason-
able to expect an easy victory. To overcome the
influences to which we have alluded, will require
the union of all good mch in the state of whate
yer party. II is TO inctc lis union that we speak
early. Union, harmony, and labor ON the par
of all men who believe that the welfare of this
state is TO be found in course and policy oppo
site from that manifestly marked cut by Barstov
and his friends, is absolutely necessary. Let Us
make UP our minds to it from the start.