Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-08-06
Repubncan State Convention.
The state Convention.


The State Convention.
1t is not quite month now to the time lesig-
mated for the Republican State Convention In
view of the Importance of full and fair repre-.
sentation e all parts OF the State, in that Con-
yention, we wish to call the attention of our
various Ward, Town and District committees to
the propriety ofcalling the primary Conventions
10 appoint delegates, in good season. The AS
sembly District committees, especially, should
issue their calls in time to give the Towns OPP
portunity to call caucuses and secure their rep.
Tesentation.
We have before allnded to the Importance OF
the coming election to the people Of the State,
and especially to the cause Of Freedom, in which
we are vitally interested. We wish to succeed
in the election of every State officer, and large
majority of the members OF the Legislature, this
fall, and we are confident, that with the right
men nominated and nominated in the right way,
we can do this. But the right nominations can
only be made by q fair and full representation
of all parts of the State in Convention Hence
the necessity of early and fully attended prima-
ny Conventions. And here let us again urge
uponthe people, the necessity of turning out to
the primary meetings. We know it is busy
season among the farmers, but they certain
ly spend a half day, in so good cause. We
should like TO see every voter out, and then we
should expect to see candidates nominated who
would call out every voter again in November.
Republicans in Wisconsin have still great
work to do, to complete the reformation they
have commenced in the governmental affairs of
the State. They made good beginning two
years ago, and since then they have grown in
strength and in the confidence of the people -
They have pnt a stop to the corruption and
fraud tina: was rampant in every department of
the government, and 1t is now time that they
should be exterminated, root and branch, and an
economical, Legitimate and responsible govern
mental policy instituted and carried ont. This
win be done this fall, ifthe people ofthe State are
true TO themselves and to their own interests.
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Democracy and Know nottingham.
There is no one thing that furnishes Demo
cratic politicians of Wisconsin, so much capital
for electoneering slang, as the dead body Of
Know. Nothingism. But they ought to have
better understanding among themselves, as to
how they shall use it. The Milwaukee Ncus,
the Madison argus and others of that stamp. are
harping all the time about coalition of Repub-
Kcans and Know -Nothings, and making the
most pathetic appeals to our foreign born pOpu
lation, to beware of Republicans, on that &C
count. But we notice that the Heirloom Argus,
and some others, take the other tack. and de-
clare that the Know Nothings will not work
with the BLACK Republicans " According TO
the Argus Know Nothingism is altogether too
white, too honest, and all that sort Of thing, TO
associate with BLACK Republicanism. Ithints
very strongly, that the KnowNothings will be
found working with the Democracy, and we pre-
sumo that is the case, as far as any such party
exists The only Know-Nothing paper in the
State the Milwaukee american, has gone over
the Democracy and is now one of the most
rabid supporters of Buchanan Democracy, and
the Madison Patriot, regular Democratic sheet,
speaks of several instances where knowNOth-
ings have been appointed to Office lately in this
State by the Democracy.
The fact is, Know Nottingham, at least n this
State, no longer exists as a distinctive party
1t has been dissolved and its members may now
be found where their original and natural atm
tiles take thcm-those who believe in proseriP-
ton of any kind, whether on account OF birth
place, religion or color of course will be found
in the ranks Of the Democracy, while those who
fooishly joined the dark lantern order, through
ignorance or curiosity, though they had no pro-
scriptive tendencies in reality, may be found
where they always have been in spirit, in tie
ranks fthe great party OF Freedom and uniyer-
sal equality. The clamor thus raised by the De
mocracy. about Known othingism, whether It
be to charge Republicans with fusing with it, or
on the other hand holding it mp as entirely too
pure to fuse with BLACK Republicans it is
plain, is only and solely for political purposes
In localities where there is prePonderance OF
adopted citizens, demagogues will cry out fus
ion, and where there are fewer adopted citizens
to be influenced by the deception they will claim
the Know-Nothings as their allies, and praise
them up as the best kind of Democrats.
1t is significant, that ut the south, where
Know, Nothingism retains its vitality, it is the
able ally of Democracy, and can no more mingle
with the free principles OF RepubHcanism than
oil can mingie with water.
We can pity our Wisconsin Democracy in its
infatuation. 1t is like the drowning man catch
ing at straws, and this straw Of Know-Nothing-
ism cannot helpit, and il must sink in spite of
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