Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-07-16
Rennhlican State Convention.
Republican State Nominating Convention.

We publish this week the call of the Republi.
can State Committee, tor a Convention to be held
at Madison on tho 2nd day of September next
to nominate candidates for State Officers, to be
elected in November next. The convention is
called in good season, that every part of the
State may be fully represented
| Much las been said at different times, ag ansi
the system of delegate nominating conventions
but we have not yet seen any better plan pro
posed for uniting the strength of the people up
on the best man for n candidate. 1t is very GER
tain that q Mass Convention of the whole State
canno: be held, aud mass convention on any
other principle is more apt 10 be governed by po-
litical tricksters, than a delegate convention
The great fault of delegate conventions has been
in the neglect ofths people to attend the primary
caucuses to choose delegates. The people are
| vitality interested in having honest and capable
men nominated and elected, and to secure such
a result, they surely can spend halfa day or less
in attending a caucus to appoint delegates to the
nominating convention. Let them do this; let
them turn out to man, to their town caucuses,
and appoint as delegates. men whom they know
aud can trust, and they will have such cand-
dates put in nomination as they will support
Eealously at the ballot box.
We hope this will be done throughout the
Slate, this fall and we venture to say, success
will crown our efforts. Each Representative
District in the State is entitled to two delegates
in the State Convention. Let the people ofeach
district see that their delegates chosen in
season, and let them be the right kind of men,
who really and fully represent the feelings and
wishes of the Republican sentiment. of their re-
spective Districts. Let this be done, and the
objections which some have urged to delegate
conventions will be done away with.
With State convention composed of such
delegates, the wishes of a majority of the people
will be met in the nominations that will be made
With candidates thus nominated, we can enter
the canvass with the fullest confidence of elect
ing our entire State ticket. And never was
there time, when the cause of Freedom more
strongly demanded such triumph. 1t is our
first general State Election since the promulga-
ton of the infamous bred Scott decision, and the
result of this election will be taken by the coun-
try at large, either as the endorsement or full
condemnation of that decision, by the people of
Wisconsin. Hence the necessity of nominations
that will unite the entire Republican strength Of
the State.
We are not certain thatit is polite to bring
forward candidates previous to the nominating
convention, nor DO we object to an expression of
preferences when made in the right spirit. 1t
is natural that we should have personal prefer.
ences, but those should be willingly yielded, for
the good of the cause. We are more interested
in the success of the principles we advocate,
than wo can possibly be in that of any person,
merely. Hence we are willing to leave the So
lection of candidates to the convention. We
know that we have men enough, of the right
kind, to carry out to their fullest extent the prin-
ciples of the Republican Party, and when they
are put in nomination, we shall labor for their
election with all the influence and talent we pos
sess.