Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-02-19
The Democrats Confess that their Con-
vention is n Humbuy, and Abandon il.


vention is a Humbus, and Abandon il.
The bogus Convention, which was ad-
iourned till yesterday at O'Clock after per-
forming the farce of 'sThe Swindling
Twins, or the way to elect Senator's" met
at the appointed time, to elect State officers
as was given out, and universally believed,
but really to adjourn again, medic The
Senate, as heretofore, refused to recognize
the Illegal assemblage in any manner, and
adjourned at noon till this morning The
House and few Democratic Senator'S held
the caucus. But at last the utter folly of
their conduct seems to have penetrated
them, and they dismissed their meeting for
good and all. No effort will be made now
to elect State officers we presume. The
Democrats give it up in despair and quit.
This result is worthy moments notice.
After contending in the Senate, through the
press, In conversation, and in all forms of
controversy, that the Convention which
elected Fitch and Bright, was a legal as
semblage. created; by the Constitution, and
fully empowered to do all that any Con-
vention may do, they now admit that it
cazsaot elect State Offcers, and in admitting
that admit that it was never for a moment
legal Convention. IF the Convention
( created, as the Democrats maintained, by
the Constitution, to legllize the Inaugural
ton OF the Governor, could elect United
States Senators, it could elect State officers.
There is no more required to make estate"
than United States Convention.''-
Neither can exist without the separate sane
ton of both Houses, but If either could ex-
list at all without such sanction, it could
exist for one purpose as well as the other.
1t will puzzle Democratic logic, which
won't be hard to do, and Demo cratic impu-
dcnce, which sciU be hard to do, to prove
that an election of Senators may be legal,
and an election of State officers, by the
same Convention, may be illegal. If
convention is necessary for either, whv is
not the same convention as good for one as
the other? Is there any more required to
form or than the other? We should like
immensely to hear some astute Young Dem
ocratic Senator develope himself, and venti-
late his legal acumen, on this point. In adj
hitting that the sham Convention cannot
elect State ofi GERS, they have admitted that
it was no Convention, and that the election
of Senator's was illegal. The admission is
direct and inevitable, and We defy Its eva
sion- Come you blathering Democrats,
who Wanted the legality of your Conven-
ton! Prove to the world that you were
fools enough to believe such nonsense as
you published, or rascals enough to assert
1t without believing it! Let the United
States see what sort of stuff Indiana Demo-
Gratis are made of, who maintain that a
fraud is no fraud half way to the end, and
then admit that it is a fraud, and abandon
IT. a m Dve humiliating confession of in
t'atioa L rss;llity was ne ,r made. The
D,mocra.s of ths Legislature stand before
thu people of In liana self-confessed, self
convicted chats, who supported fraud
wlllc 1t could not affect their party, and
confess it as soon as its results promise to
make trouble. rssr - a-.aras
We presume nobody will have any diff
Guilty in understanding the motive of this
very extraordinary conduct. 1t is not of
ten that party is driven to admit openly
that it has practised fraud, and when 1t is,
the motive must lie very close to the sur
face. Necessity" is the word. 1t had to
be done. There was no alternative but to-
abandon the convention" as fraud, or
elect the new candidates at the hazard of
an internal convulsion. The election
would put the present incumbents and the |
new officers in direct collision. The first |
are entitled TO serve "till their successors
are duly elected and qualified" Nobody |
ever heard OF Democrat giving up an of
nee while ne could hold on to it with his
eyelids,. and the idea that anv of them
would go out to make way for the choice
OF such convention is simply preposte-
rouss sol ssias- /
1t is hard enough to get them out to let in
legal successor, and to let in no successor
at all, but an usurper, is past all express
ION absurd. Here then was the certainty of
trouble The old officers would resist the
introduction of the new, and the new would /
have to get in BY virtue of Judicial de- /
cree, and that would explode the whole af- /
far, Senators and al. And as the new APP
plicants would go right % work at once, of
course case would be made for the Courts /
IN few days, and decision would come |.
in time to help Mr.. Fitch out of his seat
This wouldn't do ct any price, and SO the i
great DEMOCRATIC party abandoned its
Convention and confessed that it had been
fraud. - Indianapolis .Lovruol'
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