Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-07-30
Minnesota Convention.

The Indiana journal of the 18th draws
the following truthful and life-like picture
Of bogus Democracy:
Democracy that is the patent article,
can establish its claim to ''unity" in tho
only principle that can be found in it, with
out much trouble. Wherever it ''crops
out" it shows the same form and color.
1t is deferred by no fear of consequences,
and no scruples of conscience, when there
is an office to be gained Like old Trap
bois, when there was guinea before him,
it can't be scared by natural or supernatr,-
raj power from clutching an office 1t has
the bravery ofinsanity in all efforts to graf
ify that propensity. In Indiana it resolves
by a gross usurpation of power, to reject
three regularly accredited Senator'S. In
New York. after wasting millions of dol
lars in enriching rascally contractors and
officers, and making the municipal gov
crnment a proverb of dishonesty and inca
pacity, it resists even to murder lawful
effort to change the appointment Of police
men. Even so trilling an office it holds
with the grip of crazy miser.
In Wisconsin it fOrges series Of elec-
ton returns from remote counties, and by
means of them makes an apparent MAORI
ty which places Mr.. Barstow in the Cover
nor's place. The forgery is detected, and
the Supreme Court orders an investigation.
Democracy rcSists the Court, and declares
that there shall be no investigation. The
Court finally triumphS, but Democracy all
over the Union screamed with agony when
its hand was forced open and the stolen Of
flee snatched from it. In Kansas it con-
quered Offices by the power Of powder and
perjury, and has since abused everybody
who refuses to acknowledge the validity of
the title. Again in Minnesota the same
development of Democratic principles is
seen. BY fraudulent voting it carried ST.
Paul, and by its usual management carried
a few other counties But the Republicans
in spite of all secured decided majority in
the Constitutional Convention. There
happened to be there, as there is in all cleo
tions some contested seats. The Republi-
cans hold the formal certificates, and are
entitled to sit until a regular contest is had.
but Democracy in Minnesota, exactly as it
tried to do in Indiana, declares that the Re-
pabicans shall not take them and that the
Democrats shall. Read what the ST. An
ebony Express said two weeks ago:
Give us these ten which belong to us and
which we will have or the Convention shall
never organize, AMI we shall lead the Blacks
some three or five votes.
If their votes are Indispensable to secure
the democratic ascendancy, Meeker and
Chase Tuttle and Laschells, shall assist in
organizing the Convention, and Murphy
and Putnam, Hall and Secombe shall not.
That is democratic plainness of speech and
at the proper time there will be democratic
plainness of action
That isplain, and as the ,s.xpress says,
is cminently Democratic ",he conven-
tion shall never be organized if the Demo
cratic contestants are not admitted, and
the regularly certified members elected u;th-
ont a triGi." That's what the Express says
in effect. We defy the world to parallel
the audacity of that declaration outside of
the same party. But tie declaration has
been followed, as was threatened, by actions
perfectly according with it. The Demo
crats with forty-four members only, large
~ in the minority, refused to let the con
vcntion be regularly organized, and met in
a separate chamber, so the telegraph told
us yesterday. The Republicans with fifty
nine members, a large majority, are ham
percd 10y the outrageous actions of the mi
nority. Is there not singular similarity
in the traits of this party, however widely
its sections may be divided by distances
In Minnesota it took precisely the same
course that it took in Indiana, with precise
ly the same impudent defiance of law, and
right, and under precisely the same circum-
stances. When there is an office to be had
by fraud, force, cunning or purchase, De
will have it, and constitutions,
laws and oaths arc no more impcdiments
to them than wax walls to a conhagration