The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-09-09
RuIe or Ruln, the Policy OF tho
Douglas FACTION.

Inc ld6t pOlltlCal news IFUm ObllIOrDla II
decisive on one important question upon
which a portion of the democratic party on
this side of the continent still affect to en-.
terrain some doubt. 1t throws q food Of
light upon the intentions, past and prospect
i've, Of the disafected wing Of the democrat
ic party who designate themselves as "Dou-
glas Democrats" In the democratic con-
ventions that have been held throughout tho
Northern States on this side of the continent
it may be stated as general fact, that
wherever this faction have failed to secure
the nominations and control OF those bodies,
they have bolted the party, and formed a
secret or open coalition With the opposition.
This same policy has been pursued in Cali
fornia, in manner that proves the move
ment to have been concerted and settled upon
before Congress adjourned.
They commenced this movement in Con-
gress last winter, and voted on all questions,
whether relating to the kausns question or
not, with the opposition. They have followed
this policy up in the primary meetings and
local conventions Of all the Northern States
and in California.
The Douglas wing have boltsd from the
regular organisation in Minnesota, and made
common cause with the opposition. They
have done the sameithing in every congress
sional district in Indiana, end Douglas dem
ocrats are the most efficient leaders of the
opposition in that State. They have done so
in Pennsylvania in every district where
they could not rule; one Of the districts
which they carried presenting the remarka-
BILE instance Of Douglas democrat, Mont
gomery,) after succeeding in securing the
nomination Of the democratic convention,
actually offering himself a. candidate for
the nomination Of the black-republican con-
vention in the same district! In New Jer-
sey, also, the Douglas Democrats bolt or re-
fuse to support the democratic organization,
where they are unable to control II ; and in
the few districts in New York where there
are Douglas aspirants to Congress they make
a bold and audaoious dash for the nomination
Of the black-republicans or Of Q fusion OF
which their wing forms component part.
Throughout the North the policy of this
faction is to ssrule or ruin.n Nor 10 this any
new demonstration Of theirs, but . policy
agreed upon to all appearances, before Con-
gress adjourned, and pursued since, with
uniform zeal and pertinacity, in every part
OF the country. The votes they gave in
combination With the coalition through the
whole Of the last session of Congress on
every question and measure are we'll known,
and indicated foregone determination to
follow up that policy in the local campaigns
of the interior. The course they have pur.
sued in California from the commencement
OF the primary canvass for the delegates to
the democratic State convention, proves the
early adoption Of this purpose. In the pri-
mary meetings in California for the appoint
ment Of delegates to this convention, their
policy has boon this same one of ruling or
boiling in every part of the State and when
the convention itself assembled, no sooner
was 1t ascertsined by count Of noses that
their faction were in a lean minority, than
they bolted and organized convention OF
their own.
Now this action Of the faction in the pri-
mary meetings in California could not have
been copied from the example Of their CON-
freres ON this side of the continent; and
their movements in Califonia and here are
conclusive Of the fact Of pre-concert and an
early determination to dIsorganize the dem
ocratic party wherever it could be done, or
to coalcsce with the opposition where it could
not.
We shall recur to this subject again at an
early day and we, in the mean time, warn
those members OF the Democratic party who
still fancy that this faction mean well TO tho
party and ought not yet to be assailed or re-
sisted, OF the fatal danger Of the ignorance
or blindness in regard TO the movements of
this faction which afaicts them.- Washing-
ton Union, Aug. 3lst.