The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-09-25
Republicans " Free State.

polcy oil the Republican faction of the
Free State party in Kansas, has been to
get control of the various Free State
Conventions, by electing their delegates
through the aid of their Republican Clubs,
to the nominating conventions, and then
to put in nomination their own party
friends for the various officers to be elected
at the October election. Protesting all
the time that they had deferred their
movement to organize the Republican
party in Kansas until after the October
election, yet everywhere they have been
active in arranging their machinery with
the view of controlling the Free State
party. We showed the consequences sew
erAl weeks ago, of this movement in Leav-
enworth, it having resulted at the NUM-
cipal election in that city, in the elevation
of Douglas Democrat to the Office of
Mayor. We expressed the conviction
that if the same line of policy was to be
generally observed in the Territory, the
Democratic party would succeed in getting
possession of the Offices. 1t was for this
reason that we deplored Republican
organization, and have labored strenuously
to prevent success of the movement,
not because we differ in PRINCIPLE with
that party, but because we differ from
them, and very widely too, in the pOlicyof
organizing the Republican party until we
are admitted as State into the Union.
The Pro-slavery presses joined hands
with the ultra Republican papers in advis-
ing an immediate organization of parties
on the basis employed in the States. The
Wyandott Argus had along leader, showing
that the true policy of the Free State party
was to separate, and for those who were
Republicans to join that party, and those
who were not, to affiliate with their
friends, the Democrats. Strange to say,
the arguments of that Pro-slavery journal
were identical with those of the Lawre nee
Republican and the Leavenworth Times.
And why did the Pro-slavery journals
advocate such a policy? Simply because
they desired the same result throughout
the Territory which has been witnessed
at Lsavenworth-the triumph of the De-
mocracy over the Republicans division
of the friends of free State that they
might ultimately triumph in fastening the
institutions of slavery upon Kansas
With them it was master stroke of pol
icy, and it showed wisdom on their part.
But with Taacler, Vaughan d Co., in
stead of showing wisdom, it gave conclu-
Givo evidence of total want of it,
Their policy would have crushed out the
last hope of freedom in Kansas; it would
have lost to the cause what four years of
hard labor had almost secured to it; it
would have wrecked the last hope at a
time when everything was within our
grasp. Thank heaven the PEOPLE saw it,
and, generally, throughout the Territory,
the friends of freedom, at their nominal.
ing conventions, have took occasion to
record their protest against the Republi.
can movement But in Lawrence, on the
18th instant, for the election of Delegates
TO the county nominating convention, the
issue was understood to be distinct one
between Republican organization on the
one hand, and Free State organization
on the other. The tickets were so headed
and though both the candidates of the
Free State party for Representatives il
the Legislature sympathized with tht
Republican movement, and were Repub
licans in fact, and one of them was verl
ultra, yet the people generally voted 70
their delegates to the convention with tn,
understanding that Free State organiza
ton was to be preserved in tact, and tn
Republican organization was to be defer
red until we were in the Union q sover
eign State. The contest opened on Satur
day morning. and the election was warml
contested. Nearly every vote in the pre-
cinct was out. The result gave NINETY
SEVEN FREE STATE MAJORITY
Thus Rupublicanism was supposed to b
put at rest in this county for the tim
being, and THacher, linton q. Co., wer
done for in Lawrence. But more else
where.
The strangest thing of all was to Sc
professed National Democrats" thos
who have always acted with the Buchar
an faction, and who have never, in tn
past, cast vote for the Free State part,
going up to the polls along side of Ihach.
and his friends, aud voting the Repaid
can ticket.
These political shysters, as on form,
occasions, represented the Free Stat
ticket to be Browns ticket" though W
did not learn that they were disposed
call it Browns Cellar Kitchen Ticket
as they did last winter. They even rel
resented thatif the Free State ticket tr
umphed, the Herald Of Freedom woul
proclaim it as a Democratic triumph
Poor FOOLS They have raised the cry
Browns ticket at every election for
year and half past, and in every OF
which has been contested, the so-calle
Brown ticket" has triumphed Wi
they never learn practical common sens,
Will they never advance so far in Il
rudimentary principles of politics as
learn that misrepresentation and falsshoo.
never gained to party anything but di
gracs and dsfeat' If they can afford
be false, and thus PROSTATE all their hone