Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-09-02
The County Issue.

The opposition to the Democratic ticket
are vehement in maintaining that party
politics should not enter into the county
canvass. This position is always assumed
where the Republican party is in hope
LEES minority, and always ignored where
they are in the ascendant. In this county
there is a clear Democratic majority
hence it can only be made to appear as a
Republican county by ahjuring politics,
and forming an alliance with such Demo.
Gratis as can be cajoled into the belief that
their talents and fitness for Office are not
appreciated by the party to which they
belong. We hold that if our principles
are worth contendins for, that they are as
important in county canvass as any
other; that ii is only by perfect and le
climate organization Of the party, begin.
ming in our town meetings and extending
upwards to our National Convention, that
we can successfully cope with the willy foe
against which We are contending. As the
little streamlets, meandering over their
pebbly bottoms, when joined together
make the mighty torrent irresistible in its
onward progress, so do the sentiments of
the people as expressed in their primary
meetings, and maintained at the ballot
box, make up the great current Of public
opinion that carries dismay to the enemies
O Of our Constitution and country. 1t is
true that the mere election of certain per.
sons to Office is 10 itself matter Of minor
importance, bat when those persons stand
- the opponents end representatives Of
the principles of our party, the issue is
j one which effects directly the great politi-
cal questions upon which our country is
divided. II Democrats vote against the
regularly nominated ticket, they so far aid
in sustaining measures which to them are
odious and detrimental to the public good.
Not only does it effect The county ticket,
but spirit Of boiling once fostered and
countensnced by prominent men can not
be confined merely to the election of coun.
~ officers. The example of such men
will serve as an excuse for others to vote
sgainst the District and state ticket, and
1t would be indeed passing strange if our
opponents did not avail themselves Of the
advantage 30 opportunely presented to
draw numbers into closer and more en-
dearing alliance.
In al conventions where there is more
than one candidate for public honors, there
must be some one defeated. The true
Democrat AZ well as the good citizen thus
defeated submits to the will Of the MAORI.
~, snd cheerfulIy supports the more suc>
cesstul aspiran's; but the mere demagague,
who values political principles only a.
they can be made subservient to his own
advancement, will find pretext for plead
ing fraud, and will seek in the ranks OF
the opposition that aid and consolation
which he can not find in his own party.-
Those, however, who are Democrats from
principle, ths masses who vote and act in
aceordance with the promptings Of their
Judgments, will stand fast BY our political
organizations, and will main tain the resn,
larry nominated candidates. Ii there are
arrors or irregularities 10 our conventions,
.they2vill seek the, earliest opportunity to
apply corrective in such manner as the