Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-23
Repubican State Nominations.
senator DOusIns-Fire in the Rear I.

Senator Douglas having as he supposed ia
ken the Commercial Metropolis of Illinois by
storm, started for the centre and the capital,
affecting q sort Of triumPhal progress. He took
his own pufer in the train, and cannon to her
aid the approach of the Little Giant The
puffer for his organ, the Chicago Times, does
his work faithfully His descriptions are tran
seendant No conqueror could desire more
brilliant record. 1t is high falutin.
Senator D. takes the stump wherever oppor-
tunity offers, and boasts that like the Russians
at SebastopOl be fires away uncOucerned wheth-
er his shots tell on English or French, Repub-
hsans or boiling Democrats, as he facetiously
styles the Buchanan men. At Bloomington,
Senator D. spoke his Chicago speech to some
two thousand people. The same crowd called
out Mr.. Lincoln and gave him three rousing
cheers, who informed them that he would take
early opportunity to reply to Mr.. Douglas. At
Joliet the cannon was fired, and a half hour
confab was had by Mr. D. with the people as
sembled. At Springfield from fifteen hundred
10 two thousand listened to the Chicago speech,
without variations. Mr.. Lincoln addressed
quite as large a crowd. and the Republicans
were content with the result of the encounter.
They feel that so far in the contest they have
the decided vantage ground. Save on Lecomp-
ton, Senator Douglas is Douglas still.
The bold attempt of Senator Douglas to
make the Democratic organization of Illinois a
purely personal party for his own aggrandize-
ment, is likely to open raking fire in the rear.
A call appears in the Chicago papers signed by
some three hundred and fifty Democrats, head
el by such veterun workers as Isaac Cook, W
b Snowhook. T. Mayer, Charles Lieb, B.. F
slrOther, Z. F. Cutting, ct al, which reads as
follows:
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
We the undersigned Democrats of Illinois,
viewing with regret the efforts made to divide
the Democratic Party, BY drawing of its mem
hers under false pretenees from the support OF
the Administration of James Buchanan, our
Democrats President and, being opposed to
all attempts to abolitionize the Party, believing
that the present National Administration merits
the hearty and cordial sapport of all true friends
of Democratic principles and of the Union,
hereby call meeting Of the party, to be held
at Metropolitan Hall, on the 23d day of July,
1858, for the purpose of re-asserting our princi-
Piles and maintaining them against all opposi-
ton, whether coming from the Republican Par
" or from those heretofore of our own ranks
who are now laboring for the division and dis
union of the great Democratic Party.
How these Illinois Democrats love one an
other, and what kind of fight is opening, may
be judged by the following article from the Chi
cago Times, the leading Douglas organ, which
thus spurns and defes the Federal OfficehOlders
and their anti-Douglas dependents:
The Washington UaiOn much mistakes the
importance Of Its own position, and greatly
overrates the powers of Federal patronage in
Illinois There are in this State three parties,
the Democracy, the Republicans, and the Dan
ites-the latter consisting exclusively of Fed
eral Office holders, but not containing one-half
of those Office holders. And, no matter how
unpleasant the fact may be to The Washington
U1ioa, or mortifying TO those persons who have
used and abused the appointing power Of this
State We feel 1t to be our duty TO state that
there is no danger that the Democracy of Hi
nois dread 50 much in the coming contest, as
that the DANTE ticket may be Withdrawn. and
Cook, Lieb, Dougherty, Carpenter and Hope
declare themselves to be Docglas men. Such
an accession to the Democracy of Illinois would
be equivalent to defeat-as the association of
their names with that of Mr. Buchanan has de-
stroyed all that high degree of personal regard
which the Democracy Of Illinois have always
evineed for the President So the acknowledge
ment that these men belong to any party would
prove fatal TO that party. An alliance with
these men, therefore, would be fatal to the
Democracy of Illinois, and as long as they are
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to compel them TO keep out Of the Democratic
ranks