The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-08-19
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ihe BHal0 "SparfaRsh sh--iHcw Order If
kRoR- hoihings-A tempt 10 Prescribe |
Men for Difference IN Prtsidenfial
4 Aspiragts.
We have been aware fer some weeks
Of a secret political organization, having
is head in Now York composed Of pro-
fcssed Democrats, whose object, so f6r ar
Il is avowcd, is TO secure the nomination
Of certain candidate for the Presidency,
and for this purpose, banding themselves
together for secret council, and plcdging
themselves TO vote for no other man un.
less endorsed by the Order. This Order
is known as the "Sparidns," and efforts
have been made 20 give ha foothold mi
this city, where its candidate for Presi-
dent has many friends. no
Grown bold by impunity, the "Spar-
ians" Of Buffalo have made q declaration
Of principle which they pubheh In the
Buffalo Republic, uvowing themselves In
favor Of the Cincinnati Platform "as rx-
pounded by the Peoples Champion, Ste
phen A. Douglas, and in that declaration
"a IL to force aspirants for official houors
into their Order, following the lead ofthe
Know Nothing, they have adopted the fol-
lowing;
Resolved, That IN order 70 make our
sslrss effective al ne polls wa Will ACT
AS a vNir IN CASTING OUR BAL
LOTS FOR MEN WHO SHALL
HAVE BEEN ENDORSED BY THIS
ORDER.
This new Order Of Know Nothingu,
Bpringing up et day when the system Of
secret polite societies ia c0ndomned--.
following a. II does, In the wake Of the
old Know Nothing Order, which ina few
months made itself 20 detestable 60 the
] American people that none are 70 be found
who dare Avow that they once belonged
TO Il, shows a madness in the leaders,
which is hard 70 be accounted for.
Some few years since a similar society,
II was for a smilor purposes existed In
Cincinnati, called the "Miami Tribe
which by the same sort Of machinery, at
tempted TO control the nominations ofthe
Democratic party, and failing In this, tc
defeut their election. Until farreted out
and put down, the "Miami Tribe was q
prolific cause Of division and defeat, and
Il is said, did more 20 reduce the large
Democratic majority in Hamilton county
than all the attacks Of the common enc.
my could have done for years TO conc,
i IL the gentlemen who take the princi'
pies Of the Democratic party--not from
the Fathers Of the Democracy--not from
Jefferson and Jackson--not from the plair
platforms which give the cred "is expoun
ded" and interpolated by a Presidential
candidate, are thus determined to reYiv,
J the days of secret political societies, ant
to bind themselves together, and vote fo
b men but those "endorsed by the Order,
! then indeed Il is time for the true Dcmoc
, racy TO look about and to rid themselve
, Of the Traitors in the camp, as did the De
' mocracy ofHamilton county the "Mlnm
0 Tribe" In 1859.
= We have no patience with such socie
Z ties, nor with the rule or ruin politician
Q who control them. They are soros oi
the Democracywhich the knife must Grad
, icHte.
. That Mr. Douglas would lend himael
to such a scheme, we cannot believe.
; persistence In i would be ruin 10 his pros
, peot, and would vitality affect the party /
! which he owes everything, and 10 which
! if he has higher aspirations, he musthlon
} look for support
There SpRrtsns differ from the Know
I Nothings but in this: The former war
, red against Foreigners-the latter q
gainst men with whom they pretend L
act in harmony. The one was bound b,
: oath not 10 support foreigner for ofEic
5 the latter is bound by lis platform "t
, act as a unit" in casting their ballot onl
: for the man who has beon endorsed b
3 the Order. In secret council the KnoI
, Nothings nominated their candidates--i
r secret councils these Spartans do th
same. The difference is but trihing,wit
Z this execptiony The Know Nothing
] openly ayowed a hatred Of foreiguers--
a these Spartans proless Above for Demoe
: racy and Democratic Truths, while the
/. are pledged to strike down lis men and a
I Of is principles, unless they suit the pre-
n udices and interests Of the candidate fc
3 nomination that they support ard whol
y they Get up as their great "expounder."