Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-09
state Convention.

We have inserted the official call Of
the Chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee for the assembling
of the Democratic State Convention at
Des Moines, on the 22d day Of February
next. tits matter Of much Importance,
that all sections OF the State may be iul>
ly represented in the Convention.
The Democratic National Convention,
which will assemble probably sometime
in April, will be one Of the most impor-
tant assemblagcs of the Representatives
Of the National Democracy that has con-
vened in this country since the organiza-
ton of the Government. The selection
OF standard-bearer for the great battle
of 1860, on the result of which the con-
tinued existence Of the Union may de-
pend, attaches to the action of the Con-
vention a serious Importance without
preccndent in our political history. The
members of the Democratic party in
every State OF the Confedracy are alive
to the necessity of wise and prudent
measures being adopted, to reflect the
wishes and predictions of an actual ma
jority of the Democracy in the respec-
tive States. In the approaching Presi-
Dental, election the safety Of our free in
sttutions demands that the nominee of
the Charleston Convention shall receive
a majority Of the electoral votes in the
electoral college. That such a result
may be placed beyond all doubt, it is
only required that, in the nomination Of
q candidate, there may be a fair express
sion of the popular will. 1t is cardi-
nal principle of Democracy, that the ex-
pressed will Of a majority shall deter
mine the will of the whole. This rule is
as binding upon the Delegates of Ma
tional Convention as upon the members
of primary township meeting.
The discipline Of our party enables
every individual member Of it to exercise
his proportionate influence in the NOM
ination Of candidate for the Presidency.
We commence with the assembling of the
members Of the party either in each
election district or in each county, and
in these assemblages every individual
entitled to voice can express his choice
for delegates to State Convention
The State Convention having assembled,
. majority of delegates decides the
choice of delegates to the National Con-
vention, and, if deemed advisable, the
expression Of opinion - to the choice Of
the State for nomination. In the Ma
tional Convention, the highest tribunal
known in our party organization, all por-
tons Of the Union being represented,
the important work Of selecting . cam
didate for the most exalted political pc.
sition in the civilized world is consumma.
ted. Thus, step by step, from the pri-
mary meeting to the National Conven-
ton, the essence of Democracy controls
the action Of the party in its several Sta
ges, and that essence il the cordial &C.
quiescence of the minority in the fairly
expressed wishes of the majority. It is
the recognition of this rule a. binding
obligation, that has made the party a
unit in al National contests. When it
has ceased to control the local Organise
tons Of the party, discords and defeats
have followed.
For our part, we sincerely desire 70 see
orr adopted State fairly represented at
Charleston. Whoever among the dis
tinguished Democrats named in connec.
ion with the nomination, nay b the