Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-07
MORNING LEADER.
AParty Of Grumbicrs--Cold Comfort.

cock, Judge Warden, Is so indignant that he adj
dressed a Federal meeting at Columbus Satur.
day evening, and is duly "pufcd" by the
Statesman for his return to the party fold he
half deserted not long ago. The Cincinnati
Gazette of Monday thus happily and truthful
ly hits off the Party Of Grumblers !"
The Democrats are hard to please We nev
er can suit them, either with our ticket or our
platform. Every Convention held by the Oppo.
stion for years past, whether city, county, or
State has occasioned the Democracy terrible
fit of grumbling and the blues OF all the Con
ventions, however, none has 80 vexed and
troubled their nmost souls as the last The
second of June is to be hereafter marked in
their calender "back bean" day, of the
most dismal sort. They are grieved at the
heart, and will not be comforted
In the first place, they greatly marvel at the
audacious sagacity of the Opposition, in nomi-
mating such man as Hon. William Y. Gholson
for Supreme Judge That was just precisely
what they were afraid of They know that no
urist in the State is filter for the place than he
They know that the lawyers and the people, Of
all parties, recognize this fact. They know that
he will more perfectly unite the votes OF Wings
Americans, Republicans, and Anti .Administra
ton Democrats, in ,all part of the State, than
ed They see at a glance that the long haired
Whitman, the great unshorn adorer of Martin
Van Burcn, is a man who can sustain no COM
pariso0, among disinterested people, with Judge
Gholson. Great is their consequent lamcntation
and grief But they have spoken too Late
Their misery is inemediable.
They tear their hair aud flood their checks,
because the Convention did not choose to re
nominate Judge Swan. They have taken a
great interest in this gentleman ol late. We
are glad of their recognition, tardy though it's,
of the eycellencies of his character and Of his
high qualities as jurst A little more than
a week ago, however very strangely, they pass.
ed over his exalted claims, and took W with a
far inferior candidate, Can it be that their
present admiration is entirely sincere, and their
lamentation perfectly disintercstcdl But Judge
Swan has since made decision that they are
delighted with. Because Of MiS act, they say,
he ought to have been nominated. But the
Convention of last Thursday thought other.
| wise. That is a very unsafe ground to adopt
in the election of judicial officers We deny
the justice OF any claim that Judge should be
renominated or not renOminated, because of
particular decision. The Convention did wisely
in repudatng this policy, which our Demo
cratic friends think they ought to have adopt.
| ed The nomination of Judge Gholson was de.
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State, last year. He then absolutely refused to
be Il candidate. The subject was revived this
year before the habeas corpus cases from the
! Western Reserve were thought Of 1t was
insisted on, from this part of the State. The
men who brought forward Judge Gholson
almost universally approved the late de-
csion of Judge Swan, but did not be.
leve in the principle of making that
or any other decision controlling reason for
his nomination, to the abandonment ofther pre-
vious wishes, as Democratic grumblers profess
to think they ought to have done We needed
a Judge in this city. We are to have one, and
are grateful for it. Before Judge Gholson was
suranco that he preferred the nomination Of
Judge Swan 1t had evidently become neces.
sary, however, in the eyes of a majority of the
"A convention, to act upon the principle of diSre
a particular decision, either at an ar
giIncnt for or against denomination. This
could only be DONE under the existing crcum
stances, by taking new man, and there wa
no one SO universally acceptable as Judge Ghol
son. lie was sincerely reluctant to allow th
use ofhis name, yet he was pledged, by his dis
patch, read in convention, to accept II nOmlna
ted. If there had been any doubt about this
t the eagerness Of the Sham Democracy for hi
, withdrawal, should be enough to settle th
question of his acceptance. They terribl
disappointed but, IA Mrs. Partngton woul
say, they had better "make themselves as con
temptiblo as possible"
A further tribulaton of our grumblng friend
T. is the platform, which sundry peOple labored 4
J, hard and so long, to make perfectly satisia
g tory We are sorry they did not succeed bett,
Ie indeed we are, We hope their bad luck wi
II so discourage them that they will never Il
again They ought at least 70 have avolde
treading upon so many tender corns OF our d.
bilitated and very irritable opponents o.
D. platform builders unieelingy denounced Il
l. odous details of that iavoritc democratic mea
st ure, the fugitive slave law. That was she
a cruelty. They have suffered enough on accOu
"a Of that already. Then again, the ConventiC
- declared very emphatically in favor of a fr
homestead for andess settlers foreign born
native, and this is Il measure TO which the Der
TO ocratic party has invariably shown an invet
be rate spite. We do not wonder they are provo
II ed They showed very distinctly at the Ia
session of Congress that they WOULD NOT ha
~. such a bill passed And is it not DcmocTa
A. that rules the country
ue Then, once more, the Opposition platfor
iiS comes down harshy upon the "two year amen
DO ment," which has crept into the Massachuse
- Constitution-with Democratic conniyance
during brief Know-NOthng relapse, and viii
,at had its origin and proper home in the Democl
b. tic State of South Carolina, They we're
y, prepared for such an attack. They hoped Il
N' South Carolina pet would be let alone. I
African slave-trad was also denounced, viii
he the wde-awake Democrats of the SOuth-w
ne lead the party-are zealously iayorng, a
1w which three or four Of the Democratic CO
ia gressmen from Ohio directly refused to recC
-. ther votes against when the question came
fore them at the last session Then, there v
lhs a twittug upon disagreeabe facts about
he "extrayagance and corruption" Of Buchana
Administration, which all good Democrats
, of ardently admire; aud denunciatOn ofsome
mn. the most outrageous as well as unconstltutiC
al acts of the last State Legs sature--includl
the Dobmeyer Police bill Why harrow up
- feelings Of our delicate and already sutfcien
est distressed friends by these unpleasant remiI
ers? Who wonders that they grumbe {
ks, infatuated resolution-mongeH ought to h'
Dne known what hornets nest such plato
u would stir up
While we are forced to admit that nett
''u the ticket nor the platform are such as our {
owe ponents desired and thought they had good r
NIL son TO expect, and that a very general sense
on dissatisfaction and chagrin peTyades their raj
HE on account Of this disappointment we hi
in further 10 notice that the Opposition
and shockngly Indifferent 10 the torments Il
have thus inflicted. They even laugh wi
lan the Sham Democracy are proclaiming 10
'er' world that their "suilerings is intolerable
inc Republicans, Americans, Wings and Buchl
An. an sick Democrats throughout the State, y
ow cordially unite in sustaining this troubleso
,pb ticket and in provoking new lamentations
October from the grumblng and terrified
mocracy'