The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-10
.Frcsn de n. Z. Evening Poet. Feb: IS.
our Presidential Candidates.

rim 10 bFsak sHaYs There are maay things
said which ongh % 6 expIainsd, orour bark
win drift into some Irresponsible cnrrent or
bading EDDY beycnd escape. A PEssiaen-
tiai election is close upon as, and the prep
aration needs all the wisdom that can be
elected by free consultation and a frank dis
| closure of opinions and wishes. There is
nothing in our objects which requires con-
ceaiment or underband movements OF any
sort. The most open policy is clearly the
Iwisest, andif We leave things in the hands
of concealed intrigues, We shall certainly be
defeated, or, what is worse, find ourselves
betrayed by our chosen leaders.
3. The object Of the Republican party is
well known and easily defined. : II is TO
stop the encroachments and redress the cor
rup,ions and curtail the political power of
slavery. For this we have come together
out of different political parties, and hold
ing different creeds on allthe old issues OF
| the past generation. tits thirty years since
Gen. jackson met his first Congress, and
the questions of that day are either settled
or forgotten, or thrust out of sight by the
great present question of the extension or
repression of slavery. We may differ ever
so widely in those old matters, aud be just
as good and true men in the Republican
ranks. ..
If we merely put down the present pro
slavery Administration by putting in one
| of another name just as much controlled by
the slave interest, we shall gain nothing.
We have no idea of leaving things as we
| found them in regard to this matter. If we
do not ask ''indemnity for the past" we
mean at least to get security for the flu
| ture." We want 10 change the tone of the
Federal Government in all its branches,
permanently. Il is, therefore, of the ut
most importance, that we should come into
power, when our time arrives, in such 3
| way as shall accomplish oGr object, and
make the change of dynasty enduring.
The Inauguration Of a Republican Gov
eminent will of course be followed by the
most desperate struggle of the defeated par
ty for reaction. We have seen political
| reaction, under somewhat similar circum
stances, three times successful-in 1898,
1914. and 1852. If we would not win a
barren victory, we must be wise to learn
the lessons of those days. s.5,.zf asa.
Two things in particular ought to be
kept in view. The first is, that there is
twice as much gain in drawing off given
number of votes from the Democratic party.
as in gaining like number from any other
class. The other is, that the permanency
of the reform depends upon the extent to
which we can break in upon the ranks of
our antagonist so as to weaken and disor-
ganize effectually the old Democratic party.
We might win victory this year, as the
Wings did in 1910. by securing the aid of
all the indifferents the malignants, the dis
contents but what will il amount to, If we
leave the old Democratic organization in its
full strength, and exasperated by defeat
not won upon the merits nor expressing al
determined judgment of the people !?
The politicians generally speak of the
parties as If they were constant quantities.
The true wisdom is, treat them as merely
casual or temporary agglomerations, to be
used while they are good, to be respected
while they are faithful to their professed
princi pies. and to be broken up with will
as soon as they degenerate into mere
scramble for power. I: is easy to prove
that tine Democratic party, as now organ
lied, has abandoned nearly every one of the
old Democratic principles, and is devoted
to GENERALIZATION and arbitrary administers
ton. But the Democratic principles, as
held by Jefferson and Jackson. are those of
the body of the people of the United States,
who will never, under any consideration.
permanently uphold an admin istration that
persistently trampies on those principles.
And it will be fatal to the Republican party
if at any time they pursue course, either
in the selection of candidates, or in pro-
posed legislation, or in administration. which
shall authorize Democrats to believe that
we are to get resurrection of whiggery in
stead and in the name of repression of
slavery. A suspicion of such secret in-
tention will defeat US in the. election. The
first Development of such determination
will dissolve the party in the very hight of
Its triumph. Every step we take IN Wing
policy will be step toward the Wing des-
tiny. $50 so 80 a<lT2 as 81 @-9 7-s
1t is evident then, that the Republican ,
party ought to select its Presidential can ,
didates from among iss own men. and not !
TO go outside of its own racks under any
whatever. If those opponents ]
Of the Administration. who have no stable I
organization of their own are in earnest in I
what they profess. they will have no diff q
Guilty in voting for such men as we can +
present. But if they insist upon our taking .
heir men as the sole condition of their 4
kotes, it will show that they are not sin
'ather see the Democratic party succeed
tau diO" truly NepuUiiCdu SomlnlSITa- I"
ion. To select our candidates from among h
hose who iabored SO earnestly to defeat US q
n 1856, would be degrading as well as sui e
idal. If we are willing to have a man. {
Vho stands upon the same ground with al
fillmore, how can we justify ourselves forf G
ot having voted for Fillmore the last time !? a
But, indeed, if we are willing to take such Il
man pow. ne had best BIZ all means take Il
rilInnoro himself Nth his nross;oo of Az b
erience and staIesmanlike knowledge and
abits. "~f - 80 +.
But no real Republican is willing to take -