The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-10-05
How far Party Nominations are Bind
ing upon Party Men.

How far Party Nominations are Bind
ing upon Party Men.
We now, as we have done heretofore.
and hope her eater to do, hold that nomi
nations fairly and henorably made by
Conventions duly constituted under the
usages of the party, are binding upon each
member and all the constituent parts of
the party. In our State, Congressional,
and County Conventions, in our Town and
Ward Caucuses, a majority present of del
egates duly elected, and of persons belong
ing to the party, must have the right TO
control the mode and manner of their
nominations and elections, and their acts
are to be considered in party parlance as
binding upon the members of the party,
and no man is, with impunity, permitted
to bolt the nominations of party men fairly
and honorably made.
In our National Convention some wears
ago, a majority adopted rule which re-
quired two,thirds of the votes of delegates
in convention to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President. In 1S4S,
CAss was thus dominated for President,
but VAN BrREN and his adherants and adj
mirers bolted this nomination-organized
Northern sectional party called g Free
!, Soil," and put VAN buren, in nomination,
and supported him as candidate for the
Presidency. These men were denounced
as boilers from the Democratic party, ard
nowhere in the certainly not in
lsconsln-was any one of these men
permitted to come into, and take part in
the proceedings of Demo cratic Caucuses
or Conventions-they became a part and
parcel of separate and distinct political
organizations marked and bitter in
their opposition to the Democratic party
and its nominees, for all offices from the
Presidency down to the lowest office in
the gift Of the smallest constituency, as
was the then Wing party. If in that day
any one of these men got into any DEM
ocratic Caucus or Convention, he came in
under false pretences, and if, per chance,
he succeeded in obtaining a nomination
for office, and his true political proclivitie,
or affinities became known before election,
his name was surely stricken from the
ticket.
At the late National Convention, STE
PHEN A. DouGLAs was, like CAss, under
the two third rule, nominated for the
Presidency, when some Of the Southern,
followed by few of the Northern dele
gates, seeded frem that Convention, and
organized Southern sectional party, and
put BRECKENRIDGE in nomination for the
same office, for the purpose of defeating
the election Of DOUGLAS, the regularly
nominated candidate Of the National De
mocracy, fairly represented in Convention
at Baltimore.
These fac,ionists who have sloughed off
from the Democratic party, are as deter
mined and bitter in their opposition to
DouGLAs, as is any one of the extreme
Abolition portion of the Republican par
ty, and between whom there is most
marked sympathy Of feeling, as the end
and aim of each of these sectional parties
is identical--tle defeat of DOUGLAS, and
the election of LINCOLN. We hold, there.
fore, that the Democracy should make no
distinction between them, but treat them
alike as enemies, and hold no fellowship
or communion with either until such time
as they shall abandon their hostile attitude
to the Democracy, and join its ranks, and
fight its battles as good soldiers in a great
and glorious cause. We believe that the
cause Of the people, and the purity of the
Democratic party, demand that we, as
Democrats, do lot affiliate politically with
these secessionists who train under the red
nag Oh DHECkINR1DGE ana UlSuUlOD, ana
that they be shot down as deserters, or at
least marched out Of the Democratic
camp to the tune of the Rogue's March"
Why should not these men be treated as
were the VAN BuRENIsTs by the Democra-
cy? Certainly, if they be treated as Dem
ocrats, and permitted to take part in the
proceedings OF our Caucuses and Conven
tons, they will do mischief to our cause.
They are now hunting in pairs, with the
Republicans, to divide, distract, and if pos
sibIe, defeat the Democratic party, and we
insist that none of them, any more than
Republicans, should be recognized to have
the right to any fellowship with Democrats.
| They assume TO have this right and act
upon the assumption in this county. And
why in this county! Because the Demo
cratic party is in the ascendant, and they
hope and expect to obtain place and pow
or by Democratic votes, in order the more
surely 20 accomplish their own selfish and