Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-06-01
nemocratic Nlaae Cenyeneion.
Trouble in the Camp.

Trouble in the Camp.
The great Republican nominating
convention At Chicsgo-the convention
of that party who attempted to form q
platform which would suit every shade
of political faith from one extreme to
the other-a sort of onainum gdthermna,
in which may be found something for
every one and at the same time nothing
of substantial value for any one. But
after all the pains and labor spent in
creating and bringing into life such an
homogeneous medley Of planks, it ap-
pears that instead of serving the purpo-
ses for which it was manufactured, it
has in many cases quite the contrary ef-
feet. BY some inadvertancy or other
VIC can hardly account for it ourselves,
. resolution, or plank, was introduced
giving some Of the most ardent friends
and warmest supporters Of the party .
direct slap in the face, not Intentionally,
Of course; but it often happens when an
attempt is made to please every body
that three.fourths Of those sought to be
conciliatcd consider themselves openly
outraged.
The plank particularly alluded to is
plank number fourteen, which says:
IA. That the National Republican party is
opposed to any change in our Naturalization
laws, or any State legislation by which the
rights Of citizenship hitherto accorded TO i'm
migrants from foreign lands shall be abridged
or impaired; and in favor Of giving full and
emcient profession to the rights Of oil classes
Of citizens. whether native or naturalized, both
At home or abroad"
Now it is well known that the Rack
Republicans of Massachusetts, have
adopted a policy entirely contrary to
the spirit of the above resolution, and
as the Republican party owes its exist
ence to Massachusetts fire-eaters, it is
no wonder that they feel sore over it,
and repudiatc, and it is wonder that
the convention should have given any
such cause for dissatisfaction, when it
could just as we'll got along without it,
and kept in its ranks large number OF
its best friends, to say nothing Of catch
ing large American or Know. N othinp
vote.
Concerning this step taken at Chica-
60, the Boston Atlas and Bee, an out
and out Black-Republican paper-one
OF the first in New England, very plain
ly remarks:
This declaration in the platform Is neither
wise nor correct. and we most alphabetically re-
pudiate 1t. In the fret place. it is not legiti-
mately in the platform, has no business in it.
and was improperly interpolated. The ques-
tion to which 1t relates is purely one Of State
policy, and has nothing TO do with the or ami
zAt'on or the policy Of a national party. 1t il
an undoubted fact that more than half of the
victories won for the Repub lean cause in the
last five years have been more by the aid of
those who have been end still are Americana
ana It 10 both unwise and u, just to introduce
nov any such bone Of contention % this might
prove TO he. The party can no more afford to
s"bwan to the dictation of German element
~!thtn its ranks than 1t eau to the old Whig or
Me old american element, and /! ouqhs never
to submit to either. We regret the incorpora.
ton Of this section in the platform-it was
done in haste, amid great confusion, ana with
ont due deliberation. As 1t 10 wrong We RE-
PUDlATE 1T. and shall never endorse or de-
fend it."
This is pretty plain language and will
have the direct effect to drive awav
many votes from the Opposition. We
like that resolution. 1t is stolen from
the Democratic platform, and is and ev-
er has been, q part and parcel Of the
Democratic creed. When the present
Black-Republican party went under the
name Of Know-Nothiugs, the Democra-
cy fought them, and defeated them,
standing on that very plank. 1t would
do for the Opposition now if other
things in their creed corresponded with
1t; but as that is not the case the party
can't afford to steal it from the Demos
racy-can't afford to stand on it.
THE Republicans are making them
selves rather ridiculous about these rails
Of Abe Lincoln's, and are actually buy
ing them up at SO apiece! A person