Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-04
Eject Of Coalitions The True'Party Policy.

Effect Of Coalitions The True eParty Policy.
If our opinion were required by member
of any one of the parties who have Presi-
Dental candidates, as to the best course to be
pursued-whether TO preserve its identity
and independence in every respect, or to
combine or coalesce with some other party
or faction for a division Of electorships and
offices, we should most confidently advise the
former.
A party that holds itself open to dicker
and trade-whose leaders even entertain
questions of a trading character, thereby adj
mits the want Of vital force in its principles,
parts at once with its moral prestige, be-
comes entitled to be considered nothing
more than mere disturbing element in poll
tics. and fixes its future character for all time
as thing only capable of doing mischief TO
other parties, and accommodating disrepute to
itself
In this country, the Inauguration of a
party for national objects carries With it-not
by political butby what seems TO be equally
imperative, party necessity-local or
gonization. Local politicians will not be
satisfied by any thing short of those rewards,
or hopes of reward, which consist in offices
and candidates., and, for the purpose of that
agitation which is now looked upon as n
necessary part of all party operations, each
party must present to its members the same
inducements that all others have done ever
since parties were invented, which was prob
ably pretty soon after the fall of Adam.
The most satisfactory way to do this, in all
cases, is for each party to assume and hold a
perfectly Independent position-to avoid not
only all combinations with other parties but
all appearances of combination and to ostra-
else at once, every individual who seeks, by
sharp practice to get his name ON more than
one of the tickets.
This is the way to preserve that internal
harmony, without which vigorous action is
impossible. Where an organization is con-
templated there will be numbers of men who
will select themselves as especially fit or
especially entitled to this or that candidacy
and who are con6dent--as all men are under
such circumstances-tha if nominated, they
will be elected. If this candidacy is, in the
course of trade, passed over to the other
bargaining faction, these men will be disat-
fected. They will look upon the terms of
the treaty as designed deliberately to do
them an sniury. They have been sacrificed
and will draw off themselves and whomso-
ever they can influence from the support OF,
if not the whole, that part OF the ticket
through which they have been offended.
These treaties are never observed in good
faith by either party. The leaders may bind
the ofice-seekers by their terms, but they
can not bind the masses. Old prejudices will
be stronger than new arrangements; and
suspicious upon each side that the other is
about to play false inducing false play upon
both. in almost every case defeats the hopes
of those who devised and furthered the ar
rangement.
complete organization throughout, with
a full ticket of electors and local candidate:
is unquestionably the true policy to be pur'
sued by every party in the Union now claim
ing an existence. This is what it owes t.
the people as the evidence Of its right tt
exist, and lay claim to their suffrages. An,
other course viii stamp the party by whicl
it is adopted as cheat a counterfeit, thin
of false pretenses. Let political, like othe
tubs. stand on their own bottom, and thu
party that does not thus, let it he understood
az having no bottom whereon to stand.