The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-04
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.



The Press, in giving list OF the nomi.
nees for State Offices presented by the
Republican State Convention of Wisconsin,
which met at Madison, on the 25th of Sep
TENDER, remarks" 1t is all Republican, we
believe"
We will not charge upon the Press
design to misrepresent facts, but it is
unnaccountable that it should be so ignorant
of the politics and politicians of the State
which lies next to our own.
The truth is, that the Republicans Of
Wisconsin acted upon very different basis
from the Republicans of Minnesota. They
appreciated, in some reasonable degree, the
condition of public affairs, and that the
Government could not be sustained within
the lines of any party organization what
ever. And instead of following the un-
patriotic example set in Minnesota, they.
adopted the more generous policy of the
great States of New York and Ohio, and
made up their ticket OF Democrats and
Republicans, Observation-Disclosures only
to the loyalty of candidates, and not to their
politics, in the spirit of the following reso.
luton, which forms part of their platform
Resolred That the Republican party should
not be confined in the present crisis to its own
party in making nominations for office, but
loyal and uncOnd tional Union men of other
parties are equally entitled to its confidence
and support.
The full ticket nominated comprises the
following names for Governor, LOUIS P.
HARVEY; Lieut.. Governor, EDWARD SALo~
MON ; Secretary of State, JAMES L. LEWIS
Treasurer, SAMUEL d. HASTINGS Attor-
ney General, JAMES H. HOWE Bank
Comptroller, w. H. RAMSAY State Su-
perintendent, JOSIAH L. PICKARD State
Prison Commissioner, HANS G. HEG.
Of these, the nominees for the important
positions of Lieut. Governor, Secretary of
State, and Bank Comptroller, are men VINO
have hitherto been prominent Democrats.
JAMES 7. LEWIS, of Columbia county, has
been in public life almost continuously since
the organization of the State, and always as
a Democrat. w. II. RAMSAY is the most
influential Democrat of the most radically
Democratic county in the State. MIR. SAL
ONION, German lawyer of Milwaukee, has
always affiliated with the Democracy until
the last election. An ardent supporter of
Mr.. DOUGLAS and his doctrines he acted as
tens of thousands of other Douglas Demo
Gratis at the North did when it became
apparent that the contest was narrowed
down to LINCOLN and BRECKINR1DGE, and
was thus contest between Union and
Disunion-by voting for Mr.. LINCOLN.
Here, then, are three candidates, taken
from among those who have been promi~
nently opposed to the Republican party
larger proportion of the ticket than the
Democrats could have rightfully claimed,
when the Importance of the Offices is taken
into account.
The action of the Republicans in almost
every State of consequence, is rebuke to
the action of the Republicans of Minnesota.
Elsewhere there has been liberal spirit
manifested, fully mp to the temper of
the times spirit calculated to draw the
whole peop.e together in an enthusiastic,
support of the Government. This spirit has
everywhere been kindled and nourished by
the Federal Administration and nearly
everywhere but here the patriotic desires of
the Administration have been generously
carried into effect. The Republican party
of Minnesota, as represented by the
State-House clique which controlled the
action OF its State Convention, stands
almost alone in its refusal to adopt the pol
icy considered necessary by the President
of it's own choice. 1t is not a credtable
position, nor is it one, we venture to assert,
that it will suffer itself to occupy in the flu.
ture.