The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-11
The Democratic State Convention Re.
pudiated by Rice County.

At a convention of delegates of Rice
county held at Faribault, on Saturday last.
for the nomination of candidates for the
legislature and for county Offices, the reso-
luton offered by Col. ROBERTSON, and
voted down in the State Convention, was
unanimously adopted, and also the follow
ing, which is an emphatic reputation
the nominations and platform of the State
Convention:
Resogred, That the Democracy of Rice county
do hereby repudiate the action of the so-called
Democratic State Convention, which assembled
in st. Paul, on Wednesday, August 26th, 1863.
and further declare that we will not be bound
by either the Platform there adopted, or the
ticket there nominated, believing as we do.
that in neither the one or the other, they rep
resent the true Democracy of the State, and
that in both respects the minority in said con-
vention composed of men designing unscrupu-
lous, and of doubtful loyalty, by trickery and
fraud Overruled the honest sentiment of the
majority, and thus placed the true Democracy
of the State in false position before the peo-
pie; and we further respectfully call upon the
nominees on said ticket to withdraw their
names as candidates for the respective offices,
and by this means furnish preteXt to the State
Central Committee to issue a call for another
State Convention and thus enable the true De-
mocracy of the State to place themselves right
upon the record.
Mr.. JOHNSON, editor of the Faribault
Statesman, who was delegate to the
State Convention, also repudiates its &C
ton, and refuses to give the ticket nom
mated place in his paper. In an article
reviewing the Convention, he says:
The proceedings were characterized by feel
ing which we know does not represent the SEN
timent of the true Democracy of the State. A
few designing men animated by either personal
pique or covert disloyalty, controlled the Con-
vention and succeed in placing the Democracy
of the State in false position. The party for
several years past has been cursed with few
men who are active and ambitious, and who
stop at nothing to accomplish their own self
ish ends. These men are always found in the
Convention ready at any moment to sacrifice
the party to crafty their personal prejudices
or to carry out some selfish scheme. We
frankly confess that we have fellOwshipped
with this class of men as long as we can, and
if the Democracy of the State are to be con-
trolled by them we prefer to ''get out and
walk"
The sentiments which are found in the reso-
lutions adopted by our County Convention on
Saturday last, represent our views, and, we
believe the views of every true Democrat in
the State. Holding these views we cannot
hoist the ticket nominoted at st. Paul on the
Goth ult., at the head of our paper. We be-
lieve Mr. Wells, the nominee for Governor to
be an honest upright man, far too good man
to be associated with the apologies for men
who comprise the majority of the nominees on
the ticket and we earnestly hope he will see
the necessity. if he would retain his self-re-
spect, of Withdrawing his name as a candidate.
Let this be done-leta new State Convention
be called-and the Democracy of the State be
warned to look little more closely to the Sc
lection of men they send to represent them,
and we have hope yet that the old party in
this State, rescued from the control of mutton
heads and semi traitors, will once more take
that macly stand that alone COMFORTS with the
dignity OF its past history.