Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-06-18
AGENTS for the Standard.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE Is, 1864.
The Baltimore Nominations.

At the head of our columns to-day will be
found the names of LINCOLN and JOHNSON,
the nominees of the Baltimore Convention for
President and Vice President Of the United
States for the next four years. 1t may be
considered by some that as We have no vote
in the canvass now pending, that no concerted
political action is necessary in this Territory,
our whole duty being performed when we
spectators. But we prefer to look at the mat
ter otherwise. We believe that is the duty
Of patriots everywhere, in these times, to give
the Government the full benefit of their in flu.
ence and example, politically and morally.
We should therefore take alively interest in
the canvass, and if our people cannot contrib
ute to the success of the Union nominees
practically, they can at least rally around the
flag Of Union. ant. separate the wheat from
the chat, the true metal from the dross, the
true patriot from the would be traitor.
The result of the Baltimore Convention has
been just what We anticipated. Every State
voted for Abraham Lincoln, on the first ballot,
excepting Missouri. The nomination of Andy
johnson was equally unanimous, and will
prove very satisfactory to all honest, we'll
meaning Union men. 1t may not prove as
acceptable to the radical faction of the Admin
i~stration party, who do not hesitate to express
the opinion that men who voted for Brecken-
ridge at the last Presidential election are not
safely to be trusted with official position, and
who act upon this opinion on all occasions, to
the detriment of the Union organization. If
the policy adopted at Baltimore. and which w
have upon all occas ions advocated. had been
pursued in the several counties of this Terri.
tory, at the late election, the Legislature
would have been at least three-fourths Union
Administration, instead Of Democratic" as
it now is. Indeed we believe every county
in the Territory might have been carried
against. modern Democracy" upon a fair
Union basis. But instead of this. some of our
strongest Union counties have been lost by
driving voters into the democratic" organi-
cation, who would have to act with the Union
party had they been permitted to do so on
terms Of political equality.
Those who sloughed off from the Union
party and met at Cleveland, Ohio, and nom
mated Fremont as their standard bearer, were
consistent with their principles; aud while
we condemn the ultra, impracticablc spirit
which prompted the movement. we commend
their honesty as politicians. We hope that
all who sympathize with them will at once
rally around their banner. and thus relieve the
Union party from the load that has go long
embarrassed its efficiency and so often contrib
uted to its defeat. We believe their places
will be supplied in the ratio of two to one from
the Union wing Of the Democratic opposition.
We are strengthened in this conviction by the
tc~legraphic announcement that the War Dem
ocrats of New York indicated their intention
to support the nominees of the Baltimore
Convention the moment the nomination of
Fremont was known. They have taken this
step with the anticipation. of course, that they
will be received into the Union organization
npon terms of full equality with the Oldest
Republicans. and that when the battle shall
bavc been fought and victory shall perch upon