The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-22
The Green Bay Advocate and the Chicago
Convention. ra ID

lodged reason, that the democracy was not
sufficiently committed to the war policy otthe
government. Heretofore the Adoocotef has
attached great Importance to the principles
enunciated by the party, and because the prin-
ciples avowed by the democracy were not to
its liking, that paper refused to support it's
nominees The Adrocate protested to have
no objection to the men nominated, but OPP
posed them because the platform on which
they were nomina ted did not come up to
its notions Of the war standard. Last fall
the Advocate opposed the democratic State
ticket on this ground.
Since the holding of the Chicago conven-
ton, the AdUocate ms to have met with
sudden change. Men are now its adml-
ration--party principles of little or no ac-
count. The editor of the Advocate attended
the Chicago convention, and gives the read
| ers of his paper the result of his observations
as follows: -st .s..
1--WE were present during the entire sit
ting of the Convention, for the purpose OF
being satisfied as to its prevailing sentiment
and whether its nominations were made
with bona fde determination to adhere to
the integrity of the Union and the honor OF
the country, without adverse under currents
or mental reservations. There was no lack
| of traitorous talk there, outside of the Con-
vention. Speeches after speeches were made
to assembled thousands, full of cowardly
words wanting in all patriotism, all chival-
nv, all love of country, even all decency and
manliness This war for the life OF the I'm
Mon was denounced as the climax OF wick
edness the Southern people in arms against
us were held up as martyrs bleeding III the
cause of right and talk which should make
the ears Of every American Jingle with
shame, was as free OH the streets and in the
hotels of Chicago as the turbid and offensive
current of its river" e" Eot
| Having said this much, the editor tries to
convey the impression to his readers that
all this was mere outside talk, and had NO
influence whatever in the convention! Now
every one who attended the Chicago con-
vention, who did not hear and see double,
| knows that the sentiment which the editor
of the AdUocate describes as so manifest out
side of the convention, was precisely the
same in the convention A large proportion
! of the outside speakers, who were the most
rampant III their reasonable utterances
were accredited delegates of the convention.
! Besides, there was not loyal speech in sup
port of the government and prosecution OF
the war, made in the convention the
speeches inside, partook of the same treason
f able character of those outside. Moreover
the platform which was adopted without
opposition in tho convention. was in accor
dance with the clamorous dictates of the re-
bel crowd outside; that infamous enbodi-
ment of the creed of the assembled delegates
} was formed in accordance with the views Of
those of the Vallandigham stripe, and met the
approval of all the peace scoundrels so graph
ically described by the editor of the Advo
cate The attempt to show, that there wa'
more loyalty manifest in the convention
: than outside, is not creditable to the intelli
gence of the editor of the AdvOcate. No tan
gible evidence can be produced, to show a
particle of difference. "
Yet in view of these facts the Advocate
goes on to say:
''It is as unjust to charge them to the &C
count of the Democratic party as it woulC
be to that of the Republican party; ant
they may have, just as likely, belonged t.
: one as the other
8 This attempt of the editor of the Ad0ocat
Y to have it appear that the democratic part.
is not responsible for the treason NANTES
in and about the Chicago convention is sill,
enough. The assertion that the exhibitio 4
of disloyalty, were just as chargeabIe to Re
publicans as Democrats, and that those en-
gagged in them, were just as likely to hav
3 belonged to the one party as to the other, i
too ridicnlons to merit reply. If the Id
Uocate intended no such absurd meaning
then it should have employed better Ian
guage.
In view of all the blatant and disgusting
treason in and attendant upon the Chicago
conventional convention more dangerous
to the life of the nation than any ever as
sembled in the north, because of its nationa
character the Green Bay Adrocate tells it.
readers :--'It is a pleasure to place this tick
ct at the head of the paper and to advocate
it as the choice of the democratic party"
AS has already been remarked, the editor
of the Aduocate, has always heretofore, pro-
cording to the platform and principles adopt
ed in convention of the party. The Demo
cratic State convention at Madison, did not
come up in its expressions of loyalty to the
standard Of the AdUOcate, therefore that pa
per refused to support its nominees. Yet
no one man will pretend, that the Madison
convention bad as it was, manifested any
thing like the disioyalty of the Chicago con-
vention or adopted a platform of principle
so utterly at variance with the loyal senti-
ment of the country. The Wisconsin de-
mocracy with all its sins, never dared to
utter in its Conventions hardly fraction of
the disloyalty, either in speech or in resolu-
tions, which charaterized the Chicago con
vention; yet the Green Bay -4drocats could
not endure the Wisconsin democracy, but it
can swallow the nominations with pleasure,
of the Chicago convention. A Milwaukee
democratic lawyer by the name of G. Ry-
an, some two years ago put forth political
| address, in which there was but a mere
sPTinkling of disloyalty to the government,