Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-03
The Pittsburg Post and Instruction of
Delegates.

The Pittsburg Post objects to an article
in which We took the ground that it wore
better for the interests of the party to al
low the State Convention an untrammeled
choice of candidates, than to go on with the
business of tying the hands of the delegates
or the other. The Post is. quite snappish,
and indulges in filings, which its editor,
doubtless, imagines the sharpest satire.
Our friend BARR should keep cool. When
he gets over his passion, he may, perhaps,
discover that some of the warmest friends
of General Cass earnestly depreeate the
struggle for instructions" which is going
on between the supporters of the several
candidates. Those friends desire not mere
" the nomination of their favorite, but al
SO his election. They do not permit their
zeal TO run away with their judgement, nor
do they allow their suspicious to lead them
into gratuituous and wanton attacks upon
democrats who deserve only the fullest con
fidence and highest esteem Of the party.
the candidate of choice, and, therefore,
seek to allay, instead of striving to excite,
the strife which a campaign of instructions
is certain to engender.
The article to which the Post takes excep-
ton, was based upon the dem0nstateCt.f9c
| that neither of the candidates now in the
| field, can obtain a majority IN the contention
| 5v inStr'uctiOaS Hence, it is evident that
! the instructed delegates cannot make a
nomination, without, at some point III. the
balloting, violating their instructions. This
proposition is sef-evident. Why, then, tie
the hands of all the delegates ? Why not
permit at least some of them to have free
dom of choice If there were the remOtest
! possibility that Gen. Cass, or Judge Packer,
or Gen. MCandless, or Pershing, or Mr..
jerks, could carry majority of the conven-
| ton by instructions, there would be some
sense in the struggle to obtain them,
! though we doubt whether it would rebound
to the advantage of the party. But as
none of them can carry such an instructed
majority, it is sheer madness to Lash the
people into the excitement of O contest fol
instructions The Convention will have to
choose the candidate at last, and, therefore
no good, but much evil, will result from 1
canvass which, prior to the assembling o.
the Convention, divides the party into op'
posing factions composed of adherents Of
the several candidates. Such was the fata
mistake of the unfortunate campaign o.
1860. To a certain extent the same errol
was committed in the presidential cam
paign of last year. Cannot the Posi- learr
even il the dear school of experience
1t is all very we'll after such mistakes a!
those of the personal ddlterent politicians IL
| 1860 and 1868, have caused the defeat o.
the party, for those politicians to snarl a
| the men who stood in the fore front Of, the
fight, and strove against fate itself to aver
the natural and inevitable consequences Of
the folly of the men who rushed to Charles
ton, or New York, the crazy champions o.
men, instead of what they should have
been. cool and prudent and deliberate gen
erals, planning the battle and organizing
victory for the party. Such men mus
have scape-goat for their sins, and gener
ally manage to shuttle their load upon the
shoulders of the innocent. In conclusion
we hope that this article may not seem tC
the editor of the Post, mysterious, oracu
lar, solemn or severe" Indeed, We doubt
not that he will be able to understand it,
! Patriot. .t-.