Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-19
SPLITTING THE DEMOCRACK

The new departure of the Vallandig-
hamites is operating to split tho democra-
cy where it has been tried. There is some
mistake in the calculation of the inventor.
Designed to divide the republicans and
send destruction through the organization,
it has had just the opposite effect in that
quarter, and is working with deadly in
fluence in the house of its friends. Like
the vicious mule it progresses backward
vigorously, and makes its best efforts in
upsettng its load anotSlriver into the ditch.
Wherever the new departure has been
adopted and proclaimed by the democracy
as their creed it has united the republicans
and made u wide breach in the democratic
ranks. In Kentucky the democratic can
didates for State officers are making bit
ter fight against it, while some of the in
tluential journals of the party sustain it,
and the republicans have strong hope of
carrying the election through the dissen
sion which has been created among the
opposition. If the new departure should
upset the Bourbons with the kicking it has
created, it would spread CONSERVATION in
the ranks of the democracy in other States.
With Kentucky lost every democrat would
despair of 1872.
But more significant movement than
any yet presented appears in Pennsylva-
MIA. The Chester county democratic
committee have made square bolt
against the platform in that State. They
have drawn up full record of the party,
National and State, upon the questions
with which the new departure deal, and
the names of those persons prominently
connected with it, and adopted and pub
lished the following resolutions:
/. Resolred, That we regard the action of
the majority of the late Democratic Conven-
of this State, in voting for the ninth resolu-
ton of the so-called platform, as an unwise
and unauthorized departure from the position
heretofore avowed and maintained by the De-
mocracy of the United States and this State,
in relation to the unconstitutional doings of
the party having control of the General Gov
eminent.
3. Resolred, That as said resolution was
not unanimously accepted by the convention,
as were the candidates and other resolution,
but was opposed to the last by the votes OF
fifty-three of the delegates in that body, it
should be regarded and treated, during the
present campaign and until the meeting of
the State and National Conventions in 1872,
not as the sentiment of the Democratic party
of Pennsylvania, but simply as the sentiment
of the seventy-si delegates voting for it.
B. Resolced, That the opposition advocated
by the Democratic party to the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the constitution of
the United States is such only as is legal and
proper, and to be exercised solely through
the medium of the ballot-box, and by other
lawful means, and by which we have conf
dence the people and the States can and will,
in due time, relieve themselves from the
wrongs and outrages imposed upon them by
the party in power.
4. Resolred, That we cordially approve of
the conduct of the delegates from Chester
county in the late State Convention, in voting
against the aforesaid ninth resolution, believ
ing that in so doing they faithfully represen-
ted the Democrats of Chester county.
5. Reso1ped, That the Democrats of Ches-
ter county believe in the language of the late
Stephen A. Douglas, THAT this is a white
mans government, formed by white men, for
white men and their posterity forever"
6. Resolred, That the ninth resolution of
the platform adopted at Harrisburg on the
oath ult. does not represent the sentiments of
the Democratic party of either this county or
State that the issues it refers to were not be-
fore the people of the State when the dele
gates to said convention were elected, and
that had they been, we believe they would
have been repudiated by nine-tenths of the
Democracy of the State.
| Z. Resolred, That the chairman of this
committee be requested to furnish copies of
the proceedings of this meeting to the Jeffer-
sonian, Philadelphia Age, and Harrisburg
Patriot, for publication.
In opposition to this unpleasant state of
affairs in the Democratic party the repub-
licans OF Pennsylvania are thoroughly
united. The nominating conventions for
local officers were held in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, and resulted in strong and
satisfactory nominations and measures for
active and successful work According
to all appearances the new departure will
effect split, but there is little doubt that
it will be a split in the Democratic ranks