Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-09-21
OLYMPIA, SATURDAY MORNING. SEPT. q, 1872.
MR.. BROWNS INDEPENDENCE"

lne fuTeC OOunu DtSpdtch is mucn
excited because the Democratic Central
Committee deemed it advisable to call
a Territorial Convention to nominate q
candidate for Delegate to Congress.
We are not at all surprised at this, for
it has been demonstrated that unanim-
ity cannot be secured in even county
and church matters, when people are
inclined to have SO many leaders or
each constitutes himself q leader and
refuses to follow in the footsteps of
those whose age and experience entities
them to the patriarch's rule.
The action of the committee was
based not alone upon ordinary usage,
which we maintain is ample authority,
but the following specific instructions
of the Convention that constituted them
the Territorial Central Committee:
Resolved 1. That the nomination of cam
didate for Delegate to Congress, to be made
by this Convention, shall be for the June
election only.
Resolved 2. That if the election is post
poned until November, 1872, then the Terrific
rial Democratic Committee is authorized, and
they are hereby directed. to issue call for a
new Convention, to he held at Olympia. at
least six weeks before the first Monday i'm
November.
The call was issued by the Chairman,
with the concurrence of majority of
the Committee, Mr.. Brown to the con-
trary, Notwithstanding; and with the
advice Of Judge McFadden even though
the Dispatch declares that he had moth
ing to do with it. The assumption that
the call was issued by ring, or that
there was any bargain" that induced
it. is simply absurd, unless all commit
tees are rings and efforts to secure the
lccess of party nominee are bargains.
The contrary course, which the Dispatch
so persistently urged, smacked more
strongly of ring influence, and natur-
ally suggested the inquiry as to what
object was at stake which should ruth
lessly uproot party usage and allow
avowed enemies of the organization to
announce its policy and control its ac-
ton?
We fail to see wherein Mr.. Brown
derives his authority to dictate the
course of the Democratic party. He
renowned his allegiance to it when he
left this journal, and has ever since sys-
tematically labored to crush it's organ
ization out of existence. He is in o
position neither to give advice to it or
to insist that it shall recognize his de-
mands. To be consistent, he must as
sumo the anomalous position of the
subjngated States, under Republican
Administrations; in the party to con-
troll its policy, and out of it when it is
likely to become too unweildy to ad-
vance personal schemes of aggrandize-
ment.l %aB ~
We WIN not be SO hasty as the Dis
patch and ascribe the extraordinary zeal
it manifests to improper motives, al
though it is difficult to resist some such
4 conclusion when we reason from cause
f. to effect.
Now we wish our position to be plain
" understood. As Chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee, we is
sued the call in accordance with usage
and specific instructions, and with the
advice and consent Of the Committee.
No alternative was presented, unless we
abused the trust and deliberately aided
the movement to shove the party under
Che ground Is quietly and expeditiously
= possible. Had the unanimous senti-
sseae IT 9se party been in favor Of a
declaration through their committee, Of