, 1872-09-12
8uget Sound 9ispatth.
Democracy ofWashington
Territory.

Statesman, accepts under protest the
popular verdict against another Dem
ocratic convention to endorse the nomi-
nation of Judge McFadden for Delegate
to Congress. He says ::''In the canvas
about to commence, it is important That
the Democratic candidate be fully en-
dorsed, and the mere recommendation of
the Central Committee is not the kind
of endorsement that is desirable In
matters of this kind it is necessary that
party usage" should be adhered to,
and everything done ''decently and in
order. !"
Our ancient party yoke-fellow cordial
ly supports Greeley for President, but
evidently has not yet come up to COM
prehension of the principle of the con-
test, or recognized the nature of the
revolution that is in progress, which
means if it means anything, extermi-
mating war upon all existing party organ
izations; upon party conventions organ
lied to defeat the popular will, and ring
combinations formed for personal ends
to be achieved through party discipline.
The time has passed when party nom
ination presents any claim to honest
disinterested popular support. Judge
McFadden reluctantly consented to ac-
eept party nomination, and only then
from Convention which fully en-
dorsed the reform movement No one
will question that he is not only the
choice of large majority of the DEM
ocrats, but very many Republicans.
What assurance has he or his friends
that another convention might not be in
the interest of some scheming partisan,
as the Republican convention was for
Garfelde? Such things are common in
party management, and we need not go
out of this Territory, or the neighboring
State of Oregon, for examples.
What measure of reform has party ac-
complished in the country for the past
ten years? A Democratic party tri-
umph gave the control of the New York
City government to "Boss Tweed - and
his organized gang of thieves. A Dem
ocratic party triumph in California gave
to that State four years of an admins
tration under which more special legis-
lation and party jobs were enacted than
under any previous administration, even
in the days when the people deemed it
necessary to organize Vigilance Com
mittees to wrest the government from
the hands of the legal officers. A Dem
ocratic party triumph in Oregon, under
an honest representation of the popular
will in convention, gave to the State an
honest and able representative in Con-
gress for two years. This was foil, wed
by u packed and purchased convention
which triumphed in placing the State
government in the hands of q corrupt
ring intent only on personal aggrandize-
ment, and this ring has in turn been
overthrown by another combination
equally as selfish, all through the man
ipulation and management of party ma
chinery.
A large majority of the people of this
portion of Washington Territory want
ne more of party trickery and manage
ment which inures only to the benefit
of party tricksters. They will support
Judge McFadden because they believe
him to be honest and krow him to be
capable, and not because he has the en-
dorsement of any party convention
or committe. We would as cheerfully
support Marshall Blinn, Cyrus Walker,
Mr.. Meigs, A. A. Denny, Philip Ritz,
or any other fair minded and capable
Republican under the same circum-
stance.
In conclusion we would specially
commend to the consideration of Broth
er Newell the following remarks of Hon.
Geo. w. Julian, which we find in the
same number of his paper from which
We have quoted:
The student of American politics who
looks beneath the surface of things, and
remembers the history of parties in this
country, cannot fail to see that we are
in the midst of one of our periodical
revolutions. Through the sudden up
heaval of olr politics we have entered
upon a new. epoch, very clearly fore
shadowing the radical reconstruction of
parties on the new and living questions
of the time. Parties cannot live for ev-
er. Political parties are not immortal,
as Senator Morton seems to believe
They have their time to be born, and their
appointed time to die. They are called
into life by certain public exigencies
which are now and then evolved from
the ceaseless activity and inevitable vi
cissitudes of our national affairs, and
when those exigencies pass away, the
parties themselves must perish. If they
do not, they at once degenerate into
mere factions, the great bane of repub-
lies, and ought to be exterminated. Take
the old Federal party as an illustration.
It was . grand old party in some re-
spects, and had the support of as strong
and true men as ever lived; but when