The Republican journal., 1872-07-25
The Coming District Convention.

The Coming District Convention.
The Conventions of the Democrats and
Liberal Republicans which are called to
meet in this city on the 30th. are to be of
great Importance to the district and TO the
anti-adminisration party of the country.
IT they shall be wisely and carefully con
rolled to a Just and satisfactory result,
and their action shall place before the
people a candidate of standing, populari-
ty ami ability, victory may be safely
counted on Our opponents are divided
and distracted; it is necessary only for rs
to be united and harmonious to assure
success. Victory on such easy terms ought
to be regarded as certain And to this
end we must first be careful to avoid the
rock on which our opponents have split,
that of forcing candidate through the
forms OF nomination, against the protest
Of a section of the district or portion of
the party. Men may sometimes be a little
prciudiced or tritle unreasonable about
these things, but If they leave the conven-
ton with grievance more or less fanci-
ed. the result is apt to be the same as
though founded on indisputable facts.
1t will not do to say that one candidate
is entitled to the nomination above any
and all others. There should be no fore
gone conclusions in this respect All the
prominent gentlemen both Democrats and
Liberal Republicans, whom their friends
see lit to bring forward should be regard
ed rs standing before the conventions
with equal rights, prepared to be tried by
the standards of popularity, and availa-
bilitv,as the conventions understand them.
Above all-and we say it in all kindness
to our good friends outside the district
there should he seen nothing from abroad
which can be construed into a command
from any quarter that a particular candi-
date shall he nominated. A protest against
'arhltrary dctation of official power is
the keynote of the call for the dissenting
republican convention to be holden in this
city, next Tuesday. We submit that I'M
official dic'aiion from other districts and
other states may become as offensive and
quite as dangerous to the success of
nominee as that against which dissatisfied
republicans protest.
We confess to have read with astonish-
ment in the Boston Post of the Doth an an
nonncement which bears this very object
ionahle ieature--4nd coming, too, from
a young lady, who, however much her
pen may have adorned other themes, is
not entitled from years, experience, or
proven political sagacity, to direct the
veteran democrats of this district. Fol
lowed in the next issue by leader en-
forcing the same views, and supple meut-
ed by letters and messages from other out
side sources, the Democracy of the dis
while to hold a convention at all, if they
are thus To be taken charge Of
These matters are alluded to in no spirit
Of anger, or even resentment We have
as much interest in success and as great
desire for a change in this Congressman
rs they can have. But we understand the
feelings of the Democracy of this district,
particularly the western portion, as well
| as any one. They know that by their own
efforts and labors they have virtually
overturned the great radical majority of
ten years ago. This has been accomplish
Ell through their leaders ON the platform,
| through the press, and by labor at the
polls. They understand every spring of
the machinery by which it has been &C
complished. And to see this all assumed
by unfamiliar and therefore unsklllful
hands, fills them with dread of the result
They have meyer felt like offering unso-
licited advice to the other districts of
Maine, or to one in Massachusetts, and
cannot see the propriety Of reversal
OF that wholesome rule
This is said with no purpose of fault
finding, or needless criticism, or in the
interest of any candidate. 1t is simply
and only for the purpose of avoiding
dangers that are to be dreaded. and that
can be much better provided against now
than met ut a future day. At this time of a
general union OF good men for patriotic
national purpose, no one who joins the
movement should be denied consideration
on account of what he has been, if he is
right now. But we do assert that those
with whom we have acted shall have due
ton shall be considered military neces-
sity."