Wilmington journal., 1874-07-10
,rrg-% ORGANIZE AND Es go
WORK.

WOEsst.
If we are to be successful in thi
cou,paign we must goto work and pei
feet a thorough organization of tn
Conservative party. II we would vii
We mus! not take it for granted tia
o,lr opponents Will be defeated an,
that We haze nothing to do but divid
thc spoils. We must win the victor,
before We can enjoy its fruits. A
u .wcrfuI as are the incentives to com
pei our people to overthrow the part,
that has brought ruin and disgrace
mon the State it can only be certainI,
done by uniting our efforts.
Our cause is too just and our need
for victory too great topermitusto frit
fer away our strength upon local CUES
tons, and mere personal preferences.
Too many men, we fear are taking il
for granted that the abuses and cor
runtons of the Radical party will work
IFS defeat without proper effort and
rrcrcr organization on our part. There
can he no delusion more fatal to our
canse than this. The time has come
when every man who loves his country
and who loves good government must
work and work with will.
And We must work together if we
would work for good. We must work
,.. .,,,o,,, I,y.rs of n common o.roni1aIio,,
and have a common end in yiew.--
There must be no strife and no divis-
ions in our ranks. There is too much
at stake to hazard the result by petty
local and personal differences. All
the deserving men cannot be selected
as candidates, nor can all who offer
themselves, or who are urged by their
friends, be nominated. Some must
give way. There must be sacrifices of
aspirations and of preferences.
In every political organization the
will of the majority of it's members
must constitute the rule of action, or
it Will lack the unity and concert of
policy absolutely necessary to success.
This will can be definitely and accu-
rately ascertained only through mass
meetings, or through conventions of
delegates. When the will Of the party
is thus formally expressed by a nomi-
nation duly made i'll accordance with
the usages of the party there can be no
appeal from it, and i'll point of fact
none is ever so made.
These so-called independent candi-
dates do not appeal from the nominat-
ing convention to their own party, but
they appeal to a tribunal composed of
the enemy and a handful of their own
patty. Independent candidates are
always thus led by the enemy
1t is plain then that no man
can rightfully claim to be a
be a true member of party who de-
fies the duly expressed will of that
party. 1t is too plain that all indie
pendent candidates and'their support
ers where party has put forward
regular candidates can be regarded
only as disorganizers-in Il word as
enemies. The man who puts himself
In opposition to the regular nominees
cannot be regarded as a true Conserv-
ative.
If our success in any county shall be
prevented, or if it shall be put in
jeopardy in the coming election by the
obstinate and suicidal policy Of run
ming Independent candidates against
those regularly nominated, we trust
the anti RS and promoters of such a
course. and in view of the consc-
quences Of defeat, such criminal reck-
lessncsS VIII never be forgotten, but
will hc marked for all time % come as
the canse Of a great public calamity.
by proper organization, by proper
discipline, by earnest effort, by united
effort, victory Will be as certainly ours
as that the sun viii set OF the first
Thursday IN August.
But suppose We remain idle and are
defeated, What then? Mr.. Neill Nc
hay, the man who did more harm in
one campaign by preaching social
equality to negroes than he can undo
in lifetime Will be elected to Con
gress and Canby's Judge, Mr.. Russell,
cur reconstruction legacy, will sit upon
the bench for eight years, and Mr..
Thomas Sutton, late ku klnx, will be
Solicitor for four years Can the case
possibly he put more strongly? We
think not.
We must not and we can not lose
The opportunity to save ourselves from
8hch a fate To work To work