The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-03-28
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The issue upon the two-conventions
proposition, now under discussion In
the Democratic party, is at last made up:
The State Register, rejecting the views
OF the Democratic gentlemen at the State
capital and Chicago, who have, during so
many years, disastrously controlled their
party, asserts and maintains the position,
that the State Central Committee should
call two State conventions this year, one
to assemble before the st. Louis conven.
ton and the other after 1t; that the State
Central Committee should restrict the
action of the first convention to the ap.
pointment of delegates to st. Louis, and
permit the second convention to adopt a
platform, nominate ticket and appoint
presidential electors.
I I'm opposition to this policy we insist,
that one convention IS better than two
that there Is not an existing necessity for
holding two. We also assert, and we
do this with much emphasis, that the
Democratic party, in State convention
assembled, is better able to judge than
the State committee whether II would be
policy to not adopt platform and nomi-
nate a ticket until after the st. Louis
convention. We know how able Mr..
Browns committee is. We have become
acquainted with the fact that 1t is compe-
tent to manage the Democracy OF the
State, but We assert that good Demo-
Gratis are bound to conclude that the
party itself, In State convention, may be
trusted with the decision of all ques-
tons affecting the welfare Of
the party. We therefore in
sist that the committee should call a
convention OF the party-call 1t for
general business--and let the party itself
decide upon the question at issue between
the able gentlemen of the Democratic
party, managing at Springfield and Chi
cago, and the masses Of the party, who
have been too long "handled'' by weak
tricksters. viii Mr.. Merritt tell us, that
he and the other gentlemen of ttn commit.
tee he controls, cannot trust the party
they represent ?-that to prevent the
party from stumbling into mistakes, it is
necessary for the committee to say
GOOD Democrats Of Illinois, we respect
fully invite you to assemble In State con-
'vention, on the 18th Of June, next and,
that we may prevent you from doing
what you should not do, we hereby re-
strict your action in such con-
'vention TO the business OF
appointing delegates to the Democratic
national convention, to be held at
st. Louis June 9th, next:" Is this
Democracy? Is this the confidence Dem.
ocratic committeeman have In the Demo.
cratic people they represent? Ifso, and
the Democratic people Of the State do not
resent such insolence, 1t would be well to
give the entire control Of the party to the
State committee. In this way we might be
saved much trouble and expense. Con-
ventons:might be dispensed with. But we,
at least, are not prepared to thus surren-
der the Democratic party to cliqueism
and we therefore insist that the State
committee should call State convention,
to do in its wisdom what it plcascs
to do. II the convention should come to
the conclusion that nominations should
be made after instead of before the ma
tional convention, we would be content.