Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-12
Sanderson,s Say.
The chairman of the. Central Commit
tee, Mr.. Edwin Sanderson of Milwaukee.

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has just caused himself to be interviewed
and the result is disclosed in the columns
of the Sunday Sentinel of the Sth inst,
Mr.. Sandersoni is evidently disgruntled
because the delegates to the Monroe
convention declined to allow him to fix
things in this district to suit himself in.
stead of them, and gives utterance to
some sentiments hat are as silly as they
are impertinent and ill-considered.
He has evidently reached an advanced
position in political methods. He affirms
with impatient emphasis that a legal
nomination at the hands of a conven-
ton is nothing. In other words that the
majority principle is of no binding force
in political conventions and that the
people have been hitherto laboring un-
der a delusion in supposing that it was.
He with the assurance of
Sir Oracle that a man has no right to
take a nomination in the face of a
stloug opposition. The central COM
miatee is unfortunate in many things
but it is particularly unfortunate in hav-
ing a poor memory and a meager knowl-
edge of the politics of his own state.
five are not greatly in error this same
Sanderson, did all in his power two
years ago to bring about the nomina-
ton of General Grant as a candidate for
President long after he knew there was
a very strong and deep SC ated opposition
to his candidacy and when he had every
reason to believe that his nomination
would occasion a bolt and necessarily
imperil the chances of republican uc-
cess at the polls. This he did without
having the excuse of supporting the
regular nominee of the party. This he
did with the full knowledge that there
was a determined and very bitter op-
position to the nomination of his fav-
orite. He was then seeking to ecure a
''legal'' nomination for the candidate of
his choice. He had not reached the
sublime attitude of swapping his hnger
at the rights of majorities.
We are not finding fault with Mr..
Sanderson for desiring the nomination
of Gen. Grant. This he had the right
to do. But we are finding fault with his
utter want of consistence. No mar has
q right to set himself up as a leader Of
public sentiment unless he car show
some sort of stability and consistency in
his own career. 1t would be better for
men like Mr.. Sanderson to avoid inter-
views or to be more careful of their
words. OF course tits of very little con-
sequence what Mr.. Sanderson says in
his mere individual capacity, but hold
ing the important position of chairman
of the central committee, it is of some
consequence that he knows what he is
saying.
No person in such a position has a
right to say that majorities are nothing
and the majority principle of no account
and when he does indulge in such mouth
ings, he will be likely to have just as
much influence as the soundness of his
opinions entitle him to, and no more.
1t is perhaps only natural that a chair
man of an important committee after
reaching the conclusion that majorities
are nothing, should seek TO place the
regular nominee of an authorized con-
v%ention on a par with a bolter and to
say because the bolter was willing to
surrender, that the regular nominee
ought TO do the same! OF course Mr..
Keyes is willing to surrender. In fact
that is Just what he has wanted to do,
ever since he became sensible of the
grave mistake he made in boiling the
convention at Monroe. MIR. Reyes is
not wanting in intelligence. He knows
that himself and his friends acted hastily
and f~oolishly. That they acted under
bad advice.
w ntb MI IACN - hHtiiio 10 a "hS W SOt
down without responsibility for his bolt.
To put HIMSELF in parallel attitude with
an authorized candidate and say if he
will step down | will do the same, may
be sharp and smart but it is fair? The
doughty Sanderson thinks it is. What
are majorities any HOWE Queries the
gifted chairman of the central commit
ties. What right has a man to be Can
didate against strong opposition? de-
mands the delegate for General Grant
in the late national convention.
But the people we suspect have some
views of their own on this subject. Fair
play is a jewel always with fair minded
men. With men aCho think, there is
still some sacredness in the fright of the
majority" and a illegal and honorable
nomination has still some potency to
men who can submit manfully to defeat
if they must, but who decline to be hui
inflated and degraded.
It would undoubtedly be more than
agreeable to Mr.. Hazelton TO resign his
candidacy. He so stated to the commit
tee and has repeated it to others, but
Mr.. Hazelton could not honorably do so
without the consent of the convention.
which placed him in nomination. This
consent, it voted, after looking the
ground all over, to withhold. The
reasons which governed it have been
made public. They are reasons which
win find n response with the voters OF
the third district. They are reasons
which will call to the support of our can
didate hosts of men in all parts of the
district and Mr.. Sanderson will do well
to read them and ponder them; and be
will do still better, if ne will get some
sensible and competent person to revise
his next interview before it goes into
tho hands of the type-setter.
A Madison dispatch says: Col.
Keyes, when he received information
that the Hazelton delegations insisted
on keeping Hazelton on the track. re-
marked to a friend: by God. if he's
not off the track by Monday next. III
begin a canvas that win make it hot FOR