Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-06
THE DEMOCRATIC SPLIT.

THE DEMOCkATIC SILT.
The probability is that the Demo
cratic party of this Territory in No
vember will spoil its record for solid
voting by reason Of the action of the
eonvention which gave it candidate
for Delegate to Congress. There are
two factions in the Democratic party
just now, there were two years ago,
and two years before that time, and
there will be two factions in that par
ty for years to come. One faction
has wade nomination by cut and
dried arrangements and headed off
the simple honest delegates who went
to the convention to nominate man
upon whom all could unite in a hearty
support. The faction is ring with a
magni6cently working machine and a
monarclical Mormon engineer. The
either faction is composed Of the free
and educated portion of the Demo
cratic party who have for years been
disguised with the plan Of nomina-
lions followed by the faction in the
mastery. They saw Ainslie nomin-
iated for Congress and voted for him,
they knew he would receive renom
ination and took but little interest in
the convention of two years ago, but
they had no idea that he was not sat
isiied with the need of honor thrust
upon him by his party, and came to
the recent convention in the hope that
a fair selection Of a candidate would
he made from number of prominent
Democrats, who had been consulted
and who with the greatest reluctance
allowed their names to be used. But
Ainslie, with the most contemptuous
disregard of the wishes Of the
respectable portion Of his party,
not only smilingly consents to be a
third term candidate, but with his
Mormon engineer makes the closest
calculations on the convention and
when satisfied, the faction, confident
in its overpowering majority, walks in
and defiantly makes it's nomination.
They select the candidate and com
mand his support, or threatcningly
point to the defeat of the party. The
little band of shame-faced delegates
who left the convention when they
found that all the personal sacrifices
they had made in attending had been
made in vain, will never cease to
berate the Mormon machine Demo-
Gratis. It is too late for an indepen-
dent candidate, too late to attempt
the organization of third party. But
it is not too late for the disappointed
honest Democrats to meet together
and declare their independence of the
degrading Mormon ring rule. They
have taken that course in small assem-
blages, but anything like mass meet
ing has not been attempted, though
for some time the calling of mon
ster-meeting was in contemplation
But with all these drawbacks, there is
still possibility that the Democratic
party may be successful. But il
future there will be only one chance
for success. This chance is to b.
found in following out the wishes o
the people and satisfying their wants
1t has heretofore been assumed, doubt
less with good right, that any nomina
ton which faction of the party chos'
to make, would be ratified by the ma
iority of voters. This is no longer
safe assumption. The moral AM
numerical support of Democrats cal
never be obtained in future until tn
Mormon machine has been taken apar
and laid away, and the engineer dis
charged.