Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-13

~ Republican CAucusss-..Jacob BSauch
Wtthdrsws from the Republican Party.
To hs Press and DdLofaian.
The fourth resolution OF the series
adopted at the convention held in this
city last Saturday, is somewhat remark.
able when considered in connection with
the means used to capture the conven.
ton. 1t is Q we'll known and undenia.
BILE fact that democratic votes cast in
many OF the republican caucuses, secured
the election Of delegates to that conven.
hon, over majority Of republican votes.
Only for democratic votes thue cast Pen.
nington would never have been accorded
the privilege Of Offering that resolution,
fact which he we'll knew when,as chair.
man OF the caucus, he openly advocated
that democrats be allowed to come into
that caucus and vote.
Talk about loyalty to nominations
procured by the most shameful trickery,
rascality and chieanery, to say nothing
Of their being dictated by democratic
votes!
In the republican caucus, this same
individual made no scruples to advocate
the astounding doctrine that democrats
should be allowed to vote therein, and
now he seeks to bind every republican
to ratify the action OF his democratic al
lies 10 that caucus! Was it because he
was "loyal member of the republican
party that he wanted democrats to
come in and vote for him
in that caucus or was it because he was
willing to sacrifice party lines in order
that he might aid in controlling the
action of the county convention?
Will the gentleman please rise and
explain why the same loyalty to party
he advocated in the republican caucus
is not good enough loyalty to be enun.
ciated in county convention or at the
polls?
Possibly he has stock Of
loyalty on hand to
fit every occasion, aud that in the dis
pensation thereof he fatters himself all
republicans must show to the will" of
his dictation.
In this he will find himself "hoist by
his own petard."
Loyalty to the party begins first at
the primaries. When party lines are
abrogated there, then there is no party,
and the farce of nominating party can.
didates by delegates elected without re.
gard to party lines is base sham, de.
ception and fraud. Candidates thus
nominated cannot claim the support of
any republican on party grounds.
Yankton county to-day has no repub.
lican nominees. Why? Because the
primary meetings which elected the
delegates who made up the convention
held in this city last Saturday, were in
many instances controlled by demo.
Gratis, who were freely allowed to come in
and vote.
Republicans are therefore free to sup.
port whom they please, without regard
to party, and that large part of them
will exercise this right is the firm con.
viction of A REPUBLICAN.
JACOB BRAUcH RENouScEs ALL POLITICAL
| ALLEGIANCE.
| To the Press and D0kotd,an,
| Believing that l have Just cause for
my course, desire to announce to the
public that from this time hencefor
owe no allegiance to the republican
party, or to any other party, and that am
free from all political bondage and in q
position to vote for whomever may be my
personal choice, on all election days.
My reasons for this step are:
That the present bosses of the re.
publican party OF Yankton county are
prostituting that party to their own base
uses;
That they openly admit democrats to
our caucuses and conventions and en-.
courage their presence;
That the interests of the republican
party Of this county are made subservi.
ent to their schemes, which are carried
out by disgraceful combinations with the
party's political enemies;
That under their management the
wishes of the republican majority can
find no expression, and as result the
party ia everywhere and on all occasions
misrepresented;
That, by their manipulations. they
have deprived certain sections OF the
county of all representation and give to
| other sections double the representation
they are entitled to.
These are my reasons, and for these
reasons I withdraw from the republican
party Of Yankton county, in which party
and county I have been an earnest and
willing worker for nearly quarter of q
century. JACOB BRAUcH.
STILL IN THE FIELD.