The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

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The National Convention.
The Democratic National Convention
has been called by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to assemble IN Chica.
go on the Sth of July. The time named
Is a compromise between those for an
early convention and those for a late
one. The Republicans will meet in
Chicago june 3. Their action will be
known to the country month before
the Democratic gathering will assemble.
The Democracy will thus have it in their
power to weigh the mistakes OF the adj
yersary and to avoid plumbers in kind.
The date is doubtless meant to be late
enough to enable Congress to finish its
]abors. The record Of the Democratic
House will be one for which the Demo-
cratic party will be rightly held respon-
sible. That record should be complete
when the party's National Convention
assemblies.
The probability is that the candidates
of both parties will be nearly two months
! in nomination, before active canyassing
| will begin. People are not going to be
pelted with politics before they are
ready. this year. This is seen from the
notable lufl in political interest now.
| Four years ago, at this time, though
the land was winter-locked, the people
were politically fired with summer heat.
Now they are thinking that they will re-
vert to politics when effort and calcula-
ton will be effective-and not before.
nf.Ia rv,rp
parties narrowly, being certain that
neither is strong enough to command
success, regardless of the record which
it may make. The Democrats have
acted wiser than the Republicans, in
calling their convention month later.
Two months later would have been
wiser vet. Still, the National campaign
will be run on State lines and most OF
the State Conventions for fall elections
will not be likely to meet till month or
two after July 8.
The significance of the place selected
is principally geographical. The West
was bound to have the convention, any
how. That fact settled, Chicago is the
best city of the West for the purpose.
, 1t is cooler than any other. The ex-
, position building is the best adapted for
! convention purposes of any in the land.
Rail access to Chicago is more ample
than to any other city. except New
York. The hotel Accommodations ere
: magnificent. The sentiment of the pop
|, ulation is Democratic. While the prin-
cipal newspapers are Republican or in
. dependent, they are shrewd and polite
enough to give fair reports and civil
comments Besides, there are in Chi
cago several very effective Democratic
newspapers. The improbabiIity of the
Democracy finding candidate in sc
q Republican State as Illinois will en-
= able the delegates impartially to can,
!, vass not only the merits OF aspirants
. but also the question OF the specia
: strength or weakness of such aspirant:
in Commonwealth which must be car
4 ried to win. 1t has been oh, ccted tina
: as both conventions are to meet in Chi
. cago, the people may get the platform
: mixed up in their minds. They vii
g not, unless the platforms are made g
4 much alike on purpose that one will
I, suggest the other. That can easily b.
avoided, by the elevation of principl
= above policy. Unless the platforms ar
q designedly made alike, they will not re
. semble one another by the mere inciden
y of being promulgated in the same town
The organizations through which tn
"a Democracy act will from to-day accep
- notice of the responsibility laid upol
r. them in this Presidential year. In du
: season they viii doubtless call the con
(. ventions in the States to choose de
~ egates to Chicago. There is time enoug
~ for such consultation and for such ger
a erous rivalry for favorites, within tn
f. party, to render the preliminary actio
n in the States representative of the pal
: tn L erein and the browning action
"a the convention harmonious, strong an
no patriotic. Each party has an obligatio
= on it to be true to its principles, unite
. in its final action. and loyal to such at
NJ ton when fairly taken. If the Demos
OIL racy act in such way as to make e'
,e cry man in the party actively iutereste
A. in and DESTROYS of its success in the M
ton, then it will also be likely to hee
m the fact, first, that it will be confronte
ic by a wary and powerful enemy, ant
in secondly, that success is going to wa
90 on that ticket and platform which ca
add to the solid partisan vote for then
to be relied on in almost any contingel
CIV, the suffrage of the independent cit
zens who 60 to the polls in increasir
We thousands every year, with the comfor
de- able consciousness that they hold Il
he balance of power in the decisive State
n He is the best Democrat in reality wi
to bears this fact in mind and who labo
lie to get for his party the usufruct of Il
Ie, fact--Albany Argus
------s-s-s--
The remains Of All Sam, Il
n Chinaman of the Jeanette. ha'
&c travelled 1900 miles in search of
grave, but are not yet in their fin
~ resting place. They will soon be taxi
across the United States to San Fra