Year: 1872




the suggestion by the State Central Com
mit,ec that tie delegates at San Francisco
organize revolutionary conventions and force
Congressional nominations on the people,
that we do. The Union contends that these
Congressional conventions should be called by
the Congressional Committees, and held at
some central point in each district. Every
district in the State has its committee but
San Francisco, and it has its county organ
ization through which it can make its nomi-
nation for Congress. We are sure the State
Committee made the suggestive call without
due reflection and would now prefer to see that
portion Of their call ignored and disregarded
as illegal and impolitic. So much, generally;
and now we have few words as to this the
I'd district: w have District Central Com
mittee, and Colonel B. r. Mauden, of Sac
ramento, is its chairman, and we cannot have
n convention until he calls his committee to-
gethcr and it issues its legal call. This we
hope and believe Colonel Maulden will not
do, or .hink of doing, until after the result
of the Baltimore Convention is fully known.
In this district our party is in minority by
8 900 votes, and it would be but political
suicide for us to make a premature, straight
Democratic nomination for Congress. Doubt
less there are many able and true gentlemen
in our party ready to be martyred, but our
party and the anti-Grant people of tie dis
trct cannot afford to accept of their martyr
dom in this great emergency. if it can be
avoided 1t will take over 800 Liberal
Republican votes in this district joined with
the Democratic vote TO secure the election OF
an anti-Grant Congressman This being the
case, then these Liberal Republicans, by all
rules of justice, should have voice in the
Convention that nominates the anti-Grant
Congressman for this district We will go fur
ther and say that if they demand the nomina-
ton of an honest, able, Liberal Republican,
who pledges himself to the doctrines of the
Cincinnati platform, VIC will willingly, cheer
fully and cordially give him our influence
and support. We never have and never
will practice the "dog in the manger " POI
icy when our country and fellow countrymen
are to suffer thereby. Every consideration
of sound policy and patriotism demands that
the delegates to the State Convention should
adjourn the moment the delegates to Balti-
more are elected and instructed 1t would
be most fatal and destructive b,under to
attempt the nomination of electors before we
know who they are to vote for, and what
platform they are to stand on, and before we
know what parties their support is to come
from. The anti-Grant electors in this State
should be nominated through the voice of
the people who are expected to elect them,
and when nominated they should be solemnly
pledged to cast their votes for the candidates
who head their ticket. But to return to the
Congressional matter. We trust and believe
that Colonel Mauden will decline to be CO
creed, or rather robbed of the authority given
him as chairman of this Congressional Dis
rct Central Committee, and refuse to call
his committee together until after the Balt-
more Convention, and make the fact known,
and prevent possible disruption Or il-iceling
in the district