Show THE IO T z j 1 I TODAY TO DAY june 97 commences the great democratic convention at st louis to nominate no minato minate ate candida candidate edof s ot that party to run for president and vico vice for the ensuing campaign until the election in november shall determine who are to occupy the white house and bo be president of the senate and possible president of the tho united states for the four years ing march v I 1 our out dispatches from day to day will report the doings of the can pon and the prospects of the dlf dif different Terent candidates for nomination the tho balloting may be protracted in consequence of the two thirds majority rule and the fact that the party has not nob been beon conspicuous for Tor unity of late years if the tho democrats really wish to have success in iii november they must first become united among themselves and combine sabino co in favor of a ticket will secure tho the whole ij democratic vote and also a portion of that which is considered as pertaining dei t to 0 the tho republicans then the democrats m 0 brats have a pretty sure victory before them in 1860 the democratic Democrat io party made a grand nil nii mistake stal e in giving way to disunion over rival candi candidates elates clates in the party in partisan politics as in many other things union is strength and division is weakness and more union means victory and disunion means defeat union utilizes all the power of tha party and enables it to take advantage of any chance cliance disunion in the party antagonistic antagonist le those who profess to know claim t hat that the vote of the whole country and of the electoral college is pretty evenly divided between the republicans and the democrats if BO victory will be likely to result from skilful handling of tho the force forces and the use of the loaves and fishes people or in more modern terms the bread and butter brigade will provo prove a material element the republican party has been in office near sixteen years and of course has had the loaves and fishes men on its ita side they have devoured an immense quantity of loaves and fishes too in that time when the democrats were in office the expenses of the country were about eighty millions annually since the republicans have been iu lu office the count rys annual dituro has bas bee been n three to four hundred millions this represents so bluch more bread and aad butter loaves and fishe fishes udd and so many more mord bread and butter and loaves and fishes men with votes or suffrage influence to be secured in all probability as we have suggested the result in november will wit I 1 hinge upon the way the loaves and fishes men go at present they are naturally mainly with the republican party with that I 1 party arty they may be expected to continue unless the democrats can c convince them that the loaves end und fishes will shortly be found in the democratic party in which case the loaves and fishes men will be sure to go over to that party in in force in november and be nearly as aci certain to settle the question in favor of that party for the loaves alid and fishes men have a keen scent and an immense appetite rind find where the loaves and fishes are i there will bo be that class of men their heart hearts and their votes their favor and their fortune their theire sacred acred honor and all that sort of thing one of the great points therefore in the coming contest is to conciliate the loaves and fishes men |