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The anhOrucrment 81 tke Democratic Nation
ii Ccmmitse IS sciEssylcd, ihsi DE National
Conysnsion Of ne 0emocSsaie party OR he selee-
ton Of candidates III he Offices of President ard
VIE prrsidcrl ef Ire Unised States Wonld Be held
IN Baltimore % he Gss, Tuesday Of Jnne. has not
received, II We may Judge from appearances, very
e3rai Of enthusiastic reception al The hands Of the
pariy--if there Il one. In some quarters the au-
fhofity d &c Committee Is denied, and il Is 6eclas
ca that ne convention cf ISIS, from which Il pre-
tends d derive iAs powers Is an extncf convshti0a
having ceased % exist uhen ii performed The par
ticalar dusy for which Il was chosen.
The prescription Of he Committee lhat here
shall Be, In The eos1ng Convention. bal one dele
gate from each ELECTORAL District exeies also dis
satisfaction. Sara The Richmond Eraniner.
aThe oiIess posirician-he who holds most wires
In each Electoral district-witI get the nomination
oftke district cbnTentioa whenever be chooses 20 do
80 and thus The national convention Itself will Be an
unaduIieFafed ana Homogeneous mass Of these indt-
viduas The people will not be heard there Al all.
Politicians ONLY can get there by this arrangement;
old tlogouyh- paced long accustomed politicians
and these we al know, viii look 10 their own pri-
rate interests n the domination. and &c governed
BIZ the intrgue THE place BY the coalitions ofhe
assemblzge, and BY their private understandings
with candidates, instead Of by The desire Of the
country"
This is at Very trne, no doubt. The history Of
previous Conventions oi The kind gives Marranifor
every word ofil The manner ID which the Demos
racY Is led and managed By lis rulers sfamiiar e.
nough, and notwithstanding the remonstranees Of
the Disconnected ihe thing viii 60 on so
3. But there is another groundofd difficulty. Wheth-
- ots d Inc commiiies. - authoriiive or
l5t; Ihssdsr the prescribed rule for The choice Of
delegates 5e acceptable OF pol-lhese are minor
matters and will no doubt be aeqaesced 10, far
as there is representation at all in the Convention
Bat The I'laljbrn iisslf-tkat IS The question The
Democracy has been undergoing Developments, ii
seems, while the Platform has remained stationary
for Platforms are fixtures and do no, grow. The
great mass Of Democratic principles, fermeniing
aud swelling 10 expansion on every side, demand a
larger area, and we may accordingly expect that
the first work. Of The Convention in June will be to
reconstruct Platform adapted TO the new requisi-
lions 81 the. times. One might indulge in coniec-
lures If it were worth while, 10 theprobable al
teraiions thai may be made, and also as TO the
architects who viii fave most .odo in the work Of
re-constructi3n. We are told in Alhenian history
Of the sacred galley that was employed once year
to convey offerings to Delos; and as no other yes
sci but this particular one could be used for such
purpose ii became question, after the galley had
been 50 oftenrepaired that particle of the orig
inaI timber remained in il, whether il was the same
galley or not SO Of the Democratic Platform-we
mean the Baltimore Plat 'orm not the one Of Butfa-
Io-aithough we are given TO understand that the
chief architects Of the latter are 70 have hand in
the re- reconstruction Of the other in June.
#. Il Baltimore american.