The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-03
Democratic Convention.

Democratic Convention.
Persons principles That, according to
the latest accounts, is the question now upper
most IN the minds of the gentlemen at Balti-
more. Shall the nomination be made without
reference to principles or shall the principles
be defined. and every candidate required to
submit to measurement by that standard
NO wonder that with such point at issue
the debate ''waXed warm" or that Senators
and Delegates accustomed to latitude and verge
enough for every purpose, should for the nonce
object to be pent within the narrow range of
clear, well-defined principles. Senator SoULE
may well wonder how the chameleon hues of
Democracy can survive 50 great change of
being. What is the glory Of the party if it
be not It's marvellous adaptation TO feelings
and positions as diversified and distant as the
climates and products of our country Fire
eating in the South-Freesol in the NORTH
mixed and uncertain in the centre, how can the
party live if teihered to a thing 50 inconven
ent as batch Of principles A giant Invested
Of his extremites would bleed to death
Our latest dispatches show that Mr.. WISE
BERs, Of Mississippi, and others, battle stout
ly for the right. They prefer to stand on prin-
clples, however perilous to particular candi-
dates or to the proclivties of particular sec
tluns.
One of the dispatches arprizes us that while
the Committee on Resolutions were engaged in
preparing platform, the carpenters were la
boring TO adapt the capacities of the material
platform TO the requirements of the occasion
To day will no doubt bring forth both in full
proportions. We can imagine platform that
shall sustain bodily thousand delegates; but
what short of necromancy can devise plat
form Of principles that shall please the whole?
Concerning the out-of-d door rumors and esii-
mates, We have the following from the Patriot
Of last evening:
The excitement among the friends Of the scyc-
raj candidates increases in intensity az the hour
which Is to decide their fate grows higher Gene
raj Casss friends all but despair They outnumber
those Of any other candidate, but they arc no,
enough to control the dccsion while the friends Of
all the other candidates seem now to be fixed in
this purpo.c, that they not to vote tor General
Case under any circumstances. The purpose per
q
to ron the chance Of being elected Pres:dent-or,
We should more correctly cay, be put up as a eau
didate again to be defeated.
"But If the friends Of General Cass are not nu.
merou. enough 10 secure bic nomination, they are
suft ienuy strong to defeat under the operation Of
the wo-third rule, any other candidate. Whoever
therefore, IL nominated, must receive the votes Of
some Of the friends OF General Cass This enables
them 10 reciprocatc the opposition made to him by
the friends Of other candidates, and they will do
this il Il understood. by not voting at any time fJr
Mr.. bauan So this lays the Pennsylvania can
ddsie the shelf aud also disposes Of some Of the
other scattering candidates.
'Messrs. Cas- and Buchanan being thus laid on
the shelf, who s likely 10 get the nomination. NJ.
body kaows. There must be show Il hands fret:
aud then the wire workers will begin their opera.
uons. Some outsider, II seems nov " be conced
cd, Is to be the man. DOuglsss friends do not
desparj and IL is thought that TIE organization Of
The convention IL favorable 10 bin; bat the friends
Of Case and Buchanan cannot think nov Of giving
them Up for Douglas. Then General Houston. Of
Texas, Is talked Of; bot hs head is hardly above
water yet Mr.. Speaker Boyd s also named a. a
alternative but hat u all; he is only now named
There -, however, a strong party AT work ia
favor ol General w. o. Butler, Of Kentucky Tho
FfcesJ,l aud Abolition factions in the party have
selected hun az their man, not 80 much in the
hope that they might influence biz views on the
question they profess to have much at heart. but
IN the hope that with bin they might defeat the
Other sections u the parry. Whether they will
succeed or not, we shall see The, however. IL
nov clear-thst tue struggle for the nomination
between the friends Of the opposing candidates, j.
prompted more by the personal influence which
the succcssiul eide would thus gain over the Pre.i
dout-H their nominee should b. clccted-,hau
from any public considerations The contest, in
deed, seems 10 be entirely brought down 10 this-
that tnose shO triumph IN nominating the calai
date are - have nc control over party afIars n
Washington, II they succeed 10 elccung him"
We have one fact 10 add TO this cluster Of
apeculauons. IL is that General LANE and Mr..
Speaker BJYD-both supposed to be reserve
cahdidates-were yesterday run Of the track.
We mean, however, the raIlway--not the Pre-
siGentlal-track