Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-05-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The Question Of the Nomination. We
have repeatedly taken occasion to enter our
protest against the manner in which those who
claim to be peculiar friends of Mr. Buch-
anan seek to compass his nomination at Gin
cinnati. They misrepresent the standing and
public acts Of the other aspirants, and in too
many instances scatter broadcast personal
accusations against them without stint We
explained q case Of this sort not long since,
where large numbers of the W ashington Sen.
finsI containing vituperative article against
President Pierce was showered over Virginia
under the frank of distinguished Senatorial
partisan of Mr.. Buchanan. We have not yet
seen the frst line disappearing lat act in any
Newspaper that advocates Mr.. BIS nomina-
ton The article from the Georgia Times
and Sentinel, published in the Union yester-
day, at the request Of a distinguished partiz an
of Mr.. Buchansn's nomination, was to our
mind in very bad taste, and it strikes US as
being tissue Of misrepresentation or mis-
takes from beginning to end.
Mr.. Buchanan is not stronger than any one
else in Pennsylvania, unless his immediate
friends are devoted, not to the Democratic
cause, but to him personally. Or, rather, to
themselves; using his name merely as their
blind. There is an active, energetic and
untiring anti-Buchanan wing of " the party
In Pennsylvania, irreconcilably hostile to
those who claim TO be Err. BuchanaH's manag-
ing friends, WHO will De more apt to labor
against him, than his friends, if some other
distinguished Democrat be nominated, to labor
against that man, whoever he may be But,
IN the main, the contes. is to be fought there.
~ every where, over the naked principle of
the Kansas-Nebraska act, and no aspirant is
% strong as that cause.
No injustice win be done to Mr.. Buchanan
by failing to nominate him, as no man has
claim on the nomination as his right He has
had honors and Offices showered upon him
whenever he expressed Q wish for them frst
by the Federal party, and subsequently by
the Democrats No other man in Anne rio q
ha been more profusely rewarded in that
way.
We do not agree with the Times and Sen.
mel in the belief that be Is the greatest ian
now identified with the Democratic party.
He has been in public life almost unin,er.
rupted since 1920. Where is the Iegisla.ive
measure Of domestic or foreign policy oriui.
mated by him that has become a feature in
our public history? He has been At thu bs a
of the State Department aad our min;,tsr :,
the Court CT st. James. Where is the treat,
negotiated or consummated through his asen
cy, except the unimportant commercial treat,
with Russia, which is almost verbatim a cop,
Of many similar treaties with other govern
ments, before and since made, in many in
stances by comparatively obscure Charge
dAfsires on the part of this government?
The idea OF his peculiar popularity at tn
South is worse than Q mistake. 1t is
dangerous misapprehen,ion Of the truth. Tn
South entertains no devotion to men wha,
ever. In her estimation they stand or fall al
together according to their records, and when
ever before them for Office, their records onI
are considered.
Now, upon the question of protection, tn
record of Mt. Buchanan is as palpabiy agains
the doctrines Of the South a. that Of any gen