The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-01-11
Tur DENOCRATIC CONVENTION

a
order, confusion and noise reigned triumph G
ant. All outsiders were excluded from the I
Hall, and majority of the regular delegates
having gone through the drill under the
Bright tactics, they carried their measures in {
spite Of the un1isciplined opposition Of the
Douglas men. After violent conflict, Gov.
Willard was chosen President, which gave
him the appointment Of the committees and
the control of the whole proceedings of the
body. The committee on nominations report
ed the following ticket for State officers,
which was adopted.
For Secretary of State-Daniel Mcclure.
For Auditor Of State-John w. Dodd.
For Treasurer of State-Aquilla Jones.
For Attorney General-Joseph E. Nc
Donald.
For Supreme Judges-Samuel +. Perkins,
! A. J. DAVIDSON, James M. Hanna, James L.
| Worden.
| Aquilla Jones, refusing to acquiesce in the
platform that wa, adopted, subsequently de-
clined the nomination, and Nathaniel Cum
ningham, of Terre Haute, was substituted in
his place as candidate for State Treasurer.
Samuel S. Rudd, Of Allen, was nominated
as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Mr.. Bright was invited to address the Con-
vention, and began a speech, but was cGt
short in it before Inc had got far by the re-
port of the Committee Old the platform, and
he did not resume it. The resolutions COM
posing the platform begin with vague, un-
meaning gereralities of devotion to the Con-
stitution of the United States and the early
doctrines of the Republic and the faith Of the
Democratic party they declare that lndi-
ana and other States have right to mould
their own domestic institutions, subject only
to the Constitution of the United States. The
( Cincinnati platform, and the platform laid
e down by the Indiana Democracy on the 9Th
I of January, 1856, are severally endorsed. The
decision in the bred Scott case is approved.
II was
: Resolred, That the unanimous action OF
e the Democratic members of the last Indiana
Legislature in the election of Senators in
Congress is by the Democratic party Of lndi-
: ana cordially approved, and firmly sustained
and that jesse d. Bright and Graham n
Fitch, the Senators elect, are worthy tho
n high position in which they are unanimously
% placed by their party.
The Black Republicans are arraigned iol
, their factious conduct. and it was further
u Resolred, That James Buchanan was tn,
10 first choice of the Democracy of Indiana fol
the Chief Magistracy of the Republic at thu
y Nominating Convention in June, 1856, anC
in the people of the State at the ballot box in
=. the ensuing November, and nothing which
he has done since his elevation to the higl
re- position which he now occupies has abated o.
diminished our confidence In his ability, in
y tegrity, patriotism, and statesmanlike quail
r ties, and we cordially approve and endors
his administration. And that the Conven
ton endorse and approve the administration
of our State government as conducted D,
, Ashbel p. Willard, the hero Of the ferc
y y fought fight of1s56.
ca There was q most boisterous and yiolen
nv s;ch yirth "a TIE adoption of this platform
fe II oil through, declared in favor Of the Lc
eh compton fraud distinctly N asserting tha
the people Of the United States had nothin
~ to do with the --a, III which the constitution
ed of new States were adopted, endorsed til
at course of Bright and Fitch, and ignore
of Douglas entirely. This was too much fo
- - the "old line popular sovereignty" men, an
he they kicked against it at once and with terri
III oAO 'ikOis uS NotC WIS OlucIcI W DC lake
ar on the whole report together, maneuvr
% that cut all opposition off at the knees, an
~ it finally passed amid the greatest uprr a
- and most violent demonstrations of resist
ne ance. The Douglas men afterwards Gale,
ve an irregular meeting in the hall and attempt
ly ed to organise and pass a resolution approx
n ing the course Of the Little Giant, but the,
>, n were finally frightened or deludei from thei
"a purpose, and the movement proved an abor
be ton. At the evening session OF the Conven
ID ton, meagrc sop was gwen to the Dougla
y partizans in the form of qualified endorse
f ment of the principle of popular sovereignt,
ne as expounded by Douglas. The triumph o
\, IL Bright is deemed complete and signal in tn,
In management Of the Convention. The Con
d vention, however, is not the Democracy no
N the people of the State. With them is thu
Is power, and with them he is yet to reckon.