The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-01-16

The Bright platform adopted on the sth at
Indianapolis appears to be most repugnant
and distasteful to large portion Of the hon.
est yeomanry of the party. In Warwick,
Spencer, and Perry we hear 1t is generally
repudiated by all bat the office holders and
Office seekers. The Terre Haute Journal an
honest Democratic journal says "the demo-
Gratis Of Vermillion county are very much
dissatisfied with the platform; they can't
swallow the Lecompton doings at ALL" In
Pike county, 'the same feeling prevails, and
the dissatisfaction is contagious" and the
Journal says, ''if something is not done to
arrest it, we may look for its becoming gen.
Have they no remedy at hand to check it in
its onward course. Were is Doctor FYteAs''
In reply to the assertion Of the Vincennes
Sun, that all the confusion in the State Con-
vention was created by inteloping Republi
cans, the Terre Haute Journal says ''the Simon
Pure Democrats in that Convention, were
chiefly the ones who created confusion, for
they saw that the doctrine of popular SOW
ereignty was about to be ignored by the Con-
vention, and they did not like to stand it."
The Sullivan Democrat, also en- old and
able defender of Democracy, is decided in
the expression Of its disapprobation of the
doings of the Convention. 1t says Voorhees,,
ga man who had lived but a few weeks in
Tcrre Haute, and who did not know dozen
farmers in tie district was selected as Repre-
sentative of that Congressional District and
made chairman of the committee on resolu
tions, and reported batch of twaddle.
Though the resolutions may be well enough
as far as they go, the platform is not sufficient
for the Democracy of Indiana to stand upon
At this time of financial CONFUSION, not u
word is said about the eurrency-a question
of the utmost Importance to the good Of tho
| country; one which Mr.. Buchanan gave
most prominence to IN his message. Why
this silence! There can be no doubt as tc
the position of the Democracy of Indiana or
this subject. The committee were such
sticklers for ''non-interference,n why die
they not leave the niger question where il
belongs, and turn their attention to home
affairs!,n
A respectable number of counties, and tn,
Democratic press generally asked for the in
sertion of plank in favor of an Independent
State Treasury. This was wholly disre
garded.
at was expected also that q resolution
would be passed against the State takin.
J back the Canal; but this was ignored.n
The Democrat pronounces the platform al
unmeaning and imperfect thing, a prodig.
brought forth by Voorhees,. "When Wallac
reported his resolution in favor Of popula
sovereignty, and the right of the people OF
territory to vote on their Constitution, $50 lit
tie confidence had the Convention in the reg
, ular committee on resolutions, that the
would not consent to its reference to tina
committee until the chairman had given hi
pledge that he would make report on it,
Mr.. Voorhees, took the stand in opposition t
the resolution, and advocating the sufficien
: cy of the resolutions already adopted, en-
Z deavorsd to Suppress Wallace's movement
but the popular feeling was too strong to b
overcome by the leaders Of the Convention.
Along the Wabash Valley and the bank
Of the Ohio the doings of the Convention ar
very distasteful to the people, and Mr.. Brigh
has gained no strength nor credit by hi
management of it. His partizans win fin
it difficult to arrest the popular tide agaihs
him.