, 1859-01-14

The Anti-1ecompton Mon "cruahed Out" in
the Democratic atate C1uvention-Tho Can
didRtes,


Rrom the Lnu1s7ills Journal. lo:hl
It has ended - we expected, in part at least
The Uemecratic State Convention ha1 met, nom
mated purely Leconpton ticket, endorsed the
Administration, aud adjourned; it hiss met, AID
done all this-manifested this open and utter
contempt for the Auti-Lecompton Democrats Of
the Sssto-w1thout exciting, 80 far as We hare
jet ascettained. say but the very feeelsst pro-
test on tho part OF tbs victims OF s prescription
and it's acorn. Whether TIE l4i4tneas ct this
struggle aRalrs. t:75,aca wts owing to the
ovesporesing Strength Of the Iecomp.ou men in
the convention. or 10 tie baseuess of their ad-
versatles, We are at present unable to say, and
unwilling to conjecture We uay be abie to
speak on this point with greater certainty to-
MORROW. Meanwhile, The ticket proposed by
me convention challenges word of present
comment
Beriah Magofin, the conyentioo's candidate
Tor the Governorship, 10. We believe. q man Of
high abiis1ea Mr.. Magofin canvsssed the State
~ the summer Of 1856 % the Democratic can
dldate for the Lieutenant Governorehip, and is,
accordingly, in superficial way, very generally
known by the people. He is not man who Is
at all likely to prove dangerous with the
presume, has formed aome definite idea of him
as an electioneerer and 4 speaker, and, it is
hardly too much to say. the estinaste Of him in
these respecta entertained even By his own po-
lltlcat friends is not an exceedingly fatsering
one. his bold on the popular admiration il By
no meaus firm. Mr. Aagodiu is personally, We
doubt not, most estlmahle gentleman; but
with no preteosions whatever to the qualitca~
t1ons OF statesman. he is not al able and efo-
quent, or even Akillful politician
Ihe conventlon's selection IT Lynn Boyd al it's
candidate for the LieutenantG tGoveruorship is an
act to which certainly nothing but the sternest
necessity could have driven It. At ell events,
fha nd }nd nnr 4
| actually under the 8.erneat necessity.
| The convention was compelled to choose be.
tween 1ashipg Boyd's political CARCASS to As~
RoniD, and giving mortal umbrage to an infue="
tia' section OF the party. Coneeiving that Boyd's
name might be less formidable than his opposi.
ton. and concluding that tue ticket had better
carry weight than run against the Wind, the Con.
vention yielded, reluctantly no doubt, to the fer
Rer alternative, and gaye Boyd the second place
on the ticket.
| The conventions candidates for the Offices oil
| Auditor md Superintendent Of Public lnstruc.
tlon are both highly credisahle ones. Grant
Green is one Ut the few intelligent young men
We hare met in our lives who have impressed rs
as conscientious yotaries of Democracy. He
| seems really to believe in the thing Mr. Rich.
srdaon, 60 1ar as we know. is personally without
feproach. Yet Why WAS the nomination he has
received not given to our young friend HarneY,
who was warm competitor for ii, whose quali
tcationa are at least as great, and whose charac
ter il as unblemished a. onybod7's9 This ques
ton is easily auawered The nomination was
not giyeu 10 young Harney, because be is az
Anti Lscompton Democrat, and the son Of hil
father. That is the whole Of it. The conven
ton assembled With the determination to en-
dorse the Administration, and nominate a Le
compton ticket, pure and simple. The idea o.
throwing crumb to the heretics did not CONF
within It's design. And accordingly no solitar,
| crumh YES thrown to them.