New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-03
THE DOUGLAS FAILURE.

The Douglas men, VINO had large aud imposing
rally at Philadelphia last Saturday night made
terrible failure in this City last evening. None
who did not see it can realize the totallty of this
collapse in all its gigantic proportions. To COM
pare it with the poorest Of our Lincoln meetings
would be preposterous-it was Like row.boat to
the Great Eastern. The professions, the attend
ance around the stands, the shouts, the speeches,
were all so far below zero that it would be cruel to
dwell on them.
The long list of officers paraded hightens the
furereal aspect of this fororn affair. Not one
fourth of the strong Influential men Of the party
are borne on this list, which reads like page from
the new Directory. Not half dozen of the eight
or ten score carry any political weight. ANY well
informed citizen who looks over the List will see
that Mr.. Douglas is nowhere in this Emporium.
The Resolves of this meeting are sngularly
vague and timid. They seem to have been drawn
rather as an apology for supporting Douglas than
as statement of reasons for preferring him. They
lay more stress on regularity and party organiza-
ton than on principle. They shirk or befOg the
issue made up by the rival nomination Of Breckin-
ridge and Lane. They do not even plainly assert
that the Southern demands putforth in the Breckin
ridge Platform are sectionaland unjust. They seem
to rely on the assertion that Douglas was regularly
nominated what of johnson q as conclusive, yet
do not even try TO meet the Objsct to that nom
nation on the score of regularity SO calmly and
ably stated by the Virginia delegates to Charleston
and Baltimore, copied into our last. We should
consider the question of regularity quite subcrdi-
nate; but those who lay SO much stress on it
and arguments presented by their rival pretenders
to Democratic orthodoxy.
The speeches last evening were not merely poor
and dull-they were emlneutly naladroit 1t was
the manifest cue of the orators to pitch into Lin
coin and the Republicans, ignoring and belittling
the Breckenridge movement to the utmost. Instead
of this the Kilkenny cat-fght was reproduced from
every stage and in almost every speech. The
greenest chaw-bacon who listened with open mouth
must have comprehended that the speakers were
more intent on crushing out the rival faction than
on beating the common adversary. The genius of
stupidity seemed TO rule and reign throughout.
Mr.. Douglas has long had ardent, able, inlluen-
tial friends in this City, though they have always
ben minority of the Democratic party. BY
rss2 arrangement, they might have been converted
tsae . majority--at least, we have supposed So
"a last nights meeting has probably rendered
~ consummation impossible He will be beaten
in the vote of our City decidedly by Breckenridge
badly by Lincoln, unless the tide shall turn before
election Even the Bell-Eyerett men have beaten
his meeting in every element of strength and ill.,
hueuce. One more such demonstration in his be-
half would put him out Of the canvass, at least so
far as our City is concerned. In the Rural Dis
trIcts he must be stronger; but his friends there
must l,ok sharply to the management of their
leaders or be will not receive an Electoral Vote in
the Union.