The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-08-30
RegnIeritv orDougIas, Nomination.

Cincinnati: Commercial Of the 95th inst.
II cmpletely oyerthrOws their nonsense
about the regularity Of Douglas nomina
ton.
We desire also to commend to their
consideration the fact that II. V. johnson,
their candidate for Vice President aOds not
nominated at all, but appointed dya com
lmiRee. That of the niue candidates before
the Charleston Convention for nomina-
ttion, eight of them are for Breckenridge
aud Lane-tbat Mr. Buchanan and his
predecessor, every member OF the pres
cnt administration. every democratic
member of the U. S. Senate, except
Douglas and Pugh, repudiae Douglas and
his doctrine, as does the Supreme CouIt
! of the United States. The Commel cia
says:
We shall not enter here into the merits
of the contests before the Committee on
Credentials, at Baltimore. 1t is su6i lent
to say that the minority report from that
Committee, drawn by Governor Stevens,
Of Oregon, has never been published in
any Douglas paper within our knowledge,
and that no attempt to reiute it has been
made, because it is imprcgnable in state
ment and argument, and clear as the so .
luton of series of simple geographical
problems. Nor has any Douglas paper
within our knowledge. published the re-
port from the msjorily of the Committee
| on Credentials made by Mr.. Kruw, of
/. Missouri document, the imbecility OF
9 which is in happy correspondence with
=, the weakness of the case
The result Of the fist ballot in the the.
alrical Convention at Baltimore was,
# ",vhole number of votes cast" one hun
y dred ard ninety and half, eleven and
a half votes short Of two.lhirds, there being
three hundred and three votes in the Elec'
. toral College. Mr.. Douglas received one
: hundred and sevenly.lhrce and hal
@ votes. OF these votes fifteen were the
i. new dslpg.tes from Alabama and Louis
N iaua-as 10 the regularity of which there
!; was certainly very great doubt. Msssa
!, chusetts also gave Douglas ten votes-thc
.' ten delegates remaining, each being emit
: :. lied to half vote only, but giving full
. vote. This proceeding unwarraDtably in
q q creased the strength Of Mr.. Douglas five
votes. There was "a vote and half alb
sent from Minnesota, and the remainder
), Of the delegation took the responsibility o
casting the full vote of that State a--thing
!. hey had no right TO do There was alsC
!. half a vote absent from Vermont and ii
>. the other Convention; yet it was cast ful
"a DOUGLAS. There was half vote from
20 Tennessee cast in the same way So tC
=. get at the genuine vote given Mr.. DOUG
:. LAS on the first ballot at Baltimore, w
"A must subtract twenty two and hal
! Yates from one hundred and seventy three
and a hundred and 6fty one votes-not
n only not wolhirds Of the Electoral Col
lege vote, but not half that vote.
:, 1t will he observed by reference to the
"a record that he did not receive any votes
n from Georgia al Baltimore the DouGLA'
a delegation from that State having cas-
"a SO desperately bad, so conspicuous'y alb
- surd, land such that it would, il endors
~ I'd by the Convention, have afforded
10 precedent ,ha, could have been used wit
ha fatal elect against the Douglasities, tbs
nd the delegation with Mr.. HERscHEL '
10 JOHNSON at its head, was excluded.
u No sooner was the result Of the fr'
,t ballot declared than Mr.. CnURoH Of Ne
he York moved the following resolution:
ho Resolved. That Stephen A. Douglae, I
il the State Of Illinois, having now receive
in two. thirds of all the votes given in tn
ug Convention, he is hereby declared, in al
rec oordanco with the rules governing th
a body aud 10 accordance with the unifor
rio custom aud rules CT former Democrat
no. National Conventions. the regular nom
bs nee of the Democratic party Of the Unit
Lat States for the office of President,
or. Mr.. CnuRcu admitted that the obje
md of this resolution was TO change the co
nd structon Of the two.thirds rule which HI
~ been confirmed at Charleston by the Ne
n, York vote, Mr.. GiTrINGs Of Maryland,
He fast friend Of Mr.. DOUGLAS. made aspseC
he solumnly protesting against the resolutiC
rse of Mr.. CnURcH. He said Of the tw
81 thirds rule. ...
His "But that rule is one of the cardiu
principles for the government Of Dem
no cratic Conventions. and we better not ma
o4 nomination at all Than rescind rule
.wo the purpose of making any one maj
but candidate
he The Chairman; Hon. DAVE ToD of oil
in said
ar. "The present occupant Of the CHI
but will not feel at liberty, under that dire
i'm ton (lhe Charleston construction Of t
two thirds rule) to declare any one no
mattel until he gets a02 votes, unless II
ar. Convention shall otherwise instruct hin
~. Mr.. Davis, ofVirgioia. wanted TO knC
'00 how in the name OF common sense gent
Nm men expected 10 get two thirds of t
500 votes Of the Electoral College, when the
The were not that many delegates in the Co
,h vention. lie said the Charleston co
:: struclon Of the Two thirds rule must
!" rescinded, "otherwise, we stay here n
ballot, and ballot, and ballot. without ev
Der nominating" ,-...
RS. Mr.. GlrrISos. of Maryland. said:
oil "When the in structions were given
i've the President of this Convention
liet Charleston, to construe that rule to me
OF two.thirds of the vote Of the Electo
lls' College thai instruction became the ru
IN | hope we will adhere to the rule. | ha
mi yotaa 6ftv t;mes for Mr. Douglas and "