Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-08
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

CONFUSION WORSE CoNFoUNDED.-Our tele-
graphic reports Of yesterday from the South exem
plihed the potheration produced by the fact that
the regular teegraphers in that section prosti
tuting their trusts for the benefit of Mr.. Douglas
Their evident aim in writing these particular
dispatches was to cover up the fact that in both
the Georgia and Alabama Democratic State Con-
ventions, the apoogists for squatter sovereignty
the supporters Of Douglas-were utterly demol-
ished. In thus seeking to hide the truth from
| the public, they were compelled to make incom-
prehensible nonsense Of their dispatcbes-denom-
mating the regular conventions ''Seceders' Con-
ventions,' and the gatherings of the small,
whiPped-out Douglasite factions, the National
Democratic Conventions
BY way of explaining the truth of the news thus
mystifed,we have to say that but forty-one out OF
| the 300 members of the Georgia Convention voted
against the action Of the majority In incorpora-
ting the Senate Caucus resolutions and the
Charleston majority report into their platform
These fOrty-one delegates subsequently held q
meeting of their own, in which they were Joined
by about hundred outsiders wholly without pre-
tense that the latter had any constituencies what
| ever; and clubbing themselves a State Convention,
proceeded to elect bogus delegation to Balti-
more 1t was upon this state of facts that the tel
egraPhing agents undertook to represent the
Douglasites of Georgia as the National Democratic
party OF the State The Assoc lated Press pay
those agents for sending them facts over the
wiresnOt for their efforts TO distort the truth for
the benefit Of either party. Unfortunately, the
dispatches come to hand necessarily at so late an
hour as that the task Of correcting such misrepre
sensations Of facts simultaneous with their inser
ton, is almost an impossible one.
The dispatch concerning the action of the Ala
bama Democratic State Convention was a mis-
representation of the state Of Democratic party
affairs in that State equally garblrd. Mr.. Doug
las has literally no party in Alabama among the
people. Perhaps a hundred and fifty Alabama
ofice-seekers have attached themselves to his
eoat-tail, and accordingly formed themselves into
bogus State Convention and elected a bogus
delegation to Baltimore. This is the true ex-
PLANTATION of the Alabama-affdirs dispatch of yes
terday.
The meaning of all this is that the Douglasiies
Of those States are carrying ont to the letter the
instructions sent to them from this city, to get up
contesting delegations to Baltimore, in the hope
that the majority of the National Convention W l
exclude the States represented by those who Sc
coded at Charleston, and proceed to nominate
Douglas with those States unrepresented, except
by the fraudulent delegations which have been
directed to be on the ground (at Baltimore).
There is no possible chance that any such game
can succeed as a prospect Of its success would
instantly drive from the Convention all the dele.
gates from all the Southern States and also the
anti-Douglas delegates from all the Northern
states, leaving to act with the bogus Southern
delegations but a lean minority of the original
Charleston Convention-the majority Of which
will, Of course, in any such event, proceed to
make National Democratic ticket that will tri-
umPh in every Democratic State of the COnfede-
racy.