The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-07-05
Power Of q Minority.

Mr.. Douglas friends exhibited their
unscrupulousness and want Of sense in
their recent action at Baltimore, in the
admission Of the bogus delegates from
Louisiana and Alabama, solely because of
their willingness to aid in Mr.. Douglas
nomination. We have before shown up
the claims of the Alabamians who got
their seats; but, for the purpose Of point
ing cot the way 10 which votes were got
to secure the result at last attained, we
repeat.
After the break. up at Charleston. the
question of new delegates to I'll The places
in the Convention made vacant by the
secession, came up in the seeding States.
In Alabama, a Convention wi called by the
regular Democratic State Committee, 10
meet at Montgomery, on the 4th day Of
June. Very soon after the call was issued
a number of private citizens, headed by
John Forsyth, Of Mobile, issued a sort Of
prospectus for a Convention to be held
at Salem on the same day, to which "thc
Democracy and all other persons who
"were willing to abide by the action Of
"the Baltimore Convention, and support
its nominees" were invited to send
delegates. Both Conventions met. The
regulars-about whose authority in the
premises there could be no dispute-sent
the delegation to Baltimore which was
tually ruled out by the vote Of New
York and the one horse concern, ensin.
eered by Forsyth, deputcd the delega-
tion that was admitted.
In Louisiana, the same thing occurred.
The delegates excluded were sent to Bal
timore strictly in accordance with Demo
cratic usage and precedent. The delsa
tion admitted was named by an irregular
assemblage composed Of less than one
hundred delegates called together from
twenty.onc towns or parishes by procla-
nation of Pierre Soule and his confed-
crates Of the Douglas ranks. They had
no more claim to seats in the Convention
than We have-not a whit. But their
presence as we'll as the presence of the
Alabamians was needed, or Douglas wo'd
have been thrown over. His friends had
a majority on the Committee on Crcden,
tials and South Carolina, Florida, and
Georgia being out of that body, a MAORI.
ty in the Convention, and they could do
as they pleased.
The way in which their majority in
the Convention was secured is worthy Of
note. New York and few other States
were instructed to vote as unit Now
in the New York delegation of seventy,
thirty were anti Douglas bu, bound BY
the body tina, commissioned them, they
submitted to the control of the majority
In Indiana, out of thirteen votes, FIVE,
and in Minnesota, on: of four votes, two.
were anti-Douglas. An aD.i-Douglas
MN from Massachusetts, who was not at
Charleston in consequence OF sickness,
claimed his seat, filed By a Douglas al,
'ernate, aud was refused and there was
o-e such case from Missouri. In this
way the Douclos strength was made up;
IN this way the power Of the minority
vas displayed
After this exhibition Of unsairness on
the part Of the Convention, is j. any won.
der that the Southern delegates, should
have fai' 'aa. ,ha'- dignity. consistency
and selfre.peet, demanded that ,hey
should withdraw from body that proved
its willingness to set aside the usages of
the party and the principles of fair deal.
ing, to secure the triumph of their IA
rorlte man. Mr.. Breckenridge is the
candidate Of the Democratic party, and
Douglas nomination. such as it is, was a
fraud.-Eress and Tribune.
YELLOW SKIN.-As the ladies are in
terestcd in whatever improves or Injuries
the skin, We reproduce the following
speculations on the sal!owness Of CON-
plexion from the Philadelphia Ledgcr:
Ii our western friends can in any way
teach their wives, daughters or cooks to
keep the pearlash out Of their bread, all
the yellow people, especially the yellow
children, who are supposed to be turned
yellow by the fever and ague and bilious
tevers, will soon be turned white. 1t is
great mistake to suppose that the yel,
low countenanccs Of the West come from
bile, when it is only the enormous guam
titles Of pearlash eaten in the bread that
Is reflected through the skin. Bread is the
SsaaA Va AiA|, ~ - So IL l2-Dul
1t is the staff Of death, too, in this coun-
try. Bad bread kills as many people
here as bad rum. So many people eat
poisonous pearlash for bread that they
die by inches. Dyspcpsia-that great
monster disease of the country, that de.
ranges the liver, brings on co tiyeness,
and thus finally kills the human victim
is half the time "pearlash." Herein
the East, out Of New England, We have
nearly driven off the pearlash -saleratus
cooks, but not altogether Pearlash lives
here yet in bread, but in cities and
towns We have nearly whipped out the
murderers. In the distant Western
towns, beyond the good hotels of the
lakes and rivers, pearlash, under the
name Of saleratus, is king. 1t is pcarlash
for breakfast, pearlash for dinner, and
pearlash for supper. 1t is hot any won
der, then, that the people of the East
turn yellow West, and sicken; not Of few
er and ague, bilious, aud congcstive few
ers, but Of pearlash three times a day.