Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-25

The 1919 Vorss, OR, That REGULAR NoMINA-
rioS.-Has II occurred TO the Eecent eonverts-the
stick.ers for regular organization-shat their can
ddate, Mr.. Douglas, got but Isl ofths 30S votes
that should have composed the Convention of
the National Democracy? There has been rule
as well fixed as any rule that ever existed in our
party that the successful candidate for the PFes-
dency should receive tlOo thirds Of the whole u0teS
According to this, Mr.. Donglas should have re-
ceived 202 votes but he falls just 90 short of It,
by his friends showing, and miss is as good as
mile.-EspreSs.
Douglas received the unanimous endorse
meut of the Baltimore Convention, consisting
Of 2l2 delegates, making over two thirds of
the S0S votes which would have composed
the whole Convention had the Seceders re-
NAMED. In the first place, he got in the Con.
yention of two hundred and twelve votes one
hundred and eighty one and half votes The
vote was then made unanimous, and he receiv-
ed then, accordingly the entire vote of the
Convention, two hundred and twelve. This
showing settles the question. But. even sd
mitting that he had not received the unani-
nous nomination Of the Convention, and that
he had received no more votes than those
on the ballot which gave him one hundred
and eighty one and half votes,-are not one
hundred and eighty one and half votes
largely over two thirds of the Convention {?
The Convention, after the Seceders left, was
composed of two hundred and twelve votes.
One third of two hundred and twelve is sew
enty and two thirds. Two thirds is then one
hundred and forty one and one third. Doug
las received on the ballot alluded to, instead
of l4l votes, one hundred and eighty
one and half He was therefore nominated
on that ballot by two thirds of the entire
Convention.
The only answer that the Boilers can maxi e
to this is to declare that the Democratic rule,
requiring q two thirds vote, in order to nom-
inate, means two thirds of the entire electoral
vote of 30S. But Democratic Conventions
have interpreted the rule very differently,
and established its meaning to be that two
thirds of the Convention present is what is
required. There is sense in this, too for,
otherwise. few Boilers might at any time
prevent the nomination of a candidate, by
leaving the Convention. The Democratic
rule is, that where delegates leave Con-
vention, the majority remaining behind go
right on with the business, regardless of the
Boilers. The party cannot break up, simply
because it has few factious and impractical
bic members
That the Baltimore Convention acted up
to the two thirds rule in the nomination of
Douglas, is evident upon the first reading of
the rule in regard to the two thirds vote 1t
reads as follows:
RESOLVED, That each State be entitled, in the
nomination to be made of candidate for the Pres
idency and Vice Presidency to a number of votes
equal to the number that they will be entitled to
In the electoral colleges under the new apportion-
ment In voting for President and Vice President,
ana that Two-THIRDs OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF
VOTES IN THE CONVENTION shall be necessary to
constitute choice.
This makes no allowance for votes that may
not be in the Convention. That this was well
understood to be the meaning of the rule was
fully determined by the National Convention
which nominated Lewis Cass for the Presi-
dency. He received two thirds only of the
delegates IN tie Convention and not two thirds
OF the entire electoral vote of the States.
The thing is therefore settled, and the Ex-
press and its Boiling crew have not solitary
foot of ground upon which to stand. The
nomination of Douglas was regular in every
aspect in which it can be viewed, and there
Is no avoiding the invulnerable fact