Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-07-21
Corrections.
From the York Gazette.

The report of the proceedings of the
Democratic State Committee in the Phil
adclphia Press, of Tuesday last, requires
some little notice at our hands. In the
commencement, of the article We find the
following sentence:
" Many from the country sent substi-
tutcs, being themselves unable to attend,
but the first action of the Committee
philadelphia having twenty-five represen.
tatives, when only entitled to cight) was to
refuse admission to these substitutes
There were but tou applications of this
nature made to the Comnittce---tuo from
Harrisburg, one from Schuylkill, and one
from Lancaster. 1t is not necessary, at
this time, to discuss the propricty of the
action of the Committee i'll rejecting these
substitutes, as the country members, gcn-
orally, were as much avcrsc to their ad--
mission as those from the City. In look
ing over the proceedings of the State Com.
mittcc in 1856, when John W. Forncy
was Chairman, we discover the following
pointed decision upon this question;
Mr.. Jones presented himself as a sub
stitutc for Mr.. Murray, in the / 9th dis
trict. After some discussion, on motion of
Mr. Kline, the Committee refused to take
any action on the matter of substitutes,
and Mr.. Jones withdrew"
The allegation that Philadelphia was
emit ed to hut eight members of the Com
mttcc is, also, incorrect. The resolution
adopted at Reading, raising the Commits
tee, authorized the President of the Con-
vcntion 10 appoint aI(itional members in
Philadelphia, and other cities. Under
that resolution, Philadelphia, with Jour
Senators, received 10nytecn additional
members, and Dauphin and Lebanon, with
but O@e Senator, received cisM additional
members, 0H residents u Uayrislurg.
That such has been the usage of the party
in the construction of tAo Committee is
" a fixed fact as in loj6 PHILADELPHIA
had fifteen members, and Harrisburg
oSM. The proposition to vote by Dis
tricts, allowing each Senatorial District to
cast iwO votes, although but me member
wa present, was so contrary to rule and
precedent in every dcliberativc body, that
it did not require much reflection on the
part of the Chairman to decide against il, ,
when point OF order was raised upon the
motion.
One word more and VIC have done,
General Miller, Of DLuphin county,"
did not offer {" Il resolution that the D,m
ocratic papers of the State should be re
commended to hoist hc u m0c,ui,c Il rg."
After the compromise resolution had been
adopted by a vote of 10 yeas to l5 nays
hrc"ty.,isM members outside of the Phil
adclphia delegation voting for it-Gcn.
Miller moved that . the electoral ticket
be headed with the names of Douglas and
johnson. This was objected 10 by an
almost unanimous v.icc->inply because
it was dccmcd best and proper to submit
this matter to the discretion Of each Dem
ocrat;c editor in the Commonwealth, who
WI, responsible for his course to his pa
irons only; and, also, because such a
resolution, directing the manner in which
the form Of the newspaper should be made
up, was no more binding than would be
one regulating the color of the ink, or the
size of the sheet upon which the paper was
printed.