Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-18
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The DELEGATES AND OUTSIDERS RECENTLY IN
WAsHINsroN.-Last week here was principally
distinguished by long and earnest consultations
among the delegates and delegations to the ad-
journed-over Charleston Convention and their
outside friends and sympathizers The only out
siders, by the by, who were here In force last
week were partisans Of Mr.. Douglas, and they
were principally Of the class who have for twenty
years been habitues Of the Federal Metropolis
when public plumber could be scented from afar
on IL Is notorious here that every man In the
land famous for "going In" for a grab at any and
every thing clutchable from the federal treasury
every chronic public plumber monger-who pro-
fesses the slightest identity with the Democratic
party, Is rampant Douglasite. Years ago, the
New York Erening Post took occasion to style
Mr.. ID. the "rogue's candidaten for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination. IL there was
ground for so classifying him then, il certainly
exists now with tenfold force. He has doubtless
honest supporters; but 1t Is nevertheless true that
there Is not nominal Democrat In the country
who is noted for his connection with any treasury
piundering scheme that has justly stunk in the
nostrils Of the public, who Is not an out-and-out
pro-Douglasite.
Such are the influential outsiders for the most
part-for through their aptitude for intrigue they
are infuential-who for the most part have been
doing the pro-Douglas blowing" here ever
since the beginning Of the session. AS we in
tended saying above, they have, during the past
week, been principally engaged in the work of
screwing the pro-Douglas delegations to meet to-
day at Baltimore, up to the work Of driving the
delegations from the Democratic party States out
OF the Convention, to secure for Mr.. Douglas the
empty pretense of Democratic party Presidential
nomination by convention that will not contain
a bona fde delegation from a single State that can
be expected to vote for any Democratic Presiden-
hal candidate in November next Months ago
we assured the Stars readers that Mr.. Douglas
had fully determined to "run a stump against
the Democratic party; and the present policy Of
his friends to drive from the convention the re-
representatives. from all the Democratic States that
he may thereby receive the coloring of a pre-
tended Democratic party nomination, is but
move In his game of getting himself before the
people really as an independent anti Demo ratio
party Presidential candidate.
Knowing well that he never can be nominated
with the assent of the bona fds delegation from
any Democratic party State, we have not the least
idea that he can carry a single electoral vote in
November next But his position as a political
gamester is very desperate one, and he is accord
ingly playing for his last possible stake. He has
doubtless spent in his for the presidential
nomination, and previously for the Senate, more
than hundred thousand dollars more than he
was worth when his senatorial canvass CON-
menced; the extra hundred thousand having been
advanced by friends, principally, who seek to
make "good things" by specializing upon the
National Treasury In case of his election. But
the amount indicated above does not cover the
pecuniary cost of his electoneering expenses; as
thousands on thousands of dollars worth of ma
tured but unredeemed paper' now afioat, made
to cover such expenses for his benefit, prove.
Without stopping to estimate the pecunary
and political loss that must come upon him by his
defeat to-day, tomorrow, or next day, at Balti-
more, we may safely say that such financial and
political slaughter as ii will result in will have
been previously unheard-of in this country. The
Massacre of the lnnocents was nothing to what IL
will be. Thousands Of pestferOus speculating
treasury plundering and in all respects untrust-
worthy politicians will die in day, like winged
maggots-May hies-in April. Honest men, to
whom some Of them may owe money, NAV be
losers by their demolition But the country will
be so infinitely the gamer from the lesson 1t will
teach, as that the day should be welcomed when
their politically-dead bodies may smell as unmis-
takably in the nostrils of the public, as their cor
rupt practices and purposes do now, while they
fancy themselves on the high road to success in
their schemes.