Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-04-07
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONvEy
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and equitable manner Of choosing candi-
dates for President and adopting plat
form of principles, are suggested and urged
by some Of the "iire-ea,ing," radical South
ern journals which assume to dictate what
course Of action shall be pursued by the
Democracy The last and most noassnsi-
cal demand Of this brainless gentry is that
the Delegates to the Charleston Conven.
tion from anti Democratic States shall have
no voice in the adoption Of the platform
or in the choice Of candidates. Our opin
ion Of this new tangled and anti Demo
cratic proposition ia 50 fully expressed in
the following srticle from the Missouri
Republican, thss We give i. in preference
10 any remarks OF our own:
Several Democratic papers in the coun
try are suggesting strange limo, atoms for
the National Convention. The most alb
surd relate to . substantial disfranchiss-
msns Of the Northern Democracy, BY con.
fining she votes on tho platform and nomi
nations to delegates from Democratic
States. These innovasors forget that the
purpose Of the Convention 10 to secure
success; and that the triumph Of the party
in several Northern States, not now Dem
ocrstic, 10 essential to nationsl success
At present, California, Oregon and Iii.
nois are the only non slaveholding States
in which the Democratic party won .ri.
umphs in It cir last State elections. The
arguments used for the proposed disfran-
chisement rest upon the hypothesis that
the delegates from States which cannot be
carried 70: the platform and candidates,
ought net to have . voice in framing the
platform or nominating the candidates. IF
that argument was of any force, the party
wo'd be At once deuationslizsd aud become
- sectional - the Black Republican. No
ssGacious friend Of the South desires the
South 10 be thus isolated from ito constitu'
tienal defenders of the North. Indeed,
the number Of votes thrown for Mr.. Blu.
chansn st the ballot boxes in tho non slave
holding States was larger than the votes
given him. in the aggregate, at the South.
A large majority Of Democratic voters re.
side in non.slavebolding States, and have
quite - good RICH. to insist arbitrarily up
on imposing their will upon the Convention
- have the minority who happen to be
distributed through Democratic States. II
is especially Important 10 consult the
doubtful States. with the view Of carrying
them At the election, and not to throw
them Of BY any such act Of folly or injus
tics - is proposed.
II reference is had 10 the Cincinnati
Convention, it will be ascersained that Mr..
Buchanan vas not the choice Of the South.
srn Or Of the Democratic States. On the
last ballot he had only Al Southern votes,
Including Maryland. and DsueLAs re-
esived 70. OF the Southern States which
Supported DOUGLAS in Convention, every
ono gave its electoral vote for tho Demo-
cratic candidates, whilst it was not so with
the Buchanan States.
Again: In convention Mr.. Buchanan
received 80 votes from States which did
not vote for him in the Electoral College,
and Douglas had only 80 such votes in
convention.
If the proposed rule had prevailed in
Cincinnati, Buchanan would never have
bssn nominated, but Douglas would have
been the candidate. The votes Of . ma
jority of those States which elected Bu-
chansn in November were thrown against
him in convsstion 81 every ballot, until
PIERcE and DOUGLAS were Withdrawn, and
according to the new logic, he was forced
Improperly and unjossly upon the Democ-
racy of the Union.
We rscur to the record merely to show
how absurd is the proposed innovation
There is good reason, however, for requir-
ing two thirds vote for the adoption of a
platform, Is we'll IS for the nomination Of
candidates bat no justice or good sense
in excluding the Democracy Of any State
from . fair and full hearing in Convention
upon every matter before it. 1t is impor-
tant /, learn who can best carry New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, and Iowa-all Of which are
doubtful.
All such nev. tangled schemes, therefore,
are the suggestions Of folly or Of mischief
making. We desire platform and candi
dates that viii rally the conservative men
Of the whole Union 10 their support. In
1856 BUCHANAN was elected despite the fac,
that less than half the votes he received
in Convention were thrown for him in the
Electoral College-or to be more precise
that Of the 1913 votes which he received in
convention only 70 Of the electoral votes
there represented were given to him ia
November, while he received in the Elec.
tossl College 81 Of the Douglas votes, and
che 4 CAss votes; yet who supposed h
was any the less entitled to the confidence
Of ths party, aad dsnon,inated him the
candidate Of Abolition States? The strong
Argument for his domination, and that te
which the convention yielded, was the
Supposed friendship for him of tina Dem,
esracy Of the minority States--that they
best knowing the needs Of their respective
States, pronounced him the strougss