The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-17
State Republican Nominations.
County Republican Nominations

For Member OF CongrcsS-3d District.
PORTCS BANTER, of Derby.
County Republican Nominations.
A =, JCDEviSE' Hardwiek, Senators.
SERENO MONTGOMERY, Walden, (,n5,os
EZRA A. PARKS. Waterford. '""''
A. L.FRENCII. st. Johnsbury, Judge Of PROBATE
GEO. W. CAIIOON, Lyndon. States Attorney.
EMERSON HALL, st. John sbury, Sheriff.
CHAS. SHIPMAN, Hardwck, Bailif.
"Of course he Douslas) is not so silly as
to dream of success in the pending canvass"
~. J. Tribune.
We commend the above remark to those
Douglas papers, which are exerting all their
puny energies to persuade their readers, that
their candidate is going to sweep New York,
by concentrated movement Of all opponents
of Lincoln, in his favor and that with such
a capital ir hand, he can be elected If eve
~ man in the Empire State, who prefers
somebody else to Lincoln, could be combined
on Douglas, it is far from being certain that
he would obtain the electoral vote Of the
State But such combination is az absolute
impossibility, in any conceivable state of cir
cumstances. Now after the Douglas Nation
al Committee have distinctly declared them
selves opposed to any combination, or coall-
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ditates, and after it has become fixed fact,
that State Convention OF Breckenridge and
Lane men is called for the 9Th of august,
and when it is known that this party already
has twenty newspapers in the State that sup
port its candidates-to say nothing of the
late movement at Schenectady in favor of
bringing out Sam Houston as a candidate
and the American movement in favor of Bell
and Everett, which being under the control
of such slippery politicians as Brooks of the
Erpress, nothing positive can as yet be pre-
dicted Of its real aims and objects, we should
like to know if there is any Douglas man
"silly" enough to believe that he has the
smallest chance of carrying that State. If
there are such, it would be of no use to az
que with them. BY the way, it seems from
various givings out by the Broohses and
Gov. Hunt, leaders of the Bell and Everett
party, that they are willing to enter into any
corrupt combination with any party, to defeat
Lincoln. 1t is perfectly idle to suppose that
these schemins politicians, though they may
be willing to sell themselves, can indorse o.
yer the rank and file Of that remnant Of the
Know Nothing Fillmore party,whch in 1889
voted the half-and. half ticket, half RepuGli-
cans and half Democrats, thus electinS all
the men for whom they voted on the Repub-
lican Ticket by some $4,000 majority, and on
" part Of those for whom they voted on
the Democratic ticket, and those by mere
nominal majority.
The truck and dicker' plan will avail
nothing against the stern resolve-the high
and holy purpose Of great people, deter
mined no longer to he made the sport Of sla.
very demagogucs.
The people Of New York will speak out in
thunder tones once again, as she did III 1886
and their voice this time will tell.
The Democracy in COuuciI--.The VI ar Of
the FactiOns.-.Fhe ''SplIt," and what
became OF the Pieces.
We give elsewhere brief reports of t~o
Democratic conventions held in this place
last Tuesday but We cannot give our rea-
ders any idea of the scenes then and there
enacted. 1t has been pretty well understood
for some time past that there Was quite q
Douglas element in the Democracy Of the
county, and the proceedings of Tuesday re-
vealed its strength.
The regularly called convention organized
and proceeded orderly and harmorloaSiy Til
the committee on resolutions made report
Mr. Eaton, of the Star, in behalf Of the COM
mittee, read two resolutions which lie said d
majority of the committee had agreed upon
They were like the editor aforesaid in regard
to the points at issue in this campaign, non
committal, neither one thing nor the other
There was not a word in either about the
national administration, the state nomina-
tons, nOn-intervention. freedom or slavery.
They were simply a non-committal, no-mean-
ing mess of milk-and-water balderdash, evi-
IDENTITY drawn up to conciiate beth factions
by saying not word about either.
This did not 90 down. {. r. Crossman
produced, as minority report, single reso-
luton endorsing the nomination of the SAKE
State Ticket, and nothing else, as will be
seen by reference to the report elsewhere
This was the signal for union-lovins speech
from MIR. Barney. He loved all the Demo
Gratis and the Democratic cause he saw men
there who had stood shoulder to shoulder