New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-15
THE CONFUSION or THE DEMOCRACY

Tie Douglas Democratic State Committee met yes
terday at the St. Nicholas, Room No. JS9, at noon'
Dean Richa oDd in the chair Al the M mbera were
prtss1t except Messrs. Gilbert, tanning, and Mcdee'
Aside from the COMMITTEE the were large mum
Der Of ortsiders including the following gentlemen:
VIM Kelly, candidate for Cove 'nori james Br oks,
John Cocbrane, Mr. Rhodes, candidate for State-P son
Inspector; EmaDusl b. Hart, and Speaker Ludlow.
TIE Commit ee was called to ORDER soon after noon,
when b. Wood esq presented the following report
on TIE late ate mpt at fusion
The underlined special committee appon ted by
the State Central Con mee at the st. Nicholas Hotel
on the ooh MT, under the folio wing resolution:
Rred Tbs coTme Of three be gpoRsed ., the Sns
cooperation of all who are opposed to the Republican
ttg leave 10 report:
That special meeting Of the Committee was held at
;be Metropolitan Ho ell on the 9Th inst snd wasOrgaa
ize6 by the apponiu ert of Bebam Wood Cnairm Az,
and F I. Lsiin Secretary, when It was resolved that
we Should proceed forthwith to discharge the duty In
postd upon us.
On the ssme day our chairman received communi.
cation from John a. Green Jr, esq chairman OF the
so.ealled Brsckprdge State Committee, OF which the
folooiDg is copy:
This WELDING ten Electors aud two names on the
State ticket har Odd TO m-u Der of the Bre XIII
ridge State Committee at the Astor House on the day
Con mi,tee The reply 10 substance vas that the 20 n
n ittee had adjourned, and it cou not now be con-
sdered. I'll e Communication was lett with member
Of tho Co nmittee and subsequently returned to us.
We have this detailed history OF our proceedings
in tursuat ce Of the resoln of the ate Committee,
and de- " regret that we are not enabled to report
more satisfactory result.
The undersigned have exhausted every power at
their con maid to produce Harmonious action We
feel deeply the necessity of union. We refer the
subject back to the Committee which appointed as, and
beg leave to be discharged fiom any further duty IN
| the matter. , r,oor
| F. l. LAFLIN
Mr.. Wood moved that the proposition contained in
the report be accepted but his motion was lost nays
| to yess
lEAs-msssrs Wood, Latin, Kennedy he Committed, and
TAYs-@sssrs Richmond, Cssrer Walker johnson, Stone,
/ Ross Hubbard sud Cushbey
! ABsENT-Mess1s. Gilbert, tanning and MCGEE.
Having thus disposed of the Green fusion 1t was
am ounced tNat Committee of the Democratic Voun-
teers beaded by j. T. Henry, was in session In k'om
No. H. and desired to confer with the State Central
Committee for the purpose Of harmonizng the Dem
ocratic party" This created good deal OF laughter
| one member rtparking that there would soon be as
many Democratic organizations 10 New-fork as there
were vardsn Il city. Mr Richmond SiShed toappomt
sSubC mmittee to confer with the parties reported
10 be oufste but warned by the fate Of tbs Kennedy
! Sub Committee, which Mr.. Kennedy didn't atteuh,
none c the members present would accept the d)abt-
fnl honor. Toe Dean lad finally to go himself, and
soon returned leading in the ten eefaps oined dele
gatts OF the Natioual Volunteers, headed by their
Chairman, J. T. Henry. Mr.. Henry explained that
the organization which he represented was not allied
with the Green Committee With the gsltr Breck-
| ipri1ge Committee, Of which Capt G.. W. Smith Il
Chairman He announced that there were three reg
| al. d.. i'm CDu0-
I, of Ntw.York all of them ssvi0g equal claims TO
recoapon; but the National Volunteers, his own
b, dy standing strongest in the afe tons and conf
1epce Of the people. He then demanded that ten
Electors should be given bin on the PRECEDENT Elec-
toral ticket which was refused by the Orgauiz atom
er eIa speeches made by the nine gentlemen ac-
comIanyi ing Mr.. Henry, the State Central Committee
took recess 10 enable the Volunteers to formulizs
| their proposition, which they did.
OF course the Dean culi not think Of giving ten
elecor- to section # the Breckenridge party when
he hsd Just refused il to the whole.
There was much caucus, ing in the interval, aud on
reasseu bin It was found tLa it bad not been deemed
sdy able for the proposition be reduced TO writing
The Breckinridge men urged tbat the Brechndige
| party would not be satisfied without at lelst ten
electors end that if possible, FIR. Brady should be
made ore Of the electors at large. The Volunteers
were as desiroUs The Douglas men to pitch John A
Green al Gideon J. Tucker owe. board, which was
strong bond Of onion.
1t is hardly necessary to say tha. the Bel-EVerett
section of he Dougss party bad depuation on baud
which was agreeable 10 any ba-gain which might
be made. The depuiaiOn consisted OF +. A Tell
madge, Roswell c. Graves aud j. Smith.
Tie COMMITTEES, on rtassemblipg, decided to give
the Volunteers whatever places might be or become
vacant in the ectors ticket and this self pointed
Con mittee of Brecb uIdgers presented the na nes Of
join T. Henry, Wilson G HINT, Gouverneur Ksmble,
James T. Brady Moses Tay Tor, Allen anter Dan;an
al two or three others.
Frdng that matters could be more conveniently
managed by a ama Ter Committee, a Subcommittee
consisting Of Richmond, Cagger and Hubbard, was ap-
pointed, with power to FL vacances' and the State
Committee adj urned to the call Of the Chair.
Rcfmcnd tel mapbed early in tbs afternoon to a
considerable pumler Of the candidates fr Elsctors to
ASCERTAIN how many vacancies could he bad If needd
For some reason or other they were slow TO answer
and it was impossible to 60 on wi -hout the answers
lie bad, however, at Ls disposal the two vacancies
cared By the retirement Of tao of the nominees sus
eested by the Bell Everett party and ia wihingto have
three more. He will probably make seyon IN all, II
recefsaIy TO prolitiate this moned faction OF the
Bieel imdge par y. Bot every ua1 Of them will go
on he ticket Dougas Elecor on the same basis as
tbose selected by the B=ll-Everett faction.
Ricl mcnd and Cagger went up to Brady 5 house in
tke ccune Of the evening to see if some arrangement
could not be made with him. asking to zee him,
however, they were told that he had gone to the
Opera.
So the matter stands The Sub Committee meets a,