The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-08-01
Have we n Regular Nominee.

II we have no regular nominee according tc
party usages Of course every democrat is at lib.
srty to support whatever democrat for the Pres
idency he may think best Most all the leading
democrats, everywhere, agree that there is
none. President Buchanan, B. F. Hallett, Ex
President Pierce. General Cass, Daniel Dicken
son, and such men we suppose have experience,
ability. and judgment enough to know whether
we have or not. They say we have not. Yet
Forney and his crew cry Justify that Douglas
Is the regular nominee, and as they cannot make
Il out from the proceedings Of the Convention
they are willing to soare it. Such fellows have
great itching for regularity, and holy horror
Of boilers just noavl Well let US look at the votes
and figures as shown by the proceedings Of
the Convention and II they give him 2o2 votes
we win admit that he is the regular NOMINEES
without asking any Of these fellows to sware &c
il.
At Charleston the Convention reatirmed the
two thirds rule. and declared that the nominee
must receive 202 votes. 1t il not claimed tina,
the rule was rescinded at Baltimore, but it is
said that Douglas really did get 202 votes. Now
the proceedings as published in all the papers
at the time, show that on the I'd and last bal
lot, Douglas received 1917 votes, and the whole
vote cast was 1941Ja some put it 1856. Then
The following resolution was passed, which II
win be preceived does not pretend to say that
Douglas received two thirds Of all the votes o
the convention to wit; 202. Mark the language
two thirds. of all the votes GIVEN in thi.
Convention" He had received 1917, counting
irregular delegates and ALL and this 1917 il
what the convention resolved was the ''twc
thirds ofall the votes given in this convention.
the resolution is as follows:
"Resolued, unanimously. That STEPEEN A
DOUGLAS, OF the State Of Illinois, having now re
+. eeived two thirds Of all the votes given in thi
convention, is hereby declared, in accordance
with the rules governing this BODY, and in &C
eordsnce with the uniform customs and rules o
Democratic National Conventions, the regula
nominee Of the Democratic Party of the United
States for the Office OF President of the United
6tates.'i
There we're delegates entitled to cast SOM
l5 votes in the Theatre who refused to tax.
any part in the proceedings, after the exclusion
ofthe regular delegates from part of the South
ern States Neither did they feel authorized Il
take part in the Convention that nominated
Breckinridge and Lane. "a point Of honor"a
the Cleveland Plainaealer says prevented then
from casting their votes"
Now as hat and simple as il may appear tt
ell sensible men, yet it is true, that the States
mar, ForneY & Co., count these delegates ,Oh,
refused to take any part osatever in the disrupted
Convention or to vote aye or no on any ques
sion, in manufacturing two thirds vote ioi
I Douglas!! The Statesman calls these 1s votes
Blanksi and then proceeds to count the Blank.
for Douglas. Could anything be more supreme
~ ridiculous. Such entertainment ss that ],
lssher too silly for full grown men.
Here % the statemans lacid arrangement;
Douglas, 1917
, Breckinridge ~
Guthrie, 81
Blank 10
2l2ys
.tAnd thus" says tbs Statesmen. at is placed
beyond any doubt that Judge Douglas vas reg
alayiy nominated, having received more than
two shirds ofan The potesn the electoral collegep
For, the resolution passed unanimously. and as
The Blank, refused to say either aye or no we
will make the vote for them end call |, ayel''
That beats Fsllstaffs men ii BuckrAm. And
set this nonasnse is solemnly paraded before
Che people Of Chic. IL il not an insult and an
inputation upon oar understandings. Douglas
did not receive 202 votes and Is not therefore
regularly nominated. Bot says one, neither
wss Breckinridge regularly nominated. That
u true. We do not claim that be was We
have no regular nominee, and must therefore
choose tor ourselves. We choose the gallant
Isreckinridgs ~ Lane, "THE CoEsrIrurtoH AMI
THE EoUALITy or THE SrATEs.1
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