Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-26
1alIg Wational Democrat.
'The Wall of the Standard,

a weekly Abiding to the present boiling
position of the editor, Judge Bolts, the wri-
ter says
"Once so stern and inAexible on the sub
,ject of party discipline, that only last wear
he uttered words like these: Party is
mockery without discipline, and party disci
pIine can only be maintained by rigid and
infiexible adherence to the behests of party"
(See Daily Standard, March 18th, 1852
Now, displeased with the "behests" of the
party, he says, in his Sundays issue:
But to surrender my individual preferences
and vote for man whose character detest,
Is doing violence to my natural liberty, and
put no restraint upon my natural inclina
tions, except from fear of punishment or
hopes of reward
These are his very words-the words Of a
man who, by the very act of voting at the
last primary election, impliedly agreed to
abide by the decision of the National Con-
ventiun the words too, of one who never
thought of nttering such sentiments last sum
mer, when he was the nominee of the regu-
lar organization for State Printer"
In reference to the two thirds rule, the
writer quotes Judge Bolts as follows:
Ever since the Baltimore Convention of
the 2lst of May, 1882, vote equal to two
thirds of the Electoral College has been re.
quired for a Presidential nomination. An
attempt may be made here to bubble by as
serting that two thirds of the members pres
ent, and not two thirds of the whole Con-
vention, constitute the required vote, but it
will be of no sort of use to do so. A vote
equal to two thirds of the Electoral College
hoS fha ru1 in nopanopotia
from 1882 down to the present time"
To this Intervention" replies in the
following pointed and conclusive manner:
"Let the two thirds rule of 1892 answer
for itself. 1t is to be found on page lis of
Cluskey's Political Text Book and Encyclo-
pcdia," work quoted as authority on the
foor of the United States, and is as follows:
RESOLVED, That each State be entitled, in the
nomination to be made of candidate for the
Vice Presidency, to Il number of votes equal to
the number that they will be entitled to in the
Electoral College under the new apportionment
IN voting for President and Vice President, and
that two-thirds of the whole number of votes IN
the C0npention shall be necessary to constitute
choice
(The reason that the Vice Presidency was
mentioned alone was that General jackson
was unanimously agreed on for the Presiden-
cy)
Two thirds of the whole number of votes
an the Convention,' is seldom twothirds of the
whole Electoral College, for South Carolina
has always been very irregular in her at
tendance upon Nationa! Conventions, and
did not participate in the actions of the re-
cent "bolting" concern at Baltimore. In
1871 the two-thirds rule of 1882, and not
new one, was adopted and the same rule in
1913 gave Mr.. Cass the nomination, when he
had but ITO votes or about 20 less than two
thirds of the electoral votes of the Union.
The two thirds rule itself is the best answer
TO all that can be said or written in the Uni
ted States, between this and November,
against the regularity of Mr.. Douglass nom-
ination. Mr. Cass received the vote of every
sound national Democrat in the Union, be-
cause he was the regular nominee. Mr..
Douglass nomination was made precisely as
was that of Mr.. Cass, and he will, as the reg
ular nominee, receive the vote of every
national Democrat in the Union.
The temporary order made at Charleston,
forbiddng the Chair to declare a nomination
until 202 votes were cast for one man, was
the best kind of evidence there could be that
the two thirds rule was well understood, and
that, under it, Mr.. Cushing would be COM
any person, who should receive two thirds of
the 252 votes that remained behind after the
cotton States seeded, to be the regular nom
inee. Mr.. Russell, of Virginia, said, in effect,
YOU must waive this established rule for the
present, or am not authorized to cast the
vote of Virginia on any proposition. 1t was
waived, or suspended temporarily, by the
majority of the Con, ention. But, says Mr.
Caleb Cushing, Chairman, in his speech at
Baltimore
That order was, upon motion of Mr.. Rus
sell, of Virginia, laid upon the table for the
purpose of enabling him to propose a motion,
which he subsequently, did, that the Con
vention adjourn from the city of Charleston
to the city of Baltimore, and with provision
concerning the filling of vacancies embraced
in the same resolution
Exactly so: and on the table chat order
still lies .(Ifit had not been laid on the ta-
BILE, the platform question could never have
been touched until the nominations were
made, and it was because the platform anc
all other questions ,Oere thus opened that the
seceders mustered courage for another at
tempt to control the Convention.) The Con
vention never revised the order because i
was never intended as any thing but TEN
porary compromise to induce Mr.. Russell, 0
Virginia to remain inside the organization
when Mr. Russell and his friends Ia portion
of the Virginia delegation) Joined the Yancl
party, there was no further need of it, 1t wa
therefore, never "resurrected" The cid anC
well established rule, which governed il
1882, 1874, 1913, 1852 and 1856, was strctl,
adhered to, and Stephen A. Douglas, witt
1917 Of the l944 votes cast Ia number of del
egates present did not vote1 was prociaime,
the choice of the Convention, and his nomi
nation then made unanimous, as is usual -
Had only 1872 votes remained in the origina
hall at Baltimore, they would have constitu
ted quorum in any deiberative body i
the world. Two-thirds of bare quorum
could bind every strict party man to the SUP
port Of a Presidential ticket The Dougla
majority would never, cf course, have resort
ed to any such sharp practice. l am onl.
stating what is Democratic party usage"
"Non,I ntervention," in the course of hi
article, quotes from the speech of Mr.. Breck
inridge, on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, i
1854, to show that he did absolutely endors
non-intervention by Congress with the sub
ject of slavery in the Territories, whateve
may be his position now. We commend tn
exsract to the attention of the editor of tn
Express who contends that Breckenridge ha
always been consistent lie said in tha
speech
1t will be observed that the rights Of th
people to regulate in their own way all thei
domestic institutions is left wholly untouched
except that whatever is done must be done
accordance with the Constitution-the Su
preme law for US all. And the rights {