, 1861-10-04
OUR WISCONSIN LETTER.
The Democratic ssste Gonventtsn---A
| Small Attendance and Strictly Par.
tiZAA ACItO0s

ICorrespoEdenee Of the Chicago Tnbu1e.1.
/: MADISON, Wis, Oct 2, 1861.
The Democratic Convention met here to-
day. There we're about one hundred delegates
present, representing about onc-hslf the As
eemb;y districts in the State. The Convention
in no respect compared favoIably With either
the Union or Republican Conventions which
preceded It, and manifested none Of their
spirit, The 5eech Of Mr. Chas. 4. Eldridge,
who was chosen President, on taking the
Chair, was strongly partizan IN tone and ex-
pressed the spirit Of the Convention. It was
considered Of much more importance than
anything else to preserve the integrity Of the
Democratic organization, and go the proffer Of
: uGlOn on one ticket, composed Of men Of both
parties, was scornfn1ly rejected. The idea
of the leading spirits was expressed on a mo-
= tlon to nominate Mr. McKindley for School
Superintendent. 1tWas urged that he should
be nominated because he had been rejected BIZ
the Republicans On account Of his Democracy,
to which plea It was replied that he could not
be q Democrat and suffer his name to remain
on the Union ticket ....
4 long series o. resclutions-prepsred In
adyarce-was adopted before any nominations
were made. hare not any copy before me.
ard state their purport from nearing them
read. They maintain that the Union must be-
preserved, and the Constitution and LAWS eu-
forced; deprccate sectional agitation, and de,
nounce>alI attempts to force the Adninistra-
ton to make this a war for the abolition Of
slavery. They urge at length the rapeal of 4
considerable part Of our habeaa corpus and ra-
Flevin acts (kEoWn as the Personal Liberty
LsT), apd the State Rights resolutions, passed
BY 1be Wisconsin Legislature in 1859 They
Of the public NOR eys, and contain the usual
pladtu6es about the Democratic party and its
principles.
Benz. Ferguson, Of Dodge county, was NOM
mated for Governor On the second ballot. He
hiss been member of the Legislature several
timeR, and is now a member Of the Senate.
he Is very respectable man and is identified
With the farm mortgage interest.
b. N. Billings, ,of Iowa county, also frequent
y membtr Of the Legislature, and q worthy
farmer, Was nominated for Lieutenant Gov
error On the first ballot. Charles 8. Benton,
of L. Crosse, feimetly an editor aud Federal
Sihee @ hslder, was .nemnated 1a on The first bal.
substalt lta1 old settler Of Crawford county was
nominated for Treasurer. There WAS some
| difficulty IN getting any one to take the noml
| nation for Attorney General Finally young
| na1 Of LataYett county, OF SOME TWO years
| standing at the bar, P. A. Orion, was prevailed
t which indicated ability only Of fourth-rate
country lawyer. James YollmaF, Of Washing
ton county, capable German, was nominated
Bank Comptroller.
| III. Crily, an Irish1nsn from Milwaukee
| WIS nominated as State Prison Commissions
| f. G. NinsloW, q bookseller Of Racine, wa!
ccmpImented with the nomination for Super
| intendent Of Public Instruction. Altar thu
| doing up its work, the Convention adlourne.
| with what was meant to be three cheers TO
! the ticket.
Having thus entirely ignored the preyalcn
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