Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-09-28
A LEAF OF DEMOCRATIC HIS
TORY.

Inside Of the Late Convention
John II. Haskin Gowns Up'--
How the Little Swindle was
Arrangea--NH arble, COmstOCk
and Cassidy "Redundantv--
The Democracy Of Ohio, PENN
sylvania and New Jersey De-
nOunCed--"BOur vaIlan-
dighamismo and GERRY Black
BuChahanism.''
The Hon. John B. Haskin, Chairman Of
the Committee of Resolutions of the late
New York Democratic State Convention
and the author of the Democratic platform,
writes letter to the Herald, giving an in.
side view of the doings of that body. He
says: .,' a...
1.-The platform of principles adopted at
the late Democratic State Convention hav-
iAg met with general favor and the portion
of the article in which my name occurs quo.
ted in your paper of to-day from the World
of the day previous having been designed
to convey the impression that the platform,
as adopted was the work Of many distin-
guished cooks, and not of the committee
of which had the honor to be chairman,
in their behalf, and for the facts, state
that just before the organization of the
committee, in my room at the Delavan
House, Mr.. Calvert Comstock, one of the
committee, formerly The Albany Argus, re
quested me, as the chairman, to inuite Mr.
Marble ofthe World, and Mr. Cassidy of
The Argus, to attend and participate IN their
proceedings | replied that they acere not
members of the committee; that the commit.
tee would first organize, and after they had
considered and digested the resolutions pro.
L., ,.l
Cassidy before then, for their suggestions and
views. These gentlemen did not, ho,OeUer,
come Jefore the committee. Upon the organ.
izalion Of the committee read for its con.
sideration eleven resolutions, handed to me
By Mr. Constock, and Which had been print
ed upon slips IN the Argus office. Eight oi
these, after being discussed in the commit
tee and amended, were adopted, and thre,
, Of them one, on arbitrary arrests, miltdr1
courts, suspension of hdbedS corpus, DC; an
other IN Jdror of disbanding the army, abol
, ishing military bureaus, dc, and another Z,
favor of abolish,ng United States rerenue col
lectors md assessors, and of confeving tn
performance of their duties upon State Of
fctals; and still another tndorsing the Ohio
Fenn$ylrdnia and Ne,o Jersey platformS--
5 the committee had the good sense to reject a
2 foreign to the living issues of the approach
ing State campaign. The ninth resolution
e of the series adopted, the one heartily in
G dorsing President Johnson, 1 had til
j pleasure to propose and ask to be incorpora
+ ted in the platform, and which, after son,
= opposition ,oas adopted But with thi
. resolution the Distinguished gentlemen nan,
t ed in the World article had nothing tohatere
}, to do. Indeed, as Mr.. Caluert Con,stocl
}, before the platform aodS submitted and uote
] upon by The Convention, desired me to ON,
It this from. the series, l suspected that some
these gentlemen toere opposed to 1t. l kno'
l. he urged in the committee that the COLI a
i dorsenient of the Presidents 'restoratio
policy contained in the fourth resolutio
t ,ods sufficient dllusiOn to and indorsen,er
Of him. | differed with him, and advoci
;, ted giving President johnson a cordial an
j. magnanimous support, as well for his pas
as his future constitutional measures, an
e 10Th the assistance of Messrs. Jones an
Chiiis, of your city delegation, carried tn
q committee with me, and thus this resolutio
was adopted. a.-
:. During the mig bit the resolutions wei
l adopted by the Committee Mr.. Marble drol
ped into my room and erdmiaed then, afit
J. doing which he desired to know Uhot II
Committee had done Dith the other rcsol,
n tons submitted, prepared Jointly by Mr.. III
ucu uHu NWScy. L informed MIN tnat tf
G. Committee had deemed them redundant an
ir rejected them, ,f
ir Tho Committee on Platform are entitle
70 credit for amending The resolutions sui
j. mitted and for cropping out Of them tho.
winch were unnecessary for making tf
It platform symmetrical, comprehensive an
d strong, and for the last resolution, frank
aud honestly indorsing President johnson
t | know that some of our leaders, socallet
desired simple Endorsement of him, =
r divide and conquer the enemy but wit
me the paramount idea and 1t induced n
le to go to the Contention, in uie,o of the cur
of the Chicago Platform acas to aroa II
5 Bourbon Niuandighamism of the Ohio, IL
Jerry Black Buchdndnism of the Penns,
If rania, the Camden and An,boy RIP Va
Winkleism, ofhe Ne,o Jersey Democrat
Platform, and to give President johnson
ID sincere and hearty Endorsement to max
" him the great leader of the people and
n the Democratic party, as hiss great prot
type, Andrew jackson, was of old. My a
sociation with and knowledge of Presidel
he johnson during the thirty.ffth and thirt
sixth sessions of Congress gave me opport
ID nifty to know that he was, as Democro
conservative; as a statesman, able; and {
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