Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-06
The NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC con.
yENTION.


On Saturday the Convention effected a tenn
porary organization. and to-day the hard work
commences. The question who shall be the
nominee is still an open one. Pendieton has
the largest and best Organized force, aud bis
friends are making desperate exertions In his
behalf but the adoption of the two-third rule
puts him in the ''nine hole" the position occu-
pied by so many defeated candidates for nomi-
nation in Democratic Conventions heretofore
should the South go for him with anything
like unanimity he nsy succeed in over topping
the two-thiras rule, but IL hiss heretofore usual.
~ worked to the ruin of the leading candi-
dates.
AT the Baltimore Democratic Convention of
1874, where il was invented to kill off Van
Buren,, on the FIRST ballot Van Buren, had IA
out or S5 votes cast; on the ninth ballot he had
ouiy two votes left; for Polk, a fresh nag, was
lust then brought in, and geners al rush for Polk
nominated him, to the astonish men I of all con-
csrned. In the Baltimore Convention of 1852
me old stagers, nine Of them, fought pretty
stuboornly to the thirty fourth ballot when
having betrayed their exhaustion in an effort to
unite on Dickinson, Gen. PIERCE was trotted
In, fresh and prancing, and on 'he forty tn
round he walked over the course. A similar
game now may bring in Seymour or Hendricks
In the meantime The whole field is pitted
against Pendleton, and every effort will be
made to kill him off to clear the track for other
candidates.
dispatch states that the Committee on
Resolutions met on Saturday evening, when a
platform of principles was presented by Hon
III. G. Murphy, Of New York. which has the
approval of Governor Seymour and the New
York delegation, and is regarded as certain Of
adoption. 1t IL, as given by the telegraph,
the views of the different factions of the party
1t opens with the assertion that the Democratic
party is the special and only guardian of the
Constitution, bot recognizes as "cou sequences
OF the late civil war, the determination of
slavery and Of the heresy of secession" and
demands the restoration of civil govern
nient. amnesty for all political offences, and
the regulation of the elective franchise in
the States by their citizens Who are
citizens of the States is left an open
question, and under tn resolution, with the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution de-
clared ratified, the colored people would be an
integral part Of the citizens TO whom the set
tiement Of the question had been remanded
In 3 succeeding part OF the platform one OF the
thirgs demanded is the abolition of the Freed
mems Bureau and all political INSTRUMENTAL
ties designed TO secure negro supremacy"
Even this, it will be perceived, does not con-
derrn negro suffrage But if this part of the
platform has Chase aspect, on the financial
question il is strongly Pendletonian. Taxation
of the Government bonds is demanded, and the
green back policy is adroirly covered up in
popular cry for some currency for the Gov
eminent and the people, the laborer and the
ofncehoider, the pensiOner and the bond
holder" The remainder OF the resolutions are
taken up with the usual platform chaff about
economy, reduction Of taxes, etc.