Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The Democratic State Convention, for the nomination of State officers, and the appointment of Delegates to the Charleston Convention, meets at Indianapolis to-day. It is generally believed that the Convention will nominate Mr. Hendricks for Governor, and instruct the Charleston Delegates to go for Douglas. That there will be warm work in Indianapolis to-day nobody doubts, and we would not be surprised if the tallest kinds of rows occurred there. Both wings of the Democracy are on the watch, each fearing that, the other will cheat it out of its rights. W itness the following from the Cincinnati •Enquirer,” leading Douglas organ in Ohio: “Democrats of Indiana: Our Washington letter of this morning warns you in time of what you may expect between this time and the setting of the 11th of January sun. We have been reluctant to mingle in your local affairs—shrunk from being considered meddlers in matters that purely belongs to the people of another State—but duty has prompted us to make known to you machinations and plots that are designed to defeat your honest voice in the selection of the men of your choice,' “Information to that effect, that we know to he reliable and beyond question, has come to us, and (with the exception of the names of the parties who are plotting your disgrace and defeat) we give you the particulars. Depend upon it, you are to be cheated and your delegates to be bought like sheep in the market, if money and patronage will effect it.” The editor is perfectly well aware that money is the chief argument of Democratic leaders, and, therefore, he fears its irrepressible power when turned against his own favorite.