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 30 W. C. WOODWARD at The Dalles raised a strong feeling against him in the west- ern and most populous part of the state. The vote on state printed 2 stood : Pittock of the Oregonian, 57 ; Craig, of the Statesman, 50. For the first time since it was established in 1851, the Statesman lost the state printing of- fice. H. N. George, Geo. L. Woods and J. F. Gazley were nominated for Presidential electors. As delegates to the Na- tional Convention^ T. H. Pearne, J. W. Souther, F. Charman, M. Hirsch, Josiah Failing and Hiram Smith were selected and instructed to vote for the renomination of Lincoln. In commenting upon the results of the convention, the Ore- gon Sentinel said that considering the strength that Mr. Jacobs carried into the convention, "we are prepared to congratulate Congressional aspirants in Southern Oregon that there is no show for you." However, in its next issue, April 9, it at- tacks, both on the grounds of principle and policy, the proposi- tion of a few disgruntled ones to bring out an independent Union candidate. The latter were advised that if they wanted to get the Union party of Oregon to send a citizen of the south- ern counties to Congress or the Senate, they must change their tactics ; that the politicians of the Willamette had the power to control all these little matters and that nothing was to be gained by fighting or finding fault with them. While factional differences were making their appearance in the Union ranks, there was by no means entire harmony in the Democratic party. The Southern secession element was for peace at any price. On the other hand, many of those who were now returning to their old party allegiance, dissatisfied with Lincoln's administration, still professed to be War Demo- crats and demanded the continued prosecution of the war but only for the maintenance of the Union. Illustrative of this lat- ter attitude is the following resolution passed by the Polk County Democratic Convention : "We are in favor of prose- 32 The election of a printer at this time was necessitated by the death of Harvey Gordon who had been elected in 1862. 33 It is significant that according to the proceedings, the references in the convention were merely to the National Convention, the prefix Republican being studiously omitted.