The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-11
Nomination OF Martin Van Buren, at Buffalo,
The Presidency-State OF Parties In New

Nomination OF Martin Van Buren, at Buffalo,
The Presidency-State OF Parties In New
York.
Our Geographic intelligence last evening from
Buffalo informs that the committee of confe-
renee, consisting OF nine delegates from each State
represented IN the convention, reported yesterday
afternoon, in favor of Martin Van Buren,, of New
York, for the Presidency, and Charles Francis
Adams, son of the late John Quincy Adams, of
Massachusetts, for the Vice Presidency. These
nominations have been confirmed by the con-
vention.
The list OF candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency of the United States for ls4S, is
now, we hope, complete. 1t is annexed, and
embraces the abolitionists, liberty league men,
lives, national reformers, and barnburners; they
are all, by the convention at Buffalo, merged in the
three parties represented in this list
NAMES OF CASpDATrs.
Wig ZACH Tayioe Ia G Ti ilSs ts2e"
Pens Der, 81: lewis ysS Mich TP sI Baslss Ky
AS the nominations for President and Vice Pre-
sident al Buffalo, completed the senes of primary
movements by which the various parties that d.
vide the people are to be marshalled into action
for the approaching contest, it will, doubtless, be
considered interesting TO look into the condition
of parties in this State, where the barnbumers or
free soil movements have principally had their
origin.
An analysis of the votes of the people of this
State, at the Presidential election in 1874, shows
the following division, viz
Democrats, .23I,ooo
wings '-1s a sY5
Total, 4eo,oo2
The election for Governor, IN 1876, showed
great division Of the votes of both the leading par
ties but the wings rallied in sufficient strength,
with the aid of the anti-renters and few thou
sand OF the old hunkers, to defeat Sllas Wright,
and 10 elect John Young, the wing candidate for
Governor, by more than eleven thousand majority.
The following was the vote at this election,
leaving out the aboltionists
Young, wing. 195,S1S
Wright, democrat 49,. 1S7,506
Youngs ma jority. ................ 1852
Probably twenty thousand anti-rent democrats
and old hunkers voted for Young, while some
wings refused TO vote for him on account of his
antirent views. 1t will thus be seen that over
fifty thousand wings and thirty thousand demo-
Gratis stayed at home, or declined voting for Co
vernon IN 1916.
At the election for State officers, Lieutenant
will be recoected that the feud between the old
hunkers and banbumers broke out into an open
quarrel and threw the State into the hands of the
wings. The democratic State convention for the
nomination of State officers being controlled by
The old hunkers, and the ticket nominated being
composed of that section of the party, the barn
burners bolted and refused TO sustain the ticket,
alleging fraud, unfair usage, and tlckery on the
part of the old hunkers. In consequence of the
banbuners, by general concert and understand
ing throughout the State, Withholding their votes
from the democratic candidates, the following
was the result of the election last fall -
Lieut.. Governor. Fish, whig. 17oo72
Dayton, democrat. I39.623
Wing majority. ............ 3oA4o |
rotary State. Morgan. whig. 47o |
Sanford, democrat. :. 144l33 |
Wing majority. ................. 25,337 |
Comptroller. Fillmore. whig. ........ .l74756
Hungerford, democrat. .l36 O27
Wing majority. ................. 3s729
llmore, wing, and Sanford, democrat. being
n ne ant-rent ticket, and neither Fish nor Day
on being voted for by them, we are enabled to es-
mate the amount Of the anti-rent vote, namely:
will be found to average about five thousand
TO form an opinion OF the probable strength OF
ne barnburners at the present time we think II
air 10 assume that the old bunker vote is at least
equal TO that given by them last fall for State Off
GERS, namely; about 10000; and if we deduct this
from the democratic vote for President in 1911. |
which was $4,000, we have 5000, as the
number OF democrats who declined voting last
iaIi' and these must have been principally barn