Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-10-15
Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Greeley has returned to his chair editorial,
and thus disoourses
"Having spent the eight days preceding last
Sunday in Ohio, and since passed through Penn
sylvania, we have had opportunities to know
something Of the spirit in which their State cleo
tons have been prepared for and contested, and
of the portents Of those elections
Pennsylvania is naturally one of the best Scott
States in the Union-one Of the easiest to carry
for the Hero of Chippewa by large majority
It is deeply interested in the production Of iron,
which has been greatly depressed under the tariff
of 1886, and, though little better now, is GER
tain to bs.depressed again so soon as the iron
masters Of Great Britain shall be impellea to re-
duce their prices. General Scott is personally
and widely beloved in Pennsylvania, while Pierce
has not particle of strength there but what was
given him by his nomination at Baltimore.
full vote and fair, animated contest insures the
State to Scott by large majority.
"Resting in the consciousness of this strength,
| his friends have as yet done very little in the
way of the organization and concentration OF
their forces. They have gone into the State cleo
| ton split UP into half dozen local factions.
Temperance and rum, slavery and anti-slavery,
with dozen other side issues, have served to
distract them. They went into this weeks con-
test as thoroughly dsorganized as party could
be. Thus, in Pittsburg, where we spent Sunday
and Monday, every body was anxious as to
whether Joe Barker should or should not be
chosen sheriff while nobody seemed to know or
much care what would be the result as to State
officers Temperance was certain there to injare
the Wing legislative ticket, which was pledged to
the Maine law, while the fact that our ticket in
Lancaster was against the Maine law, caused il
to be cut there badly. These two counties Ale
gheny and Lancaster) will give at least three
thousand more majority for Scott than they have
given for the Wing tickets. And SO it will be
throughout the State.
eve passed nearly through the State on the
day of election, and everywhere heard the same
story-the State functionaries working for dear
life on the lines of State canals and railroads, but
the Wings treating the contest as ofno national I'M
portance. For instance in one township can.
yass of the voters has been made and there are
lust sirty-one Pierce men within its borders and
these cast ftty-nine votes on Tuesday while that
same township has seUenty.fUe Scott voters who
did not 60 near the polls. 1t was much like this
throughout There are twenty
five thousand Wing votes in Pennsylvania which
have not been poled at this election.
eve might have carried Philadelphia county
triumphantly, and perhaps saved the State ticket
by consenting to a coalition with the Native
American party. By electing L. G. Levin t.
Congress, and one or two of their county ticket
we might have taken the rest of the county tick
ct, saved one or two members of Congress, and
sent our State candidates out of Philadelphia
several thousands ahead. But if the Wings had
done So they would have been accused of favor
ing Nativeism, and General Scott would hav,
been held to answer for it. 1t was better to LOST
ground now than to risk the alienation of tn,
adopted citizens at the Presidential contest
4 ~ X
"Our friends in Ohio, having no hope Of thu
success of their two candidates for State Office
of no political Importance, made no serious o
concerted effort in their behalf. +
"We never supposed General Scott could b
elected without effort in view of the hungrynes
and desperation of the politicians working agains
him we have believed, as we now believe, h
will be elected by means of effort and because hi
friends will make the needful exertiops to secur
his triumph"
RELIGIOUS NOTICE.---The Rev. 7. w. Gree,
of Virginia, expected to preach m the street Bapu
Church tonight, at o'clock The public are respectful
invited attend. oct 10