The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-09
The Elections To-Day In Pennsylvania and
Ohio.

Ohio.
The two great States of Pennsylvania and
Ohio hold their annual elections to day.
In both these States the members for the
new Congress were elected last year; and
| SO that issue is out of the way In Ohio, how
ever, there is very important question to be
ettled in the election of the Governor, and
| hat question is, whether the Seward abolition
| iusionists are, or are not, the controlling ma
| iority Of the Commonwealth.
In Ohio as in New York just now, politics
and parties are inexplcably mixed up but, as
| far as we can understand the Ohio programme,
| it is as follows -
1st Salmon p. Chase late United States Sena-
tor is the Seward fusion, free soil, and aboli-
ton black republican candidate for Governor.
The materials supporting him are the aboli-
tionists and free soilers proper, free soil wings
and democrats, and free soil Know Nothings
and Know Something's. The candidate with
Chase for Lieutenant Governor, is Col Thomas
H. Ford, boisterous politician, who bolted
from the Know Nothing Philadelphia platform
and went over to that of the free soil Cleve-
land Know Something's.
ID. William Medill, conspicuous and popu-
| lar man, is the democratic candidate, and, with
! his party, he occupies conservative position
on the slavery question.
3D. Allen Trimble, an old line wing Of the
Henry Clay school, is the candidate for Go
vernon of the conservative wing and Know
Nothing deserters, from The free soil Chase and
| fusion movement.
| The results of this fusion, division and sub
division of parties, it is impossible to guess;
but we should not be surprised if the first con-
| sequence was the election of Medill. The fu-
| sionists, wings, Know Nothngs and free soil
crs carried the election last year by some
10000 or 10000 majority, we believe; but it
is quite possible that all this may now be frit-
| tered away in the whig democratic and Know
| Nothing OBJECTIONS that have crept into the
| general coalition since last October On the
other hand, the Sag NIGHTS, or Germans, equal,
| perhaps, to thirty thousand votes, have Sc
| lected Chase as their candidate for Governor
! and have adopted as the balance of their State
| ticket the democratic nominees. This diver
| sion may turn over to Chase fifteen or twenty
| thousand democrats, so that there is still a
chance for him, unless the seeding wing sill
yer grays should turn out to be stronger than
they generally do in New York.
But whatever may be the result in Ohio, it
will determine nothing for 1856. The eifer
vesccnce of the political cauldron, which is
still very lively in that State, in this, and else
where, must suhsidc before there can be any
capitalization of the solid ingredients
The only State Office to be filled by this cleo
ton in Pennsylvania, is that Of q Canal Com
| missioner. Upon this Office the wings and
Know Nothings have fused, and the opposition
to them is centred upon the democratic candi-
date Here, too, the result will be of very lit
tie national Importance, unless the democratic
candidate should be elected, in which event
the necessity for thoroughgoing re.construc-
ton of the American or national anti-admins-
traton party will be as clear as daylight
On the other hand, should the fusion candidate
be carried by ten, twenty, or even fifty thou
sand majority, it leaves the question still open
| how far Sewardism and Know Nothingism can
be made available in copartnership for the
Presidency But enough for the present. We
shall, doubtless, be enabled to speak more de-
fnitely Of the results, both in Ohio and Penn
sylvania, tomorrow morning