Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-06
ne Nav York Hsrald and the Eleetion.

TIE New York Herald and the Election.
Bennett, of the New York Herald, has set
ted down under the full conviction that
Buchanan's election is a foregone conclusion.
De says the result thus predicted is to be ac-
complished by Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey. and through the independent Fillmore
movement in those States. The Herald
Justly concludes that it is impossible for FIRE.
mont to carry either Pennsylvania or New
Jersey, unless the entire strength of the cp-
position to the election of Mr.. Buchanan can
be concentrated upon him. "As the battle
now stands" says the Herald, with the third
party ticket Of Fillmore and DonelsOn, pure
and simple, in the field in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, all the probabilities OF the
election justify the conclusion that both these
States will go for Buchanan; and 1t is not
necessary to go further, for they viii be quite
enough to elect him."
The reasoning of the Herald is confirmed
by its Pennsylvania correspondents, one OF
whom, writing from Harrisburgh, October rs,
saws =" received letter from the Secre-
tary Of State this morning. He writes me
i confess have not much hope of carrying
the State in November. We failed at the
last election for want Of efficient organiza-
ton. Our information was not definite, and
our efforts were all made on the surface,
while the Democratic organization was per-
feet In all It's details"
The speculations of the Herald as TO the
cause Of the prospective defeat Of the oppo-
sitiOn forces in Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sew, may be of sufficient interest to the reader
to justify brief reference to them. The
editor thinks the discordant state OF feeling
existing among the opposition ranks is not OF
recent origin but that the "troubles began
with the Philadelphia Fremont Convention,
and with the Seward and Johnston factions
of that body" On this point the Herald
says:
The nomination of Dayton, instead OF
Johnston, as the Fremont candidate for Vice
President, was mistake, for while Dayton
has not been able to accomplish anything
against Stockton in New jersey, Johnston
was in a Tosition to effect at once solid CO.
operation Of the opposition forces in Penn
sylvania. But Johnston was superseded, and
hence the trouble with him and with that
New York North American George Law
Pocketbook Convention. The intrigues and
lobby operations of Thurlow Weed, George
Law, Horace L. Day, (the India rubber man.
sandersop, Of Philadelphia, Forney and 9TH
err. Sewardites George Law mercenaries, Fill
more Know Nothing traders, lobby and
democratic brokers in bankrupt politicians
havs all followed as the consequences of the
nomination Of DAYTON instead of Johnston.
Thurlow Weed, after declaring that the
convention which nominated Col. Fremont
was an "uDgovernable mob" was, in the way
of trickery, ready for anything Master
Weed wanted Seward, Chase, or Mclean,
or any choice but the popular anti-Seward
nomination OF Fremont. But these Pennsyl-
vania troubles are more particularly due to
the cold shoulder given by the Fremonters
to Johnston. The immediate consequence
was that the opposition remained in Penn
sylvania 6isorganized and divided, while
Johnston and his friends were beating about
the bush for a profitable capitulation; and
thus, on election day, with majority of forty
thousand to start upon, the opposition ticket
failed Of success by two or three thousand
votes.
Whatever may have been the original
cause Of the disorganization and division in
the ranks Of the opposition, it is certain that
the matter has not been at all mended by the
recent attempt to patch up coalition to de-
feat Mr.. Buchanan. They are in much
worse condition now to go into the fight, on
Tuesday next, than they were at any slime
during the campaign, to engage in the con-
test OF the 14th. The 'trickery" for which
Thurlow Weed has been SO ready ever since
the nomination of Col Fremont, has been car
ned little farther than prudence or sound pol
icy would dictate. There is an open revolt
among themore hone st and Independent por-
ton OF the opposition, against the huckster-
Ing movements Of their knsvish and scheme
ing leaders The reaction that has taken
place in the public feeling is such, that even
the most jealous and sanguine of Fremonts
supporters may well conclude, with Bennett,
that both "Pennsylvania and New Jersey
viii 60 for Buchanan"