The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-19
rhe Presidential QUsssion-Exact Condi ton
of The Efeht.

OF the Ftghts
The late result in Pennsylvania, in connection
with The unexpected success Of the democracy in
Indiana, indicate pretty clearly the election Of
James Buchanan az our next President. by
handsome majority Of the Electoral Colleges,
against a popular majority throughout the couu-
try Of several hundred thousand Already has
this popular majority been sufficiently wasted aud
frit,ered away BY the opposition factions, cliques
and managers to Justify this conclusion. Let us
look for q moment at the present condition, a.
poets and prospects Of the fight
PENNSYLVANIA has been thrown away. An anti
democratic majority there of 10000, year ago,
has suddenly vanished, through the tricks treach-
cries and stupid quarrels and splits among the
anti-democratc forces; AMI from the same causes,
Indiana, which was swept by the opposition from
stem to stern In 1851, Is now recovered in sin
gle desperate charge Of the alarmed democracy.
Upon The heels Of this Pennsylvania disaster we
find tie Fremont and Fillmore managing COM
mittees at Philadelphia wrangling and splitting
up in the discussion Of joint stock electoral
ticket for November-the Fillmoreites. with an
infa;uation amounting 70 lunacy still clinging TO
the delusion that they can afford TO sacrifice
Pennsylvania and set carry The election to the
House. In New jersey, The Fremont party
are still without an electoral ticket
IN New York, ". II. seward, Thurlow
Weed and their associate managers Of the Ere
mont campaign, have in the meantime left the
cause Of Fremont al home 10 take care of itself,
while they have been Of. here and there, AMI
everywhere, holding little caucusses resulting 10
nothing bu; mischief. Ia fact we half suspec:
that the secret treachery Of Seward Weed and
Company, have scarcely done less to prevent
concentration Of the opposition forces Of the
whole country upon Fremont, than the open, I'M
scrupulous and malignant hostility Of the FIN
more Know Nothing faction.
Fremont has proved himself as possessing all the
elements Of q personal popularity that could BE-
desired for a vigorous and triumphant campaign;
but the management Of Lis cause has almost
wholly depended upon the Independent press; and
the successes Of bis party have been left almost
entirely to the spontaneous action Of the people
Considering that bis party has thus been left with
out organization, without discipline or system
and that Il has had TO contend against Buchanan
and Fillmore. against a ruhianly exclusion from
the Southern States. against forgeries and
false issues without, and stupid and treacher-
Gus agents within. Il has achieved wonders;
but there are such things as impossibilities even
with an overwhelming force Of numbers TO
begin With II these materials are wastefully frit
tered away There was majority In this State
against General Taylor, in lsls, Of 10000,
putting the two democratic factions together;
and yet. by he democratic Buffalo movement,
which carried OF 10000 votes TO Van Buren,,
General Taylor carried the State against General
Cas- by plurality Of over one hundred thou
sand votes which defeated Cas-, elected Taylor
and avenged Van Buren,.
For all practical purposes, Mr.. Fillmore In
Is5G occupies precisely the position q Van
Buren, in 1913. As the one was superseded al
Baltimore by General Cas- so was the other SUI
perscd,d at Philadelphia by the nomination Of
Fremont From the very outset, however, the
Van BuFen Buffalo movement was one Of pure re-
yenge, while we are willing 10 concede that Mr.
| Fillmore has thus far held on with the deusive
| idea that vs. Fighting Buchanan in the South, and
| by aiding Buchanan against Fremont in the
North, The election might be carried to the House
From this moment. however, a. there l. no other
way Of preventing the election Of Buchanan by
the people than ny the concentration Of the
whole opposition strength Of the North upon
single ticket, the position Of Mr.. Fillmore and
his party, a. O separate interest in the eight BE-
comes exactly analogous to that Of Van Buren,
in 1913.
We are aware that the Fillmore party of this
State have been iattering themselves with the
idea that the vote Of New York is good for their
candidate in November. This was the plea Of
John Van Buren, In behalf Of lis venerable father
IN AZ, but II was a sham. We doubt not that
whichever party may be first In New York, We
Fillmore viii be third, and at considerable dis