The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-09-20
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all about the prospects OF political parties
in this county at the coming election. ms
Centre county, few years ago, was one
of the democratic strongholds in the state,
giving from 900 10 1900 democratic majority.
But three years ago the Know Nothing fever
broke out here, and, like the "pest'ienee
tim: walheth in the dark, carried everything
before il. AZ there arc very fe" foreigners
ami scarcely any Catholics in the county,
thc fright Of the people n: the raw head
and bloody bones" CT popofy must be &C.
counted fer on the principle that those dan
gers are mos. frightful which are 'arthest off. !
The result Of this fright was, that at the |
election two years ago the Know Nothnss /
carried the county by some 200 majority ,
Last year the democrats succeeded IN whit !
Ting this majority down to 1G5, and now,
after freely talking with the sovereiGns'
attracted by The court, the democratic poll
ticians assure me there is no doubt but Old
Centre will, ut the coming October election,
be fully redeemed, and roll up democratic
majority Of five or six hundred. There is
10 doubt but there are daily large accessions
to the democratic party in this county from
the ranks Of Ilindooisrn, the accessions en-
Lracing the larger portions Of the dark Ian
ternitcs that were formerly democrats
while, in addition TO these, many national
wings are joining the democrats.
The condition Of parties in Centre county
may be taken as fair index Of all Central
Pennsylvania, embracing the counties of
Union. Miti!iu, Lycoming, Potter, Mexican,
Huntingdon, Blair, Clinton, &c, &c. In all
these counties the only ostcns!blc parties are
the democrats and Fillmoroitcs. Fremont
has hcre and there an open advocate, but
caano. be said to nave regularly organized
party The same is also nearly as true Of
al the counties south, cast, and west Of
Centre Here and there a Fremont club cx-
ists, and an openly ayowod Fremont paper;
bu: generally the opposition fight the battle
under co,or' Of supporting Fillmore. The
northern part Of the state. however, is, Ike
northern Illinois, overwhelmingly FOX Ere
mont, and it is 20 that on ityr the opposition
lso!, for all their strength and acCcSs!ous that
are to take the state from Buchanan. But
these northern FremonterS viii hear nothing
Of Fillmore. They hate and doDounce him
as much as they do Buchanan; and while
they are a well convinced as the Fremont
ers are in the middle and southern part Of
the state, that the only hope Of defeating
Buchanan is a cordial union with the FIJI!
morcits they are so inpeiious and ovorbcar
Ing in their demands, that the mass OF the
FiilmO-C,teS, who are really anxious TO unite
with them on q common electoral ticket, are
in a peck Of troubles TO devise means OF do
ing 50 with any sort Of deceucv or scf-re-
Spoct There has, however, beou q vast
amount Of secret corresponding and ncgo-
tating, and since the recent convent on Of
the Eddy (anti-abolition) wing Of the Know
uoth,sgs at Lancaster, although oStrusibiy
nothing was done by that body, it is gene
rally understood that the agreement is per
feet that the Frcmonters and Flllmoreites
are 10 support the only opposition electoral
ii-.lrf. now in the field which -.-~s nnnin-'~.a
by the Fillmorcitcs,- and that if this ticket
is elected, and the entire vote will elect Ere
nlo.t, it is to be cast for him in the electoral
college: otherwise the vote is to be given
for Fillmore. Accordingly. tie Fremont
party have allowed the time they had fixed
fo- holding state convention to nominate
an electoral ticket to pass hy without meet
ing, and in the northern part of the state the
Fillmore electors have taken the stump for
Fremont, while in the middle, eastern, west,
ern, and southern counties they still make a
pretcnce Of canvassing for Fillmore.
: Taking this as the position of parties, what
IS the reliance Of the democracy for carrying
the state: 1t is this. At the election last
October the democratic candidate for cana
commissioner was elected by y, 0cg MAORI.
ty over the Know Nothing can
didate; but as there were two or three Other
candidates, the entire opposition vote united
/ left the democrats in minority Of abou
1000. OF the democratic votes for Plum
mer last year, in the middle, eastern, west
eTn, and southern counties not a vote vii
be lost, but on the contrary, in all these
counties. there will be large acccssions-
These will not be SO apparent at the Octobc,
election rs il November. On tie state tick
ct. the Fillmore an Fremont men both labor
under the happy dc!u-!oa that ~"v have th'
whole ticket, and support it with great cor,
duality; but at the November election, no,
only the personal popularity Of Mr.. Bucha
nan, which is great, but the disgust of thou.
sands Of Fillmore men in the south and cas-,
at tic IDEA of voting for Fremont (Which is
really all their vote for the present electoral
ticket can amount to- will throw them on
Buchanan. Thus in Philadelphia, for in.
stance, where the opposition state ticket may
be beaten but few thousand votes, it is
universally conceded. Buchanan will receive
nine or 10000 majority. The only gains OF
the Fremon;tfs will be in the north and
northwest; but these counties arc compare.
lively thin'y settled, and although these
gains may be proportonably large, it is be.
licved Philadelphia and Lancaster alone will
be more than sufficient to balance them.
find, therefore, among cool headed men Of
: all parties, the impression general, that Blu
chanan must carry the state by large ma
jointly.
Another Abolition Triumph.
We notice by the Chicago Press that j.
+. FARNSwoRTH, an old line abolitiOnist has
been nominated for Congress in the Chicago
district in place Of the renegade Woop.
WORTH. This is right We want to see all
such renegades as Woodwork bite the dus,
and make room for open and avowed dis.
unionists. The abo ition;sts have been hang.