Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-22
Pennsylvania Politics.


The Stevens Convention at Harrisburg has,
ii seems, prepared another /" Union ticketp in
Pennsylvania, having refused to learn wisdom
from the late defeat A Fillmore electoral tick
ct was adopted and published some time since,
and it was supposed when the Republicans
saw the effect and result of the Union " tick
ct, which was beaten on the 14th instant,
(through bribery and fraud it is true,) and
when they saw the overthrow Of their party in
Indiana, and the elimination of It's strength in
Ohio, they would at once rally upon the Fill
more electoral ticket, as the only means of de-
feating Buchanan The Republicans profess a
holy horror Of the principles and measures Of
the present dynasty they have warred against
it with all their skill and power, and yet, when
it is obvious that as a distinct organization,
they are rapidly on the wane, and have no
possible chance of success, they refuge to cast
their sufrages for Willard Fillmore even to de-
feat this present dynasty and its nominated
successors and assigns They know perfectly
well, that there are tens of thousands of voters
in Pennsylvania, who cannot be induced to
fuse with Republicanism, but whose votes will
be cast for the Fillmore electoral ticket, readily
and cheerfuly
The Republicans of Pennsylvania know full
well that there is not the slightest prospect for
their electing Fremont that his nomination
has disguised large majority of men at the
North, who are even opposed to slavery, but
who do not mean to be found in the ranks of
Romanism, nor casting their suffrages for a
man who has not one single qualification for
the Presidency They know this, and they
know, too, that by casting their votes in that
State for the Fillmore electoral ticket, they can
secure the defeat of James Buchanan and the
Cincinnati Platform. The Republicans of Penn
sylvania know that thousands Of National
Americans" and outside "old-line Wings"
were driven from the support Of the Union"
ticket on the 18th instant by the declarations
of the New York Tribune that the nominees
on the "Union" State ticket were Fremonters.
Although the declarations Of that press We're
falsehoods, yet they nevertheless placed the
National Americans and outside Wings in a
position which thousands of them determined
they would not occupy
But for the silly, ridiculous, and at the same
time unwarranted boastings of the New York
Tribune, and other Abolition presses, the adj
ministration ticket for State officers in Penn
sylvania, would have been defeated, and the
Union ticket would have been elect
ed, even against all the fraudulent and villa
nous practices of the Forneyites. That ticket
having been formed long before either Fremon
or Buchanan was nominated, and formed OF
the single issue Of opposition to the admins
tration, could with obvious propriety hav'
been supported by all who were opposed t
the administration, if the folly and stupidity o
the Fremont presses had not falsely elaine,
that the nominees upon that ticket were !" al
Frsmonters." The Republicans must cast tn,
csnsure for its defeat upon the heads OF til,
conductors of those presses which have as
sumed to be the leaders Of the Fremont party
and they must not accuse the National Ameri
cans or the Old-line Wings Of bad faith
IL is unqucstionably true, that twenty o.
thirty thousand of these last named classes, re-
fused 10 vote the Union" ticket when they
found that, if successful, IL was to be claimed
as Fremont triumph. They did not meal
to be sold, either to Republicanism or to Ro
manism, and they were right in this purpose
The administration has gained, through tn