Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-15
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

HARRISBURG, Oct. Z, 1906:
Thurlow Weed and Mr. Gibbon, the Chair
man of the State Republican Committee Pres,
ton King, Governor johnson, and a large num-
Der Of committeeman and outsiders are here
Several of the Fillmore Committees are also IN the
city, IL, obedj,ce 10 call phich holosrer, had mol
! lie adnie Of tie Secretaries attached
Il is stated that Sir. SanJerson, the President Of
the Fillmore Committee, was coming on, but be
! did not show himself However, three committees
were iormed-Republican, North American and
! Fillmore, and they met each other in COvery's
Hotel, at haf-past two. After being coseted dur
| ing nearly three hours they came to the decision
to meet 10 Philadelphia on Saturday, Oct. II, aud
there to nominote a Union electoral ticket.
! The meeting held with closed doors, and
a promise e1acted from all present not to let their
proceedings transpire.
THE FILLMORE MEN ARE BACKWARD IN
! COMING FORW ARD, and there are evidently TWO
! parties amongst them, for union the Other
againstIt The latter is headed by the PHILADELPHIA.
News.
We cut the above from yesterdays New York
| Herald in which il appears a telegraphic dis
patch 1t di-closes two important facts which will
| in the course Of the next ten dave, be more fully
! brought to light namely, the humihiting weakness
of the Fremont party in Pennsylv ania and the re-
| solute determination OF the Americans TO have
| nothing to do with them. 1t is well known that
the ticket for State officers in Pennsylvania which
| il running in opposition 10 the democrats party
! was nominated several months ago by the Ameri-
cans, aud that the Republicans having failed from
conscious weakness 20 nominate a ticket Of those
men, concluded To support ours, aud call it a
Union Ticket" although they had rothing to do
with bringing it into the Geld. II they choose to
vote for our candidate that is a matter which we
cannot help, and of which we have no reason to
lmplain.
The Fremont men have besouaht the Americans Of
Pennsylvania With untiring importantly, TO unite
with them 10 forming joint electoral ticket. To
all their offers and appeals the Americans have
turned deaf ear, aud will continue to turn 4 deaf
ear.
The design Of the Fremont nen in Peunsylvan-
! ia, as far as able TO learn IL from private
sources, is 20 nominate an electoral ticket on the
/ 10TH which they will insist on calling union tick
ct, although not Fillmore man in the State should
| give il any countenance. They will take some Of
the names of the Fillmore ticket, aud put on 9th.
ers of their own, and then bs the boldest living Al
tempt to convey the impression that the mongre
affair is veritable union ticket, fairly formed We
have the best reasons for saying that our people
will consent TO no coalition, much less 10 such
| fraud as this.
| Baffled 10 oil their attempts to bring about a uni
| on BY fair means the Fremont men are now AZ.
tempting il BY fraud. Il will be seen from the
above dispatches to the Herald, that there we've
some members OF Fillmore committee present IN
Harrisburg. but they were brought there By spu
rious aud unauthorized call. The reason why this
| Fremont conelave was held with closed door, and
promise exacted that the proceedings should not
be diyulged was, that they were plotting fraud
Thurlow Weed with his wiles, aud bis capacity Tor
political irtrigues, vas there to lend IL helping
| hand