Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-14
Political News Items.

Fremont is sweeping everything before
him i'll Wisconsin. A late mass meeting held
in Rock County, of that State, tranScends eve
ry demonstration made by the Republicans of
any section, thus far during the present cam
pagn. 1t indeed surpassed in enthusiasm the
popular movements of 1910. Seven thousand
freemen were in council and procession was
formed two miles in length. Says a WiScon-
sin paper " The nomination of Fremont and
Dayton has kindled spirit among the masses
that sweeps all before it, and spreads with the
rapidity of flames through the dry prairie grass
in autumn. Put down Wisconsin for John c.
Fremont by majority of thousands
Ole Bull has given $500 towards estab-
fishing new German Republican paper in
Wisconsin. He is to take the stump for Ere
mont through that State
1t having been claimed that Judge Nc
Lean was for Fillmore, a Washington writer
says =
" \ letter was read to me to-day, from
Judge MLean, in which he says that the uni
ted German residents of the western sections
of Pennsylvania will vote almost unanimously
for Fremont. He predicts the State for Ere
mont by over 200 majority Few would
against Buchanan in his own State but what
would you think when Virginians set down
their State for Fillmore? The thing is actu-
ally done and bets are offered freely that the
Wise majority for Governor will be reduced
one-half0
Gen. Pomeroy, of Kansas, who has been
travelling in Western Pennsylvania, describes
the enthusiasm there for Fremont as already
very great and as rapidly increasing He
states that the best politicians of that section
express the belief that Fremont will cross the
mountains with 50,000 majority From Hi
nos we have similar intelligence A gentle
man who left Washington city few days since
under the full belief that in his part of Illinois
Fillmore would poll more votes than Fremont,
in letter states that since his return home he
finds the State all on fire for Fremont, and
that in his neighborhood it is all one way. In
passing through Indiana, also he saw little else
than Fremont and Dayton ratification meet
ingS, and state of political excitement far
exceeding that of the Tippecanoe campaign.
The following leading Democrats of Phila-
delphia have come out for Fremont and Day
ton Hon. WIN. H. Smith, a Polk and Dal-
las elector of 1914 /; Henry Horn, Jackson
hiCIuDCi vi SOhS CsICCtHtu py Il lC-
sident Andrew Jackson Evans Rogers, a
highly esteemed retired gentleman DR.. David
c. Skerritt, late prothonotary of the District
Court, elected by the Democrats Peter Wa
ger, at one time Director of the Bank of the
United States, appointed by President Jack
son Dr. George Spackman, an old Demo.
crat Henry Simpson, late Alderman VIM.
Hallowcll, late Democratic member of the As
sembly.
The pro-slavery party failing to convict
Col Fremont of being a STAKEHOLDER, in such
way as to make the fact apparent now say
that he realty, while his sister ostemsi5Lv owns
certain slaves in South Carolina Any port
in storm. Prove that Fremot has no sister,
and the rutfians would swear that they were mis-
taken only as to the pcrson-that it was his
cousin who managed his slave property.
Miami County sent 3,3l5, and Clarke
5000 delegates to the great Dayton Conven-
tion the delegation from Greene County was
$500. silk flag, wrought by the Dayton
young ladies, was presented to the latter as the
banner county. Thousands stood in furious
rain listening to the speeches, and the enthu-
siasm with which the Hon. A. Burlingame was
greeted was immense
The Angelica (Alleghany county, \. W
Reporter, paper which has stood by the De-
mocratic party for about twenty years, and
worked with zeal and ability -for Democratic
candidates, appears with the Buchanan flag
lowered, and the names of Fremont and Day
ton floating at its mast head The Reporter
put up the Cincinnati ticket, but, after COM
pairing the two platforms, has come TO the con-
cusion TO support the Republican candidates.