The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25

the strongest party in each State will thus %
chosen, and the People will decide, in choos-
ing it, for whom the Electors Of the respscuSs
parties shall vote. For Instance: Let Us sup
pose that the Republicans in 1850 should car
ry all the Free States. inr!nding Kansas and
Minnesota, except Indiana. Oregon and Cali
fornia, they would have majority ofthe Elec'
torial Votes, and would therefore choose the
President. Choose whom We answer
Whoms0evor the largest number ct the voters
for the Republican Electoral tickets through.
out the Union shall have designated OH their
Electoral ballots. For instance, we will sup
pose that
SOC, 900 shall have voted for the Republican
Electors on ballots headed, "For PreSi.
"dent, John c. Fremont; yice-President
William l.. Dayton :"
600 900 do. do. do. headed, For Presi,
"dent, William ii. Seward Vice-Presi.
"dent, Francis p. Blair, Jr. :" aud
900 do. do. do. headed. For Presi-
dent Salmon p Chase vice-President
q Edward Stanley and
900, 900 DO. do. do. headed, "For Presi-
hdsnt, Charles Sumner; Vice-President
"Csssius N. Clay"
The result in each State California proba-
bly, not eIeepted) would be known all over the
country within ten or twenty days after the
close Of the polls and the Republican Ma
tioRal Committee would thereupon announce
by telegraph that plurality of the Republi-
can voters had indicated Fremont and Day
ton as their first choice: therefore, the entire
Republican Electoral Vote should be east, AS
per agreement, for Fremont and Dayton-who
would thus be chosen.
Here is the entire machinery Of National
Conventions and exclusive party nominations
dispensed with, and the People left free Ia
vote each man his first unbiased choice with
the assurance that he would thus in no wise
d" throw away his vote" nor o4dengap the de-
feat Of his party, hHt on the contrary, he
could Vote his first choice in full confidence
that |, The strongest party would carry the
tlectiaa and Z. The man preferred a. Presi-
dent b. tho largest number in that party would
ha ehasen. WHAT could be faircr than this ?
Hhat other mode of choosing President SO
thoroughly, radically republican AMI demo-
cratic?
Citizens who do not aspire 10 seats in Ma
tional Conventions nor - work the wires there
oil from position in the lobby ! this is yoHr
fight. We have shown YOU how Won may de-
mand and secure TO yourselves the choice of
your own President, if you will; if Won will
not, why then you must continue to have him
virtually chosen for you, as now, by two an
tagOnst National Conventions You have but
to say the word, and this system must be
adopted or you may remain needless and in.
different. in which ease tie old sham will he
perpetuatcd, Choose for yourselves
AZ for the tlRcicd practical difficulties in
the way of Il real choice OF President by the
People, they all vanish on investigaton' The
Republicans and Union Americans OF Penn
sylvaR!a ran common Eectorial Ticket in
!SiG, and wnGld probably have carried it had
there been no American Stragnt or
H"lters, Every voter put in a ballot headed
Fremont or Fillmore according to his prefer.
encc, and within five days after the Election
the run of the vote between Fremont and
Fillmore WAS generally known. Had q like
union been formed in Sen-JerSev and Illinois,
both those State would have been fixed salnsl
Buchanan. The first Election in which the
People shall claim aud exercise the right of
making their own candidates for President
and Vice-Presdent will celebrate the funeral
of National Conventions.