Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-19
Tte Re,ecriou Of judge Potter.


Toledo is the centre of ofice-dom. Ihe
Buchanan administration gyrates round it, col
Iiding enthusiastically The rejection Of Col
lector Potter is the latest and most exciting =
The Herald, the only Democratic organ of TOle-
do, is more than jubilant over it. 1t shouts, it
screams in black letter display heads-"Glorious
Victory Democracy Triumphant PrOscrip-
ton Prescribed Potter Defeated! Rottenism
Rebuked segurism Kicked Out! JOhnsOnism
Rejected Hursh for Pughl"
After giving the despatch announcing Potter's
rejection by the Senate, the Herald proelaims
thus
The decisive defeat of the impudent, dictato-
rial, dry-rotten Johnsonism, which has under
taken to ride the Democracy of Northern Ohio
to death, will be hailed with unmixed satisfac-
ton by every live Democrat in the State.
All honor to our noble Democratic Senator,
GEORGE E. PUGH, whose untiring exertions
have secured for himself and for the true men
of his party, this triumph over dictatorial pro-
scription, treachery and falsehood. And honor,
too, to the true-hearted Democrats who have
aided him.
A despatch to the N. Y. Times states that
the Senate vote stood sixteen to seventeen, and
it is believed the vote will be reeonsidered and
the nomination of Potter confirmed.
The Tnbune's correspondent writes that the
Potter debate was sharp. Mr.. Brown, of Miss,
offered resolution calling upon the President
for the facts upon which he based the nomina-
ton. This was opposed by Messrs. Mason, Sew
ard, Wade, and others, as indecorous. Mr.. Pugh
made a severe onslaught upon Mr.. Potter, and
chargedthat the President, in making the nOmi-
nation, assailed him personally. NJ. Mason said
if the Senate refused to confirm the nomina-
ton, the President would send it back. Mr.
Browns resolution was not adopted Potter
was rejected by one majority, and the vote was
then reeonsidered and the case laid over. The
President informed several Toledo politicians,
who called upon him the other day to remOn-
strste against Potter's nomination, that they
didn't know Potter half so well as he did, and
that he should never abandon him. The secret
of Mr.. Pugh's opposition to Potter is because
the latter is opposed to the formers reelection
to the Senate. Senator Wade advocates the
confirmation of Potter, which annoys Pugh ex-
ceedingly.
The Potter fight in Washington is as hot and
personal as in Toledo. The Washington let
ter to the Cincinnati Commercial, written just
before the action of the Senate, says:
There is considerable inside operating about
Mr.. Collector Potter of Toledo. Old Buck
says he knows him better than the men who
oppose him, and shall stick to Potter with the
tenacity of clay, all the time, let what viii be
said against him. He swesrs (and he can swear
awfullyl that the opposition to Potter is
Douglas move, and that Potter has got to go
through, Douglas or no Douglas, Pugh or no
Pugh, Steadman or no Steadman. Mr.. Com
mager and Mr.. Mckaddin, of Toledo, are here
after the place fthe former. Mr.. C.is known
at home to be a Douglas man, but here, he
leans affectionately towards old Buck. Mr.
Backus, of the Board of Public Works in Ohio,
is here working against Potter 1t is asserted
that the cause of Pugh's opposition to Potter
is because the latter opposes his reelection to
to the Senate, and that the go-between in pro-
ducing this feeling is Steadman. If the.Selate
should reject Potter, the President will un-
douhtedly re-appoint him.
Democrats here we understand are betting
among themselves in regard to Old Bucks
backbone in the re appointment of Potter
Judge P. is favorite of Buchanan, and was
appointed Judge in Utah, but did not go out
with the grand Anti-Mormon army. The Presi-
dent is evidently "clay in the hands of the Pot
for