Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-21
FUSION IN Pennsylvania.

FUSION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The utter hypocrisy and hollow
hearted dissimulation of the leaders of
the Democratic party is manifested be-
yond all possible evasion by the action
of the Democratic State Committee of
Pennsylvania, which met at Cresson, in
that State, on the 9th inst The two fac
tions are denouncing each other all over
the State and the Union as boilers, trait
ors to the party, secessionists, and dis
unionists. Each is trying to make cap
ital By denouncihg the other. Every
paper and stump speaker on either side
is. appealing to the pepple-the Douglas
men for Douglas, to defeat Breekinriuge,
and the Breckinrdge men for him in Or
der to defeat Douglas.
But while this game is being played
before the people, the leaders meet in
conclave, and manufacture scheme Of
deliberate fraud by which the people are
to be cheated out of their votes, and
made to sustain the widest ultraisms of
the South under the sham of voting for
Douglas and popular sovereignty. This
will be seen by the resolution adopted
by the State Committee above referred
to, which is as follows:
-.sResolced, That the Democratic Elec-
toral ticket be headed with the name of
Douglas or Breckinridge, as an elector
at large, and in the event of the success
of the said ticket, if the greater number
shall have been cast for Mr.. Douglas,
then the vote of the Electoral College of
the State shall be cast for Douglas and
johnson; but if for Breckenridge, then
for Breckinridge and Lane. If the vote
of Pennsylvania cannot elect the candi-
date for whom the majority of the votes
are cast, and can elect any other man
running for President, claiming to be a
Democrat, then the vote of the Electoral
College shall be cast for the candidate.
If it will not elect either of the candi-
dates for whom it is cast, or any of the
Democrats who are voted for in the
States, then the vote shall be cast for
tie candidate who has the majority of
the votes of the State, and the chairman
of this Committee be required to obtain
their several and distinct pledges of ac-
quiescence in the foregoing resolution,
and report the result of his action at a
future meeting of the Committee
Now, examine this resolution. We
defy any man to produce, from all past
history, a scheme of equal duplicity,
eunningness, hypocrisy, and intended
fraud upon the voters What is it?
The Douglas leaders are to denounce
Breckinridge as a disunionist and traitor
to the country, and appeal to the people
to vote for Douglas, as the only hope of
defeating him, and crushing out his con-
templated treason to the country. And
the Brcckinridge leaders are to denounce
Douglas as demagogue and factionist-
an enemy to the party and to the coun-
try, and the people are to be invoked to
/, vote for him as the only hope of saving
the country, And while this double
game is being played before the people,
an electoral ticket is to be formed, COM
posed ofwily dough faces, pledged to vote
foreither Douglas or Breekinridge, or any
other person claiming to be Democrat,
who can be elected by their votes!
1t is well known that with the party
united ON one candidate, and one plat
form, there would be no hope of an elec-
tion. And hence this dodge, of pretend
ing to run two candidates on two plat
forms, each denouncing the other, and
all voting for the same electors, and these
electors pledged to vote for either candi.
date, or any other who can, by bargain
and sale, or any mode of corruption and
bribery be elected by their votes.
Now who is to be cheated in this
transparent swindle? Do the honest
Douglas voters intend to vote for Breck-
ihridge and Slave Code, as prepare.
tion for disunion? Mol you say you dc
not! But how are you to help your
selves if you submit to this scheme Of
your leaders? There is no help for you
Youvote for Slave Code and disunion
a hundred times more effectually than il
you voted for Breckinridge outright
al Look at it. No sane man believes that
Breckenridge, on the Southern platform,