New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-30

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THE GREAT PnLTIsCAL HUMBUS-
stcs Our Own Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2e 1860.
The,e are FIVE Presidents to be elected in Penn
xylyania THE present year of grace, ana envy TWO
Governors The former being the most Numerous
naturally make the most noise. The old provero
of the more the merrer does not apply, III witneSs
whereof see the bitter denunciatiOns hurled to and
fro between certain of the contestants, who used to
he the best friends in the world so long as anything
xas to be made by it, reversing the homely distch
sfHudibras:
line dogs that snarl about bone,
And play together when they've none"
No wonder that in this wild pursuit of five Pres
dents urler difficulties those humber senPetl-
tors the two Governors, should be measuraey
overlooked nor that Of them, at least, snould
have been actually submerged, gene in with his
head under. have suspicion that tbs lnaNiaual
Is Mir. Foster, the nOmiOee of the united Democ-
racy at Reading before the meeting OF the dsumteo
Democracy at Baltimore. Ever since the meInera-
ble hareup in the latter city, the position Oh tns
gentleman has been painful IN the extreme. III nc
could have found lodge IN some vast WhGerne's'
some bOundless continuity Of shade, into which 10
pimping party spy could penetrate for the purpose
Of asking, "How about Breckenridge to be FOL,
bowed by another asking, =" How about Douglas =
or if ne could have parried these damaging qnes-
lions, or been permitted to 60 IL dumo as wen as
bind there would have been comfort at least, no
matter how feeble the hope might have been BuI
on these two paramount issues the oadgerlng mas
beep incessant, and as the long campaign pro
crossed IL became unbearable. He must come OUT
from this myteriOus nOn-cOmmlttallsm; ne must oe-
yeIop though certain defeat be made dou0y certain
thereby. This playing dummy was not 10 DC tolef
ated; so, though not openly declaring himself Nc
nevertheless speaks by most miraculous organ
the said organ being a twopenny country paper
issued where Mr.. Foster has his most lntimale
friends He comes out for Breckenridge. Out-
sjders now learn the fact for the first time though
NE Breeknrdgers appear to have been all along ID
the secret. Hence they support him warmly, while
the Douglas men cool of in proportion. The TWO
cannot fuse even on the State spOlls. mus while
Foster has been tongue ted not daring to develop at
single public meeting, Curtin has been stumplng II
with perfect lOOseness and when the last scene oil
he play closes in October, this curtain will assu-
sediy fan and shut out Gov. Foster from public OBJ
sarvatiOn for years to come.
This week and the next will be even more ex-
citing and busy than usual, seeing that our nOmlna
tons for Congress will then be made. Tom Flor
ence NAV be called the inevitable in the ist lis
tict-sure 10 be again set up and tins time just as
sure TO be laid out cold The great guns OF even
HE Navy Yard cannot save hm. As events OF this
kind multiply, SO does the enthusiasm OF the
Peoples party become the more intense The
party drill is most admirable We are as viglant
and active as the rowdy runners who swarm at the
FIRST note Of the fre-bel. The least intimatOn-a
new speaker from abroad the opening OF new
Ward Wigwam, any occasion when we meet to
take counsel tOgether-bnngs our young men out
by thousands. Every ingenious appliance of name
or equipment has been adopted. We have Clubs
a pa1S rlt praforr iuhs TpaIhI los
CoDtinentals Lincoln Defenders, Mountain Sweets
y with the overwhelming Wide.Awakes. La, Sat
urday evening there acres OF these men
turned OJE to help dedicate the People Wigwam
at Sixth and Brown streets. Truly, II was an
army with banners--the streets made light as day
by thousands of torches. They filed into the Wig
wan, and took places with military precision. The
building is cheap affair, got up quickly, but mex
agon 100 feet In diameter, capltauy planned for
1900 listeners. LincOlns portraits hang every
where around the interior, with banners eloquent
IN motto and device. Altogether, the building, the
vast crowd inside and out the speeches and enthus
iasm, have never been surpassed here. This Wig
wan had it's great exemplar at Chicago and WI
leave its mark here as that did there. Such is the
widespread enthusiasm that our opponents seem
atterly discouraged and obscured
cannot by words convey to you an impression of
the intense feeling created wherever The TRIBUNE
read, Sy the mastery and crushing exposure you
udNt sldue OF tndt DOidtsJ ana Ddsesl VI al mOucIH
sheas-the sale of the Bell party at Syracuse. We
believed from the beginning it was fraud, but by
the light of your extraordinary revelations we now
know it to be such. What 'Opic il is at all our
head. quarters, in all numerous cluberooms,
wherever two or three Of us are gathered together
Your crushing articles are ~oed aloud at many Of
these club-rooms to crowds Of -kers by day who
come nightly to hear the news. cheat has ever
raised SO broad laugh The Bell leaders are
struck dumb by the backness of the disclosure,
while the Bell voters, the only honest men of the
party, see the cheat clearly, admit it with frank
ness that proves their honesty and either join the
Wide-Awakes or throw up caps for Lincoln. The
effect all over Pennsylvania and New-Jersey will be
most ruiuous to the Bel ticket. OF the many heavy
blows st uck by THE TRIBUNE for the good cause,
this last one-the last up to this time only, be it re-
Dembered-has been truly terrifcaly crushing