The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-09-20
From the N. Y. Tribune, 18th.
observation-disclosures.
"Since am so quickly done for,
! 4 arm der anLnf I arne ha01In fo,. -

-lgr Iaconder sohat Iscas beymJfor" ofi -
The great Douglas-Bell- Breckenridge
Fusion, which was to have swept the
Empire State Tin horn, has col
lapsed. On Saturday night and Sun
day, it was the great fact; on Monday,
it proved a great botch and failure.
To-day, it is nowhere and nothing.
Mr.. Ben. Wood is peremptoriIy disa-
vowed by his new bosses, Dean Rich
mond and Peter Cagger; his consent
to put ten Breckenridge Electors on the
Douglas ticket, with Viele for Lieut..
Governor and Jaycox for Canal Com
missioner, is repudiated, and the whole
dicker blown to the winds. There will
be no Breckenridge men put on the
Douglas Electoral Ticket or, if there
are, they will not be permitted to re-
main. The masses cannot be induced
to support Fusion ticket, unless they
are cheated into it by assurances, O. la
Brooks, McMaster, that it is to vote
solid for the man of their choice. The
Hards are welcome to fuse -on the
clean Douglas-Bell ticket; "only that
and nothing more" Those who want
to help Dean Richmond q Co., carry
the State for Douglas and make Kelly
Governor will be welcome to any cold
victuals they can find lying about loose;
but not word of Electors for Brock
inridge-that is out of the question.
Fusion is thus at an end in our
State, so far as the Breckenridge men
ere concerned. The Douglas leaders
find their mysterious bargain with the
Bell men all that their party will stom-
ach, and will go no further. And, to
give them their due, the Hards seem
about as sick of their almost complet-
ed bargain as the Softs. Those who
have managed Mr.. Douglas case have
had their own axes to grind. They
had State tickets to save or to carry !;
there were sundry good things in pos
session or in prospect to be secured (if
at ally by Fusion; for there were cam
didates for Congress, like Mr.. Ben.
Wood, who wants to run down town,
where the Breckenridge interest is
strong. Thus Mr. Douglas slim pros
poets have traded off in fatal subser-
viency to personal ends, until his polit-
ical grave stands open in plain sight of
all. All the contrivances to carry the
election into the House are alien to his
tendencies and fatal to his hopes. He
is used-up man and might better de-
cline, but for the hope of saving some
local candidate. esii5ia iEssv9a ed =
All around us-in Pennsylvania, in
New Jersey, Massachusetts, and else
where, little knots of party wire.work-
ers are sitting up late nights in tavern
private parlors, desperately intent on
some sort of fusion that will take their
respective States from Lincoln and
send three or four of the fusers to Con-
gress.s They work hard and long, and
not without apparent success but they
forget the great mass Of the people
who do not participate in these cabals.
and who are for Douglas, for Breckin-
ridge, for Bell--to say nothing of the
still greater number. who are for Lin
eoln--but who are'not at all for Fusion.
not expecting to go to Congress OF
achieve any great personal advantage
by means oflit. Every one of these
wants to vote for the candidate of his
choice /; deny him this, and you will
hardly persuade him to vote at all-or
if he does, he will go to the poll as il
to his fathers funeral. If YOU don't
believe this, try the. experiment, and
you will. Toi elm baa too7lh ei hsml
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