The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-09-22
FUSED--CONrUSE
"sincc | am SO quickly done for.
l wuudCT what | was begun for"

woudcr what was begun for"
The grea. u ouslas-Bel breckenridge Fu-
sion which was to have swept the Empire
State lin horn), has collapsed. On
Saturday night and sunday, it was the great
fact; on Monday, it proved great botch
and failure. To day, it is nowhere and
nothing. Mr.. Ben Wood is peremp,orly
iisavowed hv his new bosses, Dean Rich.
moud and Peter Caggcr: his couscn, to put
ten Bseekiuridge Electors on the ID ,uc las
ticket, with NIcle for Lieut.. Governor and
Iaycox for Canal Commissioner, is repu-
dated, and the whole dicker blown to the
winds. There will be no Breckenridge men
pu, on the Douglas Electoral Ticket; or.
If there are, they will not be permitted to
remain. Tho masses cannot be induced to
support Fusion ticket, unless they are
cheated into it by assurances, Ia Brooks.
MsMaster. that it IS to vote solid for the
man Of their choice. The IIards are vel.
come to fuse-on the clean Douglas Bell
ticket, sonly that aud nothing more"
Those who want to help Dean Richmond &
c.. carry the State for Douglas and make
Kelley Governor will be welcome to any
cold vic,uai. they can Ind lying about loose;
hu, not word Of Electors for Breekiarid.e
tina. is ont Of the question.
Fusion is thus nj an end in our State. so
far M the Breckenridge men are concerned.
The Douglas leaders find their mysterious
bargain With the Bell men all that their party
will stomach. and will 60 no further. And,
10 give them their due, the Ilards seem
ahou, as sick If their almost completed bar
gain AZ 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
possession or in prospect to be secured {if at
ally by Fusion; for there we're candidates
for Congress, like Mr.. Ben Wood, who wants
to run down town, where the Breckenridge
interest is strong. Thus NJ. Douglas 81 m
prospects have been traded OF in fatal
sahserrieney to personal es.ss, until his
political grave stands open in plain sight Of
all. All the eon,sivsnces to carry the cleo
ton is'a the Housc are alien to his ssnden-
eiss ard fatal TO his hopes. lie is a used-Gp
man and might better decline, but for the
hope az Saving some local candidate.
All around us--in PENNSYLVANIA. in New
jersey, Massachusetts,. and elsewhere. little
knots OF party wire workers are sitting Up
late o'nisass in savsrns, private parlors.
desperately intent on son. sort of fusion
that will take their respective States from
Lincoln snd send three or four Of the fusers
TO Congress. They work hard and long.
and no. without apparent sueeess: hnt they
forget the grea. mass Of the people who d,
not participate 10 these cahals, and who are
fer pcugsas, fer Breckinridgs, for Bell
Ia say nothing Of the s.ill greater number
wae are for Lncoln-but who are no; At aIi
Tor Fusion, not expecting to 60 10 Congress
or achieve any great persona! advantage by
means Of il. Errry one OF these wAnss %
vote for the candidate Of his choice: deny
him this, and you viii hardly persuade him
TO vote At ali--sr. IL be does. be will 20 to
to the pall ~ II 10 his fathers funeral. If
yoa don't believe this, try the experiment.,
aad you win.