New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-12

'that ana nOlnlng m'ie' AN"'O ""N
help Dean Richmond & Co. carry the State Tor
Douglas and make Kelly Governor vii be welcome
TO any cold victuals they can ind lying aDouS
loose; but not word of Electors for breckenridge
that is out of the question. The only SHOW they
have had in that line is a suggestion by Ben. Wood
that they should go all lengths for the straight
Douelas Electoral Ticket, with an understanding
that, should the Douglas Electors be unable to do
Douglas any good by voting for him, and their
votes would elect Breckenridge, they shall or may
vote for the latter! Fancy the visage of Fernando
whsr he concocted that taking proposition!
Fusion is thus at an end in our State, so far as
the Breckin idge men are concerned. The Douglas
leaders find their mysterious bargain with the Bell
men all that their party will stomach, and will go
no further. And, to give them their due, the
HaIds seem about as sick of their almost COM
pleted bargain as the SOfs. They give out that
they on Monday returned Ben Woods written ac-
ceptance Of their ten Electors proposition By mail
with nut word of comment. They claim the
credit OF having been as soon and as heartily sick
| of the bargain as the other side. With regard 70
| some of them, this is doubtless tire.
WHY were Ben Wood and confreres empowered
to open negotiations with the HsrdS at all h'ch-
mopd and Co. surely assented to this. What dld
they meanl
| Mr.. Douglas is now morally certain TOT 10 rs
ceiye twenty Electoral Votes, if any IN the Save
States. He can get more in New England, and
s,D if any. in the West He will not have over
fen votes from Pennsylvania, even though the
| Democratic Electors should there be chosen.
When his friends consent to run Fusion ticket in
this Sta they openly abandon the hope of elect
ing their candidate by the People through the
Electoral Colleges, and join in a conspiracy to
throw the choice into the House. But in the
House, Mr.. Douglas has not even the ghost of
chance Not more than tweaty of IFS two hund ed
and thIrty.seyen Members are for him. Only the
two States of Illinois and Missouri are for him in
that body-tte former by majority of one; the
latter by delegation whose adhesion to his for
tunes is of recent date and dubious stability. No
mat er whether Bel or Breckenridge should go
into the House with him, Mr.. Douglass vote
there (by delegatiols) would be far the lowest.
| Nobody can designate the seventeen States by
which he could, by any conceivable contingency,
| be chosen.
! Mr. Douglas himself has seen this from the first,
and has earnestly ard openly opposed Fusion. His
National Committee have held the same language.
| lie never had but a single chance of success, aGd
that very poor One-namsly, to have clean
Douglas Electoral Ticket promptly nominated in
each state and inhexbly supported to the last.
| L l.,
Irregular National Democracy, with far greater
| strength of position than any other Iarty OPP
opposed to Lincoln and Hsmlin: our position is
midway between the extremes: we shall not
" fir Oh nor falter and if Lincoln is to be beaten
"by any body, it must be by Douglas: choose
aye, anti-Republicans, between Douglas and Lin
coin I" Even this would probably have failed:
but it would not have anticipated and predicted
/ defeat.
| Why was not this course adopted
! Simply because those who have managed Mr..
| Douglass case have had their own axes to grind
They had State tickets to save or to carry: there
were suodygOod things in possession or in prospect
to be secured Of at ALL by F0sion; for thee were
candidates for Congress like Mr.. Ben. Wood, who
| wants TO run down town, where the Breckenridge
interest il strong Thus Mr.. Douglass slim pros
poets have been traded off in fatal subserviency to
personal ends, until bis political grave stands open
in plain sight of all. All the cOntrivances to carry
Il Election into the House are alien to his tendtn
cies and fatal to his hopes. He is a used-up man
AID might better decline, but for the hope of saw
irg some local candidate.
All around us-in Pennsylvania, in New
jersey, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, little knots
of party wre-workers are sitting up late O'nights
in tavern private parlOrs, desperately intent on
some sort of Fusion that will take their
respective States from Lincoln and send three
OF four Of the fusers TO Congress They work
hard aid long, and not without apparent success;
but they forget the great mass Of the People who
do not participate in these cabas, aud who are for
Douglas for Breckenridge, for Bell--to say moth.
ing Of the still greater humber who are for Lincoln
but who are not at all for Fusion, not expecting
to 90 to Congress or achieve any great personal
advantage by means Of it, Every one Of these
wants to vote for the candidate of his choices deny
him THE, and you viii hardly persuade him to yot,
at al-or if he Does he VII 60 to the poll as if to
his fathers funeral. If you don't believe this, try
The experiment, and you viii