Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-03
me New Party I'm pennsylvania.

JOHN Z. HUREBuT,
DATED GsvslAud, April q, sc. 0. s. Assessor.
The New Party In Pennsylvania.
The movement for tbs establishment of
johnson party, Independent of and in
opposition TO the Republican UnionParty,
which has been on foot in Washington
sver aince the veto of the Freedmen's
Bureau bill, viii soon take overt shape in
the State Of Pennsylvania A Conven-
ton Of the Pe~nnsylvsuia friends of Pres
ident johnson and supporters of his pol
icy has been calledSto meet in Pittsburgh
during the present month, to take steps
for the defeat Of the Republican candi-
date for Governor, Gen. John W. Geary.
Exactly Whist the action Of that conven-
ton will be, it Is impossible TO predict
but It's ultimate object is solely ths defeat
Of the Republican Union party The
bitter personal opposition Of the Copper
head nominee, Hester Clymer, to Mr..
johnson, during the war, will prevent the
President and his supporters from acting
with the Democrats in Pennsylvania as
they did In Connecticut. It is proposed
to obviste this difficulty by Withdrawing
Mr.. Cymer and nominating General
Hancock or General Meade as the DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor, If either is
willing to lend himself to so nefarious a
plot. If this can be done, the Pittsburgh
convention viii probably content itself
with endorsing the Democratic nomina-
ton. II however, Mr.. Clymer viii net
withdraw, q third candidate will prob
ably be put in the field, and, in that event,
Col. Richard Coulter, tits said, will be
the nominee. The men who take this
course do not dream of electing their can
didats, but only hope TO draw of enough
Republican votes to defeat Geary.
This Infamous conspiracy, suggested by
Mr.. johnson, is being carried into effect
by Senator Cowan, aided by the Execu-
tive Office. It has become evident that all
the power Of Federal patronage is to be
used to build up the new party. For this
purpose the distribution Of United States
Offices has been turned over TO Senator
Cowan and his Democratic colleagues,
With the understanding that all the
present inoumbents who will Rot pledge
their support to the new party are TO be
removed, and their places to be filed with
politicians, whether of Republican or Cop
perhead antscedents, who will set with
the proposed organization. In pursuance
Of this policy, the Collectors in four dis
tricta, the Assessors In three, the POST
master of Pittsburgh, and a number Of
Federal oHce-holders throughout the
Stste, have been removed, and the Presi-
dent has announced to prominent Penn
sylvania Republicans that this work of
removal and disappointment is to be made
sweeping and universal. That the object
Of Nj. johnson Is the defeat ofthe Union
party IL most manifest from the tone of
his personal organs. The National Re
publican, which claims TO be q Union
paper, but has blindly followed the tor
tuOus course of the President, and Is re-
garded as peculiarly his m~outhpiece, thus
pats the new movement on the back, and
spits out venom against the Republicans
Of Pennsylvania:
GPennsylvania, We also see Is soon to
take counsel In opposition to the Infamous
resolutions passed In the late convention
ct Harrisburg, S7hieh for contemplate
ahS6sizo, for petty r~nGtignity, for eoacardly
lodging, 6aae no parallel IN conventional
aasaLS. Her conservative men are 10
meet in Pittsburg to repudiate the shame
fI lead of disappointed ~nsaliqHonts and
hopetsss radicals; and woe be to the men
who stand in their way"
This Is the way that the Presidents
especial opponents speak of the Union
party Of Pennsylvania which gave twen-
ty-seven electoral votes for Andrew john
son for Vice President in 1891 And yet
there are men who say that Mr.. johnson
has not left the partyl
Edgar Cowsn, who is made the wet
nurse Of the new party in Pennsylvania,
is well fitted for his place. Elected in the
winter Of lseo-el, by the Republican
party, he has always deserted that party
IN the moment of trial. he was traitor to
the party long before Andrew johnson de-
serted Ii, and indeed, in the early days ofthe
war, be voted With the Democrats against
war measures which had the enthusiastic
support of Senator NOW President) john
son Of Tennessee. His record is enc of
continued treachery to Freedom. he voted
(against his own party and with the Cop
perheads,) sgainst the repeal of
the fugitive slave act. against the
first c~onhscation set against the
ha5sas corpus set of 1863, against the
bin authorizing the President, in cases Of
military necessity, to take possession Of
railroad and telegraph lines. against the
bin to provide q national currency, against
the bill to aid emancipation in Missouri,
and, In 1854 against negro suffrage in tie
District Of Columbia During the present
session he has acted uniformly with the
UcmOcrH&. oG an9 WI tH-Ao AC1AONSN
to resign, once by e state convention Of
he Unien party and once by the State
Legislature, in which the Union party had
anajOrity. 1t is fitting that one whose
treschery to the Republican party has
bssn 80 consistent and complete, should be
the instrument os eonsunmating, inPenn-
syivxniA . similar treachery OF the part
Of President johnson.
We place on record these facts concern
ing the new party in Pennsylvania, to
show that the President is still persistent
in his efforts to destroy the Republican
party. We are by no means alarmed at
the new movement and indeed hope that
il may result in the nomination OF 8 third
candidate for Governor. Innoothsr way
could the utter weakness Of the johnson
partv be more completely demonstrated
We venture 70 predict that Il aJohnson
oandidsts h Pvt IN nomination, he VIII
net rscsiVs Tan thousand Of the threa hun
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