Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-10
PENNSYLVANIA.
A Review of the FIeId-Buekalew's
Probable Majority.

PFODaDAe MAJORITY.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial. -
WASH NeToN, Sept. Ga well known
gentleman, very prominently connected
With the Liberal Campaign Committee, has
lust returned from Pennsylvania, where he
has made a thorough canvass, and reports
the following as fair statement of the sit
uation: He finds the Hartranft clique dis
couraged in every part of the State except
at Philadelphia. There they have control
of all the machinery to perpetrate frauds,
both in stufing ballot boxes and making
the returns. A well contrived plan has
been perfected to secure false registry of
the city. This is done by the Police
Department, which has control
of the registration. The success of
this scheme is already apparent in the
enormous and unprecedented increase of
votes in Republican districts, so far as the
REGISTRATION has proceeded. The leaders of
the ring are constantly in the city directing
this business, and seem to he letting almost
eyery other part of the State go by default.
The Hartranft meetings, wherever they are
held. are slimly attended, and there is no
enthusiasm. Their orators are merely inn
posters, and they discreetly refrain
from making any illusions
to the State candidates, the burden
of their song being Grant as against Gree
lev. Bob Mackey, State Treasurer, and
Csmeron's chief fugleman, has his head
Quarters at "Addition, Division and Silence"
Remble's bank, and is furnishing money
without stint. The plan on which the
Cameron -pulers are working has been
discovered. and both Gel. Allen and Mr..
Schell have been acquainted with theJnodus
onernndi, as well as the way in which it
can be exposed and defeated.
throughout the central and ives tern por-
t;on of the State Buckalew is having every
thing his own way. In the west, especially,
the tide in his favor seems to be irresistible.
AIlaohany county, always the stronghold
Of the Republican party, will not give Har-
tranft over three Thousand majority. With
all the frauds they can count in, there is
avery probability that he will not have a
majority exceeding 1000. There is a
strong German vote in this county and
in Pittsburg, and Allegheny City. The
hest informed local politicians esti-
mate it st 5000. Last year there
was little disaffection among the Germans
and a portion of the Republican State and
local ticket did not receive their support.
Stanton, the Republican candidate for Au
d;tor General, was one of the obnoxious
candidates, and bis majority was only 1859,
while the Surveyor General, Republican,
with whom the Germans were satisfied,
had a majority of 9,1l9. This shows what
the German vote amounts to in the county.
But last year there YVES comparatively
little disaffection. They had no paper
to support them in their own language
and none of their prominent mer
| would take an active part in the fight
| This is all changed now. The VolkSbLGtt
4 an inhential and able German paper, came
l over last winter when SchurZ was so as
\ sailed in the Senate by the Administration
1 and has been doing effective service in the
| canvass. The most prominent and infiu
| ential Germans in the city and country art
openly opposing Hartranft, and are doins
1 all they can to organize their people. On
of these men, an intelligent, shrewd poll.
tician, is authority for the statement that
4 least two-thirds of the Germans will Vot
for Buckalew. This vote will be loss
ten thousand to Hartranft.
But the disaffection in the Republican
ranks there is not confined to the Germal
element alone. The Oldest and ables
leaders in the party in the West are openl
/ working against the Cameron ring. Hen
IL. K. Moorehead, long a member OF Con
gress for that county, and man OF grea
wealth and influence, viii take the STUN
4 soon for Buckalew. Hon. Thoms
Marshall, one of the leading lawyer
of the Pittsburg bar, and one OF I'd
most influential stumpers the Republican
have ever had, is already on ID
stump, and is doing good wori
/ A majority of the lawyers in the city, an
many of the largest manufacturers an
merchants openly avow their intention
vote for Buckalew. Both of the eyenlr
papers, the Chronicle and Leader, are SUI
porting the Liberal movement, and are urJ
ing an unrelenting war on HartranI
Mackey and the Cameron ring. The
newspapers have always been independen
but with a strong leaning to the Republics
side. Their proprietors and editors a
life long Republicans, but they are doiH
| all they can to elect Buckalew, and thu
II say that both their circulation and busine