Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-29

running mate. The convention rather
evened up the score by a ringing ap-
prevail Of Pierce's administration in its
platform. Buchanan, when minister to
England. had Joined the American min
listers to France and Spain in letter
from Ostend, afterward labeled the "Os-
tend Manifesto in which they declared
that Cuba ought to be a part of the
United States, become such by purchase
II possible, or by force il necessary.
That. with the favor with which Pierce
and Buchanan looked upon the Walker
hlfbuster in Nicaragua, led to the demo
Gratis being called 'Buchananeers
Free states. free Kansas. free speech
and Fremont was the battle cry Of the
republicans. while Buck and Breck' was
as much as the democratic campaign
poets could find for a slogan. The re-
publicans could find no term more gentle
than border ruff1an" to apply to a DEM
ocrat. The democrats retorted with
"black republican" and honors were
easy.
One of the greatest political rallies ever
held in this country was the Fremont
and freedom festival
Great Gathering held at Dayton. Ohio,
the last of July.
'vA' More than hundred
thousand people came from far and near
The rallying cry of the day was There
is NORTH One Of the chief features
of the celebration was a burlesque demo
cratic parade staged by young Hoosier
F,remonters. It was headed by his sa-
tanic majesty. gotten up to resemble
President Pierce. attended by menials
who were recognized as the members OF
his cabinet. Floats were in the process
sion representing Buck and Breck,'' the
Walker filibusters, border ruffians beating
women to death. Simon Legree hoggine
Uncle Tom, sOutherners applying a coal
Of tar and feathers to free-state men,
Brooks breaking his cane over the head
Of Charles Sumner. and Brigham Young
and his wives representing democratic
MormOnism and called by the republi-
cans with slavery the twin relic Of bar
calliOpe fashion, was a float showing
Little Giant" Douglas attacking the
Missouri compromise hammer and tongs.
That day it was declared that there We're
only two parties in Ohio-"the people s
party and the postmasters' party"
Pennsylvania had a scheme in that cam
paign something like the one proposed in
Pennsylvania at the beginning of the
present canvass. 1t was fusion of the
knOw-nothings and the republicans - in
Pennsylvania known as the peoples party.
Both parties nominated the same electors,
and it was understood that if Pennsylva-
MAS vote should prove determinative of
the result. and fusion won, Fremont was
to have it. Otherwise the electors were
to be divided according as the voters had
voted between Fillmore and Fremont
But fusion had no chance to work out
the deal, for the 1,O25 votes by which
Buchanan won determined the result and
possibly changed the entire course OF
American history.
Fillmore had no idea of winning in the
popular election, but he did hope to SC
divide the vote between the democrats
and the republicans that the election
would be thrown into the House, where
he believed he had a chance of winning
out. The closeness of the vote in Penn
sylvania shows how little it might have
required to throw the election into the
House. thing that. with the country in
the temper it then found itself, would
have been catastrophe.