Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-10-06

In view OF tne approaching contest between
the friends and the opponents of the present
State Administration. and the policy recon-.
| mended and pursued respectively by them in
| reference to the affairs of the Common wealth,
tention to the following statement of
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
1t is a fact, shat the Locofoco party for
number OF years, have had the entire control
OF the administration of the State government,
OF the finances of the State, and of the public
improvements
1t is fact, that during this period the inter-
est on the State debt was paid in deprecated
/ paper: the credit of the State was prostrated :
the stocks Of the Commonwealth were greatly
! below par value; the revenues were insufficient
| to pay the interest of the debt and maintain The
| public works.
Ii is tact, that large amounts ofmoney were
! frequently borrowed to pay the semi-annual in
terest, and that floating debt, along the line
OF our public works, of six hundred thousand
dollars had accumulated for years, and remain-
ed unpaid. ~
1t is a fact, that laborers, material men, and
men who had sustained damage along the i'm
provements-men who could not be denied
loss-whose famishing families were CRYING to
them for bread, had remained unpaid for wears,
and their petitions for IeIief had been disre-
garded. Et
1t is fact, that the people, while they paid
into the Treasury the taxes deemed necessary
10 The support OF public credit, were fearfully
discouraged at the prospect before them-heavy
burthens, crippled and insufficient resources,
and domestic debts unpaid-and they despa. -ed
OF seeing, in their day and generation, any
change for the better.
Ii is a fact, that the party then in power
made no attempts 10 reduce the burthens of
the people, by the only available mode, the
payment OF the public debt. and the citizens
could see IN The future no relief from taxation
1t il fact. that those laborers and material
men upon the public works, who were fortu-
nate enough to receive from the Locofoco su-
perintendents the reward of their toll, were
paid IN worthless notes-torn, defaced and de-
preclated IN value notes which were kept
IN circulation against the terms of their origi-
nal issue, which required their redemption
years ago.
1t is fact, that so soon as the Whig Admin
IstratIon came into power, the Locofoco party
from one end of the State to the other, COM
menced an unprlncipled outcry against il, be-
internal Improvements, and because the poor
laborers remained rewarded-debts which
that party had contracted and concealed-la-
borers who had suffered the pangs of want for
debts due them for months, If not years, under
Locofoco Administration.
These are facts which the records of The
State and the experience of the people will
fully sustain. Look on the reverse of the pic
ture--tor there is a second chapter of facts to
follow;
Ii is fact, that the Wing Governor, William
f. Johnston, was inaugurated in the month of
January last, having received the largest vote
ever polled in the State Of Pennsylvania, and
that since then, he has had the administration
OF the Executive branch of the government un.
der his control.
1t is fact, that before, as well as since, his
Inauguration, the public press of the Locofoco
party have assaled him. his recornmend ndations,
and his public acts, with ferocity which con-
temned public sentiment, disregarded the ex-
preston of the public will, and which, defying
truth and shame, denounced his administration
as rulnous to the interests OF the people.
1t is a fact, nevertheless, that under his ad.
mnistration OF public affairs, within the short
period Of nine months, the interest on the pub
lic debt has been paid in a sound, convertible
currency, without borrowing, and without the
cost OF cent IN exchanges, thereby saving 10
the people thousands OF dollars.
1t is fact, that, within this period, the float
ing debt ofsix hundred thousand dollars, Great.
ed by the Locofoco party, and by them suffered
to accumulate for years, has been principally
paid. and resources are in the Treasury To
meet every dollar of the debt which has been
brought to the notice of the Wing administra-
ton.
Ii is fact, that the workmen, material men
and men who have sustained damage along the
lines of The Canals and Railroads in the State,
have either been paid, or the payments have
been delayed by superintenden,s on the said
work
1t is a fact, that of those torn, defaced and
deprecated notes, with which Locofocos paid
the laborers on the public works 1897, ,937, 90,
being nearly two-thirds of the whule--have
been withdrawn from circulation, and their
places supplied with sound and safe currency.
It Is fact, that one hundred and thirteen
thousand five hundred dollars OF the funded
debt have been paid, and one hundred thousand
more will be paid before the first dav of FebIu.
airy next; aud that sinking fund has been es|
tabilshed, which, under proper managemen mt snd
the continuance Of the judicious system pur-
sued by the existing administra tioh. will Sc
cure the payment of ten millions of dollars Of