The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05


before every election covers :hem with
disgrace. when they get into office; and
Thirdly, to place in contrast with their
doctrines ofexpediency and extravaganza
the plaih, practical, popular and COM
prehens ise creed and conduct Of demo-
cratic ADMINISTRATIONS. 1t is in view of
these facts, now part of the history of
the county, that we think every Demo
cart has occasion to be proud OF the posi-
ton the national democracy occupies
at time when placed in a temporary
minority.
Under these auspices, the Democrats
OF Pennsylvania have gone INTO the pres
ent canvass, with renewed courage and
confidence. They feel that their cause is
right and just; and they instinctively re-
call the whig pledges and promises which
preceded the election of 1913, and COM
pare them with the prescription and per-
seculion that have since broken and tram
pied them foot. Convinced at the mo.
ment these professions were made, that
they were never intended to be fulfilled
they have no regret now, save that those
who aided to defeat the democracy less
than two years ago, should have only been
convinced of the faithlessness of those they
then conhded in, by the melancholy fan
ure at Washington, to which we have re-
terred. Have not the members of the
great Democratic party, therefore, pro-
found cause for congratulation, amid the
general fee!ing which holds up TO the
imitation of our rulers, the Ell lightcned
example of Democratic Administrations?
1t was under the impulse of such feel
ings as these, that the Democratic State
Convention, which assembled at Will
Transport on the 29th of May last, placed
III nomination the several candidates for
State officers, whose names you find in
scribed on all our banners. These candi-
dates deserve the support of The people of
Two of the officers to be
voted for, have just been made elective by
the Legislature, thus imposing an enlarged
upon the citizen in the dis
charge of his elective duties.
From similar causes, and the rapid
growth and widely extending interets of
our State and nation, have our elections,
year after year, brought with them an in
creased importance and additional risks,
lest our people should fail properly to ap-
preciate and diligently TO defend their
liberties. We point with pride, fellow
to the workings of our republican
system, and the official conduct, severaly,
of those Democrats who have been chosen
TO fill our places of trust, especially since
the election of the lamented Francis X.
Skunk. The policy of Governor Shunk's S
was the salvation of Penn
Tlyroy hoS 10 III
others, which it would be madness in
them not to follow. The high-souled in
dependence and stern integrity of that
Executive, and the strict responsibility to
which every officer of his administration
was held, soon led 10 those great results,
and 10 the establishment of that admirable
system from which so much that was
beneficial to the State has flown. The
course of the same stateman-like Governor
on the subject of banking, may always be
proitably referred to and initiated.
Where is there, in this broad Union, a
system of public works more economical
ly and more indclatigably conducted
The revenues Of the State Improvements,
and the expenditures necessary to keep
them i'll repair, constitute an exhibit into
which the Democratic party might fear
lessly challenge investigation. Under
Democratic administration, no greedy
Galphin is found among the honest men
who control your public works, audit
your public accounts, or pay out your
public moneys, forgetting all law and all
proprlcty, in their anxiety to fill their
pockets with dishonest gains. Democratic
policy, and Democratic integrity, lifted
off the load of deot which had been piled
upon Pennsylvania by the Galphins that
ruled and ruined in the administration OF
Joseph Ritner. No longer is our fair
fame outraged by the apprehension of re-
pudlatlon. No longer are the State im-
provements used for personal and party
purposes. No longer are the Canal Com
missioncrs engaged in gambling for votes
with the peoples money, in establishing
"misslonary funds,' TO reward political
emlssaries, or III openly corrupting the
ballot boxes. The Jefersonian doctrines
of economical expenditure, honest agents,
and low salaries, has never been more
successfully tried than by the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania.
We appeal to every citizen to give his
support to the Democratic nominations for
State oficers-composed, as they are, Of
able, honest and energetic citiZens-men
of tried integrity and capacity; every one
of whom has been endorsed by the votes
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