Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-07-26
The AIhls Nominations.


gan, the nominee of that Convention, re-
! echoed the language it ascrloes 10 MI
Corwin, but which he never uttered III the
sense the Ovenshines use 1t. There Is
something so inconsistent III these two
statements. that il will strike every casual
raader. and lead him to doubt the truth of
the story got up by the paper which it
quotes. We know nothing personally of
the Oyenshine candidate for Canal Com
missioner. nor of his capacity TO fill the
office as it ought to be filled, but we do
know that Joshua DUNCAN is not the wa
yering politician and ignoramus the Dem
ocrat would make him. The people may
rely upon ii that he is capable-more SO
than any OF the present canal board-and
also that he is honest, a consideration of
some importance to all taxpayers.
As TO the candidates for Auditor General,
the last Union Star furnishes an answer to
the article quoted in The Democrat which
we subjoin:
Our Loco friends are evidently alarmed at the
strength of the Wing ticket. Our candidates
being men of unexceptionable character and of
great popularity, the opposition are endeayoring
10 stem the current of public opinion which is
setting in their favor by croaking about dissatis
faction in the Wing ranks They know that
nothing of the kind exists among US, but that their
own party is torn and distracted BY the violence
and bitterness Of the strife between the two
e. H. I.
bidding of the OTenshine leaders, is decrying our
candidate for Auditor General 1t has the un-
blushing etfrontery 10 declare that Penns town
ship Will give a majority against Henry w,
Snyder The voters of Old Penns will brand
this fasehood as it deserves on the I'd Tuesday
in October. Let the rest OF the State do as
well as Union county will do for Mr. SNYDER
and he will be triumphantly elected. Knowing
Mr.. Snyder well and Intimately we do not be-
lieye better and more judlcious selection could
have been made for the office Of Auditor Gen
eral. We have also known his opponent, Mr..
Banks, for many years, and while we esteem him
as man and citizen, We have no hesitation in
saying that MIR. Snyder is much better qualified
10 fill this Office than he is. Mr.. Banks is gen
tleman possessing but moderate talents, and is
not an experienced accountant He has always
been very violent partlzan, and so strongly
does he permit party spirit 10 arouse him that
in l54l, when David X. Porter was elected
Governor over Judge Banks, who is his cousin
and brother-in-law, ne not only refused to vote
for Judge Banks, but he illuminated his house
in honor Of the election Of Porter Mr. Banks
cannot therefore expect his whig relations 10
support him, nor will they do IL Since the
nomination Of Mr.. Snyder, We have seen and
conyersed with number of our leading wings
who appear much gratifed with his nomination
Members OF the other party have also borne
willing testimony to his ability and popularity,
Z arA eL-n - 4 II
der does not receive very large increase over
the Wing vote in Union county.
OF one Joseph Henderson" as the
Democrat calls him, we fancy our neigh
Dor will hear more this fall than will be to
his liking. Itmay do very well politically
TO uphold Mr.. Brawley, whom the editor
of the Easton Argus, a rank locofoco pa
per, considers filter for Uhiskey Inspector
than Surveyor General, and run down
Mr.. Henderson, gentleman whose char
acter and standing are above reproach, but
1t will not DO. The farmers, whose inter.
ests the Surveyor General is to guard
will do well to pause before they entrus
the Office into the hands of Mr. Brawley
But few days previous to the meeting o.
the Ovenshine Convention, large loco
foco meeting was held in Crawford coun.
ty, Mr.. Brawley's place of residence, a
which il was resolved
lst. That it is necessary for the Democratic
State Convention 10 nominate candidates oil
nd md
%. That the puffs contained in the Crawford
Democrat, asserting that the nomination Of
7. Brawley, as a candidate for Auditor General
would be gratifying to the Democracy of thi:
county, are uncalled for and untrue.
Sd. That the delegates to the Wiiamspor
Convention be instructed to vote for Gen. J. B
Guthrie, Of Allegheny county, for Auditor Gen
eral, and Nimrod Strickland Of Chester, FOL
Canal Commissioner.
This shows that the locofoco candidate
cannot command his party vote at home
and since his nomination it is generally
believed that he will be beaten there, 70
we observed few days since that loco
foco meeting was held at Conneautyilc, a
which it was almost unanimously resolved
to oppose him These are facts that carr,
with them some weight, for although th'
Ovenshines rely on the little knowledg'
the people possess of their candidates tc
secure their election, there are still many
who do not like TO 60 it blind " for th'
whole hog, tail and ALL without inquiry
, and inquiry once made, it might b
discovered that the fruits of the Conyen
ton at Williamsport are not as sweet a
the raw Paddy thought one of them wa
some years ago when he gave cheer 70
a t" Jimmy O'Polk, George McDallas, an
T swatc Aphraim Banks y
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