Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-08-23
LOeOfOeO Resolutions.

Conscious that their proceedings needed
some extra propping, the Convention
which nominated, and the meeting that rat
| flied the ticket of Ross, Dull q Co., passed
strong resolutions in favor Of supporting
| regular nominations. The idea is GER
tainly a very good one, and to men fairly
dealt with, it would perhaps have some
weight; but the important question arises
whether those nominations 1cere made
fairly and honestly! Mr.. Gibboney, we
are informed, was for years solicited by
influential locofocos to suffer his name to
be used as a candidate for the Legislature,
but until last year declined. He was then
nominated, elected, and served the party
with as much zeal as the most ultra could
have desired. Such being the case, was
he not entitled TO q denomination, especi-
ally as the principle was settled by the re-
election of Hugh M'Kce, Esq, that
q representative should have two terms,
unless satisfactory cause could be shown for
q contrary course?
Had Mr.. Gibboney been fairly dealt
with by the wire-workers, no opposition
of moment, and least of all secret one,
would have been made. As is frequently
the case, votes might have been given to
certain persons with view of bringing
them forward as candidates at future
day, and possibly it was in such Light
that Mr.. G's friends viewed the apparent
ly trifiing efforts made in favor of John
Ross, for with the exception of those cog
infant Of the schemes concocted behind the
curtain, not one in a hundred seemed to
entertain doubt of Mr.. Gibboney's re-
nomination. Why he was not re-nomi-
mated has not yet been explained, and we
presume viii not be
Having succeeded in their efforts to get
rid Of the one who was entitled to their
support, the attention of the leaders is of
course next turned TO the ways and means
of electing the nominee, and the first step
is to get up a cry to stick TO the party!
Hence the passage OF the resolutions re-
ferred to above, which bear so strong an
affinity to each other that there can be no
doubt of their emanating from the same
pen, and hence also the Democrats con-
| slant recurrence to the same subject
Stick 10 the party-that's the cry now
| stick to it, right or wrong. Though CEN
sured and insulted, though scorned and de-
rided, perhaps laughed at for credulously
trusting to professions and promises never
intended to be fulfilled, the first salvo Of
fered is to stick to the party by sustaining
| Teguiar nominations, no matter how irreg-
uiariy made
1t now remains to be seen whether the
democracy" Of Mfliin county will con-
GRue to submit to the diclation which has
SO often heretofore led them into absurd in
consistencies on the subjects of the tariff,
on banks, one term principles, &c, and at
times to support men who were by no
means their choice or worthy of their suf-
frages-all too effected by the cry that is
again raised of sticking TO the purity.
They have seen that no regard is paid to
usages at times strongly advocated as ne
cessary, but that if certain ends are to be |
reached, they are regardless as to the
means used to effect them. These are
truths-not very palatable, perhaps, but
truths nevertheless--and we can only add |
that if, under such circumstances, the rank |
and file ratify the doings of their leaders,
they will show themselves worthy of be-
coming pack-horscs to the new firm of
| Ross, Dull & Co. for all time to come.