Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-09-13
VIM BfaLER yILL BE DEFEATEp.

hts parallel in the political history sof this
jzCommo onwealth. Neverwere politicians and
i'wire-workers socompletely puzzled, and never
was it more apparent that the epeople had re
solved TO take the matter in.their own hands,
and consult only their own sentiments and
wishes, regardless of party predilections.-
The only prediction will venture, which
however, we conceive to be almost certain
ty, is that Gov. Bigler will be defeated at the
election in October, by an overwhelming ma
jority g
He viii be defeated, because, in the first
place, he cannot be supported without sup
porting the present National Administration,
which is loathed, despised, and scorned by the
masses of all political parties. Its character
and its acts are regarded with universal disgust
and contempt. z.
sidHe Will be defeated, because he is the Ne
braska candidate; and has lost the support of
the whole Free Democratic vote of the North
ern counties, without which it is impossible
/ for him to be elected. 1t is said and believed
| that the Nebraska Bill could not have passed
against the manly opposition of Gov Bigler,
in the position he occupied, when the resolu-
tions in opposition to ii were pending in our
State Legislature He is therefore,, justly
held responsible for a full share in the eutra-
geous violation of the Missouri Compromise,
which will lose him thousands of Democratic
votes in all portions of the State.
He viii be defeated because he win lose the
vote Of every true friend Of temperance and
virtue. From his non-committal course on
the Prohibitory Law question, no confidence
whatever can be placed in his temperance pro
fessions. While he expresses his willingness
to approve any 'sconstitutional'' Law, he has
never yet given any intimation of what he
would regard as a constitutional measure
He says the Legislature has power to eregulate'
the traffic, but we have every reason to believe
that he thinks it has no power to prohibit it.
He win be defeated, because he is opposed
to the Immediate and unconditional sale of the
Public Works. 1t is true that he signed bill
in favor of it, but it was so burthened with re-
strictions, to prevent its beneficial opera
ton. He opposed it when member of the
Senate, he opposed it in his last annual mes
sage, and he is opposed to it still. -1
5s He win be defeated because of his unlimited
abuse of the Pardoning Power Although he
denounced Governor Johnston, for exercising
this power, he has, with the exception of Por-
ter, far oJItstripped all former occupants of
the Gubernatorial chair. Commencing with
Aiberti, the notorious kdnapper, he has fol-
lowed itup by the release OF the Allegheny
cOnspirators, the pardon OF the low bullies
from the Philadelphia doggeries, who vialated
the peace of the citizens of Chester Comfy
by public fighting on her soil, the tyFo1fold
ty, and the release of Lachenourl of Easton
who was condemned after fairly contested
triad of three weeks. If these are instances
of the wise and eommendables exercise of the
pardoning power, then we think it is high
time the whole system be abolished. ~ y
He viii be defeated, because he has. violated /
his pledges that retrenchment and reform /
should be introduced into the management of /
the Public Works, and that the State debt /
ton. Gov. Bigler, during the last year, has
received fire millions, orty-eight thousand, SIR
hundred and itirtg-eight dollars aud sirtl-seren |
cents, MORE, than Gov. JOHNSTON in 1850, yet |
he has not only spent that sum, but seceR liIa-
dredt and jiftg-e ght thousand d0itGrs odditfoaaE
or FIVE MILLIONS, FIVE HUNDRED AM, SEVENTY
EVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINE DOL
hARsl tSNp NINE GENTS, more than Gov. john
stonib .It -iat.az gga,.-r- -.e7o- r7 sfsg
He will be defeated, because Of his connec-
ton with Judge Campbell- lie outraged the
feelings and sentiments Of the people, by APP
pointing him Attorney General, after he was
defeated for the Supreme Bench, and his sub
seqnent appointment to seat in the cabinet,
for which II Is notorioIIS ba voc ,,l,C ill ~,
fitted, and the duties of which he is Incapable
of performing, was more than the pembers of
his own party could endure, and he win now
reap his reward by feeling, the effect of the
deep. rooted American Protestant feeling
which that appointment may almost be said to
have originated in Pennsylvania.
And lastly. he viii be defeated, because he
has been '.weighed in the balance and found
Wanting.'' Because three years of misrule
have satisfied the people Of his utter inability
to discharge the duties Of the office and be-
cause the, general feeling of dissatisfaction
that prevails over the whole State must result
in the total and entire. overthrow Of the demo
cratic party and its cahdidates on the 10th
lay Of October next. 3D.
.r5iTs - Good for Iiogas .,-af.s,eI
The regular Democratic. Convention of Tio-
ga county, Treeently, adopted the. following
Prealnpie and Resolution = f..s.,
WHEREAS, We believe that part of the act, of
Congress Lately enacted, repeating the Missou-
i G'mpreIniSe, (solcaHed,) } and all other acts 4
af like character, are anti-Democratic and OPP
losed7to the true principles of our National
Iovernment and highly dangerous to its per-
1etuty. {
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