The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-05-25
Opinion of an Honest Whig.


1.-THE Lancaster Examiner, we'll known as
one of the leading organs of the old Whig party
of Pennsylvania, comments upon the appoint
menfs of Gov Pollock in the following plain
and forcibIr manner Let all honest men read
it carefully
From the Lancaster Examiner.
THE GOVERNORS APPolNTMENTs.-The Sc
lection Of Mr. Henry Davis as Leather insppc-
tor, completes the State appointments of the
present executive. We have no knowledge of
Mr.. Daviss claims or qualifications, but an rX-
posure contained in the Daily News Of last Sat-
urday, is not calculated to impress one very
highly in his favor.
1t is perhaps as difficult task as could be
undertaken, to select score out OF the hun
dreds of applicants for the offices IN The gift OF
the Governor, at each change of an admlnlStFa-
ton. More or less dissatisfaction will always
exist, with or without sufficient cause. We
are compelled TO say, however, in all candor,
that Governor Pollock has been singularly un-
tortunae IN his selections to what are consider
ed the lucrative stations. The successful app
pIcants- so far as we know them-are the
hangers on of party; camp followers, who h0-
yer on the outskirts Of every army, not for bat
tie but for booty who pIunder the dead and
butcher the wounded desert the unpGosperous
aud brtray the daring. The men who have
summered and wintered with the Whig party
never snpaking off in adversely, to return
only when prospect of plumber invited them
have not been favored TO the extent we had
hoped for. Their exclusion indicates the adop
ton OF wrong principle in the distribution Of
patronage the neglect Of old and tried friends
10 the hope of making ones-and acting on
bad principle, in the long run, always proves
TO be bad policy
We propose to make a brief examination
into the merits OF the prominent appointments.
The selection for bark Inspector is VIM. ID.
Baker, of Philadelphia, practicing lawyer,
who couldn't have told ground bark from saw
dust il bis appointment had depended on that
much knowledge of matters pertaining to the
office He is an inveterate office hunter, hav-
ing been out for some office at every election
that has bren held IN Philadelphia for the last
ten wears. Last year he ran tWcp-in June
for city Attorney, and in October for Prothono-
tary. As it is not often that office comes in
the way of oftanners-while lawyers always bave
their 'platterS right side up" when any crumbs
Of patronage are about to fal--thiS one would
seem to belong of right TO the trade, ard there
are members who doubtless would have heen
glad to receive it. The Whiskey Inspector
is Doctor John II. Seltzpr, OF Berks county
another nterloping professional man running
away with an office which would seem proper
lv 10 belong to distlipr. The doctor figured
al K. n. State Convention. last August, at
which he boaSted that hr secured the appoint
n1ent of k. MS. on the committee appointed to
receive Gov. Biglrr, on his contemplated visit
TO Reading. II was arranged that when the
Governor arrived, he would fall into the hands
of men smiling friendship to his face, but sworn
in secret 10 destroy him-Joab-ke inquring
"art thou in health, my brother % while their
daggars at his back TO have picked the
Governors pocket would not have been more
venial offence, tried in court OF honor, if not
in Law. The man who could boast of such
double, distilled meanness, would better grace
a pententlary cell, than lucrative Office
The excuse advanced by the doctors friends is,
that he is only two degrees better than an idiot,
and is not to be held accountable to the ordi-
nary standard by which honorable men are gov
erued.
The flour Inspector is Stephen Miller, Of the
Harrisburg I'degraph Mr. Miller had twice
been elected prothonotary Of Dauphin county,
and had year of office unexpired when he was
appointed TO this station. He was evidently
born under lucky star, as it falls to the lot of
few TO have two lucrative Offices at the same
time. He boasts in his paper, that he nomina-
ted Gov. Pollock for President at 0 O'Clock on
the night of the election. The next morning
hr announced himself candidate for -four In
spector Not in vain has he learned
To crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
That thrift may follow tawning.
The Telegraph is one-idea paper, and for a
year past, has had sort Of man-a-potn insanity