Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-29
VICTOR E. PIOLLET.

There is something extraordinary in the fact
that this individual occupies the position of a
candidate before the people of Bradford. That
the most odious and deservedly unpopular man
in the County should at this time be pushed
forward for the office of Representative, is GER
tainly remarkable and ominous of mischief
There is not a man acquainted with PIoIL.Er
who believes for a moment that he has been
made a candidate because of his worth and
fitness for the office. AS a man he is notorious
ly selfish, trcacherous and false. AS q politi-
clan he is shamefully unprincipled and profit
gate-the tool of Presidential aspirants, and
the open apologist for the worst crimes of sla-
very. He has no conception of politics, eleva-
ted to the dignity of principle. With him, po-
litical action becomes a game of low intrigue,
a merccnary scramble, in which duplicity, false
hood and appeals to the selfshness and baser
passions of men, are relied upon for success
What malign influences have been at work to
bring before the people of Bradford such a
man for their suffrages? What schemes of
selfishness and ambition lie hid from public
view, prompting the efforts now made to elect
PIOILET to the Legislature What potent
charm has had the power to convert his bitter
est enemies into warmest friends TO unite in
his support men of the most diverse interests
and views? Surely there is at the bottom of
this "fusion" of hostile interests and conflict
ing principles, glittering and seductive tcmpta-
lions. We shall cndeavor to expose in part,
the speculative and mercenary plans that lie
concealed.
Among the pronigate of our public men,
whose eyes are eagerly fixed upon the Prcsi-
dency, and who for years have strivcn to pur-
chase that high Office, by the most mental sub
serviency to the Slave Power, stands Mr.. BIT
cHANAN. No man has bowed the knee with
more abject servility, and none would be more
acceptable to the South as a candidate. But
in the desperate struggle slavery is now max
ing for the mastery of this Government, it can
not afford to run unnecessary hazard of defeat,
even to crafty the ambition of its most sub
s~ervient Northern ally. The South will not,
dare not, make Mr.. BUCHANAN it's candidate
in 1856, unless it is believed he can carry the
electoral vote of Pennsylvania. Two or three
Northern States are selected as the battlefield
of the next Presidential election. The plan of
the campaign is clearly revealed. The South
enters the contest thoroughly united, and eve
ry Southern electoral vote may be counted as
already cast for the candidate to be nominated
in June next, at Cincinnati. The South will
confer the nomination upon that Dough-face,
whoever he may be, that is believed to stand
the best chance to carry such a Northern vote
as when added to the whole vote of the South,
will make an election. Hence Mr.. BUCHANAN
is ruled out-his case is hopelcss-unlcsS he
can satisfy the great barons of the slave Oil
garchy that he can carry his own state, there
by making his success certain. He must de-
monstrate to them his power to move this Con
grcssional district from its principles, and the
position it has occupied for the last eight years,
before they will listen to the pretenSions set up
i'll his behalf, as a strong man at home. With
this district true to the principlcSof Freedom
threatening to oycrwhclm Mr.. BUCHANAN with
its unconquerable majorities, the South will
not risk defeat by adopting him as its candi-
date.
Like other Presidential aspirants, Mr.. b.
CHANAN has attached to him a band of camp
followers, soldiers of fortune, which fight for
the plumber of victory. Bradford county has
its full quota of political parasites, who look
to the success of their chief as the certainroad
to prefcrment and fortune. Mr.. BUcHANANin
the Presidential chair, and they confidently all
tlcipate a heavy disbursement of official patron
age. Under his administrator it is hoped
that the Treasury will be unlocked to certain
defeated speculative claimants, and the disas-
ters of the Gadscn treaty amply unidentified
that lost Pay-Masterships may be regained-
judicial honors conferred, and lucrative public
contracts obtained, in which extras will be paid
without the trouble of an application to the
Legislature. We would not like to guarantee
the success of all these brilliant Illusions but
to the eyes of eager cXpectants they appear
real, promising q golden harvest. OF this ma
ture are the influences that have bowed the
necks our ambitious men, and given to slavery
a party in the north. Such tempting visions,
together with a local question, have placed
PIoILEr before the people of Bradford, as a
candidate for tba T ariclotnra
This Congressional district, We repeat, is
regarded 10y his friends as the great obstacle
in the way of Mr.. BUcHANAN's success /; and as
a consequence, of realizing the dazzling schemes