The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-08-21
Communication.
For the Bedford Gazette.
critics

certain charges recently preferred against Tue
late editor OF the 'Gazette2 by q. NELSON
SMITH, through the columns OF a paper under
his own control. MIR. Smith, il viii be remenl-
bered, was twice elected to the Legislature by
the Democracy OF Bedford, Fulton, and Cam
bria. During the first session, his conduct was
unexceptionabe, although marked by no partI-
cuar ability, and he was re-nominated and e
Iected. AT the second session, the al-absorb-
ing question was the election OF u. ). Senator.
According to the usages which have invariably
governed the democratic party, Col. JOHN
w. FORNEY--ior many years at the head OF
the editorial profession--a Democrat OF unswer-
wing integrity, and possessing the highest capa-
city to adorn the trust-was almost unanimous
IL nominated, and every man elected as De-
uocrat was bound, by every principle OF honor, |
to vote for him. Yet, strange to say, MIR. ).
not only violated his sacred trust IN voting a
gainst the regular nominee OF his party, but de-
uounced him in violent terms. As one Of thr
immediate constituents Of Smith, We took eX-
cepton to his course, as it was our plain duty
as we'll as our pleasure. Smith being the own
er of one OF the democratic papers IN Cambria
county, and backed in his aposacy by the 9th
er, popular sentiment was sacrificed, aud he
/ forced upon the party for third term, as II 10
+! compel the PEOPLE 10 endorse bis disorganiz-
/ ing conduct But h. and his co-workrrs have
already discovered Their misakr-the best oil
! Democrats in every portion OF the county re-
pudate his extraordinary nomination aid We
most heartily congratulate them in declining to
be made party TO the great fraud which elect
ed Simon Cameron to the Senate, against the
expressed will OF the freemen OF the .Common-
wealth. When asserted that the ''detrat'
of Mr.. Smith would reflect far more credit up
on the DEMOCRACY of Cambria than his
sseltction,'' we weighed we'll the force Of the
remark. and the more we thiEk upon the subject,
the more firmly we adhere TO the opinion. Ihe
BOLD policy salWays the TRUE Policy-and the
public servant who betrays his trust as Smith
did, should be made to feel the lash OF popular
Indignation, as a warning 10 others similarly
disposed
We pass Mr. Smiths two columns Of loW
bHitngSgote, and, without stopping TO consider
. his 'schances' we would rejoice to have an op-
portunity to vote against him in justice to our
glorious principles, which he SO recklesSly
trampled beneath his feet. Those Democrats
who would maintain their reputation as such,
will feel constrained either 10 not vote al all,
or deposit their ballots for some other man than
a G. Nelson Smith We do .J nqt wish . so 6e 4n-
FEND the position originally taken by the Bet
: Jord Gazette on the subject
MIR. Smith, however, makes specific charges
against Us IN the following paragraph:
: "Alr. Bowman, in the most vlainous terms.
, attacked the charactar of Mr.. SEARIGHT. The
"rrguarIy nominated candidate for Canal Com
"mlssloner in 1892, and not only struck his
"name from the ticket at the head of his paper.
''but also, in the most WANTON and coward
'ly manner ASSAILED his private character
''when he was lying on a sick bed and even
pursued bin with the savagrness OF a TIGER
''attar he was in his grave"
Now, this IS either true or false IF true. il
should consign US TO the contempt oi all eecpnt
men. 1t false, the sander should be- indrlibly
branded upon the forehead of its author. On
/ the subject alluded 10 we wrote and published
i've articles IN all, which, if published togeth-
er, would occupy about 81 or columns of the
echo" We assert that the Republication Of
our articles touching Mr.. Starlight will PROVE
every allegation IN the above paragraph MA
LlClOUSLT FALSE, except that we struck
his name from the ticket, and in this we were
endorsed By the E6easbarg Sentinel n unqua-
lined terms, whose editor declared that oul DO |
sItion "Would be sustained by all high-minded. |
"honorable men" and that it sswould be- we'll if !
'every journalist would follow the example set |
"them BY the Gazette" We will furnish our
tiles TO Mr.. Smith, and thus test the ssmanhood''
OF which he boasts so largely win the man
who would "raiher be right than PRESIDENT
shrink from meeting proposition so fair1 His
readers will see
1t seems that the Democrats of Cambria who
OBJECT to taking SO obnoxious pill as Mr.. Smith,
are about 10 put democratic volunteer IN the
uetd, which Is causing great uneasiness. The
Sehftnet, OF Ebensburg, fires at the thought,
ana Paihfiicay ayers that he 'EconSiders it
''solemn duty to support regular nominations
and ''that unless nominations when made are
supported by the party, then National, State
land county Conventions are FARCE. IfI
''dlSappolnted men regard il as consistent with
''theIr duty to kick in the traces and procure
''the defeat OF regular nominees, the sooner we
''cease talking about democratic men and mea-
"surts the better" The editor further saws
that II ''the man who refuses to support cand- ,
'date OF the party fairly nominated, imagines
ne Is a democrat, he is very much mistaken"
Would it be believed that the editor making /
hTse declarations, and pIedgng himself 10 brand r
Is dIsorganlZers ALL who set at defiance regu-
ar nominations, is the friend and advocate of
=. Nelson Smith, the Senatorial boherz But
be Sentinel may say the nomination Of Forney $
vas procured by ''dishonest means" II he II
possesses the right to prefer such a charge a. '
,alnst the democratic members of the last Le- ;,
stature, surely the Freemen ofCambria have :.
Ight to repudate Smith, who was nominated
Trough the influence of his own paper. Do R
Ight and fear not, should be the motto Of every
rue Democrat. I
GEO. w BOWMAN.