Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-09-10
Some of Packers Antecedents.
Ours,
JENKINS.

We find these facts in a recent number of
the Butler american. They come from one of
the best men in the State Let them be read
and pondered
Can any good reason be given why VIM. F.
Packer, being connected with the the public
works as Canal Commissioner, and other Off
ces should be elevated to the chief seat of
honor in the State? The scratinizing eye of
an intelligent public he cannot hope to escape
The three years that Moses Sullivan and 9TH
erS Were in the Canal Board, to wit the
years 1886, 1887, and l93S-the revenue up
on the Po. tage Railroad was $454, 763, ,54. and
the expenditures during the same time were
S439, PA 80 being an excess of revenue of
$l5,53S,64.
The three years that VIM. F. Packer was
Canal Commissioner, viz :-1S39 lS40 and
1871, the revenne was $464, ,O3O5l, aud the
expenditures were $542, 909,77 being and ex-
cess of expenditures of S7s,959,03; add the
excess of revenue of 1886, 1887 and 1888 to
the deficits of the years 1889, 1910 and 1871,
and you have the amount of $94,497,67 as
the loss of the Packer administration as COM
pared with the three years of Sullivan's admin
iStration.
Then take the three years succeeding Pack
er's administration, l742, 1S43 and 1874, un-
der VIM. b. Foster and Others, and the reven-
ue for those years amounted to 1854 ,42S, 92,
and the expenditures to the sum of $48S, ,SO4 :
Al, being difference against Packers admin
istration of $5l ,5S3,7S.
May not the people of Pennsylvania say to
VIM. F. Packer, give an account of thy stew
ardship, for thou mayest be no longer stew
ard
Gen. Packer is a talented man, and an am
bilious man. He knew well the power of cor
rupt politicians, and a desire on his part to
prcpitate them favor was ever in the way OF
fearless discharge of duty. He belonged to-
and was one of the Cabinet officers of an ad-
mnstration that was condemned by many OF
its own party. Many Democratic State Con.
ventions passed no resolutions approving OF
Governor Porter's administration-an admin
stration that, at the end of its first term, and
after Governor POrter's reelection, refused to
continue Francis K. Skunk as Secretary OF
the Commonwealth, and George r. Espy as
Auditor General, both of whom occupied high
positions in their respective stations, as men oil
capacity and incorruptible integrity. VIM F
Packer was, after the act passed making the
Canal Commissioner elective, appointed by
Gov. Porter Auditor General
Thus he was at once transferred from the
Canal Board to the head of the Financial De
partment, and with Ovid f. Johnston, A Attor
ney General, and George W. Barton. was the
brains and heart of an administration that was
condemned by many of its own party. The
very man who was dismissed as unworthy
to be Secretary, was, before the close of the
administration, nominated and elected Gov
ernor of the State, to the deep modification o.
the outgoing administration.
Twelve years have rolled by, and death ha:
silenced the manly voices Of Skunk and Miller
Petriken and Espy and now VIM f. Packe
is the candidate of the 6ogus democracy fo
the exalted Office of Governor of one of tn,
greatest States of the American Confederacy
We much mistake the signs of the times if h,
is not permitted to retire to private life upol
the honor of mere nomination. Certain i
is, that if the people properly appreciate thei
own interests, and our opponents would NEE
fairly the issue, and discuss the same in a.
honorable and generous spirit, VIM F. Pack
er never could receive majority of the fire
: voters of this Commonwealth for verify "h
has been weighed in the balance and foun
wanting"