Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-10-08
THE ELECTION.


county, in conjunction with the other coun-
ties in the State, viii be called upon to de-
eide who shall be Governor of Pennsylva-
MIA for the ensuing three years Mr.
PACKER, the so-called democratic candi-
date, has been an aspirant for this office
for some time, and may properly be set down
as the candidate of the canal democracy,
having gone through all the gradations
from mud boss to supervisor. In his po-
litical history it is somewhat remarkable
that in his own district, which Is strongly
democratic, he has been more than once
defeated for offices to which he had been
nominated by party tactics, and was we be-
Eeve in no one instance reelected TO any
station where the vote depended on his
own locality. DAVID WILMoT is the
American Republican nominee, and at once
represents the great principles which ought
to find place in the heart of every friend
of liberty and Americanism. Unlike his op-
ponent, his friends and neighbors through
out Bradford, Tioga, and other counties,
have always given him an overwhelming
support, and all accounts from there agree
that they will on Tuesday next give him
one of the most astounding majorities ever
given to any political candidate where a
contest existed There is third candidate
in the feld-a Philadelphia lawyer named
Isaac Hazlehurst-who has no hope of
even obtaining respectable vote, but who
is kept in the field by LII. Beast Swoope,
John p. the Liar, and Joseph r. the mon
key, for the purpose of defeating Wilmot,
Just as these same mountebanks defeated
Fillmore and Fremont last fall How any
real friend of Americanism, knowing that
such viii be the result should any number
of them vote for Hazlehurst, can wilfulIy
cast a firebrand into the ranks of the oppo-
sition to patent democracy, which must re-
suit to the injury of American principles
by strengthening those who are the most
bitter opponents of those principles, Is
more than we can conceive. The result in
New York in 1914, when mere handful
of Abolitionists under the lead of Birney
defeated the immortal Henry Clay for the
Presidency, and thus entailed slavery on
the vast territories to the south and west,
was political lesson that ought TO have
prevented all future movements jeopardi-
zing the success of great prineiples-for
from that day to this abolitionism in New
York has been on the dccline-yet last
year handful of straightouts, AS they
called themselves, elected Buchanan Pres
ident by throwing their votes away in op-
position to 4 union ticket with their own
candidate on it, and now propose to do the
same thing BY electing Packer, who has
more than once denounced Americanism
as everything base and mean, and defeating
Wilmot, who endorses their leading princi-
piles In this county we feel certain that
if there are any still adhering to Hazle-
hurst under the mistaken idea that they
are thereby advancing their principles, they
need but know the character of the politi-
cal swindlers and moral lepers who are at
the head of this organization in Philadel-
phia, and they would shun them as they
would nest Of counterfeiters.
The county ticket has been perhaps as
much discussed as there is any need, and
the people generally understanding the
character and qualifications of the candi-
dates quite as well as We could tell them,
they will We presume vote understandingly
From Mr. Purcell down to Mr.. Adams We
invite scrutiny and comparison, having no
fears that ours will suffer by such course.
sa- Mr.. Purcell being absent at Harris
burg, it is to be hoped that his friends
throughout the county viii be more active
than usual in his support Let every read