Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-02
SOME OF PACKERS ANTEcEDENTs.

We find these facts in a recent number of
the Butler american. They come from one of
the best men the State. Let them be read
and pondered:
Can any good reason be given why, w. F.
Packer, being connected with the public works
as alCommissioner and other offices, should
be elevated to the chief seat OF honor in the
State? The scrutinizing eye of an intelligent
public he cannot hope to escape. The three
years that Moses Sullivan and others were in
the Canal Board, to.wit the years 1886, 1887
and IS3S-the revenue upon the Portage Rail-
road was S454 163, ,54, and the expenditures
during the same time were S439, ,224 go; being
an excess of revenue of Sl5 ,536 ,64.
The three years that Wm. +. Packer was
Canal Commissioner, viz = 1899, 1910 and
1S4l--the revenue was S49i ,030, Oh, and the
expenditures were S542, ,9S9 .67 being an ex-
cess of expenditures of SIS, ,959 ,03 !; add the
excess OF revenue of 1895, 1887 and 1883 to
the deficit of the years 1889, 1910 and 1871, :,
| and you have the amount of S9i. .497 81 as the
| loss of the Packer administration as conpared
with the three years of Salliyan's administra-
| ton.
Then take the three years succeeding Pack
| er's administration 1912, l8I3 and 1914 under
| VIM. B. Foster and others, and the revenue
| for those years amounted to $40 ,42S, 90, and
| the expenditures to the sum of S4SS, ,804 II,
| being a difference against Packers administra-
ton of $5l $780, ,78.
! May not the people of Pennsylvania say OF
| Wm. T. Packer, give an account of thy stew
ardship, for thou mayeSt be no longer steward.
| Gen. Packer is a talented man, and an am
| bilious man. He knew well the power of cor
rupt politicians, and desire ON his part to pro-
/ pitate their favor was ever in the way Of a
| fearless discharge Of duty. He belonged to,
| and was one OF the Cabinet officers of an Adj
ministration that was condemned by many of
/ its own party. Many Democratic State Con-
ventions passed no resolutions approving OF
| GovernorP orter'S Administration an Admin
! istration that, at the end of its first term, and
after Governor Porter's reelection, refused to
| continue Francis K. Skunk ds Secretary OF the
| Commonwealth, and Geo. K. Espy as Auditor
| General, both Of whom occupied high positions
in their respective stations, as men of capacity
| and incorruptibie integrity. VIM. +. Packer
was, af, or the act passed making the Canal
| Commissioner elective, appointed by Cover
nor Porter, Auditor General.
Thus he was at once transferred from the
Canal Board to the head Of the Financial De-
partmcnt, and with Ovid T. Johnston, Attorney
General and George W. Barton, was brains
and heart of an administration that was con-
demncd by many Of its own party The very
man who was dismissed as unworthy to be Sec
retary, was, before the close Of the administra-
ton, nominated and elected Governor of the
State, to the deep modification of the out going
administration.
Twelve years have rolled by, and death has
silenced the manly voice OF Skunk and Miller
Petriken and Espy; and now Wm. f. Packer
is the candidate of the bogus Democracy fol
the exalted Office of Governor of one of the
greatest States of the American Coniederacy.
| We much mistake the signs of the times If he
is not permitted to retire to private life upon
the mere honor of Il mere nomination. Ger
tain it is. that if the people properly appreciate
| their own interests, and our opponents would
meet fairly the issue, and discuss the same in
an honorable and generous spirit, Wm. L
Packer never could receive a majority of the
free votes OF this Commonwealth for, verify
/ she has been weighed in the balance and found
wanting.''