Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-10-08
What Next 2.

The stock in trade of our Locofocc friends
in the present campaign, consists mainly of
misrepresentation and falsehoods. One of
their great hobbieszwas the pretended fact that
JOHN M. READ our candidate for Judge Of
the Supreme Court, had written or signed a
letter so long ago os 1916, congratulating Geo.
Nj. Dallas for giving his casting vote against
the Tariff of 1872 We never could see the
force Of this charge very clearly even if it had
been true. John NJ. Read was Locofoco at
that time, TWELVE YEARS AGO, and if he had
then acted with Mr.. Dallas, and his party
friends, it would not have been SO very strange;
nor could ii we'll be said now since he has left
that party and been acting with us Tor years,
that he holds the sams views now that he did
shown, the whole charge turns out to be mere
fabrication and forgery. John VI. Read never
signed any such letter, nor authorized any body
else TO sign it for him. One John f. Read did
sign it, and it was an easy matter for an unscrti
pulous opposition to change the f. to Nj. and
then declare it to be the act of our candidate
Gentlemen, ga miss is as good as mile,' and
Jour shallow trick has been exposed, aud not
even forgery will save you. We have seen bat
one democratic paper which had the honesty to
admit the truth in the matter, and publicly ex-
honerate John NJ. Read from the charge No
one who knows the tactics of the LocofOco press
here would expect the retraction of any false
hood it ever uttered. If it should undertake
this, it would require about the whole of one
paper to uusay or correct the errors 10 the pre-
ceding one.
Another great hobby of our opponents is
the representation that they did not pass the
tariff law of 1857, but that the Republicans
and Americans did. In our paper of last
week we proved by the record the falsehood of
this whole matter, by a single production of
the facts. We showed that President Pierce
recommended the passage of theiTariff of 1857,
10 bis last annual message; and that the party
BY vote of g. to !, voted for the bill and
passed it through as party measure ONLY ONE
LocoFoco IN THE WHOLE SO IN THE LOWER
HOUSE OF CONGRESS VOTING AGAINST IT.
These fabrications have been reiterated in the
press, and from the stump all over the county,
and rehashed in the Mrs. partine;on cores
pondence of the Gazette from Washington,
and now all is proved forgery and fabrication
and it is in view of this we inquire, what
next
We know the never failing resorces of sham
democracy. When beeten out of one false
hood they take another, aud then another, and
go on from beginning TO end. Nothing is too
grcss or teo monstrous. But, they are in q
worse fix just now than we have ever known
them before in one respect. They can not OK
plain away the present hard and democratic
times, which are pressing upon everybody with
crushing effect. They are responsible for them,
and the people know it; and the corrup! par
ty is about TO be compelled to feel it at the
ballot box on next Tuesday. We are conf
dent the people can not and will not allow the
authors of such times to 60 unwhipt of JUS
tice. See if in few days the election does
not prove the correctness of our notions on
this subject