Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-09-27
LOT STRI BRLE.


is in circulation that | am the author Of the
skull story circulated to damage the inter
est, cf Col. A. q. Curtin. would state this is
not so; repeated merely what heard others
say.
JOHN MUSSER.
THE ELECTI0N-ARE YOU READY.
On Tuesday, the 9th day Of October,
the voters of this County viii be called
upon to exercise the privilege of selecting
State and County Officers and Members of
Congress, and thereby express theirappro-
val or disapproval of the issues at stake
Our opponents have no principles to avow
no measures to advocate-will not en-
dorse the State administration Of Governor
Packer nor the National Administration Of
james Buchanan, and lack the moral cour-
. age even to censure what they acknowledge
to be wrong in the latter, yet with all this, it
must be sef. f.evidcnt to the most casual ob-
server that the election of Foster will be
claimed as an endorsement Of the admins
| tration of Buchanan, and if majority of
the Legislature should be democratic, end in
the return Of Bigler to the Senate. His
election, too, will be an endorsement Of
Southern views on the tariffquestion, and pat
off all hope Of an increase of duties on the
great staples Of this State for an indefinite
period. This, let laboring men mark, will
/ be the result of Fosters election.
The so called democratic county ticket,
composed Of men who don know who they
are for President is also without a single
plank of a platform except self, aad their
supporters feeling themselves at a loss on
what ground to advocate their claims, are
manufacturing all kinds of stories The
:. dutch especially trouble them, and hence
we hear of all kinds Of the most absurd
things respecting our candidates. As an
/ instance we will state that here some good
locoloc0s who heartily cursed the Germans
two years ago, are now electioneering
against Mr.. Barr on the ground that he
was q know nothing of the straitest sect,
while among cur Omish friends in the val
ley he isrepresented as foreigner! Mr.. B.
was born near Myerstown, Lebanon coun-
ty, as any one can ascertain by making in
quiry. Against Mr. Gibboney like tales
are also spread with untiring industry, end
we shall not be surprised to hear before
the election, taking the Democrats dutch
stories tor samples, that Mr.. Brewer has
in his life killed calf or something else,
and that Stanbarger has swallowed M'Near
at mouthful, thing he is very likely to
do about the 9th of October.
The most sensible thing all men can do
just before an election, is to place no reli-
ance on electioneering stories invented to
gull people, as those who circulate them
are very apt to laugh in their sleeves at
the folks who can be influenced by such
/ soft t-soap means.
These matters indicate that the mum
/ candidates are alarmed not Il little. Let
them rave on, and in the meantime we
would recommend to all independent voters
to keep poking at them the question
" Who are you for for President?" The
man who cannot honestly answer that ques-
/ tion six weeks before the Presidential cleo
ton, is not fit to be elected to any office, for
/ 20 as he will ne must afterwards intend to
I cheat one wing or the other.