Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-09-25
CONFESSIONS.

CUNt bSSlUNS.
1t is refreshing to meet politician who will
tell US frankly the motives that impel him to
take any particular cougse-who will lay bare
to US all the knayery and bypocricy of his past
actions and give US the assurance that he in
tends to continue the same course in the fu-
ture.
The osensible editor of the Argus is one,
and perhaps the only one of this stamp en-,
gagged in the bogns Peoples movement" to
break up the Republican party. lie says,
boldly, and with frankness that does him in
finite credit, that he acrer acaS Republican
--that he acaS opp0scd to tie organi@atj0n Of
the party IN Tie start, and only acqaesced in
it because he feared being " crested" if he re-
fused He declares that he has always been
looking for an opportunity to break up the
party and get ont Of it, and now, he thinks is
the time.
This is candid and no doubt all very true
If all the other leaders in the movement"
were equally honest the people would have
very little difficulty in diSposing of the whole
squad as they deserve Nearly every one en-
gagged in the base plot have been in the same
fix as the Argus They were never Repubi
caDs--thcy have been stragglers following the
trail of the great army Of the people, seeking
spoils aud plumber along the march, and spies
upon orr camps il the hour of peril and con-
hct. Admitting all this, yet the Argus has
the ei1rontery to call upon Republicans to
leave their party aud forswear their princ
pies to follow after set Of men who never
have any principles and are only seeking for
Offices in the Republican party, and failing in
that, have all along been determined to break
up the party and pursue their gar9e for pl7n
der and power in another organization But
they have no right to call any such dishonest
trick Peoples lIorcment." The people
despise all such knavery, and will teach all
those engaged in it that, in politics, as III
everything else, " Honesty is the best policy"
nesa- THE DisGRACEFCL alliance between the
disappointed and rejected candidates for Office
before the late Republican Convention, aud
the Breckinrdge Democracy, is apparently
cordial and complete. TRACY and PIoLbEr,
representing the " high contracting parties"
fraternize with the warmth of long estranged
aud lately reconciled brethren. Most disgusting
is the embrace of the allies An inordnate
selGshness that forgets all else in the pursuit
of personal preferment, joins hands with ma
lignant hatred Of everything loyal and true
to the country, for the control Of the political
power of the County and Congressional Dis
trict. Can such au alliance, thus selfish on
the Que side and disloyal on the other, secure
the endorsement of the people at the ballot
box 1t would be surprise and humiliation
for county so distinguished and honored as
Bradford-one that had become historical for
the steadfastness of its people to freedom and
right-that such people should now, in the
hour of the countrys danger and trial, reverse
their political action, and join hands with
those whose unpatrotic counsels they have so
often sphrned and rejected We trust that
history has no such chapter of dishonor and
shame to record
The new candidates for popular favor, and
their Democratic allies, assail the Republican
organization as corrupt, and charge that it is
under the dctation and leadership of selfish
and ambitious men. This does not surprise
u.s. coming from the partizans of Slavery
from those who upheld it in its reasonable eff.
forts for the destruction of the Government,
The Republican party was organized to sus-
tain the principles of freedom, and rescue the
Government from the hands of the Southern
Oligarchy, and its Northern allies That
they should denounce it, and its leading men,
is to be expected. Republicanism would be
Of little value, if it met the approval and sup