Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-05-21
TOWANDA: ::
Thursday Morning, May 81, 1868.
BSr We observe that the Standing Com

BSF We observe that the Standing Com
mittee of Allegheny and Luzerne Counties have
called REPUBLICAN UNION CONVENTION, to
elect delegates to the Pittsburg Convention.
According to the statements and logic of
the Peoples party leaders, here, these dele
gates have no right to seat in that Conven-
tion, representing political party independ
eM and distinct in its rganization-having
neither the name nor the single purpose of the
Union organization of this Statew But we
imagine that their delegates will be admitted
without delay or ouestion-ss they always
have been admitted while the delegates from
The Peoples organization here, will be left out
in the cold.
The boilers seem to place great reliance up
on the name they have assumed. Like an ass
dressed in lions skin, their braying betrays
their character. Their assumption of a new
name will not avail Their repudiation of the
Republican party, and its name, is easy for
tifem, because they have never been in love
with it's principles. But for all that, the
great Republican party of the Nation still
lives.
It is the same party which elected Pres
dent LINCOLN, and which is called Republican
everywhere, and has au organization in every
free and some of the Slave States The dom
inant party of the Union,i everywhere known
as the Republican party" and the Union
party in the State act in conjunction with
that organization. In some of the countless
the name Republican has been adopted
in others it is called the "Union party"
We have no great reverence for names, and
hence shall not quarrel with any one on that
account. But we have noticed throughout
the State, that where the principles of Freedom
have been boldly put forth and advocated, and
where the great issues of the day have been
openly met, the party has been called Repub-
lca1, and has been triumphant where
there was disposition to shirk the two issues,
there has been a repugnance to this name
Republican.-In such localities, disaster has
overtaken the party.
The question of the admission of delegates
from this County is not an open one 1t does
not turn upou names. The Republican party
OF this County has always been an important
part of the Union party of the State. The
delegates sent from Bradford have always been
received and welcomed. The same party again
elects delegates which represent the Repub
Gcan or Union party of the County, having
no utilization or affinity with the Copperheads
They have the prestige of former admissions
and of regularity A boiling faction acting
with the Democracy-in open and avowed
concert of purpose-see fit to elect delegates
to the State Convention. What is their claim
to seats Simply that the leaders have as
Sumed the Dame-Peoples' party to cloak their
ambition and mercenary schemes They are
the offspring of a foul and unnatural combi-
nation of disappointed Office seekers and mag
nant Copperheads. They represent no party,
they have no constituency who can be depend
ed upon to support the nominees of the Pitts
burg Convention.
Does Mr.. TRACY go to Pttsburg with au-
thority to pledge the Democrats who elected
him last fall, to support the candidates put
in nomination there ? If not, then who does
he represent? The organization of which he
IS the representative has a mushroom sickly
existence. The Copperhead leaders can squelcb
bis Peoples party with word. They will do
so, when it suits their purpose-but as long as
they can use the leaders and the organization
to carry out their schemes Of course they will
employ both. But nt Pittsburg, Messrs Pr
oLLEr & Co., will not have voice, and they
can It help Mr.. TRACY and his colleagues to
seat in the Convention. We advise him to
save himself the trouble and expense of fruit
less journey to Pittsburg and the morti6ca-
tion of being refused admittanee to Eat in
the Convention.
Mr. TRACY has chance to regain his position
with the Republicans of the County and State
His seat in Congress- will afford him an op-
portunity, if he has disposition, to show that
he has not fallen entirely from his former
high estate"-that he has not been contain,
mated b. his association with, and election by,
Democrats. We need not point out the road
it is plain to every one. We are not with,
opt hope that he will elect to follow it, though
than 70 BE he unusual. 1t is easier to 60 estray
Yet Mr. Tp,cv,s aSsrh Ssrath Of political rectitude
entirely without hope, that he VIII VI no' ieave US
associations he made last fall, and cont5buG.t' 'ne
support of the principles and measures, he ha
heretofore SO zealously professed.
Mr.. Slenker AuditorG General Mr.. Barr