Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-05-14
THE PEOPLES FIZZLE.

week. Ii the attendance ana spirit manifest
ed, is any indication, the concern is on its last
legs. Tn more than one half of the election
districts no delegates were elected, and where
meetings were held, the attendance consisted
Of from two to six aspirantS for Offices. By
dnt of coaxing on the part Of the wire. workers
here men in attendance at Court were per-
suaded to act as delegates, until something
over one half of the towns were responded to-.
The Convention was presided over by G. II.
BALLARD, of Columbia, who was not nominal
ed for Register and Recorder, three years ago.
Ih the list of delegates are the names Of men
who have never voted Republican ticket,
nor have ever professed to be anything but
Democrats of the Copperhead stripe. To
such straits were the leaders driven in order
to make show as to delegates.
1t was reasonable to expect that in thus
starting a new party, the movers would
set forth the principles which govern and the
motives which actuated them, in breaking
loose from their former party associations. We
have, consequently, read with care their reso-
lutions to see the reasons given to the public.
As near as we can arrive at the substance Of
the long-wnded, incoherent, rambling, point
less resolutions published, they have but one
idea, viz: The Tonnage Tax, and their COM
plants about the Pennsylvania Railroad are
SO feebly expressed in the overflow of words,
that we are unable to arrive at the issue they
would make. As near as we can understand
it, however, it is that if the Peoples party
had succeeded in electing Mr. M'KEAN and
TERRY to the Legislature last fall they would
"thus sent Representatives, to our State Leg
islature who would not only have voted right
on the Tonnage question, out have been &C
tive and influential in behalf Of the interests
of their constituents"
That the men who control the Peoples par
ty of this County, care nothing about the
Tonnage question, except as hobby to effect
political ends, he must be very verdant who
for moment believes If they were honest
in their pretended adherence of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, they would be ready at least
to do Messrs LAPoRTE and LIILEY Justice.
These gentlemen have voted in the Legisla-
ture on every occasion age inst the demands of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Mr. LAroRTE
was previously committed, by his Legislative
course against the repeal Of the Tonnage tax,
and voted last session to reinstate it. Instead
of acknowledging his services, the Peoples
party in Convention assembled, Indirectly at
tempt to convey an impression that he had
voted and acted to the contrary, when the &C,
tion Of both cur Representatives is we'll known
to every man who has watched the Legisla-
tive proceedings.
This attempt at trickery and Justification is
in keeping with the origin ard history of the
Peoples movement. Originating in malice,
prejudice and ambitious designs it can only
be'kept alive by falsehood and misrepresenta
tion, and the leaders by their INSCRIPTIONS
knaVery hope to make the people believe what
the Legislative Journal shows to be a false.
hood
The resolutions declare that this boiling,
democratic-emb-acing, movement, is the simon
pure Union party of the County, and of course
its delegates the only ones entitled to q seat
il the Pittsburg Convent ion, as the Republi.
can party of this County represents " poit-
ical party independent and distinct in its organ
ization-haying neither the name or the sin,
gle purpose of the Union organization of this
State" We have no particular desire to dis
cuss the question Of the admission of delegates
from this county into the Pittsburg Convention.
The interoperS who claim to represent Brad.
ford by virtue of theit a1iation with the Cop
perheadS will find delegates from this County
able and willing to maintain their right to
their seats. Since 1855 the Republicans of
Bradford have sent delegates to Union State
Conventions who have been received without
question, and because the boilers see Git, in con-
neXion with Democrats, to elect delegates to
the coming Convention, we have no fears but
that that body will recognize the legitimacy
of those who have heretofore been in State
Conventions, and have constituted an impor.
tant part of the great Union party of the
State.
Any other course would be simply absurd
A"o n'rnblican delegates present themselves
al flt'sours i'r-asenting the voters of this
county who expect to o,oport the nomina.
tions Of that Convention. Do,Ir Tp,cv and
his colleagues expect to pledge then Cosror
head coadjutors to the same course? Certain
ly not yet they are asking admission as tn
representatives of a party, tWo-thirds of who's
members spurn the thought of supporting tn
nominees of the Pittsburg Convention. l
will take an unparalleled amount of effrontery
to urge the admission of such delegates.