Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-10-05
Our Bring out every Voter.

county are called upon to exercise the
right Of suf'rage-a right of far more
| Importance to their own interests than
! taxpayers are in the habit OF conse-
/ ding. First on the list, is Abraham
! A. Barker, our candidate for Congress.
| This gentleman has already shown
what an energetic man can do, for to
! his credit be it said that it is in great
measure owing to his perseverance
| that the quota of this district was re
duced, and thus every man in it subject
to draft benefited To show how
much we we are indebted to him, we
will instance this borough, from which
other districts can form an estimate of
his services: Under the first assign
ment of quotas LewistOwn would been
subject to a draft of IA, seven of whom
would have been required to go into
the service; by the corrected quota
Lewistown is not only clear of the
draft but has surplus Of 9. But this
is not all Mr. Barker has effected
Quite a number Of persons who had
paid Communication under the former
drafts, had been put back into the
wheel and were again drafted. Pub
lie opinion generally favored con-
struetion of the law that these men
should be exempt, and Mr., Barker,
neglecting his own business and polit-
ical interests, proceeded to Washing
ton and urged this matter so etfectually
that an order has been issued right
eously exempting those who had
latterly paid Communication and had
again been drafted He is besides a
acorking man, the first before the peo-
pie for Congress in many years, and on
that ground with the efficient services
already rendered, deserves vote'from
every man in the county. His oppo-
nent of course is a lawyer-for when
do the patent democracy nominate any
but a professional" man for important
offices SO long as they can find one in
the party?-is, like three-fourths Of the
present orators, editors and leaders of
patent democracy, a renegade whig,
who joined that party for the sake Of
office. The old saying used to be that
"a renegade was worse than ten
Turks" and the same seems to hold
good with politicians of the present
day, for these fellows preach about as
much true democracy as the d and
his imps in Sleeps clothing do true
religion.
For Senators, Louis w. Hall and
Kirk Haines, both of them experienced
legislators and tried Union men, have
been nominated Mr. Hall. resided
here when a youth, and by his perse-
verance and eXertions raised himself
from poor boy to prominent posi-
tion in life. Mr.. Haines is also the
architect OF his own position, and in
responsibility and standing is second
to no man in Perry county In making
these nominations the Union men
thought one professional man enough
ont OF the two. Not so with the pa
tent democracy: they had not only to
take lawyer, but ignoring every
hardfsted mechanic and laboring man,
added a doctor
For assembly, the choice is reduced
to very simple problem. John Balls
bach and John N. Swoope, staunch
Union men on one side, and Africa and
hearns, representing the Chicago ces
satlon OF hostilities platform, on the
other. Our readers need hardly be
told that John W. Kearns has identi-
he'd himself, ever since the commence
ment OF the war, with that faction
originating with the New York Dav
Book, New York News, Selinsgrove
Times, &c, papers which counseled
resistance to the government and laws
produced riots and bloodshed-and
If not checked, would have plunged
this country into anarchy and confu-
sion. The part Of the county in which
he resides is notorious for its treason.
able sentiments, and is the onlv one
where threats of violence have been
carried out, where almost every COP.
Perhead has armed himself, and where
deSerters are harbored, aided and
abetted. If Mr.. K, whom the news