Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-20
THE sTULFIFIED SOLDIER.

The Philadelphia Press. after :, scathing
review OF the Democratic platform Of this
State, thus refers to Col Davis, the soldier
who has accepted a nomination for Auditor
General on platform that is a blistering libel
upon his heroism in the field:
And It is soldier that crowns this revolt
ing ygamid The candidate for Auditor
General is Colonel W. W. II. Davis. OF Bucks
county We take it for granted that he viii
accept the nomination indeed 1t would be
safe to say that he sought that doubtful
honor. Colonel Davis though, Il good soldier,
was one of the very few men who fought
against the rebellion IN the field and allowed
his name to remain at the head of news
paper III Bucks county, in which the war
and the Administration under which it was
conducted were steadily opposed and mis-
represented. Had the counsels of his news
paper, the DoylestCwn Democrat, been fol-
lowed, Colonel Davis would now be one Of
the spec ators Of (if' not one of the mourners
oyer) divided and sub-divided Republic;
each fragment at war with the other, and
all ready for a foreign master in prefer
emce to a re union among themselves Vain
in that case, had been his Sword against the
theories Of the Pen that wrote in his news
paper. Once 1t was given out that the sol
der was not the editor-that the Doylestown
Democrat were not the words Of Colonel
Davis, and that he would take an early
cha'ce to say so. Time passed. His regi-
ment, the l04th, has closed its service, been
mustered out, and the officers and men have
for months been at their homes. But the
Doy!e>town Deaocrat has contained no card
from the military editor, rei'uking his sub
stitute for the sentiments that made it so
vile an echo of the Woods and the ". b.
Reels during his absence. We have, in-
stead, his nomination as candidate for an
important State Office on the most odious
platform ever adopted by any party since
the rebellion commenced. We question
whether the avowals which buried the DEM
ocrat c party under an avalanche IN Ohio in
1868, which lost Jesse ID. Bright his seat
in the Senate in 1861, or which now consti-
tutes the basis of the Copperhead opposition
in Kentucky, was or is more repulsiYe. II
Is certain tina. none of the late rebellious
States have any of the late enemies of the
Republic enumerated opinions at once SO rev.
and dangerous. We are con-
strained to believe, therefore that Colonel
Davis approved the disreputable course of
his paper during his absence in the field
aud that he accepts the new demoralIZlng
position assumed for the Democratic party
by the Convention of which he is candi-
late. Now. while he deserves his share Of
;redit for fighting for his country, that credit
becomes doubtful commodity when it is
to give solvency and repute to
| bankrupt and dishonored cause. No bra
very can make such cause acceptable to
he American people. What bitterer insult
o a soldier can be conceived than to charge
lim with fighting not for principle but for
Jay? How instinctively this question is un-
lerstood by the bravest men of our conquer
ng srmies, is proved in the overwhelming
act that all of them, without distinction of
ormer party attainments, voted for or re-
commended the reelection of Abraham Lin
oln, and hence the election of Andrew
Johnson. Grant, Sherman Sheridan, Ham
ock, Meade, Hooker Butler, Geary, all of
hem, stood on this high level, because they
egarded it as a religious duty-in fact, as
art of the obligation they assumed WI en-
hey embarked in the war against the rebel
on. Such a Convention as that which
letat Harrisburg onThursdayA oath,
Tould have been quarantined by them under
he army regulations to prevent contagion
rom spreading, and such platform as that
Thich Colonel Davis stands upon, would
ave been regarded at very long range
18th tfeir pest field glasses, and finally pro-
ounced a rebel masked battery filed with
he deadliest missiles. And so Col. Davis
nd the Democracy of Pennsylvania will find
to be in October next.
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