Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-11-01
BLIGHrED POLITICAL PROSPECTS.

BLIGHTED POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
From the time he entered the State Senate,
William A. Wallace was regarded By many
of his party as a rising man. His rabid and
defiant eodrse, on all measures in. which
partlzan views were involved, seemed to
point him cut as the leader of desperate
cause, and drew around him class of trick
sters, who, like Macawber, were "waiting
for something to turn up, and who, in order
TO gain favor in his eyes, set about fatter
ing him in manner we'll calculated to have
its desired effect upon an otherwise unsus-
ceptible and selfish nature. The effect was
to excite Wallace's ambition, and, impress
ed with his own importance, bright visions,
in tn shape of ample Gubernatorial chairs
or coy seats In the Hall of the United States
Senate, doubtless. fitted athwart his men
tai horizon. Such feelings once aroused,
it was only following frail human instinct TO
attempt their realization. The chairman
ship of the Democratic State Central Com
m;ttee was evidently considered a good lever
to be used in such an enterprise. Having
secured that, it is but reasonable TO suppose
that Wallace cast about to ascertain where
and how he could make strike which
would confirm the high-wrou ht expecta-
tions Of his needy admirers That the defeat
of Harry White for Senator In the Indiana
district, and Morton McMichael as Mayor
of Philadelphia. were embraced in his calcu-
latiens, can scarely be do1bted The elee-
tion of Davis and Linton had probably as
sumed in his mind the form Of fixed fact,
and his bright anticipations could, in the
course of time, be gratifed, if he willed It.
But, alas how true, that
'The best laid plans of mice and men,
Gang aft aglay'
The result of the election on the Second
Tuesday of October, perversely ,could hare
It that White and NJ Michael were elected,
and that the State was carried with large
ly increased Republican majority. Nor is
this The most unpalitable feature for Wal
lace. He is charged by his party with hav-
fng made atane and spiritless fight-that
he failed TO awaken the enthusiasm OF the
rank and file by holding too few mass meet
ings-that the defeat Of Judge WOODWARD s
son in Luzerne could have been ayerted--
hat he should have managed hisown house
hold and choked Dr. Boyer OF the track in
his own county, and thus enabled kene5y
Blood to colonize from CIearfei1 and Elk
counties enough voters to have overcome
Whites majority in Indiana. In short all
the casualties, real and immagined, which
have befallen his party are heaped upon
his devoted head As a matter of course,
Hiester Clymer, aud other aspirants for Gu
bernatorial honors, who had grown envieus
Of Wallace, are rather pleased at the dis
comfture of the Chairman of their State
Committee, as it gives them cudgci which
viii enable them 20 beat hack competitor
who was in fair way OF distancing them in
''the wild chase for Office" AAof which must
necessarily be mortifying to Wallace, who
has thus become an object Of pity and commits
GRAFTON. w have no doubt that his late ar
dent admirers at least will condoe with him.
At the same time, they must feel that their
champion is laid on the shelf for the
present-or, 20 use legislative metaphor,
that the particular "Bill' in question is
most effectually tabled -