Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-26
gradforl geporter.
Towanda, Thursday, October 26, 1865
THE ELECTION.

| The official table of the election returns
in this County, which we publish in another
column, shows that portion of the Repub-
1ican voters of the County, failed to cast
their sufrages for the nominee of the Union
party for Senator and voted for Elder SHEr-
ARD, the independent or irregular candidate.
| 1t is true that the number of votes thus
! thrown away was small-not sufficient to
effect any result at the late election, nor
sufficient to influence any pending contest,
vet it must be a source of modification and
regret to every true Republican to know
that even small portion of the party can
be controlled in their actions by the desires
and Vaccinations of the Copperhead lead
ers, and be alienated even for short time
from proper party affiliation.
We know that the great majority of those
who voted the Union State Ticket, but re-
fused or neglected to vote for Mr. LANDoN,
are sincere and wel-meaning Republicans,
who could not be persuaded to cast vote
for Copperhead, and who would not will
lingly do anything to damage the cause, or
which would prove detrimental to the prn-
ciples of the Union party. We think they
made great mistake, and that their action,
if persistentIy followed up, in the end
would be fatal to the organization whose
object is TO advance the ends they certainly
desire to see successful Now that the
election is past, and the verdict Of the peo-
pie rendered in such an unmistakable and
emphatic manner, the sincere and true men
who have faltered this fall, must see that
the Judgment of the great body Of the
voters has been contrary TO theirs, aud they
should be ready to lay aside all prejudice
and passion, and allow Mr. LANDoN to be
| judged by his career as a public man. Ger
| tainly 10 man in the County has stronger
claim upon the confidence and generosity of
the people Of the District. He might plant
himself upon his $500 majority in the Dis
trict, and defy those who have sought to
awaken prejudices against him, or those
who have suffered themselves to be infu-
enced by the c'amors of men whose pleas
ure and business it is to decry every true
man in the Republican ranks. Such, how
ever, we do lot believe, is his desire or in
tentiou. Those who have done him inius-
tice for the past, will be obliged by his
faithfulness and ability in the Senate, to con-
fess their error, and fasten the fault, where
it justly belongs, upon the selfish and inter-
ested demagogues, who have endeavored
to injure him, for their personal aggrandize-
ment
Whilst we have no desire to say an un-
kind word. to those who were misled in
| their opposition to any position of the tick
et,we cannot but fee, that the leaders in the
movement should be proclaimed outlaws,
and placed without the pale of the party or
ganiZation. The men who cOncocted the
scheme to devide the Republican party, have
no sympathies in common with that party.
They do not hold its principles in estima-
tion-they hang ON to the skirts of the
party for mischievous purposes, and the
| sooner they cast off all pretentions to be-
long to the organization, the better it will
be for the party Their sympathies are
with the Copperheads, and they are ready
at any time to confer and consul with the
Democratic leaders, in devising plans for
the defeat of Republican candidates. They
do not care how deadly a blow they may
STRIKE at Republican principles, if they can
only crafty their malice toward some prom
inent Republican, whose zeal and ability
has made him conspicuous. We are glad
to know that the voters understand these
men thoroughly and that their power to do
mischief has become small