The campaign. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1866, 1866-09-28
The Conspiracy.


in this County. 1t was entirely unpro-
voked, and It Is selfish and dishonora-
bic in its character; and the secrecy,
trickery, and cunning which have at
tended its progress ought to disgust all
honorable men. 1t first showed itself
in the County Convention, in the rcso-
luton appointing Representative Con-
ferees. That resolution came from the
Office of the Boilers organ, and was
adopted without consideration. We
have no doubt it was intended to raise
II disturbance, and to give its authors
an opportunity for mischief When
Judge M'Reynolds and other discreet
men desired its reconsideration, it was
managed that the Convention should
adjourn before new action could be ta-
ken upon it.
The resolution was insulting to Mon
tour County and to all the other coun-
ties OF the District, and was calculated,
and no doubt intended, to create bad
feelings, if not row in the nominations.
Ii was rs follows:
Resoired, That John Snyder and Rob
ert &. Fruit be the Representative Con-
iereCs to support the choice of MOntOur
County, provided they support the can
didate OF this county for State Senator.
1t will be seen that Montour was to
be subjected to the indignity Of a coRdi-
tioR in obtaining the concurrence Of our
Conferecs in her nomination for ASSEM-
| bly,, although that nomination belonged
| to her under the recent usages of the
Representative District and in fairness
besides. She was not to have the nomi-
nation upon any frank or manly prin-
ciplc, but upon q bdrguW forced upon
| herin the most offensive manner. And
she was to bind herself not to exercise
her free opinion in the selection of Il
Senatorial Candidate, nor TO listen
to any views or arguments submit
ted to her b. the other Counties of
the District, nor to exercise any discre-
ton even in judging whether the man
nominated by Columbia County was
the proper person, or would be accepta-
bic generally throughout the District.
There can be no doubt that this resolu-
tion was u heavy, and perhaps an in
tended blow struck against Tatc's nomi-
nation, and against the harmony Of the
party in the District.
Atterward, whcnall the District nom
nations had been regularly made by
Conferences; when Columbia had the
candidate for Congress, Sullivan the
candidate for Senate, and DGontour The
candidate for Assembly, the very au-
thors Of the above resolution and their
conlederates undertook to break the
party on the latter nomination, and
that, too, upon the most absurd excuse
ever invented for such Il purpose, to
wit: that the candidate for Representa-
tive he'd not attended as q Go,'er at the
Senatorial C6nfereRce!
And in getting up the absurd, irrcgu-
lar, unfair, and unauthorized documents
to excuse their revolt to the public, they
adopted secrecy and private solicitation
in place of any open proceeding. Their
manifesto was dated the eighth of Sep
tember, but was kept secret until the
thirteenth, and in the meantime, citi-
zens and members of the Standing Conn
mittee were waited upon at their homes
by the ConspiratorS, and coaXed into
giving their names by sympathetic APP
peals and falsehood5.
Besides all this, Republicans We're
consulted, and their concurrence and
promises of assistance in the plot OBJ
tained. Palemon John undertook that
the Republican Conferees of this County
should not meet those of Montour to
make u Republican nomination for AS
sembiy, and that he and his friends
sohould support Tate. The first part OF
this bargain-the preventing a meeting
J Of the Republican Conferecs-he has
kept; whether the other part of The
bargain will be kept remains to be seen
and we shall know in due time what
the consideration for these disgracefu
engagements was.
What gave the conspimtors courage
and confidence in their nelarious work
was their control of the party press o
the county. They had control of tho
Democratic organ in Bloomsbury, ant
managed to obtain influence over the
small land heretofore fairly managed
newspaper at Berwick while their al
iy, DR.. John, had, through his newspa
per, the ear of the Republican party 0
the county. The prospect looked prom
Using for mischief, and it was be
lieved that no efiectual opposition
could be made to the conspiracy
And in fact, nothing prevented it
complete success but the sagacity
and stubborn, inherent honesty of til,
people of this county. They have N
disposition to be sold out; to be mad,
merchandise Of in the hands of fOolisl
and desperate men; to be made the sub
jects of a base plot and base bargain
and to sacrifice their principles and po
litical organizations TO the necessities
passions, or interests of intriguer5 il
county towns.
: AT the Halfway House, on Monda,
evening last, large meeting assembled
4 and being called TO order by Jcremial
7 Uagcnbuch, JosCph Pohe. Esu.. WA