Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-09-28
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPU d.
ATES THE DEMOCRACY,
DENOUNCEs CLYmER.
Predicts Defeat for the Conservatives


sss@.Here is the remarkable article from the
New York Times, to which the telegraph
has made reference.
Supporting for once ssen Who Have Been
DfsEoyaI
General Grant is reported by eorresron-
dent Of the Chicago Republicaa to have
made in a conversation with him the follow
ing remarks: He said that without express
sing any views of his own for or against the
johnson policy, he yet felt it to be mis-
fortune for Mr.. johnson that the advocates
Of his policy inStates through which be had
just passed, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana,
had in some instance put on their ticket
men who in 1861 and 1862 had been guilty
Of known disloyalty to the Government; be-
cause land this was said in a very emphatic
manner) he felt that to ask men whose sons
had shed their blood for the Union to vote
for men who had been disloyal to it was the
greatest insult that could be offered South
ern men he could make allowances for, and
he could ride through the South and get
out on platform and shake hands in friend
ship with such men as Lee, johnson or For
rest, because, though they had been almost
educated into secession, they were now truly
honest and loyal in their adherence to the
Union, and were seeking to strengthen it.
But he did not feel in that way toward Nor
thern men who had once been disloyal. and
neither desired to associate with them nor
have them for his friends No such men
could have his support nor ought they to be
supported by Mr. Johnsons friends
throughout the Northern States He par
ticularly instanced, as a specimen of this OBJ
iectionable class of men, Heister Clymer, the
Democratic candidate for Governor Of Penn
sylyania, saying that to ask any soldier to
vote for such a man, Of at one time known
disloyalty, against another who had served
four years in the Union army, with credit to
himself and benefit to his country, was
gross insult Tmen desired to support Mr..
johnson policy let them, but at all events
let them vote only for such men as were true
to their country in 1861. y
Nothing could be more just or sensible.
Nothing has contributed more, land very
many things have contributed much, to-
ward alternating popular favor and support
from the just and liberal policy Of the Pres
ident toward the South, than the action of
those who claim to be his friends in this re-
spcct 1t las proved, indeed, as Gen.
Grant styles it, "a misfortune for the Presi-
dent. and We may add, for the country
also IN PENNSYLVANIA THE AD-
MINISTRATION CANDIDATE FOR
! GOVERNOR is ONE WHO, IN HIS
! POLITICAL ACTION, RESISTED THE
| GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT THE
| WAR, WHO MADE HIMSELF UTTER
lLY OBNOXIOUS TO THE LOYAL
MEN WHO WERE STRUGGLING TO
SAVE THE NATION: AND HIS ELEC-
TION. BY THE DEFEAT OF A GAL
| LIANT SOLDIER WHO FOUGHT
! WITH HER0ISM AND HONOR FOR
THE OVERTHROW OF THE REBEL
LION, Is HELD ESSENTIAL TO THE
FINDICATION OF THE PRESI-
DENTS POLICY. The same thing is
true, perhaps, in a less conspicuous degree,
nominations for members Of Congress and
for State officers of various grades through
out the country.
The reason of it is clear It has been
done because the Democratic party has
pushed itself into the foreground Of the
! Presidents supporters, and has seized the
occasion to reconstruct and strengthen its
own organization, rather than sustain the
President upon the principles which he as
serts and in the mode which he himself poin-
ted out. President johnson never hesita-
ted to declare his purpose to stand upon the
principles Of the Union party, to act within
its lines, to cooperate with those ofits me m
bers who adhered to its platform, and to use
the patronage at his disposal to nationalize
and strengthen its organization. He never
concealed his conviction that the Democratic
| Party. as an organization. destroyed itself
| by It's disioyal attitude during the war; that
it had justly forfeited the confidence of the
people, and that the party which carried the
nation through the war was the party upon
which lie relied for cooperation and support
in restoring the Union and securing the
blessings Of peace.
THE GREAT BODY OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY SEEMED CONSCI-
OUSTHAT THAD BEEN BETRAYED
BY us LEADERS INTO a FALSE
/ POSITION, AND THEY WERE QUITE
READY TO ACCEPT THE RESULT,
AND ACT IN GOOD FAITH WITH
THE UNION PARTY IN THE RESTO-
! RATION OF THE UNION, UNDER
/ THE GUIDANCE OF PRESIDENT
JOHNSON. IF the Union Party in Con-
gress had been less under the control of ex-
treme men if National Union doctrines as
opposed to the violent sectionalism of ultra
lists and malignants. had found a stronger
utterance and greater favor with Congress
ana the country, and if the President and
the Union party had been somewhat less
distrusttul and more frank in their relations
to each other, there would have been no
difficulty in thus rallying to the Union plat
form and the Union party an overwhelming
majority of the people, North and South,
throughout the Union.