Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-10-24
Up and at them Again!


Up and at them Again!
No true Democrat will be cast down at the
result of the late election There is no rea-
son to be discouraged Our party is at least
NINE THOUSAND stronger in numbers than it
was one year ago. We are gaining ground
steadily and surely Another year will see
the Democracy triumphant in Pennsylvania
beyond peradventure. We are beaten but
thirteen or fourteen thousand, showing de-
crease of the Disunion majority, since last
year, of from eight to nine thousand In
1864 we cast votes to the number of t,cO
hundred ami SereRtY-str thousand, (276, SIG, J
and this year we viii show a poll of nearly
three hundred thousand Shall we get dis
couraged at paltry majority of thirteen or
fourteen thousand against us-a number that
can be swallowed up more than twenty times
in our aggregated ballot2 That majority
will constitute but about ne-fortteh of the
entire poll of votes, and in consideration of
that fact, it becomes dwarfed into compare
tive insignifcance
The two parties in Pennsylvania are nearly
balanced. The Congressional aggregated
vote of 1864 shows that there was then but
about thirteen thousand of a majority against
the Democracy. The aggregated Congress
sional vote, this Fall, will show, we believe,
that there are not more than fce or sac thou
sand majority against us-if even there is a
majority at all. If the frauds which were
perpetrated by the opposition especially in
Philadelphia, the 18th, Dist, and other dis
tricts-were laid aside, we feel sure the re-
suit would show clear Democratic major
ity
That the Disunionists have two Congress-
men to our one Is entirely owing to the man
ner in which the districts were constituted
by their Legislature, and to thei, cunning in
shifting voters from strong Democratic dis
tr.cts to weak Disunion ones.
That Geary was elected is not owing to
party strength. He was not nominated as a
partisan he was not a representative poiit-
ical man; he embodied in himself no polit-
ical principles whatever, and enunciated
none during the canvass except such as
were furnished to him ready-made in fact,
he was strongly suspected of being in truth
what he but a short time ago said he was
"a Democrat without prefix or affix" Those
who nominated him did not scruple to avow
that he was nominated for his military ser
races or reputation, and not by any means
because of his political views acts or decla-
rations. The opposition knew full well the
hold which everything having warlike ring
has upon our people. They took Geary as a
soltier-patched up glittering record for
him fictitious, of course closed the pop
ular eye upon the subject of civil qualiica-
tions and public polity-an thus succeeded
in gobbling up more of the loose voters (who
are not partisans) than the Democracy could
DO with solid merit devoid Of military tinsel
Geary election Is, therefore, no party
victory, as We understand the term, and the
Congressional vote must furnish the real
points upon which to base a calculation In
regard to party strength. Even in that,
however, we should make allowance for the
influence which Geary' military reputation
(true or false) may have exerted in favor of
the Disunion Congressman, byreason of their
occupying the same ticket If, as we sup
pose, the aggregated Congressional vote
falls so low as FIVE or SIX thousand majority,
then we may safely say that the Democratic
party as tie strongest POLITICAL party IN
Pennsylvania And further than this-that
upon a fair political feld-with no fraud
against us-on principle of foreign
and extraneous influences and issues-the
Democracy would be able to carry the State
by very handsome majority.
Let no Democrat, therefore, be cast down.
Let all up and at them again A little more
work would have given us success this time,
but it is too late now to regret this Next
time we viii do better and win Patriot
and Union.