Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-13
UNITED STATES SENATOR.

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We copy below, extracts from several of
the most reliable papers OF the North,
| showing that our views are generally held,
| by the radical papers of this section
One of the important duties devolving
upon the Legislature of this State this win
| ter, is the election of United States Sen
| ator TO succeed the apostate and renegade,
! Edgar Cowan. From the fact that this
| Representative and Senatorial districts are
represented by Democrats, we at one time
had concluded to take no part in the con-
| test But since attempts are being made
70 manufacture pubic sentiment in favor
81 certain candidate, we feel it to be our
right as Republican and our duty as a
! Radical journalist to give expression to
our preference and our reasons therefor.
1t s.. no secret among those who know
us that our choice is Hon. SIMON CAMERON.
We have so expressed ourselves on all oc-
casions both privately and in public Our
reasons are
SIMON CAMERON has been tried AND PROVED
TRUE. He has no doubtful record He has
had large experience in public affairs He
has always been faithful to Pennsylvania
|
representative man Of our State He new
er violates his pledges He can always be
relied on.
Again, as a statesman he has few superb
ors. He is sagacious, and has always
shown himself able to grapple with every
issue No man worked more arduously to
put down the pro-slavery rebellion. He at
once saw his magnitude. He intuitively
grasped the aggregate complexedness Of
trcason's coils, and to him is the nation in
debted for the very measures which caused
victory to perch upon our banners and
made the Confederacy bite the dust.
In these perilous times we need just such
men as GEN. CAMERON in the Senate. Char
acterized, as he ever has been, by wisdom
and sagacity, prudence and an enlarged
public spirit he is just now needed to take
a part in the adjustment of the vexed queS
tions demanding final settlement The
plans and principles urged from the start,
by Secretary CAMERON conserved the nation,
and the final adjustment must be based up
on these principles. Let him be sent to
the Senate TO aid in having the work done
we'll and wisely Columbia Co. Republican,
We do not wish to be understood by this
as saying that Gov. Curtin is not true, yet
we do say that up to September last, during
the Gubernatorial contest in this State, he
declined to define his position, and the
friends of freedom awaited with the great
est anxiety the development Of the studied
course Of our State Executive. Not until
his speech at york could it be fully deter
mined where to find hm-whether repre-
sentative of the policy OF Andrew johnson
or an exponent of the great principles of
Freedom SO fondly cherished by the loyal
people As it has been said by an able
cotemporary, you will look in vain for a sin
gle sentence in all his messages and speech
es up to September last, in which he une-
quivocally endorsed the action of Congress
As Governor he has done well, and the peo-
pie have fully discharged their debt of graf
tude by electing him to the Office success
sively as long as he could hold it under the
Constitution.
If there ever was time in the political
history of the country when we needed
tried and true men in the Senate of the
United States that time is now. The exi-
gencies of the times will not admit Of far
ther experiment--we have not demonstrate
ed in johnson, Cowan, Doolittle, Randall,
and others, and our only safe plan is to
elect none but men who have been identi-
fed in the great struggle and who have
always been true to the principles involv-
ed Hon. G. A. Grow would certainly rep
resent the Union party with fidelity and
ability, and is the first choice Of the party
in the Northern part of the State, but as
Mr.. Grow can hardly be considered a can
didate at the present time, and the contest
being narrowed down between Gov. Curtin
and Hon. Simon Cameron taking the record
of the two men during the past five years
we consider that Mr.. Cameron has the
preference by far. From the beginning of
the war his course has been in unison with
that Of the great Progressive Union party
Of the country He was considered too
radical in 1851 and in consequence retired
from the Cabinet, but long before the close
of the war the measures he advocated
were Incorporated into and became the car
dinal principles Of the great Union party
He has always been found one to the great
principles of Human Liberty and his far
seeing and profound State.manship quail
ties that were considered in advance of
the age five years ago, are now fully ver-
lied and are wining him golden opiuons
throughout the nation.
Gen Cameron is emphatically d pro-
gresslve Statesman--a man who has al
ways been first and foremost to take po-
sition in the front rank of progress, and
with him in the United Sta ties Senate, the
Union party will be sure of a true repre-
sentative and an able advocate-Athens
Republican.
UNITED STATES SENATOR. We can see
grave objections to Gov Curtin as a cand-
date {; and with no desire to do him an in
! justice, will state them. 1t was some months
after the breach between Andrew johnson
and Congress became manifest before Gov
Curtin found out on which side of the high
dividing fence he belonged. SO late as the
middle Of last March, being in Harrisburg
we were unable to learn where he stood on
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