Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-09-12

one of our candidates for Assembly. Col.
Willis has resided in Mitflin county for
over thirty years where, by his close APP
plicatiOn to business and strict honesty,
he has arnassed q considerable fortune
He is Il high toned gentleman. intelIigent
and honest, and has been connected with
I the Methodist church for a number of
years. In addition to all this, when the
tOcsin Of war was sounded, and the liber-
ties Of his country imperilIed, he was
among the first to respond. and served
with great gallantry and distinction
Such was his popularity at home, that he
raised an entire company in Lewistown
in few Kit2intolca RebuLHcaa.
As is usual in such cases we have to 90
abroad to hear news from home respect
ing the gallantry, worth and religion Of
the conservative lt5ai0n candidate for AS
sembly from this county, a term so as
suaging that like McIntyres universal
curealls, it is to be palatable to Republi-
. cans, Soldiers, National Onions, Copper
heads, Skedaddlers, Deserters. Bounty
Jumpers, temperance men, whisky sell
lers, ct omnium. The truth is. there is
hardly word of truth in the whole arti-
Gle from beginning to end Mr.. Willis
has not been here thirty years, nor the
half of thirty; he never was to our knowl-
edge a member of the Methodist church.:
never raised a company that we know of;
and instead of being among the first to
rush to the war and serve with gallantry
and distinction, he was among the last,
and then went as qunrterHluSteT Of the
2O5th regiment, acted for sometime as
/ brigade Quartermaster, and we suspect
never shot at an enemy or was shot at by
a rebel, unless it was at a very long dis
tance. His post, in about a years service,
we have heard estimated to have yielded
him from $1,000 to S190O0-the figures
varying between those two sums-for
which amount we have no doubt the
most inveterate copperhead in Mif1iin
county would have cheertUlly ruShed To
the same position.
But what is Mr.. Willis politically? He
formerly professed to be republican, of
late has been i'll close communion with J.
A. Matthews, the chief wire puIler Of the
Johnson club and floor manager of what
is left of the patent democracy, and in his
card announces himself as the Union
Conservative candidate. In Texas and
other Southern States we know that term
is used by the reconstructed Johnson
rebels, but what Mr.. Willis means by
using it here, has puzzled many besides
ourselves. We take it for granted how
ever that he is in favor Of admitting to
full citizenship; to civil offices of honor,
trust and profit; to command Of compa-
MES, regiments, brigades, and even our
regular armies: and to take charge of
our navy yards and command of our yes
sells, the men who We're guilty of the
yiiest treason and perjury, with all the
dark crimes of murder, robbery, and in
cendiarsm incident TO those offences, on
merely taking an oath Ofallegiance (which
their previous conduct proved they 10
not regard; and also, by the destruction
Of slavery, hereafter to give these same
late rebels a greater preponderance in
Congress than they had before-with no
security by constitutional naIamendmentthat
they Will not again get up rebellion, or
that they viii tolerate free speech, such
as we have, and administer laws alike to
all classes.
Next we find the names Of Willis and
Miller in two or three papers III this dis
trict under the head Of National Union
tickct; in Huntingdon and Juniata the
cop papers put them up under the head
of democratic ticket, and the LewistoWn
Democrat don't classify them all. This
shows that somebody will be cheated in
the end, for they can no more serve the
fag ends Of two or three parties than they
can God and mammon. What are they,
then? Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is ap-
parent, and we can therefore come to no
other conclusion then that they belong to
that nondescript which is ready to relcdrd
Southern rebels and punish Southern
Union men.
On such basis they can come before
the public, and while unscrupuIous polit-
ical demagogues may cry them up worthy
of support, rejecting men of all parties
will be apt to desire more information be-
fore they trust legislative powerinto their
hands. We know here that almost every
prominent supporter of Mr.. Willis has
AN AXE TO GRIND, and one Of them at
least q Cameron aTe-a piece of informa-
ton we give for the benefit of the Hun
tingdon Globe, ShirIeysburg Herald and
the Juniata Republican, all of whom
feign to turn up the whites of their eyes
in holy horror at the mention of Gamer
on's name.
James NJ. Brown, while in the Legisl&-
ture last winter, voted to increase the pay
of members from 500 to $1,000, thus rob-
bing the Treasury OF thirty-three thou
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