Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-09-26
FOR PROTHONOTARY,
JESSE COLEMAN.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
d JOHN G. FREEZE.
That address

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In an extra issued from the Danville In
tszz;igencey Office, ''sent free of charge" and
bearing date Of the 2lst Sept. 1866, pub
hshed by Thos Chalfant, the fraudulent can
didate for Representative from this District,
We find so called Address," intended to
influence voters of Columbia and Montour
in favor of Mr.. Chalfant, who claims to be
the regularly nominated candidate. This
Address" is signed by Joseph II. Camp
bell and John McWilliams, Representative
Conferees from Montour, and witnessed by
William Yorks and Jacob Shelhart 1t
pretends to refute the statements in the
letter of Columbia county Democrats to the
County Committee; and although it does
not in single point succeed, yet we will
direct attention to few of the gIaring here
sizes it advocates It says, "We never CON
ceded to Columbia county the Senatorial
candidate. I" .er 81
Now we say to Messrs. Campbell and Nc
Williams that their conduct was very i'm
proper if they thought Montour entitled to
the Senator And we ask them why did
he-Mr. CampbeIl-unite in the cry of Mr..
Chalfant that the Columbia county resolu-
ton, instructing her Conferees to vote for
the Montour candidate only in case Mon
tour would vote for Columbia's s candidate
for Senator, vas uncalled for and highly un-
just, inasmuch as it cast reflection upon
the honesty of Montour citizens, and that
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stand by Columbian And further, if Mon
tour had claim for Senator, 'as strong, if
not stronger than that of Columbia, or any
other county In the District" why did Mr.
Chalfant represent to the Columbia Confer
ees that, it was not the desire much less the
satentioa Of Montour to have Mr.. Dean NOM
mated, and that when the Montour county
Convention instructed the Senatorial Con-
ferees to use their influence for Dean, they
did not intend more than compliment to
Dean, and that In truth it was done merely
for the purpose of "letting him DEAN
down easy, after / (Chalfant) had driven
him to the Tall''i We cay why was all this
deception prncticed BY Mr.. Chalfant and his
friends if Montour had just, or in the
words of the Address," stronger claim
than that Of Columbia"2 No, gentlemen,
the people of Columbia cannot be duped
into the support of Mr.. Chalfant by car
loads of his extra, sent free of charge"
containing such fallacies as this. Mr.. Chal-
fant and his friends never hintcd that Mon
tour had such claim. They positively pledg-
ed Montour to support Columbia and con-
ceded our right If, as they now say, they
were unable to control the Senatorial Con-
ferees, they should not have bound them
selves, for they well understood that only
upon condition of Montour aiding Columbia
to secure the Senatorial nomination could
Mr. Chalfant be nominated, and he was only
nominated upon that condition; the condi-
ton having not been complied with, Mr.
Chnlfant's nomination became at once void,
in accordance with the direction of the
Columbia Convention And there being no
Democratic candidate, Hon. Levi L. Tate,
Columbia's selection, becomes the regular
Democratic nominee
But, again, while Mr.. Campbell attempts
to deny that pledges were made, and treats
with contempt the idea that he, Chalfant
and his friends, could influence the Senate
rial Conferees,-an idea which, had our
Representative Conferees known Campbell,
Chalfant & Co., would have been contempt
uously hurled back to them when the pledge
was made,-yet he positively asserts that
pledge, for the action Of their Senatorial Con-
feress, ''fhat after supporting the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Dean for reasonable time, in
accordance with their instructions, said Con-
ferees, would vote for the nominee of Colum-
bia, was made. And Mr. Campbell says,
this was redeemed In both letter and ispir-
It This is a positive falsehood, for the
Montour Conferees, after balloting one ham
dred and tscent,-one times, during contest
Of two days, did NOT CAST A SINGLE
VOTE for Columbia county, but upon the
final ballot, by which Mr.. jackson was nom
mated, both Montour Conferees voted for
Jackson; and for this we do not hold Mr..
Dean nor his Conferees responsible, but Mr.
Chalfant, by whom misrepresentation were
made. u4.eegI
This is candid analysis of this Address
founded upon . basis manufactured since
Tate has been nominated as candidate, or
based upon mental reservations of Mr.. Chal-
FAINT and his friends while making their
pledges.