Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-09-19
To the Electors of Columbia.

FELLOW CITIZENS Having been nomi-
mated for the Legislature by the Democratic
Party of Columbia County, I not only ac-
cepted the nomination with pleasure. but
with every assurance of ultimate success. /
know the people, whose candidate am, and
they well know what interests are involved
in the result of this contest. And there 1
leave the question, with few words of ex-
PLANTATION, for the c,r6ttron1ent of the People
at the Bdllot Boz.
Nine years ago, NJ. E. Jackson carried
Columbia county, as the Democratic candi-
date for State Senator The Montour Con-
ferees defeated him in Conference Six
years ago John G.. Freeze carried Columbia
county, for Senator and Montour defeated
him In Conference Three years ago, the
undersigned had the unanimous recommen-
dation of Columbia county for State Senator
and Montour voted against him in Confer
ence. The present season, the undersigned
was unanimously nominated by the Democ-
racy of Columbia county, for State Senator.
Again, Montour county, through the agency
of clique of her trucking politicians, be-
trayed the rights of Columbia and defeated
her candidate.
Here is a series of outrages perpetrated
upon the rights of the confding and honest
people of Columbia, running into four Sem
atorial terms, consecutively, exclusively by
the willy politicians Of Montour county
Need our people require any further evi-
danna IF fba;r rvo1ton troaobor1, to1uorJs n
magnanimous people, who has ever treated
MontOur county and her interests generously
and kindly, and whose proverbial generosity
they have uniformly betrayed Over twenty
years ago, the Danville politicians procured
the nomination of Senator BEST on l0ritten
pledges not to dismcmber or divide Colum-
bia county, and after his nomination, put
their tools to work in this county and defeat
ed Hon. JOHN MCREYNoLDs, who was the
regular Democratic nominee for Representa-
tive, then compelled Mr. BEST to violate his
pledges and divide our county. Mr. Chal-
FAINT and four of his principal friends, this
year, gave equally strong pledges of their
good faith, all of which they as deliberately
violated. And so intended
But is it not somewhat singular, that many
of the same men who then supported Mr.
BEsT-whose election we must forever depre-
cate-are, to-day, the open and active advc-
Gates Of again placing the Legislative power
of the District in the hands of the DanYille
political clique?
As to the nomination of Mr.. Chalfant, for
Assembly, the present year, everybody will
discover, by glance at the resolution, pub
Gshed elsewhere with the proceedings in this
journal, that it was only Conditional Those
conditions the Montour politicians most
shamelessly disregarded and forfeited. For
feited by five of their number promising to
''be on hand at the Senatorial Conference,
to uphold the hands of their Conferees and
secure their vote and influence for the nomi-
nation of Senator from Columbia county.
And doubly forfeited, by subsequently send
ing two Conferees to Bloomsbury, who voted
one hundred and t,oenty-one times in Confer
ence and never gave single solitary vote
for the choice of the Democracy of Colum-
bia for Senator.
Our people wisely forseeing the develop
ment of events, and judging of the future
by the past, have prudently determined to
guard their own rights, interests and honor,
and save their county from further imposi-
ton and disfranchisement at the hand of
clique of willy politicians in Montour. l
therefore, call upon the people of Columbia,
to look to their interests before it be too late.
And in conclusion, you will find inme for the
future, as in the past, a Democrat in whom
there is no guile, a firm supporter of the
interests of your county and bold defender
of Constitutional Liberty.
LEVI L. TATE.