Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-04-20
From the Baltimore american.
THE PENNSYLVANIA CANDIDATE.

The contest of free government is again
opened in Pennsylvania The old Keystone
State. which during the rebellion, has given
the world such glorious assurance of her
truth and fidelity to the Union, is now call
ed upon to define her future, and we do not
doubt that she will justify the confidence
which the friends of the Union and freedom
reposed in her. 1t will not do now to stain
the record of her honor Her candidates
are in the field One of them is a Copper
head who sustained Buchanan, Mcclellan
and Woodward, and opposed the soldiers
coming home to vote. The other is a
soldier, who manfully and bravely led his
courageous legi0ns on from the breaking out
of the war till the last rebel had surrendered
The party, calling itself, by mis-name, Dem
ocrat, has nominated Mr.. Heister Clymer,
of Bsrks county, as its candidate The Uni
ON party has nominated the veteran soldier
oft two wars, Major General John W. Geary
as its candidate, and placed him upon a
straight out Union platform.
Mr.. Clymer' record is as honorable as
sympathy for rebellion will permit it to be.
lie was not responsible directly for the acts
of President Buchanan, but shared the ig-
nominy OF having justified them. He was
not in the Rebel cabinet, but gave aid and
comfort to those who we're He did not
meet our brave, patriot soldiers with OPP
posing bayonetts, but he encouraged those
who did. He appreciated the high privilege
of voting, and used it against Curtin and
Lincoln and johnson, but refused it to the
gallant soldiers and sailors of Pennsylvania
because they were out of the State fighting
the battles of their country. He has been
consistent and unwayering in his support
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prevent the success of the Union. The
convention which nominated him was a
Convention of Copperheads, and we do
neither them nor him Injustice in saving
that he is a worthy representative of his
party. The Philadelphia Age endorses him,
and every paper in his State, which became
obnoxious for its reasonable sentiments
follows suit, He has the merit of never
pretending to Unionism, but was an out
spoken opponent of the Union and its
friends from the beginning of the rebellion,
and although he opposed the present Presi-
dent with allhis might singularly enough,
plants himself upon an endorsement of his
policy.
General Geary's is one of straightforward
honesty of purpose and honorable fame. In
politics he has shown himself to be above
party, and in the field brave and gallant
officer He served with distinction as Col
of regiment through the Mexican war.
He was appointed Governor of Kansas by
President Buchanan, and succeeded In res
toring order out of the chaotic and revolu-
tionary elements of which that territory was
composed, bnt he refused to be the instru-
ment of the pro-slayery party in lower to
betray the people of Kansas into a slave
State, and made way fer successor who, In
his turn proved too good for the place. Men
who learned their political duty in that
school, against their party predilectsons,
were not likely to fail thecountry when those
who had failed in Kansas tried to destroy
the Union. General Geary did not fail.
None were earlier than he in taking up the
line of march for the field of battle He was
in the earliest fights in West Virginia, and
at the final surrender of johnson in North
Carolina, and his name is often mentioned
with honor in the reports of the war. He
was seriously wounded at Cedar Mountain,
and bears an arm as remembrance of the
war He has proven his devotion to the
Union since the war by publicly rebuking
men who have uttered treasonable sentiments
in his presence, and making a personal of
fence otit. His abilities as an executive of
fcer have been tested, and he is known to be
fit for the position of Governor. The sol
diers Of the country are honored in his nom
nation, and those of Pennsylvania who have
now the privilege of voting in spite of Mr..
Clymer, will march up in solid column to
crown the life of their loved commander,
with this attestation of their esteem