Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-14
BRADFORD COUNTY.

excellent social position and character Dut
is endowed with only common measure
of understanding and culture. His home
looks out upon :he Susquehanna river, at
Standing Stone, few miles below the
beautiful thriving borough OF Iowanda.
He followed the fortunes of the Wing party
until it was dissolved.
His political associates failed to discov-
er in him the elements wich constitute nat
ural greatness, or even the lesser qualities
which render a man serviceable in the
performance of public functions. On the
other hand, he was possessed by an ambi-
ton to circumvent nature, and become
statesman This sharp difference OF judg-
ment induced in him an uncomfortable
frame of mind. A morbid self-consclous-
ness overmastered him. He became dlscon-
tented, querelous, exacting.
At last, to appease his disquietude, he
was sent to the Legislature for two years
in succession 1t so fell out that the Hon.
THOMAS WILLIAMS occupied seat IN the
House during the same two years. Agree
ing in sentiment and opinion on pubic
questions, Mr.. WuIBMs, as vastly su-
perior intellectual force, SO attracted Mr..
TRACY that he revolved around him, III an
eccentric orbit, as a satellite. As men-
tai study the phenomenon presented was
interesting as political appearance it
was thoroughly ridiculous.
Mr. TRACY did not so understand the
matter and he became intensely desirous
of figuring in the broader and more con-
spicuous field Of Congressional lie. The
Republicans thought they could do better,
in the person of Mr.. GEORGE LYNDON, and
they made him their candidate. A year or
more previously, that gentleman, as a
member of the State Senate, had voted Tor
the repeal of the Tonnage Tax on the Penn
sylvania Railroad Mr.. TRACY raised
clamor against Mr.. LANDoN on account of
that vote, and announced himself as an in
dependent candidate The Democrats JOIN
ed in the clamor, and adopted Mr.. Tracy,
notwithstanding his avOwed abolltlonIsm.
Mr. LANDoN, two or three weeks before the
election, withdrew, and the canvass result
cd in Mr. TRACY's election This was four
years ago. In the Hou Sc of Representa-
tives he acted with the most advanced
wing of the Republicans.
Two years ..go Mr.. TRACY was again an
Independent candidate, with democratic
support. He was beaten out of sight by
MI. Y L1 SSES hERClR, WHO Will, ttOuDllcSS,
be reelected next fall
But MIR. TRACYs ambition has not yet
entirely consumed itself Enamored Of the
part he fancied he played at Washington,
and of the admiration he elected, he is
anxious to re-appear on that stage, and in
an entirely new character. After having
acted the part of a flaming radical, he
wants, if any persons retain recollection of
him, to surprise them, by acting the role of
frigid conservative.
Hence, he has espoused the Presidents
Policy. With the aid of the democrats, on
the Sth of May, he got up meeting at the
Court House in Towanda Of course, he
was quite at home in that crowd He
made a speech, the ingredients of which
were large stock of passion and a mild
lavoring of common sense. A string of
resolutions were adopted, endorsing the
President, denouncing the action of Con-
gress, condemning the action of both the
Democratic and Republican State Conven-
tions, and recommending the convocation
of a new one, in order that the nation might
not perish through lack of wisdom and pat
riotism. The proceedings of this meeting
were appropriately sent for publication to
the Bloomsbury Columbian, the organ of
Senator BUcKALEw AS the meeting was
designed simply as grist for the demo-
cratic mill the right shop was selected to
grind out the proceedings
No republican need have any apprehen-
sions concerning Bradford county. Mr.
TRACY is played out, and ought, from sheer
selfrespect, to subside But he won't
There was "a time that "when the brains
were out, a man would die " As SO much
discretion is no longer practiced, he must
be allowed to act his farce.-PiHsbug
Gazette
QUESTIONS FOR HESTER ULYMER TO ANSWER.
Were you not in league with Ben. Wood,
James Gordon Bennett and August Bel
mot, when it was proposed to the British
minister to have England interpose with
her armies aud navies to secure the inde-
pendence Of the Southern Confederacy
Did you not counsel with and urge Geo.
W Woodward to make that speech in