Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-09-18
A Talk after Patent Democrat
iC Fashion.

Some years ago Rotation in office was
a democratic principle, but since the par
~ las fallen into the notification doc
trincs of Calhoun, which consider treason
no crime, it has also fallen from it's former
professions, and now praises up men for
having held Office all their lives. Take S.
T. Shugert, one of their candidates for
Senator, as an example. He has held Of
fees of profit of all kinds, some of them
with high salaries, for many years-so
many that former citizen of Centre
county lately remarked he could not re-
member the time when Mr.. Shugert first
held office or when he was ever out of one
for any length of time! AS the laboring
men are frequently appealed to by the pa
pcrs and speakers of ultra democracy, we
would ask laborers to reflect little on the
subject. First, then, we allege that Mr..
Shugert has in the past twenty-one years
received more public money for light la
Dor, such as a few hours clerking, &c,
each day, than any laboring man or skill
led mechanic in Miffiin county has earn
ed in his lifetime. Second, we allege
that Mr.. Shugert is nothing more than
a professional office hunter aud office hol-
der. and as such has no claim whatever
on the vote or favor of any laborer or me-
chanic.
Their other candidate is also orofcs-
sio,aH man, lawyer, who values his ser
vices at as much per hour as any laborer
I, 1,
work. At the present day lawyer is
manufactured in about half the time, aud
about one-fourth the mental (let alone
bodily labor that it takes to turn out
skilled mechanic, yet the former consid-
ers his work worth from ten to twenty
times as much as the mechanic, and un-
der the regulations of a privileged class
gets it, while the mechanics, were they TO
combine to bring their wages to the stan
dard of a lawyer, would-f find themselves
III jail for forming LyaiamfM combinations!
Both these professional dignitaries are
now as bland, polite and obsequious to la
boring men and mechanics, as they pos
sibly can be, and no matter how dirty or
greasy the latter may be they will shake
hands, make inquiries after their health
and generally treat them as if they had
been acquainted for years; and this will
last until-the election! After that,
equality, social and all other, ceases, and
the chances would be nine out of ten that
a dlrkev would sooner be recognized by
Messrs. Shugert and Mcintyre than a
moor man who earns his bread by hard
work. Now, you hard fsted boys, we ask
Won TO ponder over this and say honestly
whether this has not been your expert
cuce in past years with just such men?
The rich somehow they can always re-
member whenever and wherever they
meet them; but as for the poor man, the
Ial.oring man, and the mechanic, why he
may be good enough TO shake hands with,
good enough to be talked to, good enough
to be visited or even taken dinner with
or good enough to take sociable glass,
ma Iona as his cote Is tDdati7lg, but after
that-git out! Are not these facts?
Now take look at the other side. Col.
Robson is a farmer boy. He knows how
to plow, make hay, cut grain, thresh and
do many other things at which profession
aEmen turn up their noses. When the war
broke out. he went into the service, was
appointed Colonel of O regiment, and has
as good military record as any one.