Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-04
POLITICAL ITEMS.

FoRry Hebrews of Evansville, Indiana,
have signifed their purpose to vote the
straight Republican ticket.
The Democratic platform is built of dead
wood, propped by dead issues, aud the
whole will fall in November
GRANT and CoLrAx are pledged to execute
the laws of Congress, but Seymour and Blair
are pledged to execute the Union men of the
South who uphold these laws.
THE Richmond Dispatch is writing down
Admiral Farragut. That naturally follows
the failure of the attempt of the Rebel De
mocracy to shoot him down, which occurred
some years ago.
The Sacramento Union thus answers the
question aHow is California going?" 1t is
going for Grant and Colfax by not less than
eight to ten thousand majority.
! DOES anybody suppose Wade Hampton
would be bowling about the South aud threat
euing a new rebellion if General Grant-the
man who gave him his parole-was President.
THERE was time when blacks voted in
North Carolina. Judge Pearson says that
in those times, before the Constitution Of
/ 1885, it was subject Of remark: "The free
niggers always vote for the most respectable
men"
THE Democrats revile the Freedmen's Bu-
reau without stint, though a large part of its
expenditure has been in behalf of poor and
wretched white people in the Southern
States, who wonld have starved without assis-
tance, and who were victims of the Confed-
crate rebellion.
Col. LEN. A. HARRIS, formerly Mayor Of
the City of Cincinnati, and at present Collec-
tor Of the First Ohio Revenue District, is out
for Grant and Colfax, and proposes to take
the stump. He has run the johnson machine
in that city for the past two years.
The best specimens of carpet -baggers we
know we're the draft saeaks returning from
Canada after the war with their carpet bags
slung across their shoulders and shame
faced look on their hang.dog countenances.
SAID Henry Stanbery, ex-Attorney General
four years ago. aWhen you come to vote,
ask what candidate Jefferson Davis and the
Rebels would wish elected, and vote against
that man. We apply that test now Which
Grant or Seymour, do the Southern Rebels
Cobb Davis, Ould and their fellows favor?
Let the people answer, and vote against that
man.
Tbs Democratic 'Wbite Boys in Blue''
prosecute their canvass after this fashion: At
Indianapolis on the 18th instant, aftersacking
a colored man grocery on their way home
from a political meeting, "they went to the
colored Baptist Church, where a festival was
in progress, drove of the women with violent
and obscene language, and by throwing stones
bricks, &c., broke up the windows and Sc
riously damaged the church. Several shots
were also fred here"
GEN. FoRREsr entreats the colored voters
of the South ''to stand by the men who
raised them. who nursed them when they
were sick, and took care Of TEN when they
we're little children, who are their best
friends, and viii do as much for them as
anybody can do. But Gov. Swami assures
the freedmen that they have no friends at all
in the South, and as soon as military pro
lection is removed their sun win go down in
darkness and oppression"
The Pittsburgh Gazette says there is hardly
a village from one end Of Pennsylvania to the
other but contains Grant and Colfax Club.
Never before in the Commonwealth we're the
people so thoroughly aroused and organized
to secure the triumph of Republican princi
pies. 1t says the State may be set down as
certain to give at least 10000 majority for
Hartranft and Campbell in October, and
nearly double that number for Grant and Col
fax in November.
THE Radical party is reproached for having
| kept in existence the Freedmen's Bureau
long after it ceased to be necessary for the
protection Of the negro; but Gov Swami
declared in a recent speech to Democratic
meeting in York, Penn. ''Just as sure as
you live, when yon move the negro from
the protection of1he Freedmen's Burta an and
the military arm which now protects him,
his sun viii go down in darkness and op-
preston"
GES. BURNSIDE addressed soldiers and
sailors meeting at Providence on the 14tf,
saying, in the course of his remarks, ''It
requires no studied eloduence nor elaborate
statement to teach us our duty in the coming
campaign, but it is simply to sustain the
Government and support those who sustained
us when in the field The same people who
opposed us when fighting the battle of our
country, now oppose the election of Grant
and Colfax, and advocate the election Of
Seymour and Blair. They are the same
men who told you and told me we must meet
at the polls and finish with the ballot the work
we supposed was done with the bullet, by
the election of Grant and Colfax. The issue
is as plain and distinct as in the last election,
when Abraham Linco'a was elected and
General Mcclellan defeated. 1t is the old
contest and / am with you heart and soul. y