Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-03-06

noble justice to a representative OF this
class, in his ''Bribed Legislator, that we
reproduce it 50 those noble leaders may see
their reflection. yea, themselves "as others
see them" Such man, he says
-'sWould strip the Dead
Or rob the orphan Of his crust of bread,
So lost to justice-equity aud right
This man would steal the aged widow mite
Is well prepared for every kind of fraud,
Would sell his country, or betray his God
pillage the palace of the King Of Kings,
Or strip the gliding from an angels wings.
We hate -meanuess with the most unut-
terable hate, and yet we cannot turn to the
right nor to the left but we have the mean
ness of somebody staring US in the face
with the brazen impudence which is said to
characterize those doomed spirits whose
abode is in realms of eternal misery.
Men of principle and character, though
they may deem the adoption Of their princi-
pies essential to the welfare of their country,
do not feel that it is incumbent upon them
to resort to such means to bring about their
adoption as eharacterizes the blackguard and
which would ezpel any gentleman from de-
cent society or convict him in a Court of
justice. Why cannot men act the part of
gentlemen in politics as well as in the other
relations Of life2 There is no reason why a
man should make blackguard Of him
self because he desires the success Of his
party. Yet in this community, time out of
mind, this has been the usuI level to which
the leaders of the Democratic party have at
tempted to scramble and they jostle each
other for the position.
The Democratic party Of this county is
run for the benefit of about twenty-five or
thirty persons, no more, all waiting to get
into Office. The party has been without
principle for dozen years and yet the poor
dupes who have, in that number of years,
spent money enough to build railroad from
Bedford to Mt Dallas, have done it all for
the benefit of less than twenty men, and to
benefit these few men the Democratic party
must resort to the most dastardly meanness
Democrats, your leaders stand in your
light, they care no more about you and your
interest than if you were so many sheep.
They thunder and howl in regard to the ac-
tons of the Radicals as if those Radicals
we're about to take the lives of every one of
you, and all this is because every one of
these samefrothy politicians wants into Office
And after they are in Office what advantage
are they to you? What do they do for
you? Do they fill your pockets with golden
guineas, greenbacks or even postal currency?
Do they even tighten the burden of your
taxation2 Humph when you have shouted
yourselves hoarse, spent your money and
your time, and they are elected, they leave
you quietly to stand aside until the next
heat, and you are fool enough to do it and
not reap single benefit. Yes, all the
meanness and gas which your leaders are
constantly dispensing comes from the all
prevailing desire to be elected to Office.
You have not an honest politician who is
fighting for the cause ofyour party to-day
for the sake of principles, not one; every
mothers son of them is looking forward for
the spoils, the time when he will be prefer
red for some petty Office and its emolu-
ments, while you are fools enough to sus-
sain this kind of thing even at the risk of
your best interests. This must be as patent
to you as 1t Is to US. And yet since Mr..
Sehel represented you in the Legislature
you have never, with the exception of that
gentleman's effort to be reelected last fall
pledged and asked any of your candidates
for Representatives or Senator to pledge
themselves in favor of doing anything to-
wards developing Bedford county. Outside
of the efforts Of Mr.. SeheIl what has your
party ever done for you in this respect?
Not any thing. If you had made oue-half
the effort to build railroad from Holli-