Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-09-03


ernor. The Democratic party ignored the
brave soldier during the war aud now the
tables are turned.
HIS fond partisans style Judge Packer
''The Pride Of the Valley" The lat time
the Pride offered himself as candidate for
popular support was for Town Councilman
Of Mauch Chunk, in 1861, when he ran t,ro
votes ahead OF bis ticket, aud was beaten by
fifty majority at that
JOHNSON stock in the Senatorial race has
evidently fallen within the past few days.
The willy politician can hardly recover the
ground be has lost The sharp sighted
Conservatives feel that he would be mill
stone round their necks, and few Of tbs OLD
Wings can endure him.
The New York World is rampant on
specie payments. Mr. Pendletor, for
Governor Of Ohio, is equally exubersnt over
a greenback currency. Democratie CON
sistency. The World declares specie pay
ments TO be the great aim of that party.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention
used greenbacks.
GEN. GEARY gave his son to feedom, on
the battle field. If patriotism j. entitled to
recognition, it seems to US that so noble a
sacrifice .hould not be forgotten Gen. Geary
gave his services to his country, and on
many occasions he exposed his life, in de
fence of the rights of the nation, 1t seems
clear that be should be preferred to Gov
Packer, for these reasons, if for no others.
IT is reported that if Packer succeeds iu
being elected Governor, Judge Woodward
is to be his Secretary of Commonwealth
The editor of the TunkhannOck Republican
says be does not Ike to venture a prediction
at this early day, out of respect to his repu-
tation as a prophet, but hazards little in
saying that when Mr. Packer is Governor Of
this State, some other and more improbable
things will happen.
THE copy of the Harrisburg Patriot that
contained the announcement of Packer
nomination also proclaimed an offer Of
several of the Chambersburg Democracy
to bet $1,000 tO $500 that be Packer will
he elected Decent respect for public
opinion should have induced these fellows
to carry their share of the spois home be-
fore thus Haunting the wages of their in
iquity in the face of the world
In Ohio the Democrats have in then
platform declared war against all Protection
to American Industry. The Democrats q
Pennsylvania advocate the same doctrine,
but did not dare to put it in their platform.
Packer and bis party have no interest in the
laboring man except 10 get his vote, and
viii do all they can to reduce his wages to
the standard of foreign paupers, by the
adoption Of British Free Trade policy, the
moment they have the power. Trust then
not
DURING the eclipse at Council Bluffs
Iowa, where it was almost total, Count,
Democratic Nominating Convention was ii
session. When surrounding objects com
menced to darken, not little disgust AMI
anxiety was manifested at the unexpected
and unpleasant intrusion, and an ardent
wheel horse of the Iowa Democracy offe,-
ed a resolution denouncing il as clearly IN.
constitutional, and an unwarrauted Outrage
upon free people, perpetrated by the iy.
ranical government at Washington. Its
needless to say that the resolution was
unanimously adopted
WHAT viii Thompson, Sharswood, Readt
aud hs.,v- ,lIiuk If Cyrus Pershing,
country Squire, should be elected to tn,
Supreme bench? Verify, there must b,
more in his profession than his practice tc
entitle him to that honor. To be a Judg,
requires man to be learned in the law.
Pershing must take it in by intuition. This
eminent lawyer docs not live in county
town and never tried half dozen cases un
assisted. What fit associate for the emf
uent jurists who now ill the bench. We
will have some original "crowners ques
law when Pershing gets to be Judge
Harrisburg Tslegraph
Brick PoMERoY, the great apostle ot
Democracy, says he would repudiate the
national debt in two seconds if he had the
power. Again he says, 1--WE dare urge
repudiation, we dare head mob and batter
down the vaults where our masters keep the
notes which they say we must pay" This
same Brick was sent from New York to
Harrisburg to engineer Packer through the
Democratic Convention, and you are asked
70 support men who hold and endorse the
same principles that the unscrupulous Brick
has the boldness to advocate through tbe
columns of his paper. Working men, look
to your interests before you surrender Jour
selves to the enemies Of your country.
DEMOCRATIC journals dwell upon the fact
that their fifteen millionaire candidate has
given half million Of dollars to a Univer-
sity. Whereupon the Philadelphia Bulletin
asks few pertinent questions How
much has Mr., Packer given to the Union
soldiers Of the war; how much to the
Sanitary and Christian Commissions; how
much to soldiers widows and orphans, and
how much to all the various patriotic chari-
ties to which poorer men have given so
literally :?
MORE THAN DOUBLED. Since Re
publican President has been in the White
House, the revenues from whisky and
tobacco have more than doubled. How
would the matter stand to-day had Seymour
and his clan been placed in power2 Let
the intelligent man, who has examined
current history, judge for himself
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