Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-09-17
POLITICAL IrEas.


bered with the great Unwashed.
EIGHT more years Of Republican rule at
the same rate as the past eight viii com
pletely wipe out the State debt left US BIZ
Democratic rulers. Everybody who want.
it done viii accordingly vote for Geary.
The Democratic party, being a party of
discipline rather than of principle, has the
advantage ia ordinary contests, 1t is not
party of moral ideas, but the pandey-r
to any vice that viii give votes.
CONSERVATISM is dead as a door nail ia
Mississippi and Texas The opposition 10
those States, flies once more to the Old
Democratic flag, with an occasional show Of
the stars and bars The Conservative dodge
is played out
TnE Patriot ridicuIes Geary's visit 70
Gettysburg on the recent meeting Of the
Union officers Geagg was in the battle og
Gettysburg, and had right to meet there
his fellow soldiers. Where was Packer when
the battle Of Gettysburg was fought?
DEMOCRACY is a hard thing to under
stand. Il means negro suffrage in the South,
and opposition to It in tha North. If this
doctrine IS right in one place, it certainly
ought to be in aao,hsr but then Dcmocraeg
never means consistency.
ASA PAcEER Is Democrat of tle
Yailandigham stripe, and yet be expects
the Uuion loving people Of PENNSYLVANIA to
elect him in opposition to gallant soldier,
who was perilling his life en- the battlefield
while he Packer was hobnobbiug with
rebels in Europe.
PACKER sympathios, before aud during
the wa were all eivanto lhe Southern wing
of the Democracy To 1860 he supported
Bfackinridse IN opposition to Douglas, aud
during the war, when even a word from
man Of his influence would have helped the
Union cause, he was silent
EVERY Republican Will appreciate ths
importance Of the present campai0g, in viaw
Of the fact that the election Of Perslirg
would give the Democracy the control ofthc
Supreme Court of the State, and enable
them again, as last year, to dcluge us with
fraudulent naturalization papers.
WHILE the Democracy in almost eycr
State is making progress towards accepting
the issues decided by The late var and
ceasing their opposition to colored suffrage,
the Bourbons Of Pennsylvania are entering
upon a great campaign with no principles.
no creed, nor anything except abuse Of the
negro and the denial of his rights.
Asa PACKER is said to be the Working
mans candidate Who chucked him mo
the Lehigh river? His ot9a l7orBmsa. What
for2 Attempting to compel them to work
at starvation wages. VIII the workingmeo
be stupid enough to support q man who
respects their rights oaly when be Is com
PEELED to do so at the risk Of his own life 2
We think not.
THE officers Of the Lebigh Valley Rail
way deny that the company has contributed
a dollar in any way to the Lehigh Uniyersi-
ty, or that Judge Packer ever negotiated a
lean for them 10 Europe What railway
company was it then, or was there any,
which was really saddled with the uui7ersi
ty subscription heretofore attributed to Mr.
Packer?
The Democratic leaders, look upon poll
tics as gambler does upon a game of cards
cheat whenever you can. Did you ever
know Democrat politician venture Z. pro
test against any iufamy Of his party When
| organized PERJURY is employed % override
the numerical superiority Of a cammuuity,
did you ever hear q Democratic voice raised
against the dasewation
CAN a leopard change its spots2" aper
les the runster. Yes, he answers him
self, If be don't like one place he can 20 to
another It is pretty much. SO with the
I Democratic party today for in almost every
State the party has different platform, so
that if q Democrat don Ike the platform
in one State, all he has to do is to cross the
border into another You pays your
money and takes your choice
DUaIya the war; while Geary was lead
ing his White Star Division, Packer was i'm
Europe expressing his sympathy with the
! Coultje-acy Ills Infamous assertion that
/ he would rather see Jefferson Davis Presi-
dent Of the United States than Abraham
Lincoln, is as notorious as the fact Of his
bitter hostility to the Reconstruction acts
and the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
ment
THE Chairman Of the Republican State
Central Committee intends making a
! vigorous campaign, and speakers will be in
the field early in September. Gov. Geary
and Hon. John Scott arc announced to
speak at several places. A number Of
eminent speakers will canvass the State.
LET the Republicans put their shoulders to
the wheel and the election Of Geary will be
readily secured.
IT APPEARS that the money for Mr.. Asa
Packers half million endowment of the
Lehigh University, did not come out Of his
own pocket, but was paid by railway
company, in which he was and is interested.
the inducsment and consideration therefor
being the successful negotiation. by that
gentleman, Of loan Of some millions for
the Company from English capitalists This
is a queer story, but it-is so confidently told,
down in the Lehigh Valley, as to demand
new evidence before we can consent to credit
the reported muuifcence.
THREE years ago Hester Clymer, of
Berks, was the candidate of the Democrats
for Governor. He was a young man Of
noble and generous impulses, and much
more liberal in his political views than
Packer, but be was backed by the Copper
head wing Of the Democratic party and that
was enough to defeat him Now the Demoe
raey present Asa Packer a regular Old
Hunker,-a Breckenridge Democrat, and a