The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-02-26
No WONDER.


II is not at all strange that the vot-
ers of the Radical party in this county
grope in darkness, considering they
are fed upon such food as that served
up to them in the Bedford Inquirer.
We ask the candid men of that party
to read the following printed in the
editorial columns of that paper last
week:
"THE beauties of a thoroughly Dem
ocratic government are just now being
exhibited in New York city. Murder
and crime of every kind is rife. The
city government is either unwilling or
utterly unable to remedy this deplor-
able state of affairs. Merchants and
respectable business men of every call
ing are afriad 10 walk the streets in
broad daylight, and never go unarmed.
Within few days past nearly dozen
cases of shooting or attempts to shoot
by means of noiseless air guns are re-
corded and no clue can be found by
which to detect the criminals. The
best men of the city and some of the
leading papers have begun seriously
to discuss the prOpriety of establishing
a vigilance committee as last resort
in self defence. So much for modern
Democracy where it Wields supreme
power"
The editor of the Inquirer, in the
above article, seeks to deceive his read
ers. by asserting that the government
of New York city is 'thoroughIy
Democratic" He knows better. He
knows that the police regulations
of that city are in the hands of a board
of commissioners appointed by the
Legislature of New York State. This
board is Radical and appoints Radical
officers and underlings. Not q single
Democratic policeman carries q baton
ia Neso York city. Is this not so, Mr.
Inquirer ? Dare you deny it? Let US
see now whether you are brazen
enough to go on the record as disputing
this incontrovertible fact.
If murder and crime of every kind
is rife" (excuse the grammar as the
Inquirer hath it, it is the fault of the
Radical police, appointed by the Radi-
cal commissioners, who are selected by
the Radical legislature at Albany
The people of New York city have no
voice in the choosing Of the police to
whom are committed the peace and
good order of the city. The Radicals
of the country districts, through their
representatives in the State Legisla-
ture, save them all trouble on that
score. Did not the editor of the m
quirer know that he was befOuling his
own nest when he wrote and publish
ed the article above quoted?
Yes, New York is governed from
Albany, and the result is, to repeat
the language of the Inquirer, that
"murder and crime of every kind is
rife" in the metropolis. 1t is now
proposed that Philadelphia shall be
governed from Harrisburg; that
police commission similar to that of
New York shall be appointed by our
State Legislature. The Inquirer is in
favor of this, we presume, as the Rad
ical State Committee, at its recent
meeting at Harrisburg, endorsed the
proposition. As this plan works so
admirably in New York, according to
the Inquirer, it will, of course, be adopt
ed by our sapient and virtuous Iegis-
Iature. Then, if murder and crime
of every kind, should become rife
in Philadelphia, it will be all set down
to the account Of the Democratic
mayor, from whom all power over the
police will have been taken and who
will have dWindled into mere pre-
siding officer at the sessions of the city
councils.
Again we say, it is matter of little
surprise that the Radicals of this coun-
ty are wrapped in Egyptian darkness,
when their organ at Bedford delibera-
tely blindfolds them as in the article
copied above. Will not some of them
tear Lutz's bandage from their eyes
that they may see?