The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-11-18

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Uniontown, and few other papers of
like character, have, since the election,
fallen to abusing Judge Packer and
the Democrats who favored his nomi-
nation. Had Judge Packer been elec-
ted, the editors of such sheets
would have employed their pens in
writing his praises, and would have
courted the favor of his friends. Only
towards strike at those who are down.
1t was not the fault of Judge Packer, nor
of his friends, that he was not elected.
Notwithstanding the popularity of Mr..
Pershing, (whO is a "Western many
he was defeated by nearly four thOus-
and more than Judge Packer. La all
the strong Democratic counties of the
Eastern part of the State, excepting
only Luzefne, Wayne, Schuylkill and
Bucks, the majorities of last fall were
either maintained or increased, whilst
Bradford, Tioga, Susquehanna, Union,
Snyder, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Chester and Delaware, strong Radical
counties in the same section, fell off in
their majorities for Geary. In Luzerne,
Schuylkill and Wayne, the mining as
sOciations, it is said, were tampered
with by the Radical State Committee.
This would have been done had any
other than Judge Packer been our can
didate. Philadelphia, owing to the
quarrel in the party over the local
nominations in that city, and the most
stupendous frauds on the part of our
opponents, gave large majority for
Geary. Would the result have been
d ifferent if another had been our stand
ard-bearer Hardly. The fact is
that some forty thousand Democrats
who voted last year did not go to the
election, last October. Had these lag
CARDS turned out, Packer would have
been elected by at least 30, 900 majority.
And thereby hangs tale. Unfortu-
nately for Judge Packer, there were
too many persons like Gibson, of the
Genius Of Liberty, who made a full
vote in their particular localities en-
tirely dependent on the amount of cash
furnished them by the State Com
mittee. The writer of this article rec
objects walking down Fourth Street,
Philadelphia, with this same Gibson,
some two months before the election,
when, the conversation turning on the
political prospect in Fayette county,
the latter said "WeIl, it depends al
to gether on what is done for our coun-
ty by the State Committee. We have
two Democratic candidates for Pro-
thon0tary, and unless the independent
candidate, who also claims to be the
regular nominee, is paid fair sum,
cannot say that Fayette county will
give much majority for Packer" To
which the writer replied, with some
in dignation, THAT is pretty state of
affairs! Must democrats be paid in
order that their votes aE,! influence
may not be lost to the Democratic
cause >" "Oh :" said Gibson, EVERY
thing depends on money nowadays"
And now this fellow, who goes abroad
slandering the Democracy of Fayette
county, by declaring that they will
not support the regularly nominated
Democratic candidates unless he is
furnished with money to buy them,
wantonly attacks certain gentlemen
who were friendly to the nomination
OF Asa Packer. Didn't he get the fee
he was looking after in Philadelphia +?
Wasn't the sum he deemed necessary
for the purchase of the independent
candidate for ProthOnotary furnished
him by the State Committee? 1t
would seem not. His sore head was
evidently not plastered with green
backs or it would have healed up long
ago. The Democracy of Fayette coun-
ty, however, are not of the purchase
able kind, Gibson to the contrary not
withstanding. With such men as
Hons. Charles f. Boyle, w. II. Play
ford, Daniel Kaine, and others of like
character and ability, to lead them,
they laugh at the efforts of corruption
lists like this Gibson to demoralize
their organization. Yet it was the
cupidity of just such fellows ar this,
that kept thousands of voters from
the election and that really brought
about the defeat of Judge Packer.
Since the election it is their cue to de-
nounce and traduce tn friends of
Judge Packer, and to impugn the mo-
tives and disparage the judgment of
leading Democrats who favored that
gentleman's nomination. The very
fact that they do not hesitate to open
up discussion which can end only in
acrimonious and hurtful dissensions,