Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-07-21
The Two P's.

The agony is over The mountain has
labored and brought forth couple of very
small mice The Democratic" convention
has met and adjourned. Brick Pomeroy,
with his stunning shirt front, and Alderman
| McMullen with his escort of thieves and
pick pockets have gone home. Buckalew,
minus 5000, has returned to his briefs, and
Wallace, though he got into the wrong car
| and found himself in Lebanon, at length
beams upon his satellites on the court house
steps.
The military had to succumb to the civil.
Hancock could only get 81 votes, while
Buckley McCandless, the gallant Phila-
delphia General could only raise 5. Even
Gen. Geo. w. Cass, who, though educated
at West Point at the expense of the Gov
ernment, withheld his services during the
whole period of the rebellion, which certain
ly should have entitled him to Demo
cratic gratitude, was cruelty slaughtered
and the nomination was given to Packer
Asa Packer-whose only qualification for
Governor, is that he has amassed colossal
fortune of twenty millions of dollars.
Mr. Packer is Yankee, who left the
State of Connecticut, where he was born.
when about Is years of age. He had no
education of any consequence, but having
located at an early day in the heart of the
anthracite coal region, his yankee shrewd-
ness enabled him to take advantage of the
rapid development going on around him,
to accumulate fortune. He has been in
Congress and in the Legislature, but never
evinced any knowledge of craftsmanship or
politics in either. He was silent member
making no speeches, and very seldom voting,
his large business interests absorbing his at
constituents. His money obtained him the
nomination. He is railroad king and a
millionaire, and hence suitable candidate
for democratic party. Had he been a
poor man, his name would never have been
mentioned. But being the very leader of
the aristocracy of wealth in Pennsylvania, he
is selected as the standard bearer of the party
claiming to be the ''poor mans party!"
He was simply nominated to be bled by the
corrupt clique that controls the Democratic
organization. They expect by this appeal
to his over -weening vanity, in his old age,
| the is GA years old), to pocket a large slice
of his immense fortune Randall, McMul-
len & Co, will be in high clover,-and
Packer will wake up the morning of the
second Wednesday of October, to find his
pocket as empty as Buckalew's after he
run the gauntlet of thieves to get into the
convention, and himself the worst whipped
man that ever run for an Office in Penn
sylvania.
Cyrus L. Pershing, the candidate for Su-
preme Judge, is about third rate, Cam
bria county lawyer. Robt. i. Johnston,
| Esq, is the leading member of the Cambria
county Bar, and is far better fitted, both by
professional experience and learning, for the
Supreme Bench than Mr.. Pershing, who
resides in Johnstown, and has never
done anything TO entitle him to such a dis
tinction, save his faithful and bigotcd ad.
hesion to the Democratic party. He
studied law with Judge Black, from whom
he imbibed his states-rights. notification,
ann Calhoun principles, but seems to have
learned little else. for he is entirely desti
tute of single spark of his preceptor's ge,
MUS, or of the slightest approximation to
his great ability. He has never, even, had
large practice in his own county, and has
held no position other than member Of the
Legislature, in which he did nothing to dis.
tinguish himself. He made a speech at the
Democratic mass meeting here in 1866, and
many of our readers will recollect that ii
was SO dry, uninteresting. and feeble that
he could not hold his audience. He is a
''poor stick" out of which to make Su
preme Judge, and fortunately for the hon6
of the State, there is not the slightest pros
pect of his election.
So much for the two P's. They will be 81
effectually Pounded, Peppered and Pack
(erled away, that they will never again b,
heard of after the second Tuesday of Oc
tober.
THE Doctor AT FUNERAL.-The Har