The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-11-24
THE COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT, BLOOMsBURG COLUMBIA
Conduct of Camnaigns.

tOnuUct OF thnlpnlgnSs
Certain structures of ours on the
bungling management Of the recent
campaign in this State, 1t seems breath
ed little life into the Harrisburg Pat
riot and IL essays defence of the State
committee. When II asserts, however,
that we did not demand the informa.
tion before the election, the want Of
which we complained of afterwards, IL
is simply guilty of an untruth. Nor
was the editor of the Columbian alone
in this demand, before the election,
nor is he alone in finding fault since.
There was also a vigorous and general
demand for an aggressive campaign
long before the election and an ag-
gressive campaign could mean nothing
else than a full expose of the wrong
action of the Radicals, accompanied
with documentary proof That this de-
mand was treated with neglect will not
be denied.
That the newspapers of the party,
generally, performed their whole duty
as far as in their power, we assert with
| out fear Of contradiction, excepting
those that were mainly devoted to the
"new departure,") and those that ex-
ceeded the Columbian in this respect
were enabled to do so because of super
ior ability and not because of any care
lessness on our part, as the Patriot in
Inmates. AS to tho stink cdy 'yclept
"new departure" we no further both
cred with it than to enter protest, for
the sake of the party, and then we drop.
ped it into the laps of those who hatch
ed itas an unfit thing to be held up to
the public view. Wherever this course
was taken the party either relatively
held its own or made gains, and may
therefore be assumed to have beon a
proper policy. Yet with cool etfront-
cry the Patriot declares "in no other
platform is victory possible or desird.
ole I" Not desirable, except with the
18th and 10Th amendments-no de.
sira6Ie except with the surrender of the
State right to regulate sufrrage Not
desirable except with negro suffrage
A most apt illustration of the Patriots
Democracy
That any editor who attends to his
business had not the time TO hunt up the
charges and furnish the proof Of theil
truth that ought to have been made
against the Radicals, and that few ii
any of them could afford the expense
personally, is 80 patent that it is con-
fession of guilt to attempt to screen the
committee for not having done it by
putting the duty upon the editors. A
great many of these charges were made
by the editors, but were recklessly de.
MED by the Radical press. In the alb
sence of documentary proof, which
should have been furnished by the
committee, which side was to be 5eliev-
ed by the public? Certainly nobody
would want to bear the sneer that
would be occasioned by quoting the
Patriot as authority.
Our sole object in writing the stric.
lures we have printed heretofore is to
endeavor to induce the party to place
one of its ablest and most unselfish
champions at the head of the State
committee, believing that victory is
within our grasp if the public be thor
oughly aroused to all the consequences
at stake, and it will require much more
than the denunciations of wise trick
sters or their parasites to drive us from
that purpose.