The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-27
BUCHAIIfE"y
HIS SLANDEREERI,SS ANSWERREDI
4 FULL AND COMPLETE REPUTATION.
HIS LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
His Votes, His Acts and His Speeches.
"UHERE 4RE U-E NOW:,,

"UHEEE IRE U-E NOU?"
No public man who has ever been a can
didate for Office has been SO meanly and
foully slandered as has the Hon. Charles
II. Buckalew, and all for one purpose, viz
dishonesty and corruption Of his competi-
tor, John f. Haltranft, and the thieving
rings with which he is surrounded.
As an answer to the falsehoods that have
been circulated of late i'll regard to his
record, votes, etc, we submit the follow
ing sketch, and commend it to the atten-
ton of all III favor of honesty and reform:
''Principles, not men,, is an oft repeated
political. ma Kim. But what are good princi-
pies woltA III the hands of bad men? The
maxim that should be laid down and fol
lowed in these times is, ''Good principles
and coed men to enforce them 1t was
this truth that led to the nomination of the
Hon. Charles X. BuCkalew for the Office Of
Governor Of Pennsylvania.
HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION
Nr. Buckalcw was born in Columbia
county, Pennsylvania, Oh the 2Sth of De-
cembcr, 1921, and is consequently now III
his fifty year. In common with many
of the most distinguished men of the coun-
try. he is, in the stIictest sense of the term,
Il sclf-made man. His education, 50 far as
it depended on the assistance of his tutors,
was began in the common school and COM
pleted at Harvard academy, in Susquehan-
na county. After leaving school he was
several years engaged i'll teaching, and
while thus employed, was fitting himself
for the graver tasks and higher positions
of his Subsequent life. lhe bent of his
mind inclining him to the legal profession,
he studied law with NJ. +. Jackson, Esq,
of Berwick and was admitted to the bar
of Columbia county, III August, 1913 1t
was quickly perceived thc he had not mis-
taken his pursuit. Capacity, industry, and
integrity soon opened for hlm the road TO
success.
ON the 7th Of February, 1889, he was
married To PaImela, daughter of Rev. T..
Wadsworth, of Town Hall, LuZenc county.
Noevent of his life has contributed SO much
to his good fortune rs this happy marriage.
Carefully trained III Christian doctrine and
duties, and becoming in her youth com
municant ofthc Methodist Episcopal church
she has, by temper in which natural ami
ability and religious devotion are beauti-
fully blended, constantly chcerCd and
strengthened her husband and amid all
the varied scenes of private and public
duty in which he has been an actor, at home
audabroad she has cen his epaIable com
paniOn. When not absent from the cOuIl-
I try the family, consisting of the parents
and two children, has resided at Blooms
burg, Columbia county and if tie esteem
i'll which each and all are held by their life
long neighbOrS could determine the matter,
there would lie no room for dcubt as to the
result of the present contest for the chief
mag gistraCy of the COmnunHt a'th.
HE ENTERS PUBLIC LIFE.
In 1S45, Mr.. Buckalcw was appointed
| prosecuting attorney for Columbia county,
and after dischaTglng the duties of the
| Office with marked efficiency for two years
! lac voluntarily resigned. In 1850 lac was
| elected State Senator for three years, and
! was reelected in 1898. In 1884 he was ap-
pointed 10y the President of the United
| States special commissioner to exchange
Publications of the treaty with the Republic
of Paraguay. Although affairs had then
become somewhat complicated between
the two governments, he performed the
duty of his appointment with entire salts
faction to both countries. Returning in
safety from this long and perilOus voyage,
9 he was chosen Presidential elcctOr, from
his senatorial district, III the fall of 1886.
In 1851 he was third time elected to
the State Senate and in the winter of that
year was appointed by the Governor, and
! confirmed by the Senate, as one of a com
mission of three to revise the criminal laws
of the State.
| HE RENDERS IMPORTANT SERVICE TO THE
STATE.
! Mr.. Buckalew was an acknowledged lead
| er of his party in the State Senate. and was
prominent and influential in the advocacy
| of questions Of reform, and Of all attempts
to secure equal, just, and beneficient legis
! lation. lie was the author of the act,
passed during the session of 1854 and still
subsisting, which prohibits the sale of III
! toxicating drinks to the insane, to minors
and to persons of known Incorporate hab
its, and prohibits the celebration of the
marriage ceremony when either of the par
ties is III state of intoxication. The pen
altieS annexed to the violation of this law
are fine and imprisonment ; and any mem
Der of the immediate family, or other rela.
tive of an Incorporate person, may forbid
any liquor seller To furnish to such iutOxica-
ting drink. He was also the author of most
of the constitutional amendments that were
proposed at the session of the general as
sembly in 1857. AS examples of these ma,
be instanced that which prohibits the con
tracing of any new state debt exceeding
the incurring of municipal indebtedness
by subscriptions of stocks or loans of crsdit
to incorporated companies; that which
provides for the creation of a sinking fund
for the payment of tho existing state debt
and that which prevents the division o
counties except by the popular consent eX-
pressed at an election held for the purpose
of ascertaming the popular Wall.
REFORM IN REPRESENTATION.
On the question OF cumulative or free
! voting he has long cherished profound III
terest and is the author of several lOca
! acts fayoring that mode of election, and oI
the general statute which applies tile prin
ciple of the free vote to lie election O
| Councilmen i'll all the boroughs OF the State
subject to general laws. But upon 10 ques
ton of State policy has be manifested st
much concern as that Of Constitutional re