Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-23
PENNSYLVANIA.

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PENNSYLVANIA.
Among the most important State cleo
tions which are to come of during the
next month, is that of Pennsylvania,
which takes place on the 8tl of October.
The choice is for governor and other
State officers. and also for members of
Congress. The campaign has already
opened in lively manner, and will be
prosecuted on both sides With the ut
most vigor. Gen. Hartra1ft, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor, is a
brave and patriotic officer, who served
with distinction in the amies of the
Union during the war of the rebellion.
His opponent, Mr.. Buckalew, on the
other hand, was opposed to the cause of
the government during that struggle,
and did what he could in a safe and
prudent way to give public comfort to
the secessionists. His record as an anti
war Democrat is we'll known to the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania, and especially the
association of his name with Gree
ley's Niagara Falls labors Ill behalf of
the rebels. Both of the candidates
stand we'll with their respective parties,
although some personal opposition
AGAINST Gen. Hartranft has heon mani
tested by men of his own party in com
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auditor general of the State, in expos
ing and prosecuting certain parties who
had plundered the State treasury.
The course of Gen. Hartranft in this
regard, and knowledge that as Gov
ernor of the State he w,uld insist upon
carrying these prosecutions through,
has aroused the guilty parties to bitter
hostility against him, and they have
assailed him with false and scandalous
charges for the purpose of driving him
from the field. But he has been fully
vindicated by one of the most upright
and distinguished lawyers of the State.
b. IL. Brewster, Esq. of Philadelphia,
who was attorney general of the State
during most of the time while Hartranft
was auditory general. Mr. Brewster
says he never knew better or more
faithful public officer than Gen. Hart
ranft. Under these circumstances it is
not supposed the malignant attacks of
his personal enemies will have any eff
feet to diminish his vote in the coming
election. On the other hand, the con-
sequences will probably be that much
warmer sympathy and zeal will be arous-
ed in his behalf in the minds of his par
ty friends by this unjust attempt to in
jure his political prospects AT the no.
BILE gathering of his fellow-soldlers and
companion-in-arms, at Pittsburgh, his
appearance was hailed with the most
gratifying demonstrations of enthusiasm
and attachment, and we may safely
judge from that indication that those
who know him best give no credit to
the false reports against him, which his
personal enemies have manufactured for
political effect.
The detection in the Republican ranks
In consequence of the Greeley coalition
will amount to little or nothing in this
State, and will probably be even less
than the recent elections in Vermont
and Maine have shown it to be in those
States. A very minute and careful in
vestigation of the actual strength of the
so-called Liberal Republican vote in
Maine shows that it has only about sew
en- hundred in the whole State, or less
than one percent. of the whole Republi-
can strength. The same ratio in Penn.
sylvania would make the Liberal Re-
publican vote of that State somewhere
about three thousand, loss to Hartman
# which will be doubly made up by
gains from dissatisfied Democrats who
have become thoroughly disguised with
the breaking up of their party by the
Greeley coalition.
! Information from reliable sources in va.
rious parts of the State, and particular
ly in the western counties, as well as in
the city Of Philadelphia, show that for
every Republican who will vote for Gree
| ley there will be two Democrats who
will vote for Grant. This feeling is
/ also carried into the State election: fo,
the opponents of the Greeley coalition
are fully aware of the Importance that
will be attached to the result of the DC.