The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-03
POLITICAL SCRAPS.

he is a Republican, and in the same
breath declares his purpose to vote Tor
Greeley, may be marked as one VINO
has the willingness to join the Dem
ocratic party without the courage to
do so openly.
"Thcy have mortified the ilcsh,
they have put on sackcloth and ashes,
walked on broken bottles they have
bowed their heads in u mud-puddle,
and cried: 'Let us vote for Horace
Greeley" This is what the Chicago
Post says of the Democracy.
A pure Copperhead ticket is that
nominated by the Democrats at Read
ing. Charles X. Buckalew went to
the United States Senate in 1862, and
throughout the war was an outspOken
sympathizer with rebellion. james
Thompson was on the Supreme Bench
of Pennsylvania and was one Of the
Judges who decided that soldiers
fighting for their country had noright
to vote. William Hartley was an
outspoken, bitter Coppcrhead all
through the war. A more thoroughly
Copperhead ticket could not have
been found in the Statc.-Bedford
Inquirer.
Truth will come out once in while,
even in this age of deception and lies
Thus the Augusta (Ga.) Constitution,
which comes out strong for Greeley,
says in II late leading article: eff
we were able to select for the head of
our columns the name that would
come nearest being the exponent of
our opinions, we would place there
Jefferson Davis" Let the Greeleyites
make n note of the above expression,
which is the true expression of the
late rebels They will vote for Gree
ley because they can't vote for Davis,
Greeley being in their mind next to
JEFF.
"Yes," said a prominent Democratic
politician in Philadelphia the other
day, 'the order has gone forth. The
great Democratic party is to surrender
its principles and organization to a
squad of disappointed Office seeking
Republicans. Buckalew is to be
Governor and Greeley is TO be Presi-
dent. The Government of Pennsvl- !
vania is to be run upon opium and /
that Of the United States upon Gra-
ham bread and Fourierism. For /
myself | would not vote in October !
were it not certain that some accom-
modating Democratic repeater would |
vote for me. As it is / will vote of
necessity for Hartranft, to rebuke the |
POLITICAL hucksters who have sold US
out"
Boy" said passenger on board /
river steamboat, in the days of sla-
very, "whose boy are you! "Wall,
sab, dunno masters in dar playin'
poker, and its mighty unsartin who
dis chile long to until dc game is play
ed out" Such is the position in
which the Democracy now find them
selves. Their leaders end managers
are now in the midst of game" on
the result of which depends the exis-
tence of the party, and ''its mighty
unsartin,' who the rank and file 'long
to, until the game is played out" at
Baltimore
The Pottsville Miners Journal has
the following editorial, evidently from
the pen of the veteran journalist,
Benjamin BANNER: "COl. Mcclure
is out in 4 card in the Press stating
that he did not say that Col. For
ney would support Greeley. Those
who know Col. Mcclure as politi-
clan care but little what he saws but
e, re ,,;:;. assert ,, that Horace Greeley. when
a short time before the Cincinnati
declared to as that Col.
F0rney tcouid not support Gen. Grant
for reelection. And he gave US his
reasons for the declaration and For
news course since seems to confirm
the truth of what Horace Greeley
said. His apparent support now we
firmly believe is nothing but disguised
hostility to Grant, which he dare not
openly avow without immediate de-
struction to the Press, which is al
ready rapidly sinking"
This man Hartly, the Democratic
for Auditor General, must
have been one of the most violent
Copperheads in Pennsylvania during
the war. Besides being arrested for
giving aid and comfort to the
rebel raiders on our border, he was
once soundly thrashcd for his vile SEN
timents by the editor of the Holli-
daysburg Register The editor in
last weeks issue says:
THE allusion of the Huntingdon,
NonitOr to rencountcr between Wm. ;
Hartley and the editor of this paper,
during the rebellion, is unfortunate
for its candidate for Auditor General.
Hartley and the editor of this paper I
had discussion in store room in
that place Hartley aiding and SYM
pathizing with the rebels, the editor
vi tiiS paper lihiiS liIc HiOl Slut,
high words were the result, and Hart
ley struck at us. We immediately ,
grappled with him, threw him upon
the floor, and planted quite num-
ber of well directed blows into his
stomach, when we were pulled OF
him, Hartley painting for the breath
we had knocked out of him. We ]
were not kicked by him nor hurt in
the least. This statement of the fact .
is well known to be true in Bedford. =
1t all was OccasiOned on account of
the sympathy of Hartley for the re-
bells, and hi. hatred for the Union :
cause"
When man signs his name III. q.
Smith it isn't always safe to ask him
if his name is Horace Greeley" An
irascible Democrat, who was asked
that question, returned for an answer,
DO you think my parents were id
fools sir? My name is Horace Gates
Smith, sir !''-EransriHe Journal