The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-09-26
MOREDEMOCRATICO OPINION
MR.. BUCXALEW.
He is Not a Candidate Loyal Men Can
Support.

1t is truly wonderful that a man with
record like that possessed by Charles
Il. Buckalew should have the effrontery
to ask loyal and honest men to cast their
votes for him. We do not consider it
our province to say anything about his
personal reputation or habits, or to criti-
else his well known uDgubernatorial ap-
pearance but it is our duty, as well as
our pleasure, to condemn his political re-
cord, and to express our wonder at the
cool impudence of the man in conseutng
to run as the Democratic candidate for
Governor-and we have the more salts
faction in doing so because our local con
temporary, the Press, and other partially
Republican papers have, in carrying out
their programme to defeat General Hart
rantt, carefully refrained from saying
word In opposition to his competition
Mr.. BuckaIew has not a single claim up
on the sutfrages or the sympathy of tite
people of the Commonwealth. His re.
cord during the rebellion was most obnox-
ious to patriots, most diSgraceful to him
self, and we are not yet willing either to
forget his alliliation with traitors, nor to
grasp his hand across the bloody chasm
of which his friends have so much to say.
lie Is, we are aware, striving By sophistry
and eloquence to excuse his many mis-
deeds, but he has been so many years be.
fore the public as an Office holder that it
is useless for him to try to convince the
voters of the State that he is any more
loyal, patriotic, honest or consistent than
they have given him credit for. There
is not a Penusy sylvanian who shouldered
his musket in defense of his country who
does not remember Mr. BuckaIew as
determined opponent of all measures pre-
sented for the suppression of the rebel
lion, and there is not citizen who, dur
ing the war, aided with his money and
voice in securing the restoration of the
republic, who does not regard him as one
of the most bigoted adversarics they had
to encounter. He, as United States
Senator, opposed every measure tending
to the suppression Of the rebellion he
lmpeded, in every possible way, the work
OF reconstruction, except upon terms ac
ceptable to the traitors he opposed every
measure calculated to secure the political
and civil rights Of the colored people he
opposed financial measures which were
necessary to secure stability and con
fteuce and to protect the national credits
and he proved himself renegade Penn
sylvauian by voting uniformly against
protection to American industry.
Examination in detail shows how out
rageously this chronic seeker after office
and tricky Democratic partisan misrepre
sented loyal State during the war, and
proves how totally lost he is to all dc.
cency and honor. When he became a
candidate for State Senator he ran in a
district the majority of the people in
which approved of his political course,
but when be presumed to the nomination
for the chief magistracy Of the Common
wealth, even Democrats who could not
conscientiously indorse his past senti-
ments, held up their hands in astonish-
ment at his impudence. -Four years be-
fore the day of nomination some of the
prominent leaders of the Democracy had
declined to be considered on terms of in
timacy with him, among them Senators
Wallace and Randall but so powerful
are the bonds that unite Democrats when
they run for Office, that now his late
enemies combine with his friends in their
endeavors to secure his election And |
we have before US the disgraceful fact |
that laboring with this Democratic com
bination is The Press, journal which |
owes its present financial status to the
support given it by the Republican par
iy, and which pledged itself to support
Gen. Hartranit, ga good soldier and
worthy man." if he was selected by the
State Convention, but which, on account
)f personal reasons, after the convention
vas held, falsifed its pledge, aud has been
aborng since to elect Mr.. BuckaIew
As an Office seeker Mr.. Buckalew has
lad no reason to complain of Lack of sue
,ess. From early manhood to the pre-
'ent time he has been an obseq quious sup
,licant for favors from his political friends,
md from the National and State treasures
lave been transferred to his gaping pock
It's ten ofthousands Of dollars Asanec
'mist aud an honorable (?) State lcgisla-
or be has a record, too, which has only
. be Investigated to show how much the
Commonwealth has suffered by his pre-
ence in the Legislature We have not
low the space to display in their enor-
nifty his many Objectionable an obnox
Gus acts during his career at Harrisburg,
'ut one in particular is still fresh in the
minds Of the people of this city, that
wherein, by his chicanery aud disregard
# obligations assumed, he nullifed the
otes of the large majority of the citizens
If the Fourth district, and at an expense
# nearly S27 coo, for the purpose of Civ.
ne his party controlling influence in
he Senate, gave the succession to Re
publican migrate and disorgauizer,
As the patron Of what was known as
he Fishing Greek Confederacy, a com
'iuation OF his Democratic fellow citizens
rganized for the announced purpose Of