Slit grtlfortl ('Vasttic. Friday Morning-, September 7, ISflO. Damocratic and National Union Nominations. STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Hon, HIESTER CLYIER, OF BERKS COUNTY. DISTRICT TICKET. FOR CONGRESS, J. MoD. SHARPE, of Franklin co'y. FOB SENATOR, B. F. MEYERS, of Bedford county. . FOR ASSEMBLY, HIRAM FINDLAY, of Somerset eo. COUNTY TICKET. PROTHQXOTARY, O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, ItOBT. STECKM AN, of Bloody Run. ASSOCIATE AC DUE, GEORGE W. GI MP, of Napier. COMMISSIONER, DAVID HOWSARE, of Southampton POOR DIRECTOR, MICHAEL DIEHL. of Colerain. AUDITOR, JOHN D. LUCAS, of Bloody Run. I Oil ANSEMBGY. We are authorued to announce Col. John 11. FiCer of Be If >r I county, as an independent can (l 1 ite for Assonb'y. "abject to the decision of the people on the second Tuesday of October next. a he a'!imbcr. A CAMPAIGN PAPER. The* undersigned are publishing '' campaign paper entitled "The Climh er," the first number of which was issued on the 711 of July inst., and which will be continued until the Gub ernatorial election in October. This publication is devoted, to the-1 support of President Johnson's Resto- ; ration Policy and the election ol such candidates as are openly in favor of sus- j finning that policy. It contains six teen columns of matter and is filled with racy editorials and the spiciest , articles of the campaign. No conser vative politician should be without it. It will be embellished with POR TRAITS OF PRESIDENT JOHN SON, Hon. HI ESTER CLYMEIt and other eminent patriots and statesmen, and will contain a number of humerous : political illustrations. REDUCED TERMS: Ten copies to one mHrfifls, cash in advance, $o 00 Twenty " " " ' •> '''* Lees than ten copies toone ad iress. 40 cts per c>py. Get up your clubs and send in your orders at once. No attention paid to any order unless accompanied by the cash. Persons getting up clubs should be particular to specify in their orders the name of the person to whom they wish the package addressed, as till the papers in the club will be sent to one person for distribution. Address, MIIYERS & M ENGEL, Bedford, Pa. subvert the law of the land as decided by the Supreme Court of the State. They are striving to resist the right of thousands of citizens to exercise the privilege of voting. They aim at the disfranchisement of a large portion of the people upon the pretext that they are guilty of an offence of which they have not only never been convicted, but for which they have not been, and never will be, tried. These new Reb els against the laws, these despicable enemies to the freedom of the white man, had better not undertake to put their contemplated fraud into practice. They must remember that the law is a gainst them; the highest judicial tribu nal in the State has declared that no man run he deprived of his right to rote, simply because his name is found on o Provost Marshal's list of "Deserters.'" The Supreme Court has decided that a man must have been tried for and con victed of desertion, and the punish ment of disfranchisement adjudged by the proper tribunal, before he can he de prived of the right to vote as being a deserter. That Court has also further decided that Judges of Election cannot try am-tn for desertion, but arc bound to (at:* bis vote, unless evidence of his con viction as a deserter and tlit? adjudica tion of the penalty of disfranchisement by the pro/n r tribunal , iti iiis case, are laid before them. Hence, we warn all election boardsagainst lieing influenced by the foul schemes of t he Radical Reb els who are plotting to overturn the laws of the State. We say it in all ear nestness and with a full determination to make good our words, EVERY E LE("IT UN OFFICER WHO WILL DISFRANCHISE ANY SO-CALL ED DESERTER WHO IS OTHER WISE QUALIFIED TO VOTE, WILL BE PUNISHED TO THE UT MOST EXTENT OFTIIE LAW. (iK.Mtv madca -|K><>< h at Hunting don on the tli uit., in which he used the following language: "I have been asked whether I would ttyn traitor iike Andrew Johnson, be- | cause i was a Democrat. I will make noplcfbjcs, as pledg & make no dill'er- j eiice." That is to say, Geary, the" Democrat, j without prefix or affix," as he styled : himself in his Maguire letter, willturn traitor to Ue "Republican" party if it profits him to do so. Should the De mocracy get into power, Geary expects ; to hang on to its skirts, llenee lie "will make no pledges." If that is satisfac tory to "Republicans," we have no right to complain. EARTHQUAKES! TItIJIP. TROII'. TRAMP. THE BOYS are marching. Fuion. Pence and Elberty ! Grand Popular Deinonslmtian in Fa vor of Restoration! By tin* Eternal, the Cnlon Must and Shall be Preserved I" I>eot or ruts. Kepnhlieans and Hie Peo ple generally in Council! Elnroln's Pimtmaster General. lion. JfoMtKomery lilair, Makes a Great Speech in Favor of the Right! It.'liealisin and In Its Collin! The largest political gathering that j ever assembled in Bedford, was held in the Public Square, in front of the j Court House, oil Monday evening last, j Sept. :M. Notwithstanding the fact that the day had been inclement, the rain pouring down all afternoon, large delegations, gotten up by the people themselves, without any drumming from the town as was the ease with the Radical meeting on Tuesday evening, came filing into the town until the streets were literally jammed with people. A stand was erected in front of the Court House, and the vast as semblage gathered in the square im mediately opposite. We will not pre tend to give an estimate of the num bers present, but the oldest citizens as sure us that it was the largest po litical meeting ever held in Bed ! ford. The meeting was organized by ! the appointment of Hon. .IDS. B. NO BLE, of South Woodberrv, President; Maj. L. Taliaferro, Samuel Reighard, Capt. T. 11. Lyons, Capt. S. S. Metzgar, Richard Langdon, Win. Faster, John K. Hedges, Jeremiah Thompson, B. ! F. Morgart, Geo. W. Deal, W . S. Bee ! gle, Tiios. Fislier, Adam /.embower, t ' Geo. Eider, Geo. W. Horn, Geo. Steel i W. A. Grove, Isaac Ivensinger, Geo Roades, Wm. Keyscr, Win. Gillespie, J.C. Devore, Daniel Fletcher, George Vonstine, John Sill, Emanuel Stat ler, Christian Darr, 1). A. T. Black, Christian Myers, Homer Noice, Geo. Ba ugh man Jar. Waiter, Sam't Beck lev, J.G. Hartley, Andrew Mortimore, I * - | Tims. Dona hoe, John Cavender, Au | thony Clingeriuan, \Y. B. Lamhright, ; Sam'l Duhhs, Thus. C. lleighard, W. ; M. Pearson, Simon Brumbaugh, John I S. Brumbaugh, John Ditiner, and Jas. Sill, Henry F. Smith, Lawrence Defi baugh, John Wills, Lieut. John Nelson Saml. Diehl, and Peter F. Lehman, Sce | retaries. I HON. J. MCDOWELL SIIARPE, of Chanibersburjr. was then imr/Muecd Mr. Sh rpe made a most chaste, elo i quent ami argumentative address, i which was enthusiastically received by i the audience. A man of talent and education, he made a decided impres sion. As the Democratic candidate for Congress, lie will make a most excel lent run in every community in which ! his eloquent voice is heard. After the I conclusion of his speech, a rousing : cheer went up for J. McDowell Sharpe, the next Congressman from this dis i trict. : The Bedford Democratic Brass Band 1 then escorted HON. MONTGOMERY | BLAIIt, Postmaster General under j Mr. Lincoln, to the stand, who was in | troduced as the next speaker. .Mr. Blair made a speech replete with argu ment and containing statementsof vast j importance to all who desire to make j up their minds honestly in regard to | the great issues before the people at the i coming election. Among other tilings j Mr. Blair said that Thad. Stevens' poi | icy was embodied in a bill passed by ; Congress in .Mr. Lincoln's time, which | was gotten up by Ren. Wade and 11. Winter Davis. This bill, said Mr. Blair, Mr. Lincoln )>ut in his pocket and kept it there without his approval, but issued | a proctamafion declaring that hi could j not endorse H. 51 r. Blair then appealed to all Lincoln men to stand by Presi i dent Johnson's policy, as it was iden i tieal with that of .Mr. Lincoln. Many old Lincoln Republicans went away I satisfied that it was their duty to stand !by President Johnson. Mr. Rlair wa j loudly cheered during his speech and ! at it- end the applause was deafenim*. i I i The meeting was further addresses! ! by HON. A. 11. 00 FF ROT 11, of Som erset, and R. F. MEYERS. (Jen. Cof froth made a very able and logical j •peech, which was received vvi*h great i applause by in- hearers. (Jen. C'ofi'roth is working hard for the Democratic cause, as he hits always done, and the Democracy honor him for Hi— noble ef forts. During the speaking the large crowd ! remained standing, though the grouud was very wet and occasionally a driz zling rain de-cendt*l. We never saw so attentive an audience before in all our life. The people seem to ie in ear nest and determined to stand up for the ' right. The ladies were also out in. force and graced with theirpresemv the splendid scene of upturned faces. J. (J. Fisher, Ivsy Maj. Geo. 11. NY. 8 LOCUM. Now, Uen.SLOUUM, dea ry's oldeommander, Gen. NYi LLIA MS of tie* Ist Division, (Jen. *\VA RD, of tho;{T SU R VIV E Tll IS Si IA MEL ESS DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR AND RACE; THERE MUST BE PERFECT EQUALITY BEFORE TIIE LAW." Who wants more to convince hitn? NOW I'OK TIIE NIEH : Every man who clings to the Radical party stands on Thad. Stevens' plat form, announced on Tuesday night last— NEGRO EQUALITY. This is now beyond dispute. STATE SEN ATOR. We take pleasure in announcing the nomination of our friend B. F. Meyers, editor of the B. r irtt Ci ulll niiu .ntinuMi unm candidate for the State Senate in the Fulton, Bedford and Somerset district. Mr. Meyers has served with distinc tion in the House of Representatives, and is widely known as a man of abili ty and of sound constitutional princi j pies.— Gettysburg Compiler. The impatient haste with which John T. Richards rushed to the betrayal of his own party in this county, and the selling out of his party'.-? unanimous choice for Senator, is rendered more naked and shameless in its baseness by the fact that he and his conferees re i muinrd in Bedford until after the Serui j (orialnomination was made —though his pitiful excuse for hurrying on his nom ination WILS, that he waited longenough and enuldidf iruil any long r [f Ricli ards should ever get into the Legisla j ture, who doubts that he would sell j out the dearests interests of his con- j I stituents, or Fulton county itself, if ' thereby he could advance; his own sel ■ fish interests.— Fulton Democrat. THKIIK ran IK 1 no mistaking theissue of the day—Union or no Union. It is not difficult for a man to decide for the Union, if lie only throws aside his prej udices against the people of the South. The rMtels of the South fought for dis union, and shall we now gratify them by the ballot, after we have defeated them by the bullet? The honest peo ple of tin; South want to get back into the Union, and they are only the secret traitors in the South who aid the Radi cals because they know them to bcDis unionists. They are the Unionists of the South now who met in the Phila delphia Convention, and they will be the Jlisunionists of the South who will meet in the Radical Convention in the same place on the lid of September next.— Huntingdon (i'/übe. Chi uott, Radical, has not been elec ted a delegate to Congress from Colo rado, as fal-ely stated by some of the Disunion papers. Hunt, Democrat, was alvad at the last accounts. His majority is stated by the telegraph to he ;:0. ( lost, but enough to elect. Col orado has heretofore given about 1,">00 to 2,000 Republican majority. Tine National Union Party is "weep ing over the whole Union like the bright sun in a cloudless day. This is tin- last year of Radical Republicanism. The platform is giving way-—we don't Intend to lie hurt when it falK--Hun tingdon Gtobe. OSIY SEVKM JIII-UOSN. . For Klift, < tin* voted nearly Seven Hill ion* <>r llollur* to *uj jMirl tile I'reedoien'* lliireaii. AH Follow* : For Officers and Expenses of Officers—for N"i groes, £ 332,3(30 00 For Clothing and Fire wood—for Nkgkoes, 1,185,9(X> 00 For Provisjeas and Medi cine—for NEOROKs, 3,606,250 00 For Railroad and other Fare—for nkg hobs, 1,320,000 (X) For Asylums and School Houses—for XEGItOKS, 500,000 00 TOTAL, $6,944,450 00 Pennsylvania pays about one-oigth of the taxes of the country. Her share of this, for the present year, is about $850,000 on. She has never polled more votes than about FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOU SAND. This gives each voter to pay for LA- j j ZY NEGROES, in 1866, about ONE | DOLLAR AKD A HALF. | The Tax Collector does not call for this money, but you PAY IT TO THE | STOREKEEPER on the goods that : you use. The Government imposes duties on j SI'GA R, COFFEE, TEA, and all oth-. er articles, of daily use. j YOU MUST HAVE TIIEM, and ! you are M VDE TO PAY to keep up j the FUEKDMKN'S BUREAU, by | your Coffee, Tea and Sugar being dear ! er; and your children must go bare footed, and your wife have fewer dress es, so that THE NEGRO MAY BE KEPT IN IDLENESS. I A Did they ever vote any money to keep the POOR WHITE MAN ? Why have they flooded the country with As.-es-ors and Tax gatherers to SUCK OUT THE SAVINGS OF EV : ERY HOUSEHOLD? Why are the people taxed, and : THEIR lIA RT> EAItNINOSTAKEN FROM THEM, to keep up this unne- ! cessary cloud of officers, when the j whole could as well be collected through the State and County Officers. THE NATIONAL DEBT MUST | BE FA 11 ), and as it increases, the in- ■ terest to be paid, increases. As debt and interest increases, TAX ATION INCREASES. increase of debt to the Government means increase of toil, and IN CREASE OF LABOR TO POOR WHITE MEN. It is the question of the comfort of every boy and girl, of every wife and mother, and affects the ability of every father to provide food and raiment for his wife and children. CONGRESS HAS INCREASED ; ITS OWN PAY for the last Session almost TWICE what it was when it FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DO LL A IIS of your money are s wallo w ed up. EECISEATJ VE t'O VI EREXCE. The Deniocraticconfereeafbrthe Leg islative district composed of the coun ties of Bedford, Fulton and Somerset, , " met at the Bedford Hutal, iu Baiiford, on Saturday, Sept. !. The following conferees were present: Bedford —M ij. Law. Tadaferro, John Sill and Lewis Salipp. Fallon— Not! tep r<.-sen let 1. Somerstl —James Wigle, G. 11. Heff ley. On motion Maj. L. Taliaferro was ap pointed President and G. B. Hefliey, Secretary. On motion, adjourned till 6 o'clock p.m., to await the arrival of the Fulton conferees. SECOND Sl-XBION. Conference met pursuant to adjourn ment. On motion, IL>N. IIIRAM FINDLAY, of Somerset, was unani mously nominated as one of the candi dates for Representative in the Legisla ture. roR CO A R CF.n T S A XI) B XII IB ITIuNS, . ARE UNSURPASSED. j 0:1 motion the Conference adjourned i sine die. 1,. TA LI AFKRBO, . Sharpe, B. P. Meyers, and Hon. A. 11. Ooffroth. Mr. Sharpe made a most excellent speech, and was loudly cheer ed. Mr. Ooffroth made one of his best efforts, and everything passed off splen didly. Old Berlin will give a rousing Democratic majority this fall. II\R ON ST INTO\. The Bedford Inquirer lias a cut bor- j rowed from the Franklin Repository, 1 which that office borrowed from King j A Baird, Philadelphia, illustrating the I j sufferings at Andersonville, as com pa- ' [red with those of Jeff. Davis. It is too I bad that the lnquirer should "go back" on its friend Stanton in this style. Stanton wouldn't exchange the Union j prisoners at Andersonville, hut let them remain thereto starve and die. But the Bedford Inquirer ought not to print such caricatures of his complici ty with WTrz. Why should it libel its own friends? TUK price of the Campaign "Climb er" has been reduced to* correspond with the length of time for which the series is yet to run. There ought to bo at least 500 additional copies circulated in this county. As the subscription price is now almost nominal, the Item- • ocrats in the various districts can easi ly raise contributions to enable us to circulate 500 additional copies. Lett this be done, if possible. THE DESERTER LAW. E* ays the Fulton Democrat, Col. A. K. MeClure, who in the hey-dey of Radical power played dignifiedly and majestically "on the great moral idea" string, has, like Greeley, since the clouds of political desperation and hopelessness have begun to gather a round Radical aspirations, got down to the character of a low demagogue. 1I is out in this week's Repository in a raw-head and bloody-bones article in- I tended to upset common sense and the ' decision of the Supreme Court, and i frighten Democrats who fall under the j ban of the null, void, iniquitous and • unconstitutional "Deserter I jaw," from | their just right of suffrage! Does Me- Clure take u- Democrats all to be so j downright soft about the cranium as to ( pay the slightest heed in the world t* 1 ins senseless clamor? Dots anybody ; really think wo were born in the woods ;to be frightened by this Repository ! owl ? We know just thus much about the decision of the Supreme Court in the deserter case of Huber vs. lteilly. We know that that decision went right to the marrow and essence of the whole question. Briefly stated, it is thus:— The forfeiture of the right of suffrage "must be adjudged to the convicted person, after trial by a court martial and sentence approved" Under no other circumstances can the forfeiture become effectual. We know also tha: this same princi ple laid down by the Supreme Court applies equally (for it is rudimental and e--"dial in its character; to the Aa ni Assembly triumphantly refer r<>! to by MeClure, and equally to any other A sof Assembly that have been or ma.." >c passed relating to the sub ject. Buf that Act of Assembly is void j and dead for another reason; it is clear- I ly, unquestionably an ex pod facto law. | But why be led into a discussion over j the rotten carcass of this misbegotten i spawn of Radical injustice and malev i 1 olence? Let it rest in the dishonored ! grave to which an upright judiciary has consigned it. It is more to the point to say that, u~e don't intend to be cheated out of a single rote this fall, by i this Radical deserter swindle! We shall treat every officer of election who refuses a vote on that ground as an en emy to the sacred right of suffrage—as a violator of the law —and we shall hoi him responsible accordingly. That i all. GRANT ALL RIGHT.—Major GeneraT ! Grant, it will be seen by reading the | President's speech, stands "shou'der to snouiaer *virn JrUvsident Johnson. The Radicals can claim any General they may, but such solid men as Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, know very well j what the war was for, and how the I South should be treated now that it has j been subdued. The same position as taken by General Grant is being taken by a large majority of the solid Union officers and soldier*. You cannot get a | true Union soldier, unless he is of the I Thad. Stevens school of politicians, to i denounce President Johnson, but you ! can get any number to denounce Cong ! ress for its radical course against peace and harmony.— lluntlnq IIKXRY WARD RKECIIER has left | the "Republican" party because it is I now controlled by men who are deter mined to keep ten States out of the j Union, lie lias written a letter ex plaining his position. lie thinks that all good men ought to stand by the ' President. MRS. HAXXAH RIDKXBAI:H, wife of WM. RIDEXOAUDii, Esq., formerly ; of this county, long Clerk of the Buch anan-County Circuit Court, died at St. j Josephs, M0.,0n Friday morning, Aug. 17th, of typhoid fever. She was a la dy of much energy in good works, and ■ greatly esteemed in the social circles in i which slie moved. i . SACRAMENTAL SERVICES will bo held in the M. E. Church, in this place, on next Sabbath, (9th inst.) at ltd a. m. /lAI.I. AND SEE <'CR STOCK I J OF STOCKS, TINWARE. AC R. 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