at4er bral2am. INDEPENDENT AND PECKiIiESSIVE LANCASTER CITY, t'A - - FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1809 Economy, Retrenchment, Faithful Collection of the Revenue and Payment of the Pnblic Debt.—GAAN T OUR BANNER! REPUBLICAN STATE NOMINATIONS For lioTernor, GEN. JOHN W. GEARY. For Judge of the Supreme Court, HON. HENRY W. WILLIAMS. OF ALLICtIkIENY COrNTY CAMPAIGN OF 1869. GE ARY, WILLIAMS AND VICTORY! FATHER ABRAHAM FOR THE CAMPAIGN. NOW IS THE TIME TO SITEt4CRIBE For the pnrpoee of placing this popular cam paign paper as far as possible in the hands of every voter, we offer the following LOW RA TES OF SURSORIPTION, from the 6th of August next until after the October election. One copy $ 40 Viva copies, (to one address) 1 50 Ten copies, 4, ~ 2 50 And twenty-five cents for every additional sub scriber to the club q ten. SIX MONTH SUBSCRIPTIONS AS FOLLOWS: One copy, six months, .$, 75 Fire copies, six months, . 3 25 Ten copies, six months .. 6 00 Fifteen copies, six months, S 25 Twenty copies, six months,.. 10 00 And fifty cents for each additional subscriber over twenty, with an extra copy to getter up of the club. PIT SCHWEFFLEBRENNER, ESQ., Will contribute bib popular letters weekly SEND IN THE CLUBS tar 411 au bBeriptionz must be paid in advance Address, RANCH Zir, COCHRAN, Lancaster, Pa. OVER FOUR THOUSAND. The circulation of FATHER ABRAHAM. is now over YOUR TIIOUSAND, and rapidly increasing. As an advertising medium it is unquestionably the best in the interior of the State, which fact business men should bear in mind. Every advertise ment in the paper is read by at least ten thousand people. POOR OPORGE! Monday was another fatal day for the Thug leader—the distinguished District Attorney. Every proposition made by him in the County Committee was un ceremoniously voted down. Die friends deserted him, and he could not muster a corporal's guard. lie denounces some of them bitterly, calling them such pretty names as "cowards," &c. Poor George —he hes at Last reached his level! LIKE THEM! It is the subject of general remark that in the county committee, Monday last, every man in the interest of George iiru baker, led by the chief Thug himself, voted against every measure offered, which looked to an honest and t'air expression of the will of the Republicans of the County, at the primary elections on the 28th of August. This shows who the parties are who de pend on fraud and dishonesty to aueom. plish their ollect. PACKER'S CASH Ilad the Republicans uominated a mil lionaire for Governor for the purpose of buying up votes—were votes needed to elect—there would be some sense in it, as any number of Democrats are always on Land and for sale at prices varying from twenty-live cents to a dollar and seventy eve, according to quality. But, the idea of Democrats trying to buy Republicans is simply a good joke on "Old Asey." All the buying will be among themselves to keep their own scalawags from bolting. BUTCHERING HIS FRIENDS It is, reported. and it is no doubt true, that the Thug leader is engaged in slaughtering some of his friends— meu who have stood by him and supported him through all the hard contests in this coun ty for ten years, resulting in his own elec tion as District Attorney. And this is all done to help his pet—some say his owner —into the Senate. Every man who stands in the way of any combinat ion to procure the nomination of Joitx M. STEHMAN to the Renate, must go overboard. His doom is sealed, and the secret conclave of Thug gery is at work to accomplish this result. The plot is thickening, and in due time all the tricks of these political bummers and cut-throats will be laid before the public. The people must be posted, and they will be. A VINDICATION. Forney's Prom comes to the rescue against the "offensive language" so freely I used against the Philadelphia "Demo- ' crats," at the late copperhead State Con venth:n,by Frank Hughes and lion. Wm. Hopkins, who styled them pickpockets and roughs," and other unparliamentary names. The Press says: "We are locally proud of our Democracy such as they :ue. We will pit the Fourth ward a, , rtinst the Five Points and ask no odds. We can show as noisy and dan gerous a convention as New York. We have as many candidates who can boast criminal indictments as brevets for gal lant and meritorious party service. The quarter Cessions is almost as strong a power in our local politics as in those of Gotham. We killed and wounded as many men last year on election night as ever did New York. We honor and regard a Democratic whisky still next to a Demo cratic judicial decision. The local repu tation of the Democracy is second to none; and finally, to conclude the whole matter, we unhesitatingly aflirni that at the worst they are not more disorderly or law-break ing or worthless than the Democracy of any other city of similar size." THE REGISTRY LAW. The Copperheads howl dreadfully over the Registry law, on the principle that " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." A contemporary pointedly puts the case in this wise : The thief says that the law which makes stealing a. felony has been framed in the interest of n party to which he is opposed, and is therefore unjust. The murderer says that the law which punishes murder with death discriminates against him, and is therefore made in the interest of those to whom he is opposed. But if the thief and the murderer were virtuous, honest citizens, the law would be their protection and shield instead of their punishment. The inequality is not in the law, but in the parties. Just so in the other case. If the Democratic party puts its trust and hope for success solely in the superiority of its principles over those of the Republican party, and in the clearness and vigor and energy with which it presents them to the people, the Regis try Law, which it so much fears and hates, would be as much to its advantage as to that of the Republican party. Jett so! GEARY AND PACKER Mr. Packer is said to be the wealthiest man in Pennsylvania. How much he is worth we do not know, or care to know. It is enough to say that he is a Railroad King, a contractor, and a stock-jobber, and has been eminent in the lowest order of intellectual ability—that of a money getter. While Geary was shedding his blood to preserve our government, Packer was intent on pelf. When our armies were defeated, and our candidate was bearing the smarts of defeat and wounds with sol dierly fortitude, Packer was keenly watch.; ing the fluctuations of the stock exchange, and buying iu shares which our defeats depressed. When.victory rested on our banners and Geary was bending ou the victorious field over the body of his dead soldier son, Packer was adding to his hoard by sales of stocks which the wounds of our heroes had caused to advance in value. Re traded in patriotic blood, and the patriots in whose blood he traded will neither sup port his ambition, nor accept his bloo '- money. They are made of sterner stuff than he and his managing bullies imagine, and the second Tuesday of October will teach the speculator how he has miscalcu lated the force of their contempt, and the power of his purse. Buying a Democratic convention, led by a law breaker, is one thing ; buying the governorship of Penn sylvania is another matter, as he will find toll's sorrow. —So says the Befwer Rad DOCTOR OATCMf46 This gentleman turned up ogee more, on Monday last, in'the ConntY Commit- tee, of which he is a Inemlx:r„ He, made a speech in defenso.of the House of Repre sentatives in appointing the twenty-seven extra pesters and folders, in open viola tion of law:, HuridicuW,theideP of pews.- paper publishers setting tneinseistee up as reformers. And with all their 'clamor about the pesters And iblders,he said there wasn't one--not even " Daddy Abrahani" who could now tell how many of these officers wore employed. We admit that we do dot know bort many there were during last session. We only do know that Dr. (atchell and "sick like" openly disregarded and violat ed the law, by appointing twenty-seven additional pastern and folders, not because they were needed, but only fur the pur pose of filching money from the public treasury. Thus publicly to boast of being lon Smart for the editors of Republican papers who endeavored to expose the system of treasury robbing, which gave the last House of Representatives the reputation of being the most corrupt Legislative body that ever disgraced Pennsylvania, ►nay have been fun tier the Doctor, and com thanded the admiration and respect of George Brubaker, but we venture to say that he won't think it quite so smart and funny when he comes to foot up the prima ry election returns next month. IWAttention is invited to the card of Mr. I. Newton Peirce, of Philadel- Major R. W. SmorK, published in another phia,has advertised his purpose to organize column. We are glad that he has placed I w political temperance party in said city. himself right on the record. i Is he a candidate for I ;overnur? THE OLD HUARD. Our Republican friends abroad must not for a moment suppose that because we have a little local contest to attend to in Lancaster County, the glorious "Old Guard," that the interests of the Repub lican party are neglected. Betbre the close of next month, the little ring of poli tieal Thugs will have been etliTtutkily disposed of, when, after a short and sharp campaign of six weeks, the entire strength of the party will be ready and made good for AT LEAST SEVEN TIIOUSAND NrA408.6 ITY FOR OUR STATE TICKET. But,to enable us to win such a victory, Thu must be crushed out and entirely 4 by the Republican voters of the county HE WILL CONE DOWN ! For the comfort of Asa's friends here abouts, we give to them the gratifying news that he has consented to cone down with the stamps. He told the " ASA. PACKER Club," which is made up large ly of the boys who will not be put off with promises, iu Philadelphia, the other night, that "if we &it it shall not be through anything wanting in me." This evident ly means that he will honor all drafts drawn on him. So all the boys have to to do is to proceed to draw, and while they are about it, they should draw liber ally. It is the only way to find out wheth er ASA means business. PACKER A BOLTER llon. Asa Packer, as we have already stated, in 1860 bolted from the regular Democratic Convention at Charleston, and participated in the nomination of John C. Breckinridge, as the open and avowed secession candidate. But, this was not the only time he bolt ed the regular nomination of his pa'hy, In 1855, when Hon. George R. Barrett was the nominee of his party for Presi dent Judge of the Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne districts, he, the same Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, did all in his power to defeat him, by running the late John S. Bell as au independent candidate, who also received the cordial support of the entire Know Nothing party of said district. Barrett, however, was elected by a little over 1500 majority, and he is now the Judge there, and enjoys the entire confidence of the people of all parties, who regard him as an impartial and corn_ petent It will be remembered that Judge Bell, formerly of Chester county, although then a democrat—about the year 1850—took very prominent part in defeating James Camplitll, of Philadelphia, one of the Democratic candidates for Supreme Judge, because he was a Roman Catholic, and de feated he was by this Know Nothing ele ment of the Democratic party, and Judge Coulter, on the Whig ticket, elected. Af terwards Bell was appointed President Judge of the Carbon (Packer's) district, by Governor Pollock, to fill a vacancy, whether as a reward for his support of the Know Nothing cause we are unable to state. Be this as it may, Barrett was nominated over Bell because the latter was not conaidend a sound Democrat, but a Know Nothing and. supporter of Pollock, whereupon he was run by Packer and his Know Nothing allies against Barrett, as above stated. Is Asa Packer a Demo crat? GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION The beautiful organization composed of rebels and their sympathizers, who have stolen the name of "Democracy' , to" serve the devil in," are constantly howling at Gen. Grant's adruinistration,without sense or reason. TnE PEOPLE are satisfied with it and it will be sustained everywhere ex cept, of course, in Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, for in these States the only feeling of the majority is, sorrow for the failure of the lost Cause. But in the States where the love of the Union liven, there is no likelihOod of a rebuke being. adminis tered to a ruler Nitid hat compelled peace, and staUnched the wounds of tlib Sbuith ; whoa holds the helm of state with so steady a htuid that industry strives in sure hope of reward; who has infused into the pub lic mind such faith that capittil seeks in: vestment,aud even its sensitive pulse. 419101 proofs of the public health; whose stern integrity has forced the collection of the revenues, where heretofore systematic plunderers reveled ;and whose wise manage ment has caused a stream of treasure to flow into the Treasury, until its plethora shows our magical wealth and its amazing increase. Nor will the nation quarrel with that other, and remarkable action of the ad ministration, which cuts down the expen ditures to the legal standard, and steadily refuses to reward its own partizans, by making places for hungry aspirants. The. soldiers have not tired of their sucbessfUl leader, and the mihole mass of our citizens rest secure under a policy which accords to every man his legal rights, and protects him in their enjoyment ; which solves the problem of the payment of the Public Debt by pt ., yin!" it at the rate of two millions I week, or one hundred and four millions per year. And while doing all this, does it so modestly and unostentatiously, that, while no shock is felt by the country, no vaunt announces the great result. Our enemies hope to make Pennsylvania re buke this wise rule. Wait and see ! COMFORT! The New York World mournfully as serts that the election of General Sheridan to the Presidency of the Potomac Army Association is only a preliminary to the Republicans running " Little Phil." for President of the United States in 187". In fact, the Worded says the election of Sheridan Over McClellan wails just that, so significant does it regard "Little Phil's" easy defeat of " Little Mack." Well, if Sheridan runs in 1872, the Demo crats have Jubal Early to put up against him. 44 DEMOCRATIC " TESTIMONY. The Pittsburg Leader, edited with as much impartiality as can be expected from a Democratic source, says of Packer's nomination and acknowledges its weak ness as follows : "Packer went through without difficul ty. In the contest, the Case men were poorly led, so far as Democratic political leadership was concerned. Philadelphians demanded Packer's personal influence and great wealth to help them elect a rascally and excessively unpopular county and leg islative ticket. In short, it was not the man, but his wealth, that commended him to the most powerful interest enlisted in his support. Packer as a poor man would have been a nullity; as a millionaire lie is the Democratic candidate for Governor. The outside pressure was for Packer, and it was great in nturbers and zeal, and well supplied with the necessary appliances to produce a change of heart. Packer nom inated and Packer elected are two entirely different things. Packer will have against him the opposition of the Pennsylvania Itailroad Company, which will be used to its utmost limit to prevent his election; the fact that he is more largely identified with New York than Pennsylvania inter ests will hurt him in some sections; the terrible nominations of his party in Phila elphia may cost him several thousand votes; and the registry law will cut down the Democratic vote in Philadelphia." THINOS IN PHILADELPHIA More troubles lin. the Board of Aldermen—The City contested election case—Democracy and its troubles-New papers and new parties— " Heavy" men, &c. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 28, 1869. DEAR ARE : The Board of aldermen, who are engaged in carrying out the law preventing the copperhead "repeaters" from voting two, three, and a dozen times throughout the city, find it a hard matter to get things in working order, owing to constant impediments being thrown in their way by our noble (?) board of city commissioners. Last week it was found ne cessary to again ask for the interposition of the court, in order to compel the commissioners to supply the canvassers with the necessary books and papers, they (the commissioners) refusing upon the flimsy pretext that coun cils had made no appropriation for the pur pose. Of course, this is all gammon, and only calculated to retard the officers in the perform ance of their duties. Nothing was left the Board to do but make application to the courts, and on Monday last Judge Peirce, after hear ingthe arguments in the case, compelled the commissioners to knock under. The cops can't stand this Registry act, as they know that under its provimionnthe gallant (?) fourth ward can no longer roll tip its three thousand fraudulent majority. In the contested election case, the examina tion was resumed on Monday, and testimony in rebuttal offered. To show you how the last election was conducted in our city, and to al low you to judge for yourself of our prospects for winning the case, I will show you how things were done in one precinct, as proven before the examiners. Two boxes were pro duced containing the ballots of the sixteenth division of the twentieth ward. The returns were referred too, which show that Mayor Fox received 61 majority, and:Malloy, Receiver of Taxes, lie majority, and the remainder of the Democratic ticket, (according to the returns,) elected by majorities ranging from ten to' ifty. The ballot box was then opened and the tick ets counted, when, lo and behold, it turns out that according to the votes polled, Tyndale has six majority, and Peitz, the Republican can didate for Receiver of Taxes fif majority! and all this in a box which was objected to be ing opened by the Democratic counsel, "be cause nothing was stated in the spectications regarding the sixteenth' division of t p twen tieth ward!" Democracy is in a splutter. Joseph N. Peirsol, late candidate for City Treasurer, is out in a card, signed by one hundred and six ty-one delegates to the late city convention, some of whom swear they saw roughs vote on their names, whilst others affirm they: saw men vote for Fry, then go into the back part of the hall, change hats, and come for ward and Votes secotid time. Ln this, man ner the whole democrittic ticket, Oonipoted of the worst elements Of the city, was,,,iiiiinina ted, so that it - is DO wondeethat some of the more honest (!) shontd kick In the traces. Ward meetings, boo,.ara being held nightly, and resolutions ofChnistrongest kind,ooridemn ing convention, candidates and party, wised; all of whioli has the eifeet tatoake:oar demo cratic friends feel rather Uneasy.. On the ether hand the .140johlican ,City Executive Dmittnittee IS now , thoxotigh i . or ganized; its severestib4nimittees'asottipieil, and work in earnest centaiiencetr whe first job undertaken is an 'eflbrt to secure lie re moval of a few copper-jOhnsong *who still hold minor positions under the government. The Committee this year is composed of the younger portion of the party, And already such activity is displayed by all the members as will certainly result in doing much good to the cause. With such men at its head as John L. Hill, the president, our firm friends; Dr. Seltzer anal John Donnelly, Vice Presidents, and its efficient Secretary, Robert T. Gill, the management of the City Committee is in the best of hands. Apropos of politics : Do you people up in the " 01(10 uard " know that no less than two new parties are talked of here? One, the "Conservative " party, is to be championed by the indomitable Joe Flanagan, of the de funct Daily News, who is to start a new organ •oi on extensive scale—in size only--to be as large as the New York Tribune, sell for three cents, and support Col. W. B. Thomas for Governor; while the other is an exclusively temperance move, and none but total abstain ers aro to have a say. According to the pro gramme laid down, the latter convention is to meet in Horticultural Hall in August—the fourth day thereof --and 18 to place in nomi nation an exclusively temperance ticket, whether general or only a city ticket is un known. This latter move is by I. Newton Peirce, but whether any one else is connected with the affair the bills don't state. Among the substantial men whose names have been particularly noticed in the published income lists during the past week, may be mentioned, ff. C. Gibson, whose inCOM9 is $280,000; 8 P. M. Taster, $115,000; I. T. Tasks; $149000; R. I. Wood, $127,000; J. Gilliagham eU, $198,000. Weather hot, and still heating. Yours, WAawICK c f Atha 40wahanes Skipo. KANsAs claims to be receiving ) new settlers a day. Tin•; new Virginia Legislatute bas seven colored members. MIFFIANIICIU:, with a population of 1.000, has neither lawyers nor measles! THE Insane Asylum at Harrisburg has over three hundred inmates. NEW YORK has 10,000 thicycs,exclusive of city officials. Trig proposition to introduce Chinese Coolie labor into the South is beginning to gain favor in the eyes of the Democracy —it has the look of their old idol, slavery. lir Packer had made MAO instead of 520,000,000, would he have been nomina ted last week by the Democracy as their candidate for Governor? Nay, verily. ALBANY, N. Y., having been in the hands of the Democracy for several years, has reached the legitimate conclusion—a bankrupt treasury. Waits business men write their bill heads, letters-heads, &c., instead of hav ing them printed, it is a clear sign that "time hangs heavy on their hands.” Tim last card of the Democracy is what to do with the Chinese. Having failed in their attacks upon the freedman, they are now arming for a crusade upon the Mon golian. THRICE are at the present time not less than MO colored men in Rome preparing for the Catholic priesthood. The majority of them will become teachers of the Prced men in the South. To ',AAR the party again to the old, rotten; worm-eaten platform which has so many times carried the Democracy to the bottom, was downright cruelty in the leaders who engineered the late State Con vention. IT seems to be everywhere accepted by the independent press, as well as Repub lican journals, that Unlimited Bank Ac count is in reality the Democratic candi date for Governor this fall. Fitt SALE—A number of coffee pots useful for naturalization purposes in the States where they have no Registry law. Apply to Wm. A. Wallace. late chairman Democratic State Central Committee. TILE: Democracy appear to be gradual ly going over to Grant. At the late Con vention, in nominating Packer and Per shing, they emphatically say: "Let us have P's." ASA PACKFA, like the Hon. Henry W. Williams, is a native of Connecticut. Will the papers which two years ago raised the cry of carpet-bagger against our distin guished candidate continue their howl? TUE Cops went for each others pockets with a vengeance at the Harrisburg con vention. They will go for Packer's the balance of the campaign. Money is the measure of merit with them. "Slum, my daughter marry a nigger?" has long been the orthodox Democratic cry. No, sir. Neither need you or your sous sleep in Bedford street, although all its blear-eyed patriots consistently vote your ticket. A SMALL-BRAINED MAN is known by the amount of profanity he uses in ordin ary conversation. The poor fool, having no other object of respect, makes a deity of the devil. TIM Maryland Republicans are actively organizing with a view to securing bodily the negro vote, which will enable them to carry the State after the adoption of the fifteenth amendment. Large meetings, addressed by colored men, have been held at Frederick and elsewhere. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE has got Presi dency on the brain very bad. lie is in constant intercourse with the Rebel Con servative leaders, and daily using what ever influence he possesses against his Republican friends. GRANT'S administration has been pay ing off the national debt at the rate of fifteen or twenty millions per month. Tht Copperhead convention is opposed to this kind of thing and demands reform. It is the true rebel idea they have got—they are opposed to the payment of the debt at all. Wst. A. GALBRAITH, of Erie, les into the chair lately occupied by the eh n pion on "coffee-pots" and " cottgratulato ry proclamations" over " brilliant de feats." Lawyer Galbraith first, " .A:der man" McMullin second—greenbacks and pugilism hand in hand again. Fon such men as•M,eMulleu, the Phil adelphia bruiser, such pockets as "Judge" Packerls have irresibtible attractfons; that lust is, indeed, the highest motive of which such fellows , g}re capable. The "Demo cratic" party , is made up of such. ASA PACKER is M'MulleiVs candidate. Whether this shall nirget,hitn favorably or ill, the fitt:t retuaius., The glcater,t, black guard now outside the walls of prison unerdentof 4the-Devrenern tieing*. 4 , be . ly bad barphu. To think or thr. eyes of tints *sired thousand Peniocists-4very one of whom expects "something to be done " for his ward or township--ssturn,ASA's strong box, is enough to Ulliat o the reason of the strongest minded, if not produce a more fatal result. WHEN buzzards are seen hovering about, it is generally a pretty good indi cation that carrion is near. When pick pockets and worse characters were observ ed ou the outskirts of the Democratic Convention at Harrisburg, it was conjec tured that there was corruption within, and the result proved the conjecture true. lION. ULYSSES lifuscun, of Towanda, came on to Harrisburg, it seems, to look at the Democratic convention, and paid for his temerity: by having his pocket picked of four hundred dollars. This should teach him to be more watchtlil about the company he gets into. PRIMARY ELECTION FRAUDS. As certain prominent Thugs have been at special pains to villify Mr. Billingfelt for the stand he has taken against the perpetration of frauds at our primary elections, in justice to that gentleman and the honest Republi cans of the county who think with him in that important matter, we herewith print his remarks in full in the County Committee on Monday last. It will be seen that he fully makes out his case, and clearly establishes the perpetration of fraud, as 'frequently charged in this paper. With the facts now before them, it behooves the people to be on the alert, and see that the ballot-box stuffers are not allowed to repeat their nefarious work with impunity. REMARKS OF MR. BILLINGFELT. When I requested you, Mr. Chairman, to point out in what 'particular my propo sition conflicts with the already established rules for the government of the primary elections of the Republican party, I did not expect it would bring out a discussion of this kind, and that the whole field would be gone over. The discussion has taken a wide range, but the question I asked has not yet been an swered. It is not material, now, whether it is answered or not. The gentleman repre senting the 11th Ward of this city (Mr. Bru baker) made a long statement and raised a great many points, to the greater portion of which I do not object, excepting one. That is in relation to the laws governing the elections of this Commonwealth. When I asked him whether the laws of this Commonwealth reg ulating our elections were applicable to our primary elections for nominating candidates for office, instead of answering my question he made a furious attack upon me and the proposition I introduced, in which there was pointed out an effectual remedy to prevent fraud and the stuffing of the ballot-box at our primary elections, denouncing them as "ri diculous," " nonsensical," and apply ing other inappropriate epithets. As a lawyer, he must admit that the laws govern ing our elections in this Commonwealth do not apply to our primary elections, and afford MI no protection whatever. There is no law to punish any of the officers for violating their oath—even if taken ; no law providing that each political party should have an inspector; no law compelling those officers to make out a true return. There is no law in existence which throws any protection or safeguard at all around our primary elections. There is even no opportunity given to investigate any alleged frauds, nor to control the same, since only Sunday intervenes between the time for holding the elections and the return day. Hence, sir, it must be apparent to every one that, in order to effectually prevent any ballot-box stuffing—any fraudulent counting, or making out fraudulent returns at our pri mary elections—it even requires more strin gent measures in our rules than what the law atlbrds to protect the elections held in pursu ance thereof. Desperate cases require desperate remedies, and although 1 doubted the practicability of the plan propo"ed, believing it to be unpopular with the masses, yet having been repeatedly re quested to suggest some plan whereby any future repetition of fraud might be prevented, I could suggest no other plan that would effectually prevent the stuffiing of the ballot box than the one proposed—namely, to count the votes before they are deposited in the box. I contend, sir, that I always have been, am now, and ever will be, opposed to repealing the secret ballot system, and will protect the (sacredness of the ballot-box so long as there exists a law upon our statute books providing for the punishment of officers violating the same. In this case, as in all others, I am willing to bow submissively to the will of the masses—to strike out any objectionable provi. sion or withdraw the whole and support some other effective or acceptable plan to bring about the desired end. But here we have a system, around which the law throws no pro tection, and is alleged to be openly violated to such an extent in some of the districts, as I thought would justify me in submitting those extraordinary measures to prevent It. And though I never insisted upon their apoption, and will not now, and am willing to withdraw them to make room for some other plan less objectionable, I am glad to learn that my distinguished friend, Mr. Dickey, admits that the remedy therein proposed would be effectual, and scarcely any one disputes it. It is casting no slur upon the Republican party, as some allege, to ex • pose a fraud and endeavor to prevent it. Far from it; and the masses of our party desire that all our elections be fairly conducted, as I believe they have been and will be again in a majority of the districts. The question, however, arises is there any truth in those al leged frauds ? If not, there is no necessity for any additional safeguards. If there is, we cannot too strongly guard against a repetition thereof. It self-confession is the strongest evi dence, then there has been fraud ; since, besides the information obtained. from other sources, I was present when a prominent Lancaster politician admitted and openly boasted that he knew how cheating had been done, by stuffing the lining of the hat Used as a ballot-box with tickets of a eer tain kind before the poles were opened, and, at the close of the election the bat containing the tickets was , up-turned and , the *See counted and returned. Others have 114- knowlatiged to Me that they hove *MIMU4 making oat rotors* for several districts by adding over one hundftd.erdes to each Morn more then' seerd polled. We haVe kffiliwitts to prove how in West Hemptteld townsh*t certain Peraoo . Itllad thy hablotrbox w an expert official clerk wrote down the na es of personwas , hsvtit sristed *ho did not st olid the, 'polls. Sevenil other', ituittsriees'l might name of fraud `Perpetrated., BA the most astounding revel/40km frimd, at, our late primary election, was made tocust hY th• senior editor vet the Lancaster Reirifel.,' 'this day four. weeks obi, S 4 .the 'between Harrisbrirg ' and Lanciaiter, aftectihg more than one-half of , the votes returned. in some of the districts. Mr. Gftest—DoeTi the getnremieri ?toy ft Kea ? Mr. IdtlittleettNo ; I Stated distinct ly AO :.",telsier, editor of 4lite 'kg/tie:sr ;, 9 I meant the editor longest connected with that paper. Mr. Brubaker—There are some persons tyl4o accuse me of being connected with that paper. Does the gentleman refer to me ? LLaughteX.i Mr. Billlitigfelt. No, sir t in this inatenee I excuse you, bat in this aloue. [Laughter.] Yet that very same editor has devoted nearly a whole column of his paper in abasing 'and slandering me because I introduced a propo sition to remedy the very evil of which he himself complained. 1 know that my enemies take advantage of the proposition I offered, and try to make me appear ridiculous in the eyes of my friends—by men who would slan der and abuse me though I were as pure and perfect as the angels in heaven. lint, air, they way villify, slander and abuse me and call me corrupt, as some are now doing, yet I dare them to point to one single act in all my political or official career that is tainted with any corruption. And so lung as God spares my life and gives me strength, I shall con tinue to expose and denounce fraud and cor ruption wherever it may be found, and shell use my utmost endeavors to protect, defend and advance the true interests tf the people to the best of my ability. JOB PRJRITUI6I. 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