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ELECTION TUESDAY, OCTOBER .
THE DEMOCRATIC TARTY.
It has been our high privilege, in times past
to be an humble member of the Democratic
party, and to utmost extent of our ability to
aid in the advancement of the great doctrines
that party professed. We have been brought
up in those doctrines, and educated in the lib
eral principles enunciated by Jefferson, and his
compeers, which have been the text-book of
every democratic administration from the for
mation of the Government, until the South se
lected POLK.
Wc have belonged to the Democratic or
ganization, because it has been the means by
which the principles we revered, were advanc
ed. It has been the aim and object of that
party heretofore, to extend the blessings of
liberty ; to perpetuate and strengthen our free
institutions ; to promote the public welfare ;
to defend the freedom of speech, and thought ;
to secure to every man the largest liberty of
conscience and action, consistent with the well
being of community ; to oppose every form of
tyranny over the mind of man ; and to sympa
thize with, and endeavor to relieve the oppres
sed and down-trodden of every clime and na
tion, of every tongue and persuasion.
With the nomination of POLK the Democratic
party became diverted from the high and holy
purposes which almost sanctified it, and was
made the machinery by which the then just
developing schemes of the slavery-extensioxists
were to be carried out. It will be recollected
that a large majority of delegates elected to
the Baltimore Convention of 1814, were in
structed for MARTIN VAN BURF.X. But that
perspicacious and far-seeing statesman, early
took ground against the annexation of Texas,
aud the influence of the South was set at work
to defeat his re-nomination, with success. From
that Convention dates the prostitution of the
Democratic party to advauce the ends of sla
very. The work then so successfully commenc
ed, has been persevered in, to make the party,
what the South declares it to be, "thenatural
ally of Slavery." How far it has been success
ful, may be judged by its action since, and by
the attitude it now presents.
Previous to the Convention of IS4B, the
Democratic leaders of the South, and their
prominent journals, openly aud boldly declared
that they would support no man for President
who was not pledged and devoted to the sla
very interest. The declaration was publicly
made, that any man holding the views which
JEFFERSON taught, would not receive the sup
port of the South. Hence, Gen. CARS' new
doctrine of " popular sovereignty," as enuncia
ted in the Nicholson letter, which failed in its
object, only because it was liable to different
interpretations. Even previously to the assem
bling of the Convention that nominated Gen.
CASS, the South were content to declare their
intention not to support any man who was in
favor of the Wilmot Proviso. The platform
laid down by that Convention, if strictly con
strued, does not set forth any doctrines such as
are at present field up as orthodox.
The facility with which the North was con
quered in that Convention, and the general
subserviency which has been manifested by
Northern politicians, has encouraged the South.
They have succeeded in interpolating into the
Democratic creed, doctrines to which no repub
lican can subscribe, and have set up tests which
should arouse the indignation of every indepen
dent freeman. We ask those who acted with
us, in the battles of the past, to look at the
position which the once great and liberal De
mocratic party now occupies. Is it anything
more than a machine for carrying out the de
signs of the slavery-propagandists ? In the
deepest sorrow, we make the humiliating con
fession, that the Southern leaders have succeed
ed making it, what they have always claimed
it to be, " the natural ally of slavery."
Can there now be any fellowship with the
Democratic party, without aiding and advanc
ing the schemes of those who are seeking to
cover every foot of our territory with the curse
of slavery ? This is the question which should
meet the careful consideration of every true
Democrat. If our judgment tells us that such
is the case, then our duty is clear. We have
been Democrats J>ecanse we revered the prin
ciples of Democracy. "When Democratic
principle* cease to lead, we cease to follow."
The abstract doctrines of Democracy, arc the
same now, as .they ever were, and ever will be.
If the organization once used to forward those
principles becomes perverted from its true pnr
ljse, it is our duty to refuse to be led astray,
and to replace ourselves in the position we
once occupied.
Such we conceive now to be the case with
the Democratic party. The questions of prac
tical importance which once aroused us to ac
tion arc all settled. The contests over the
Hank and the Independent Treasury, and all
the other differences which created a necessity
for separate political organizations have passed
away. I Jut other questions crowd themselves
i upon the consideration of our people. The
spirit of conquest has seized upon the country,
and new territory has been added to our wide
spread possessions. The designing and ambi
tious men of the South, have fallen in with the
treasonable and dangerous designs of CALIIOUX,
and are devoting their time and energies to
strengthening and perpetuating the institution
of domestic slavery. They have attacked and
overthrown the teachings of the great apostle
of Democracy, THOMAS JEFFERSON. They have
set at naught the opinions and warnings and
desires of the founders of the Republic. The
wise and liberal policyfof our forefathers has
been discarded, and the proposition is openly
maintained that slavery is a divine institution,
made necessary by the requirements of society,
a national blessing, and sanctioned by the Con
stitution. The design is boldly avowed, of mak
ing slavery National.
For this object, aggression after aggression
is committed upon the rights of the North.—
Stop by step, the temper of our people is tried
to see how much they will yield. The mon
strous wrong of Repealing the Missouri Com
promise, is the crowning act of Southern arro
gance, and the scenes of anarchy and violence
in Kansas, are its legitimate fruits. In a word,
the battle between Freedom and Slavery, is
now so well defined in its nature and its con
sequences, that we must take sides. There is
no middle position. We must either say that
we arc willing to concede to slavery all she de
mands, or we must rise up with the spirit and
determination of Freemen, and rebuke the ar
rogance and presumption of that grasping
power.
Where stands the Democratic party ? That
is the question to be considered. Let the po
sition and conduct of the National Administra
tion answer. Let the resolutions of our own,
and of every other State Democratic Conven
tion bear witness. The Democratic party
stands upon the doetriucs laid down by the
South. It endorses and supports the adminis- j
t ration of PIF.RCE. It applauds the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, the lawless acts of
the Missouri mob, and rejoices over tin remo
val of REEIIER. The Democratic party is in
the hands of ATCHISON and his Southern col- j
leagues ; and at the North it is managed by
custom-house officials and corrupt and venal
hangers-on to the National Administration.—
The Democratic party has been debased and
prostituted, until it has become a mere instru
ment for carrying out the designs of the slave
ry propaganda, and of securing office and pa
tronage for their Northern adjuncts and tools.
No man can belong to the Democratic par
ty without subscribing to all the doctrines of
the pro-slavery nullitiers. The friend to Free
dom who attempts to assert his principles, and
at the same time hold on to the Democratic
organization, becomes an object of pity and
contempt. The time has come when every
friend to freedom must give up his party or his
principles. If you attempt fellowship with
pro-slavery men you will be derided and de- j
spised. \\ by, the humblest post-master in our
County, if he dare to say he was in favor of
Freedom, would lie instantly decapitated, pro
vided some envious neighbor wished his place, j
notwithstanding he might make the loudest
protestations that he was a Democrat. De
mocracy, now-a-days means utter subserviency
to the designs of slavery. The name is all that
remains of that once proud and liberal partv.
That name is prostituted to the basest purposes.
It is literally "stealing the livery of Ileaven
to serve the devil in." Rut one hope remains
for those who desire to see the Democratic
party restored to its pristine purity. That is,
by learning the South that it is not the " na
tural ally of slavery," and by teaching them
that when it is employed for the extension of
slavery it will imt receive the countenance and
support of Northern Freemen.
ONE CENT REWARD !
"Wq will give one cent reward to ascertain
whether the Hunker ticket has any one else
upon it besides PIOLLET. AY e have an indistinct
recollection that candidates were named for
the other offices, but have not heard of them
since the nomination. Perhaps they were only
put on to bolster up PIOLI.ET, and with no idea
of electing them ? "Who knows ? At any
rate, they are lost sight of, in the struggle to
elect PIOU.ET. Their election would not ad
vance Mr. BUCHANAN'S prospect, and so they
are to be traded off, and sold, to aid in achiev
ing a pro-slavery triumph. The exertions of
the Douglasites are centered on the only candi
date they care for. The balance of this
ticket will be slaughtered without mercy.—
See if the figures don't show it, after election.
SOuf* It has been suggested that when Mr.
BCCIIAXAX is inaugurated President, the follow
ing will be the first amongst his appointments :
Pay Master General. — A ICTOR E. SRIXUFEL-
I.OW.
En coy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
tentiary to the Court of St. James. —C. L.
ATCHISON.
VICTOR E. PIOLLET.
There is something extraordinary in the fact
that this individual occupies the position ot a
I candidate before the people of Bradford. That
the most odious and deservedly unpopular man
in the County should at this time lie pushed
forward for the office of Representative, is cer
tainly remarkable and ominous of mischief. —
There is not a man acquainted with PIOU.KT
who believes for a moment that he has been
made a candidate because of his worth and
| fitness for the office. As a man he is notorious
|ly selfish, treacherous and false. As a politi
j cian he is shamefully unprincipled and profli
gate—the tool of Presidential aspirants, and
the open apologist for the worst crimes ot sla
very. He has 110 conception of politics, eleva
ted to the dignity of principle. With him, po
litical action becomes a game of low intrigue,
a mercenary scramble, in which duplicity, false
hood and appeals to the selfishness and baser
passions of men, are relied upon for success. —
What malign influences have been at work to
bring before the people of Bradford such a
man for their suffrages? What schemes of
selfishness and ambition lie hid from public
view, prompting the efforts now made to elect
Pi OI.LET to the Legislature? What potent
charm has had the power to convert his bitter
est enemies into warmest friends ?—to unite iu
his support men of the most diverse interests
and views ? Surely there is at the bottom of
this "fusion" of hostile interests and conflict
ing principles, glittering and seductive tempta
tions. We shall endeavor to expose in part,
the speculative and mercenary plans that lie
concealed.
Among the profligate of our public men,
whose eyes are eagerly fixed upon the Presi
dency, and who for years have striven to pur
chase that high office, by the most menial sub
serviency to the Slave Power, stands Mr. Bt -
CIIAXAX. No man has bowed the knee with
more abject servility, and none would be more
acceptable to the South as a candidate. But
in the desperate struggle slavery is now mak
ing for the mastery of this Government, it can
not afford to run unnecessary hazard of defeat,
even to gratify the ambition of its most sul>-
scrvicnt Northern ally. The South will not,
dare not, make Mr. BLTIIAXAX its candidate
in 1856, unless it is believed lie can carry the
electoral vote of Pennsylvania. Two or three
Northern States arc selected as the battle-field
of the next Presidential election. The plan of
the campaign is clearly revealed. The South
enters the contest thoroughly united, and eve
ry Southern electoral vote may be counted as
already cast for the candidate to be nominated
in June next, at Cincinnati. The South will
confer the nomination upon that Dough-face,
whoever lie may be, that is believed to stand
the best chance to carry such a Northern vote
as when added to the whole vote of the South,
will make an election. Hence Mr. BICIIAXAX
is ruled out—his case is hopeless—unless la
can satisfy the great barons of the slave Oli
garchy that lie can carry his own state, there
by making his success certain. He must de
monstrate to them his power to move this Con
gressional district from its principles, and the
position it has occupied for the last eight years,
before they will listen to the pretensions set up
in his behalf, as a strong man at home. With
this district true to the priuciplcsof Freedom—
threatening to overwhelm Mr. BI CIIAXAX with
its unconquerable majorities, the South will
not risk defeat by adopting him as its candi
date.
Like other Presidential aspirants, Mr. BR
CIIAXAX has attached to him a band of camp
followers, soldiers of fortune, which tight for
the plunder of victory. Bradford county has
its full quota of political parasites, who look
to the success of their chief as the certain road
to preferment and fortune. Mr. BICIIAXAX in
the Presidential chair, and they confidently an
ticipate a heavy disbursement of official patron
age. Under his administration it is hoped
that the Treasury will be unlocked to certain
defeated speculative claimants, and the disas
ters of the Gadsen treaty amply indemnified—
that lost Pay-Masterships may be regained—
judicial honors conferred, and lucrative public
contracts obtained, in which extras will be paid
without the trouble of an application to the
Legislature. We would not like to guarantee
the success of all these brilliant illusions ; but
to the eyes of eager expectants they appear
real, promising a golden harvest. Of this na
ture are the influences that have bowed the
necks our ambitious men, and given to slavery
a party in the north. Such tempting visions,
together with a local question, have placed
PIOI.LKT before the people of Bradford, as a
candidate for the legislature.
This Congressional district, we repeat, is
regarded by his friends as the great obstacle
in the way of Mr. BCCHAXAX'S success ; and as
a consequence, of realizing the dazzling schemes
of peculation and plunder before mentioned.—
Hence the effort now making to move, upon
local questions, and trifling issues, the people
of Bradford, from the ground of their princi
ples. The votes of those favorable to a divis
ion of the County—those interested iu the con
sumption and traffic of liquor—and the hard
! shell hunker vote are mainly relied upon to
| elect PIOI.I.KT. 111 addition to this, he is cx
j ceeding himself in the couteuiptible arts of the
demagogue. He is just at this time professing
a more than fraternal love to our adopted citi
zens, and denouncing all who oppose him as
! Know-Nothings. How far this new-born friend
! ship for the Irish voters, coming from one who
treats them when in his employ as slaves, will
i avail him on the day of election, remains to be
j seen. We predict, however, that there are
j very many intelligent Irishmen who know the
j value of his heartless and empty pretensions,
i and will vote against him with a hearty good
i will.
ltc is also vigilant in huuting up every man
so circumstanced as to be persuaded that lie
has a pecuniary iuterest in his election. To
those whose lands are erossed by the cut of
the Canal, he promises large compensatory
damages, notwithstanding they executed re
leases to the State. If he learns that two
neighbors are at difference, he will make him
self a party to the quarrel, hoping thereby to
get the vote of the one, in exchange for the
abuse he heaps upon the other. Such are the
low and mercenary influences upon which he
relies for success. His strong hopes, however,
rest upon the division vote of the West. In
Troy township and borough, he expects, and
will probably receive, nearly or quite a unani
mous vote ; but outside of these districts, we
do not believe men are prepared to sacrifice
their cherished principles to the question of a
division of the County. We appeal with con
fidence to the friends of Freedom in the Wes
tern townships—we ask of them in this cri
sis to stand by their principles with manly
firmness. The friends of Freedom throughout
the North are now preparing for the decisive
battle of 1856. Then the momentous issue
will be tried, whether the principles of Liber
ty, Justice and Humanity are to live in this
Republic, or whether our country and posteri
ty is to submerged in the hopeless night of
slavery and barbarism. Upon this generation
rest weighty responsibilities. The decisions of
to-day are to effect our country's remotest fu
ture. In the present are the issues of " life
and death." Again wc uppeal to you, not to
dishearten by your defection, the friends of
Freedom. l)o not paralyze the efforts now
making to redeem this land from the rule of
as cruel and lawless a tyranny as ever cursed
the earth. Do not strengthen the arm of the
oppressor. You justly reproach your public
servants with treachery, and a base betrayal
of the rights of the North. How can you
justify yourselves, if guilty of a like dereliction
from the path of principle and honor ? llow
reproach them for accepting the glittering
bribes of office, if for a comparatively paltry
interest, you betray the cause of Freedom ?
Think not that you can elect a willing tool of
the Slave Power, without inflicting a serious
injury upon the principles you profess. You
may say that you supported him on the ground
that he was in favor of a division of the Coun
ty ; but if elected, it will go forth thougliout
this broad land, that the candidate of slavery
has triumphed in Rradford. Such he will claim
to be the victory, for in this aspect would it lie
value to to him. The result will be bold up
as a guarantee that BLCHAXAX cau carry the
State for the Presidency, and is therefore, the
available candidate for the South to adopt.—
Reflect, we intreat of you, as becomes men in
terested with the sacred duty of guardiug for
posterity the institutions of Freedom. If you
falter, in view of your supposed interests, who
will stand firm under pressure and temptation ?
If Freedom is to be sacrificed for every local
question that may arise, then we may as well
abandon the struggle, and surrender our coun
try into the grasp of the Tyrant. We call you
to the performance of a high duty. Shrink
not ignobly from it. There can be no gain,
worth the sacrifice of principle—llo compensa
tion for duty unperformed.
REGULARLY NOMINATED!
One of the chief arguments made use of to
bolster np PIOU.KT is that lie is the regular
nominated Candidate of the regular Democrat
ic Convention. Now this concerns Democrats
only, and we a.-k them to look back at the
past, and see what has been PIOI.I.ET'S action
during the last eight years, that he should set
up such a claim ? Most of our readers may
not have had an opportunity to know what his
political conduct has been. We know that lie
has not been regarded as supporting a County
ticket for the last eight years. Much of the
time he lias been avowedly opposing some
portion of the ticket, and often the whole of
it—and never failing during that time to be
secretly stabbing at some one upon it.
This man has been deriding our County
organization—has been endeavoring in every
possible way to overthrow and destroy it—yet
now forsooth, lie has the audacity to set up
the pica that the form of a nomination gives
him a claim to the support of those he has so
often attempted to betray. The Democracy of
Rradford will not touch him. They remember
how often they have triumphed against his ma
chinations—they have not forgotten his treach
erous and deceitful career, and they will utter
their detestation of him and his political charac
ter, as becomes intelligent Freemen and true
Democrats !
TAX-PAYERS REMEMBER!
That in order to bolster up PIOI.ETT'S repu
tation, the Commonwealth was put to an ex
pense of SEVERAL THOUSAND DOL
LARS, in the celebrated M'Cook ease.
REMEMBER ! That while PIOI.I.F.TT was
Superintendent his official misconduct was such
that it became necessary to have him " white
washed " by a Canal Commissioner's investiga
tion, at an expense to the State of THOU
SANDS OF DOLLARS!
REMEMBER ! That while PIOU.KT was
Superintendent, he distributed contracts in the
most profligate manner, without regard to the
interests of the Commonwealth.
REMEMBER! That whenever he has
been iu any public place, instead of advancing
the interests of the State, lie has been a cause
of waste and expenditure.
REMEMBER! That helms drawn from
your industry a larger sum than any other
man in Bradford County. #
REMEMBER! That he is the candidate
! of speculators and political gamblers.
[ For the Bradford Reporter.]
STRIKE FOR FREEDOM!
Strike for Freedom ! never falter !
Whigs mid Democrats unite ;
Swear upon your country's altar
You 'I! do "battle for the Right !
Former fends should be forgotten,
Patriotism claims the vow,
Ancient land marks, old and rotten,
Cease their obligation now.
Let the Tyrant's lash la- clou (led
In the Mood of innocence ;
The hapless victim ever shrouded
In the abyss of ignorance ;
But let it lie upon the soil
Of loudly boasted chivalry.
Where science sleeps, and demon smile
And bowie-knife the rivalry.
But let 110 boasted tyrant ramble
O'er the soil that now is free,
With their chatties in the shamble,
Marked for brutish slavery.
Still the voice mid deep the current
Sweeping on to victory ;
Ball >t-box and paper-warrant
Alone will keep the nation free!
Strike for Freedom! never slumlier!
laiw-abiding men unite!
Victory's with the greatest number,
Rod is ever with the Bight!
Peaceful at the polls encounter
Freedom's old and wily foe ;
Loug oppression still demands it.
Strike, then, Freemen ! strike the blow !
SHESHKIRIX.
LOOK AT HOME!
Wc insist upon it that those who arc are
making insinuations about Know-Nothings in
connexion with the Republican candidates,
shall first attend to their own nominees.—
If they were serious in their hostility
to the K. N's. why didn't they take some
measures to keep those who had "seen.the
elephant" out of the Democratic Convention.
In all the Counties where Anti Know Nothiug
isni is the " great issue" the candidates for nomi
nations were previously required to take an
oath that they were not, nor had at any time
been Know-Nothings, but here 110 questions
were asked. The nominees were not even in
terrogated upon the subject.
Gentlemen ! either satisfy the public in
regard to your own candidates, or else forever
hold your peace. Let the question be plainly
put —" are you now, or have you ever been,
" a member of the organization commonly
"known as K now-Nothings ?" Wc venture
to say that all of your candidates will not
answer in the negative.
HfeK" What do our free-soil friends suppose
would be the comments of the Pennsy/ranian
and the Washington Union, if PIOI.I.ET should
succeed in being elected to the Legislature ?
Would they acknowledge that division of the
County or any other local or minor question
had anything to do with the result ?
On the contrary, the exultation of these
mercenary prints would he unbounded. It
wonld be proclaimed " that the eloquent
National Democrat I'IOI.I.KT had stormed the
fortress of Freedom in Northern Pennsylvania,
and overthrown its defenders." It would be
hailed as the conversion of our people to the
ranks of the Slavery propagandists. It would
awaken the liveliest feelings of satisfaction
amongst selfish and ambitious and profligate
dough-faces everywhere. The Kitchen Cabinet
would hold an extraordinary session, and " my
friend FORVKY" and his excellency, the Presi
dent of the United States, would take an extra
glass of punch to celebrate the glorious event.
toy- One of the most active and zealous sup
porters of PIOU.KT, is our ijuondam " Regular
Contributor," Mr. C. L. WARD. This gentle
man, who has already acquired considerable
notoriety amongst our people, by unfortunate
(for the public) connexion with certain broken
banks, is now a sort of bottle-holder for PIOI.-
I.ET, speechifying at his meetings, and endea
voring to persuade our yeomanry to give him
their votes, lie is largely interested in a specu
lation, by which it is expected, when a favora
ble time arrives, with the aid of the Govern
ment, to absorb some millions of somebody's
money. Consequently lie is now particularly
anxious to effect anything which may redound
to the advantage of his dear and intimate
friend, OLD BLTK. The honest,, independent,
frugal farmers of Bradford, who gain their
bread by the sweat of their brow, have no
sympathy with hint and his speculative schemes,
and can ueither be cajoled nor deceived into
supporting a man because he supposes it will
advance his purposes. How's GARAY stock ?
The " Regular Contributor" furnishes
to the last Democrat a characteristic sample of
his talent for misrepresentation and falsehood,
in which he speaks of a " Republican Conven
tion" having beccn held at Utica, N. Y. The
gentleman has not lost any of his peculiar
talents for " accumulating the lie." The Re
publican Convention of the state of N. York, was
held day before yesterday, at Syracuse and its
action has not yet reached us.
In the same article a personal appeal is made
to AARON* CiirnnrcK and JAMES HODGE Esq.,
011 the ground that ARNOLD PI.I MKR is a
Methodist. Wc presume that these gentlemen
will he expected to support PIOI.I.ET because he
declares, that " the d—d Methodists are responsi
ble for this slavery agitation
It is somewhat amusing just now to
witness the great anxiety manifested by the
Hunkers for the Whig party. They are deeply
distressed that the Whigs of the County have
adopted the only course which could have unit
ed the friends of Freedom in the present con
test. They are suddenly awakened to an oj -
preciation of the high character aud lofty pur
poses of that party.
The cause of all their agony is too plain to
deceive any one. It would have pleased them
if the opponents of Slavery extension had
remained divided, that they might elect PIOI.I.ET.
But it is no go. If they are suddenly in love
with the Whig party, the Whigs of the County
we are pleased to know, are not Hunkers, and
cannot be drawn into the plans of the apologists
for STRIXGFELLOW aud ATCHISON.
Pay of Members- The County Superin
teudent -and the County Commissioners.
In the desperate struggle now making to
overthrow the principles of Freedom iiM|,i s
County, great exertions are put forth to hide
the real purposes of the corrupt managers
the scheme, by a systematic method of mi srei '
refutation and falsehood. I„ pursuance of
this plan the action of Messrs. Houomr ail ,.
LAI-ORTE ill the lust Legislature is unfairly and
falsely stated, to create in the minds of tl„.
voters the impression that they had neglected
properly to attend to their interests.
The lust Legislature passed a hill regulating
the pay of members, giving tliern a salary 0 f
s•><>o instead of the per diem allowance of'*:;
I'or this hill, Mr. LAI-ORTE voted. In our
judgment, it was the most meritorious act of
that body. It is hardly necessary to allude to
the great exjien.se of living at Harrisbuqr
which has been more than doubled, since the
j.riee of $3 per day was fixed, because we
not believe there is one of our readers at all
conversant with the expense necessarily incnr
red by a Member of the Legislature who will
say that the amount is too high.
If then, the sum fixed ujvou was not too
much, surely the last legislature was as mack
entitled to it, as the one we shall elect on tlic
second Tuesday of October. Wc hardly think
that jiriees of everything will be as near the
famine mark, in years, as they were last ui ri .
ter. The session was necessarily prolonged h T
the attempts to elect U. S. Senator, and w a '<
actually in being 12(i days.
The act as passed, will result in a saving to
the State. In the first place, it limitiTthe
number of officers to be employed in the Le
gislature, and lops off a large number who
have managed every year, to secure employ
incut, at high salaries. It will have a tenden
cy materially to shorten the sessions, because
members will have the consideration of econo
my to make their stay at Harrisburg as brief
as possible. Now, the only cxjiense of the
Legislature, is not the pay of members. There
are very heavy items of disbursement attendant I
upon every day's session of the Legislature- I
officer's pay, printing, postage, contingent ex
penses, gas, Ac., Ac., which make up the great K
bulk of the annual exjiense. Every dav tin
session is shortened reduces these cxjienses.
The men who bring this up as a matter of
rejtroaeh to Mr. LAI-ORTE, know themselves |l
that it is unjust, but they think the peojileeaa
be made to believe that his vote was given fur
mercenary motives. Mr. LAPORTF. is an indus
trious and frugal farmer, whose daily hi' or
I brings him his daily bread, and it is fair to I
! presume has quite as much regard for thejico- |J
: ] lie's interests as the idle politicians and brief- la
! less pettifogers who bring such a charge airaia-r j
him.
Messrs. LAI-ORTE and HOLCOMR are eliar.-o!
also with increasing the pay of the I'oautv
i Commissioners from $1.50 to $2 jw-r dav, and *1
( that the increase was unasked for bv their I
constituents. The man who jmblishe- this I
I falsehood, himself knows that a petition B/j
| signed by a large number of citizens of Brad- I
i ford County, embracing inanv of the heaviest I
" i
J taxpayers, asking that the pay of the Cons'" H
! Commissioners be increased, and that -By
dance with the prayer of that jietitiou the I
was passed. We believe that no one objt-t- J|B
jto the amount, and we only allude to it.: B
! show to what desperate ends the HuukcrW B|
resort to trump up something against our can B|
didates. In Tioga County the pay of Coa::; K
Commissioners has been for some years, jtfptr I
day, and mileage ; here it is now $2 per day B
without n, iJeage. f
An attemjit is also made to jrejudicc Mc>-t- B
HOI. OMH and LAI-ORTE in public estimatio:.. ; BM
connecting them with the late increase oftafßl
County Superintendent's salary. To do t!:sB
the most unfounded assumptions, and tbei -'B
glaring misrcprcscutions are resorted to. IB
brief history of their action is all we desire * |
Early in the session a bill was in trod owl
and jvasscd, which amongst other provb'" r ' Bj
allowed the school directors to abolish the E
fice of County Superintendent. This bill "1
Governor vetoed, for reasons, which wwß
satisfactory, that hut 5 votes were given
his veto. Among the reasons given by t-
Governor was, that the abolishing of the - flj
in some counties would throw the Con® 1 -!
School system into inexplicable confusion By
bill was then prepared under thesujcn is. ■
the Common School Department, sup! - • I
meet the wants of the system. Ann®-"'' B |
er provisions was one allowing the ScW'j
rectors, under certain regulations to in' K
the salary of superintendents. This wa- ! i
to meet the wishes of people in counts ' E
the salary had been fixed ridiculously 1 Bj
Berks for instance, $350 ; Elk, s"•>;' B J
$25 ; Juniata, S2OO. These counties do- ' B|
jiay the Sujieriutcudcnt a fair salary, BH
ny petitions had been presented praym? "J
a law might be passed that they could 1
The amendment offered by Mr- ' B|
upon the passage of the hill, wast he s 1
account of which the Governor
former bill, and its iucorjvoration **■'"• BB
subjected the hill to a similar fate.
the amendment, Mr. IIOLCOMB VCO U M
voted, and for the bill, both Messrs
I loi.coMr, voted yea. Our
remember that this was on the day
adjournment of the Legislature. lirn! \,M
had incorporated in this hill 0 jH
allowed many of the School Ih'strM-
County, to draw their quota of ! ' 11
appropriation, which otherwise th 2' B
have drawn. Yen* many of the <l |M ' H
only kept school open for thrft B
the law of 1854 ret pi red :j H
a district to draw its public lnomy- fl