E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning, September 25,1862.
.'{qmblifHii State Nominations.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
THOMAS E. COCHRAN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
WILLIAM 8. ROSS,
OF LUZERNE COUNTY.
REPUBLICAN CO. TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS:
HON. GEORGE LANDON,
FOR STATESENATOR:
WM. J. TURRELL, Of Susquehanna Co.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
BARTHOLOMEW LA-PORTE,-
DUMMER LILLEY,
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER:
JOSEPHUS CAMPBELL,
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY :
GEO. D. MONTANYE.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR':
J. J. NEWELL,
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR :
€r. R. A<BOYD.
Republican Meetings.
The Hon. DAVID WILMOT, Hon. GEO.
LANDON and llou.B LAPOIITE, will ad
dress the Republican citizens of the County,
as follows :
Ulster—Friday, Sept. 2iJ, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
Athens—Saturday, Sept. 27, " "
Leßaysville—Monday. Sept. 29 " "
Monroe—Tuesday, Sept. 30, " "
Granville Centre—Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 2 o'clock, P.
M.
Troy —Thursday, Oct. 2. at 2 o'clock, P. M.
Columbia X Roails —Friday, Oct. 3, " "
Smithfield—Saturday, Oct. 4, •' "
Rally, Republicans ! to sustain the State
Congressional and County Tickets.
Rally in your strength to maintain the Re
publican party, and close up the rauks for the
battle now at hand.
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Much has been said by the bolters about
the frauds perpetrated in the Republican
County Convention, especially by its chairman.
W c propose to look into this matter very brif
ly, and see what it nil amounts to. We shall
take the Charges as they are embodied in an
article published in the Argus of last week,
as containing the gist of the whole ground ot
complaint.
The first charge is that the Chairman was
elected with indecent haste,and that he walked
to the " chair of the convention," as " an uh
ruly bull walkcs into the farmers harvest field,"
and not with the dignity and those nice gen
uflections which would have graced the car
riage of a member of this new " people's par
ty," We never thought, we will candidly ad
mit, that the Colonel had a very gracful walk
in conventions or upon side-walks, but we must
insist, at the same time, that his carriage upon
that occasion, was not so outrageous and autre
as to require the overthrow of the Republican
party and a union with the Democrats as the
only sufficient atonement. Nevertheless, we
advise the Colonel to straightway get him an
artist and study the "Greek Misters for noth
ing else will appease the rebels here in Brad
ford. They are bound to beat us in etiquette as
the Southern rebels beat us in "chivalry."
Having thus ungracefully got himself into
the " chair," he presumed to act as President
of the Convention, when it was understood
and agreed by a large majority of the delegates
that Dr. C. K. LADD, was to be the President
of the Convention." So says the very grace
ful writer in the Argus. Rut permit us to in
quire, when and where was it " agreed," and
under.-tood by a majority of the delegates that
Dr. C. K. LADO should be the President of the
Convention ? Not in the Convention, certain
ly. Nobody will assert that. It must, then,
have been in some canvas outside of the Con
vention. The truth, unquestionably, is, that
the friends of TRACY had agreed upon Dr. LADD
as president and the friends of LANDON had
agreed upon Colonel MASON. The friends of
LANDON were about one minute too quick for
the friends of TRACY, and elected their presi
dent. There was nothing very uuasual or
startling in it. Such tilings have happened
often in conventions before. But whoever be
fore heard of a faction getting np a general
howi about frand and corruption, and cry out
for " dissloution " a.id " destruction " because
they were defeated in the election of their
president of a couveution ? Men do not de
mand changes effecting interests so vast for
causes so trivial. You tnay be sure these men
went into this convention with " rule or ruin"
t their motto, and arc now seeking every pal
tFy excuse to justify them in their premeditat
ed treachery to the cause of the people and
the great party of freedom in this country. —
There can be BO other plausible explanation
of their couduct.
The next charge against the convention is
that, the chairman declared a resolution de
faated " by a tie vote—44 and 44"—being
two votes more than the number of delegates
in the Convention. A tie vote defeats a prop
osition everybody knows. The clerks appear
to have agreed in the tally, and striking one
vol® from each side would not change the re
sult. No one asked for the yeas and nays
:i Kooond time upon the resolution and the
matter was dropped This is our recollection
matter. Where is the great crime or fraud to j
he found in this charge f
Again, the Argus writer asserts that " For
the first time hi the history of this county, wc
believe, was the attempt made to elect Con
irressional Conferees, before the candidates for
Congress was nominated !" We must confess
this charge is a very serious one, if true ; for
it is very certaiu the convention was not called
for the purpose of altering the current of
" History" —that very grave privilege,we think
belongs exclusively to a certain Rev. Abbot,
who writes the ''life of NAPOLEON-BONAPARTE,'
and our republ'can convention had no sort of
business to meddle with what is the exclusive
prerogative of another. 15ut perhaps, after
all, the Argus- writer is not perfectly acquaint
ed with the " history of this county" and
| may, unintentionally, misstate its facts. Oar
j recollection of the " history " of conventions
J in this county is, that it is usual to nominate
conferees and instruct them to vote for a par
ticular candidate The motion in our late con
vention differed from this only in uamilig no
candidate but leaving a blank to be tilled by
the convention. If our recollection is correct
the departure of the convention from former
history is not very serious, and we submit that
the republican party might safely be allowed
to live one year more and try its haud at con
ducting one more county convention.
The lust charge is in these words : —" The
next thing out of order, was to declare the
credentials of the delegates from two townships
illegal and out of order, which was done and
delegates switched on the track for other can
didates."
Two townships arc named here, but we be
lieve there is no rcul coraplaiut as regards
but one—Tusearora. In that case the facts
before the convention fairly proved that the
friends of TKACY went to the caucus with a
lot of democrats and undertook to carry the
caucui by auti republican votes The true re
publicans of the township refused to submit to
such unjustifiable interference, and scut dele
gates elected by republican votes. They did
i just right, and the cooveution did right in ad
, mitting those delegates. When any clique in
any township attempts to carry a republican
caucus by democratic votes they deserve the
sharpest kind of rebuke and should be upheld
by no genuine republican.
'Columbia is the other township alluded to.
In this case the facts were too conclusive to
admit of excuse for complaint. They were
these: The party complaining had the vigi
lance committee all on their side, and for some
cause known only to themselves, never adver
tised any caucus in Columbia township. But
the County committee having recommended
the caucus to be held between the hours of
two and seven o'clock, p M , all parties seemed
to have taken that for their guide. They as
sembled ut the usual place of holding such
meeting, many of them as early as twelve and
one o'clock. The people waited very impa
tiently until four o'clock. In the meantime
some had left for home and many more were
about to leave. It was suspected that the par
ty having the vigilance committee had uot neg
lected to advertise the meeting without a pur-
pose, and that they did not intend to call the
meeting to order, until the other party had
gone home. The meeting was then very prop
erly called to order, and regularly organized,
and with every usual and necessary deliberation
delegates were elected. Fully as" many of the
complaining party were in the room at the
time as of the other party, but lliev made no
objection nntil the meeting was regularly ad
journed. Then they organized another meet
| ing and sent other delegates to the convention.
The convention refused to receive them, and
j served them right. This is all the " Switch
ing on" of delegates for other candidates
I amounted to
| We have thus stated fully, the charges
i against the action of the republican county
i convention. And now, wc ask any and every
| republican in Bradford county, to put this
| question to himself. Do they show such fraud
; and corruption on the part of the convention
as to justify rue in refusing tojvote for its nom
| inees and thus destroy the party and deliver
! up the county to the coutol of the Democrats?
i Fellow-Republicans ! we have no interest
i in this matter separate or different from yours.
! We are all embarked in the same just and ho
i J
| ly cause and defeat is alike disastrous to us
: all. We implore you not to deceive yourselves!
; The defeat of the Republican party is a Dem
j ocrntic victory —and a Democratic victory in
■ this county would give more joy to the rebels
: in arms against the Union and their sympa-
I thizers all over the loyal states, than the gain
1 ing of a great battle by those same traitors
on the banks of the Potomac. Do not flatter
yourselves that the difference is but little be
tween the candidates because the candidates
upon the disorganizer's ticket hare heretofore
professed to be Republicans. We know they
have -professed to be Republicans, and we
know, too, that this is not the first time they
have attempted to break up the Republican
party They have been with us but not of
us. Why else do the Democrats so readily af
filiate with them, and declare their intention
to vote for them ? We beg of jou to be
warned in time, and not commit an act of fol
ly and madness, which you will regret for the
rest of your lives.
TE TRACY and PIOLEET organ of this coun
ty complains that Mr. LANDO.V was nominated
by unfair means ; but forgets to tell its read
ers that the meeting which nominated Mr.
TRACY declared in favor of Col. MCKEA.V, for
j Congress, by appoiuting a committee—a ma
jority of whom were pledged in favor of th
Colonel for that office—and that he was de
feated before the committee by representation
from Mr. IIOLCOMB that he. had a bad recort
and would not be strong with the people. 01
course his bad record will not prevent the
TRACY men from mpportieg hiai for the legis
lature.
THE " PEOPLE'S TICKET."—HOW IT WAS
NOMINATED.
A few disappointed office-seekers got logcth
j or in the Court House, on Monday night, and
; nominated what the}' call a "People's Ticket.
These men had tried their best to control the
Republican' Convention, to suit their own in
terests and failed. But having a sort of " seven
years itch" for office they were determined
not to be satisfied ; so they called to their aid
all those that could be found in the county
who were now or had heretofore been afflicted
with the same disease and whose sores were
vet uuheaied but " gaping wide" and resolved
to have a convention—a real " Union Con
vniliun," of the " specially miserable," —
where all were afflicted with the same disease,
and'agreed upon a common remedy. And as
desperate cases sometimes require " heroic
remedies," they agreed to call tlnir "movement"
a " Grand Demonstration of tho People, and
their ticket the " Peoples T'ukd ." They ap
pointed a committee of fifteen " Incurables,"
to nominate their candidates. This commit
tee discharged their duty admirably. They
presented a ticket composed, almost exclusive
ly, o f individuals who had failed in being noru- |
iiiated by Republicau Conventions. Very true
some thought this was not quite the thing for
a " People's Ticket," but the committee knew
better than that by a long shot. They had a
lot of " political invalids" on their hands, and
" speedy Relief, was the thing required, "Rad
way's" wouldn't do in this emergency. The
committee made the proper prescription, and
the people will see that it is properly adminis
tered on the second Tuesday of October.—
If the patients do not die outright under the
operation we will warrent " speedy relief' to
the sufferers. We never knew a second
application necessary.
CONFESSIONS.
It is refreshing to meet a politician who will
tell us frankly the motives that impel hitn to
take any particular course—who will lay bare
to us all the knavery and hvpocricy of his past
I actions and give us the assurance that he in-
I tends to continue the same course in the fu
: tnrc.
The ostensible editor of the A>gus is one,
and perhaps the only one of this stamp en
gaged in the bogus " People's movement'' to
break up the Republican party, lie says,
! boldly, and with a frankness that does him in
j finite credit, that hs never was a Republican
! —that he was opposed to the organization of
J the party in the start, and only acquiesced iu
it because he feared being " cri>--ked" if he re
fused. lie declares that lie has always been
looking for an opportunity to break up the
I party and get out of it, and now, he thinks is
| the time.
This is candid and no doubt all very true.
!If all tlie other leaders in the " movement"
I were equally honest tho people would have
very little difficulty in disposing of the whole
i squad as they deserve. Nearly every one en
i gaged in the base plot have been in the same
| fix as the Argus. They were never Ilepubli
j cans—they have been stragglers following the
j trail of the great army of the people, seeking
j spoils and plunder along the march, and spies
upon or*r camps iu the hour of peril and con
i llict. Admitting all this, yet the Argus has
; the effrontery to call upon Republicans to
i leave their party and forswear their princi
pies to follow after a set of men who never
have auy principles and are only seeking for
offices in the Republican party, and fading in
j that, have all along been determined to break
;up the party, and pursue their ga pic for plan
i der and power in another organization. But
j they have no right to call any such dishonest
! trick a " People's Movement." The people
! despise all such knavery, and will teach all
! those engaged in it that, in politics, as ir.
j everything else, " Honesty is tho best policy."
BFFK-TIIF. DISGRACEFUL alliance between the
disappointed and rejected candidates fur office
before the late Republican Convention, and
the Breckinridge Democracy, is apparently
cordial and complete. TRACY and PIOLLET,
representing the " high contracting parties,"
fraternize with the warmth of long estranged
and lately reconciled brethren. Must disgusting
is the embrace of the allies ! An inordinate
selfishness that forgets all else in the pursuit
of personal preferment, joins hands with ma
lignant hatred of everything loyal and true
to the couutry, for the control of the political
power of the County and Congressional Dis
trict. Can such an alliance, thus selfish on
the one side and disloyal on the other, secure
the endorsement of the people at tho ballot
box ? It would be a surprise and humiliation
for a county so distinguished and honored as
Bradford—one that had become historical for
the steadfastness of its people to freedom and
right—that such a people should now, in the
hour of the country's danger and trial, reverse
their political action, and join hatids with
those whose unpatriotic counsels they have so
often spurned and rejected. We trust that
history has no such chapter of dishonor and
shame to record.
The new candidates for popular favor, and
their Democratic allies, assail the Republican
organization as corrupt, and chafge that it is
under the dictation and leadership of selfish
aud ambitious men. This does not surprise
us, coining from the partizans of Slavery—
from those who upheld it in its treasonable ef
forts for the destruction of the Government.
The Republican party was organized to sus
tain the principles of freedom, and rescue the
Government from the bauds of the Southern
Oligarchy, and its Northern allies. That
they should denounce it, and its leading men,
is to be expected. Republicanism would be
of little value, if it met the approval and sup
port of slavebClWing rebels and tbeif sympa
thizers. But it is shameful that the hitherto
friends of the Administration and the War,
should join in this malignant partizaii cry.
The Republican party has showered unde
served honors on some who are now intent on
its overthrow, and for nwcause, save that their
pretensions for higher honors were set aside.
Is the party more corrupt now, and are its
frieuds less worthy of trust, than when it nomi
nated and elected TRACY to the Legislature ?
Wusthe Republican organization corrupt when
it nominated FREMONT, and elected LINCOLN
to the Presidency ? Iu Bradford it has given
us Judges WILMOT and MERCCR ; and in the
District GROW for Congress. It elected to
office ALLEN MCKEAN, and HENRY W TRACY
—WOODRUFF aud SCALDING, GOODRICH and
ELSBREE, have each beeu the recipients of its
partiality and favor. Is the evidence of its
corruption found in the election of such men ?
Who is meant by the " corrupt leaders " ? Is
it TRACY and MCKEAN ? or is it GROW, WIL
MOT and MERCUR 1 This cry of corruption
and dictation is raised by men who see deep
wrong inflicted 011 the country, when their na
piratioDS for office are defeated. Let the Re
publican party be defeated in Bradford Coun
ty, and the Democracy of the whole laud shall
send up a shout of triumph. The citadel of
Freedom will have fallen, and treason both
North and South will be inspired with new
hope.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
The Argus is in the service of TRACY, IT
OLLET & Co., and is trying to undo all it has
accomplished in the last seven years. It is
controlled by the enemies of the Republican
Party—not that TRACY particularly shall be
elected, but that LANDON and the Republican
County Ticket shall be defeated ; and many
inquire how it happens.
The editor of the Argus says " it is because
he could 110 longer conscientiously snpjiort the
Republican organization of the county." Some
time ago the same editor said he never would
hove gone into the Republican movement,- on
ly that he saw there was money in it for him.
But now conscience and not money disturbs
the quiet of his pil'ow ! It drives him to pay
ALVORD out of some funds —£ J 0')0', fur his in
terest in the paper, in ordir that he might
place it in the hands of his enemies, to distract
and disorganize and to defeat the County
Ticket which PARSONS himself and his friends
aided to nominate. It compels him to furnish
the Democratic party With on organ. They
had failed in every attempt to sustain a paper
iu the county, but they saw that the Argus
was uneasy— its conscier.ee '.cas awakened and
they brought their appliances to bear upon it,
and it came to terms.
They have an organ and an editor now who
will cry " No surrender of principles," but for
: conscience sake let us defeat the very men we
nominated, and overthrow the Republican
Party. " The ox knoweth his owner and the
: ass his master's crib," and that is bow it hap
pened.
GEORGE LANDON.
There has been mch said about the deeli
nation of Mr. LANDON, and the bringing into
the field another Republican candidate for
Congress. The anxiety of Mr. LANDON to se
cure, if possible, unity on the part of the Re
publicans of Bradford, has given some foun
datiot for this talk. He was willing to step
aside, if thereby harmony in the support of
| another candidate, and of our County Ticket
• could be secured. But the selfi-hness of TKA
j cv, whose inordinate ambition to fill a place
j for which he has no fitness or qualifications,
j afid the llunker Democracy who have him in
: keeping, forbid the hope of reconciliation.
The Republican candidate for Congress,
GEORGE LANDON, will stand where the organi
zation aud the true men of the country have
placed him. He is the standard bearer of our
principles, and will gallautly battle for their
success. He stands by the National Admin
istration in the effective policy indicated by
the President in his late proclamation. He
bus therein struck at the cause and life of the
Rebellion ; and the slave holding oligarchy
and the Northern Democracy will feel and
stagger under the blow. He proclaims free
dom to all slaves within the rebellious States,
unless the arms of their rebellion are ground
ed by the first of January next. This is a
policy, in the support of which our candidate
gives his whole soul. He is for an earnest
and thorough prosecution of the war, to the
subjugation of the rebellious States, and the
complete overthrow of its accursed caase—
Slavery.
FALSE PRETENSE.
The disappointed office hunters pretend that
they have uo objection to any one of the Re
publican candidates but GEO. LANDON Why
then do they oppose any of the other candi
dates ? Was it necessary to oppose all the
others to defeat LANDON ? Why could you
not vote against LANDON, and for all the rest
just as well, if his defeat was your only ob
ject ? And, particularly, why should you op
pose Mr. LILLEY, who was nominated bj ac
clamation, by the friends of LANDON, TRACY
and SMITH, with equal cheerfulness? It must
be patent to all honest men that your true ob
ject is —whatever you may pretend —to break
op the Republican party, and ally yourselves
to the disloyal Breckeuridge democracy. But
you will find, in due time, that you caunot
transfer the intelligent and honest thousands
of the freedom-loving Republicans of this
county into any such unholy alliance.
The President's recent proclamation
will appear in our next issue.
A FEW PLAIN QUESTIONS fOH SINCERE
REPUBLICANS TO PONDER.
In the present unsettled state of party af
fairs in this county, it is well for every sincere
Republican to pause and seriously consider
what is to be the Iff ct of his vote in the ap
preaching contest. The intere-ts at stake are
too important to be decided 1 "without careful
reflection.
The first questions that suggest themselves
to the honest inquirer is : Why does every
Democrat in the county so heartily embark in
the same boat wi*h the pretended Republicans
who are trying to break up their own party
Why do the Democrats forego this precious
opportunity to elect a member of Congress
and a State Senator of thei-r own faith ? But
one answer can be given, and that is this :
They are aiming [p prevent the nomination of
DAVID WIUMOT to the United States Senate!
If they succeed in defeating tlie regularly
nominated Republican candidates for the Leg
islature, they know that their object is accom
plished as effectually as if they elected the
most unscrupulous Democrats in the county.
To destroy WILMOT is their " being's end and
aim," anil to effect it they are willing to fore
go every other political interest, and it they
succeed all rebeldom, North and South, will
raise a shout of ecstatic joy. JEFF. DAVIS
himself would consider it almost sufficient to
compensate for his late disasters in Murylund.
Republicans ! Shall this unholy alliance uc
complish their fell purpose? You can and
mil si prevent it. You must not let any eon
sideration prevent your attending the polls and
giving expression to your scorn of those who
ate attempting to betray our State into the
hands of the enemies of Republican principles
by electing another COWAN or a Democrat to
the U. S. Senate. We warn you in time. Be
eutreated not to disregard the warning.
COL. ALLEN M'KEAN.
Oi 0 i.f the strange things that happened in
the Convention of " incurables," was the
nomination of Col. ALLEN MCKEAN for Rep
resentative. The Colonel did exp<*ct to be
nominated fo? Congress ;■ why he was not, we
are going to tell voir.
The celebrated "Committee of Fifteen"
were packed for the purpose of nominating
TRACY foi Congress— TßACY'S " shadow be
ing its Chairman. A large majority <Y the
leaders in the " movement" wire opposed to
TRACY, and, " I-' gar," they would not stand
it. So they commenced sounding the Commit
tee, and succeeded in procuring the solemn
pledge of a majority of its numbers, that they
would nominate Col. MCIVTAN for Congress.
Wc are assured thi- is so by the person who
obtained the pledges. But we are told, upon
high poetic authority, that " the best laid
schemes of mice and men "are often frustrated,
and so it proved in this case. The Committee
came into the waiting crowd of anxious cx
pedants ol office and solemnly announced the
nomination of H. W. TRACY! The "Iu ura
hies " were astounded and thrown fairly upon
their h lunches. The Democrats who surround
!ed them on all sides to keep them in the
"traces," were boiling over with joy at their
triumph. JOHN swore the whole thing wis
knocked squarely in the head and proposed
to qnit the concern at once. Coi S- ——, who
thought he could depend upon the pledges of
men who had left their party and violated
their pledges to everybody else, for once for
-1 got to laugh at his own jokes ; in fact, he
1 seemed to think there was no joke at all iu
the matter, ami "left the Co .vciition with
j " grim visaged " disappointment settled indeli
bly upon his countenance.
Republican friends of Col. MCKEAN ! how
!do you relish this sort of game ? These fel
-1 lows wanted the votes of Col. MCKEAN S
friend*, but they didn't want the Colonel.—
They said his " record was too bad " for Con
gress, for he might possibly unite all the con
-1 dieting interests and be elected ; but his " re
j cord " was not " too bad " foi Representative,
where he was tery sirfe of being de eated We
1 are assured that the friends of Col. MCKEAN
| intend to vote for him to stay where he is. iu
an office for which he is peculiarly qualified,
j and which is worth three times us much as the
office to which his enemies propose to transfer
him. If they have the " spunk of a louse,"
they will do just that, and nothing else.
THE Argus man aud many others of those
engaged in the effort to destroy the Republi
can party, now admit they never nrre Repub
licans. Precious confession I Long ago many
good and true Republicans suspected as much
ol these fellows. But they boa-ted so loudly
of their devotion to Republican principles
they besought us all Whigs and Democrats
with such apparent sincerjMyb. fail into the
ranks and join the "Peoples Movement," in
inaugurating the Reptdf&an party, that we
supposed they were gPmlv in earnest, it not
any 100 honest. Bhf it now turns out, by
their own coiiljttfooiE that they were deceiving
us all the never meant one word
of all they said' Republican movement
however, proved to be, in very deed, a move
uient of the people and the few who, for selfish
purposes, fell iuto its wake for the purpose if
using it for their owu base purposes or des
troying it, have been swept away by the mighty
current of houcst yeomanry who crowded into
the " movemeut," because they believed in its
principles and were determined to carry them
successfully onward. The people have that
same determination to-day. The false and hy
pocritical may go to their " oifn place "—the
Democratic party—where they ought long
since to have been. But the honest and true
—the PEOPLE, will remain where they have
ever been—in the Republican ranks. Their
principles are dear to them, and they will see
to it that they are successfully and triumphant
ly sustained.
HOW. TIEDF LANDOW.
We clip the following from the Jlnrrisbtr,
Daily Telegraph of the 20th inst. We tra ,J
ler it to our columns to show in what esti Ini
rion Mr. LANDON is held by tho;e who BEST
know him abroad. What will the Argi ls , a>
'O this :
" In the Congressional District composed of
Bradford, Columbia, Montour, Wyoming a , i( j
Sullivan counties, Hon. GEO. LANDON, of Ii raf j.
ford, has been nominated for Congress. j,
his many friends throughout the Common
wealth, and particularly to those who came i 0
contact ith him in this city, during his l e w, s .
lative career, this will be gratifying news.
will be gratifying because a good man is tlitp
recogn zed and endorsed for a high position
and because, too, the country will thus secur?
one ol the ablest and most practical ineu j !r
the State, at a lime when legislation will
invoked to assist in restoring order to all it,
sources of prosperity. While Mr. LA NOON oc
cupied a seat in the State Senate, he was re
gardcd as one of its ablest members—able not
only in debate and the displays of the fl wr, but
able in the preparation and details of ieiji|.
tion, the work of all others which most tests
the powers of a legislator.
"In Congress, Senator LAN DON will have 3
wider field for the exercise and test of his
powers than was afforded him in the L a gisla.
tnre, but we doubt whether he can more faith
fully serve his constituents in that body th 8n
lie did in the body from which he has jnst re
tired. Of course his election is a certaiuh."
B%„ There is nothing more com non than
for political demagogues to cttept to cover up
their own selfish purposes, under the name of
the " People's Movement." Look at the men
and the candidates, who attempt to force them
| selves this fall upon the people, under th;
guise of reformers—" the pure in spirit."
JOHN C ADAMS, the orator of the Monde
evening Mess M eeting, refused to join in the
rnouem-ent that inaugurated the Republican
pany, because, in- his own language " he dil
not know who was to t>e Captain"—and \\>i;
with the American orgaiezatian, in support
| of FILLMORE, with some liity others in Bra tlorj
county ; jet in his late speech he talked loui
ly of having always acted with the people.
11 W. Tit.i ;v, the now democratic candi
date for Congress, when the Mi.-s Convention
was held, in which tin- first R pu licau ticket
was liominnted, was Chairman of the Commit
tee on fv'soiti l ions Sept. 10, 1855.
Wii- dclegite to the Convention, Sept. !,
i IBSG.
September 9, 1858, was candidate for lte;e
: resoutative.
September 8, 1859, was eandiih.ti for Sen
| a tor.
In the Conventions of 1800 and 1801 'j
nominated fur It -presentiitivc, and having o;i<-e
t ste.i the sweet A of office, lie hail so lnr.g
s'niggled for, bolted because he was not nom
inated in the couventi)n of 1802.
Why did yon nominate Mr, TBACV? e
heard a friend ask of one i-f" the secelersi—
■" We were afraid he would bolt, if he was not,'
was the reply.
Col. ALLEN MCKEAN having held the oßiv
1 of Prothouotary lor three terms, was inmii
! nated for the fourth ti*ria by the Republican
I party in 1857, was again a candidate for the
1 same office in 1860, and sii.ee, has been hold
ing a lucrative position under the Government
! at Washington.
M.ti TERRY was a candidate before the re
publican Convention of IS6O for Represents
i tive.
J/tcor. LINPERMAN was a candidate for th
| same office in the R publican County Cenv-n
--; tion, to which he has been nominated by the
| si coders.
The engineer of the decoders' meeting, Jt>
j SON IIOLCDMR, was nominated as R-ipre-enta*
live at the first R- pnhhcari Convention in 1855,
1 and ever since then bus been in tile enj nuicitt
of office.
It is an insfiflt to fire corflrnion sense of the
; people of 'his County, that these men, haviilg
1 now exhausted the patience of the Republican
party in their horse leach demands for office,
can under the guise of 11 " people's movement
once again go the rounds of office.
Had Mr T.LACY been nominated for Con
griss, the demands of tlie times would no!
I have required a change of organization ; hi"
i as he was not, by some weird influence, all it
i wrong ; and the men who assembled in their
j township canons and elected delegates to raakt
a ticket are now told that these delegate
; were incompetent and corrupt ; and that th
! committee of fifteen, of the Monday events!
Mass Meeting, contained ull the ability aU
I purify of the party in the county.
As wc- go to press, we sse by the Argm
; that Col. ELHANAV SMITH is nominated W
State Senator. This list is now full. Col
SMILH was also a candidate before the
lican Convention for Congress. Mr. TRACT
having got the loaf, Mr. SMITH has receives
the crumbs.
THE DIFFERENCE.
Last Spring Mr. TRACY was anxious G' B
Mr. LANDON should be re-elected to I-
Senate,thought lie was a very able and eflßcieti
member,and ought to go back. Bat us soon n
he was a candidate for Congress, Mr. I SA ' 1
attacked him very bitterly. The burden ?
his summer's labor has been to denounce hit"
and it culminated in his personal raid, t*
night the " pet-pie " and Democrats belt!
Convention, at Towanda.
QLERY —Whether the tonnage tss > 51 1
more importance in Congress, than in i -j
State Senate?
C. ADAMS entertuiued the "
Convention," so culled, with a story, so® 8 !
A hat in this wise :
Upon the occasion of President JACKS"*'*
proclamation in reference to Nullification, J |
workman in one of the Eastern establish® 111 *!
was expressing his approval of it. when a • ,
low-workman, an unti JACKSON man, said
" Why you know Mr. JACKSON did not
it." " Well," was the reply, " I don't cafe >|
d—n whether he wrote it or not, 1 I'ke 11)1 1
shop it came from,"
QUERY. —Will the people like the shop "|
the work that comes from i r , iu whicb • I
Ptott ET is boss Workmen,