MOUNTAIN SENTINEL. EBENSBURG, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1850. Democratic Nominations. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. WILLIAM T. MORISON, Of Montgomery County, FOR A UDITOR GENERA L, EPHRAIM BANKS, Of Mifflin Comity. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, J. POUTER, B RAW LEY, Of Crawford County. CONGRESS, JOHN SNODGRASS. Of Westmoreland County. SENATE. THOMAS C. M'DOWELL, Of Blair County. FOR ASSEMBLY, VM. A. SMITH, of Cambria County. JOHN CESSNA, of Bedford County. . COMMISSIONER. JAMES SKELLY, Of Sttmmerhill Township. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. MICHAEL HASSON, Of Ebensburg. COUNTY SURVEYOR. THOMAS M'CONNELL, Of Sttmmerhill Township. AUDITOR. JOHN BEARER, Of Susquehanna Township. fcP"W committed an error in our last number by stating that Judge Taylor will not open Court until Wednesday. The Court will commence on Monday for the purpose of transacting such business as does not require the attendance of a jury. Are Yon Assessed? Every voter should make it his duty to examine the assessment list of his town ship, and see that his name is properly enrolled. Unless he does this, he may be deprived of his vote in consequence of some neglect on the part of those who made nut the lists. Saturday the 28th inst. is the last day on which you can be assessed and your duty to your country reqnires your attention to this matter. Democratic Conference. In another column will be found the proceedings of the meeting of the demo cratic Conferees of this Representative District, which took place at Bedford on the 10th inst. It will be seen that three Conferees from Fulton were admitted to seats and participated in making the nom inations. We protested! against the ad mission of these. Conferees on the ground trial the county of Fulton was organized af- tcr the passage of the Apportionment Bill, fc after the appointment of the Conferees uviii una couniy. inasmuch as it was understood at the time the apportionment bill was passed, that Cambria and Bedford should each have a member, we thought It right that Bedford and Fulton should ar range the ratio of representation between themselves, so that Cainbrk should meet but three instead of six Conferees. But the present arrangement gives what was Bedford county at the time the District was formed, just twice the power in a Conference that is allowed to Cambria. No man will pretend to say that this is right, and we trust that when the matter comes to be arranged permanently, that a sense oi justice will induce our sister counties to have it changed. There was another matter connected with the Confer ence which we did not like. When a vote was about to be taken on the admis sion of the Conferees from Fulton, Judge Dougherty decided that two of the Con ferees from this county, who were uepu- teu, naa no more right to vote on the question than those from Fulton. This decision of course placed everything in the hands of Bedford county, and we have yet learn that persons deputed have not the same power and authority as thos-e for whom they act. Fulton County 0. K. The news from this county, says the Jackson Democrat, is of the most cheer ing character. All unite in saying that the Democratic county ticket will be triumph antly elected, and that the candidates for Uuie offices will recrivc a full vote. Keep it Before the People, That Gen. M'Donald and Alexander M 'Kinney, Esq. are running as volunteer candidates with a view of bringing defeat upon the Democratic party, and securing the triumph of Whiggery. Neither of them has the most remote idea of being elected, but because the party did not en tertain as high an opinion of them as they do of themselves, they give the lie to all their professions of attachment to democ racy, they endeavor to wreak their ven geance on it by contributing to its defeat. Keep it before the people. That M'Don ald, not satisfied with opposing the regu lar nominee for Congress, has also arrayed himself in opposition to the democratic candidates for the Legislature. Keep it before the people. That M'Don ald never was a democrat only when it suited his private and selfish views. At the commencement of his political career, he was a very active member of the "workingraens' "party," a scheme gotten up to defeat the democratic ticket. He opposed the elecjion of Col. John Kean with all his personal influence, together with the aid of a press which he then controlled, and by this course had our county represented in the Legislature by whig. He has now again merely thrown off the mask and returned to his first love- Keep it before the people. That John Linton is the avowed advocate for the di vision of Cambria county, and consequent, ly an enemy to her best interests. That last .winter he went to Harrisburg, and endeavored by his influenbe wi:h the membets of the Legislature to get the "Conemaugh Bill" passed. Keep it before the people. That Dr. Smith was the firm an uncompromising opponent of the division of any of the ter ritory of "Little Cambria," and that du ring his whole Legislative course he never in a single instance acted in opposition to the interests of his constituents. That as a Legislator he won the esteem and confi dence of the members of both Houses, and proved a "good and faithful servent." Keep it before ihe people, That John Snodgrass is the regular nominee of the party for Congress, as such is entitled to and should receive the warm and cordial support of every sincere democrat in the district. That by his sterling Jadherence to the principles of the democratic party, and his active and untiring exertions in the cause, he has earned for himse'f the title of the "Old wheel horse of Democrrcy. And keep it before the people, That a few unprincipled demagogues who have always acted upon the "rule or ruin" principle, are now busy in their exertions to betray your interests and defeat your wishes, and that it is the duty of every democrat to be active and vigilant in the approaching contest. Gen. Joseph M'Donald. To-day we publish this gentleman's address to the Democracy of the 19th Congressional District, and ask for it a careful perusal on the part of our readers. It is not often that such a production is to be found floating in the sea of politics, and more seldom such a one owing its paternity to a would-be-Congressman. He announces himself as a candidate for Congress in opposition to the regular nomination, without advancing a single argument in justification of such a step, unless we except his allusion to his sham nomination in Johnstown. It says but little in favor of any man adopting such a course, when his own ingenuity is unable to invent a reasonable excuse for pursuing it. And even admitting that he was nomi nated at Johnstown, he afterwards waived it, and permitted his name to go before the Ligonier Conference, for, as he would term it, a re-nomination. In the Ligonier Conference he was beaten, having recei ved but one vote in that body, and any honorable democrat, alter having submit ted his name to a Confeiencc, would feel bound to abide by its decision. But Gen M Donald would be acting contrary to the political charactei which he has es tablished if he had done this, and conse quently he flies back to his sham nomi nation in Johnstown, which was made by three kicked out Conferees from this county, and two from Bedford. His real object however in announcing himsell a candidate, is, with the aid of Mr.' Mc- Kinney, to draw a sufficient number of votes from the democratic ranks to defeat that party to whioh he is indebted for many favors, and Irom which he had just solicited a nomination. This is his real object, and he dare not deny it, and this is the reason why he was unable to find an argument to justify his conduct. But it cannot be expected of a man who will voluntarily desert his friends, could have any hesitation in deserting his party. His attack on Dr. Smith, ungenerous n its character as it is, places him in a worse position than his mere announce ment as a candidate would have done, for it shows that he has arrayed himself not only against the regular nomination for Congress, but also against the demo. cratic nominees for the Legislature. De s2 titute of political honor and political prin ciples he is known to be, we think his conduct so reckless in the present in stance as to be almost without a parallel- We are glad however that he places him self, in his address, before the public, in his proper character, that of a reckless demagogue, and he will find before long, that the people of Cambria are not so easily led into the commission of error as he evedently supposes, and that, howev er well he may be supported when Le is right, when he pu rsues a wrong course, he will have to "go it alone." GF"The announcement of the name of Col. Thomas C. M Do well as the inde pendent candidate foi Senator has kicked up quite a fuss in the M'Murtrie camp. They know that M'Dowell is both popu lar and deserving, and possesses the abili ty to discharge the duties of the office for which he is a candidate with credit to him self and his constituents. This fact taken in connection with the dissatisfaction which exists in consequence of the nomi nation of Mr. Murtrie, has caused his friends to apprehend his defeat, and they are now making tremendous exertions to sustain him. If Col. M'Dowell should be supported in the balance of the district as well as he will be in this county where everybody knows him, he will be elected by a triumphant majority. Speaking to the Point. Gen. Bowman, editor of the Bedford Gazette, speaks to the point in the folio w ing article relative to the late nominations. He takes the proper view of the existing affairs, and we commend his remarks to the careful consideration of our democratic friends in this county. These "rule or ruin politicians should, at the approach ing election, receive such a quietus as would forever after stop their croaking, and their efforts to break down the party by their opposition to its nominations: It is not to be supposed that any nomi nation can be imde so as to please every body, but when nominations are legiti mately effected all true Democrats give them their cordial support. Every year we find some men dissatisfied with the nominations, at first, but a little sober re flection always shows them the propriety of auietlv submitting to the voice oi the majority. If we fall to do this, all party organization is at an end, and our princi ples can never be maintained i he op position now made to the nomination of John Snodgrass is nothing new. A simi lar opposition was raised to the nomina tion of the Hon. Job Mann. The West moreland Conferees all refused to vote for him, and withdrew from the conference, with a full determination to run a candi date in their own county. Last fall a number of Democrats expressed much dissatisfaction with the nomination of John Cessna, Esq., and the preceding year the nomination of John F. Reed, Esq., was assailed with great bitterness by professing Democrats. Mr. Brawley, too, who was recently put in nomination by a State Convention, ha3 been denoun ced by this croaking class of restless poli ticians, in unmeasured terms, so that it will be perceived that Snodgrass is only sharing the fate that has been dealt out to almost every nominee of the Democratic party for the last twenty years. On the subject of the nomination for Congress, we have no feeling whatever. We took no part in the controversy, and gave no counsel on the subject. We stood ready to support any man that might receive the nomination, and, if no nomination were made, to be governed by the voice of the Democracy of Bedford oounty, as ex pressed at the annual County Meeting for the purpose of forming a Ticket, &c That Meetincr was held, consisting of Representatives from every District, in large numbers, and the result was that they unanimously, (or nearly so, there being only three dissenting votes to the resolution,) ratified the nomination of - 0 John Snodgrass as the fairly and legally nominated candidate of the District. Un der these circumstances, and in accordance with the instructions of the Democracy of Bedford county, we raised his name. to our mast head where it will remain until the question is decided at the Polls. . We have consulted with Democrats from every section of Bedford and Fulton counties, and we find that it is the determination of Mm party to give the nominee of the Lig onier conference their undivided support This is right and proper, and is a merited rebuke to those aspirants who are so anxious for place, and power that they cannot wait until their turn comes. Our principles are too dear to be sacrificed meiely to gratify the ambition of men whose greatest passport to political dis tinction is their own exalted imagination of self. tThc Whig Conferees of this Con gressional District met at Johnstown on the 16th inst., and nominated Joseph II. Kuhks, Esq., as their candidate for Con gress. He is a lawyer of the Greensburg Bar, and a bitter and uncompromising Whig. This fact alone ought to and will defeat him in the "Big District." !3FThe Duncan's Island Bridge was totally consumed by fire a few days since, supposed to be the work of an incendiary If we are not mistaken, the erection of this bridge cost the State about nine ty thousand dollars only a few years ago. This occurrence will not however, cause any suspension in navigation, as thebusi ness will be transacted by Steam terry boats. Johnstown, Sep. 16, 1850. Mr. J. G. Given, Dear Sir: Yourself, as well as the community at large, has now seen the course of Mr. Smith towards myself. After preferring grave charges a- gainstme, when I called upon himJforroo"j of those charges, and the verification ofi what he is pleased to call guilt in me, he merely resorts to blackguradism and clown ishness. To such a man I hare only to express regret that I took any notice of him; and I hope, sir, you will excuse me for the trouble you kindly permitted me to put vou to, promising, after this, to not ask a 'similar hxot of you again. Mr. Smith's temerity, thorgh, is not a little surprising. And disregarding the kind of notice he may be pleased to take of my present remarks, 1 cannot refrain from an observance of the shudder a refer ence ot tne past occasions mm. tie "laughs." Yes, it is a hysteric laugh! Those "folks" he speaks of as laughing, like himself, are seized with a nervous "irrisibility," for, to them, the past sends forth a haunting ghost that torments their vision the apparition of recreancy to du ty of defeated democratic candidates which alarms them into a conscience stricken, despairing laugh, which is fol lowed with the poetic exclamation that re quired the aid of no "machine" or "devil" (as appears to be uppermost in the mind of Mr. Smith,) in its origin, "Shake not thy gory locks at me! Thou canst not say that did it!" Yet it was done; and who aided in its perpetration? Who came from other counties and aided in the promotion of the enemies of our principles it was not me. He charges me with meddling with poli tics unauthorizedly in this county, and of setting myself up as a leader. I denied it, and called for proof; and what does tlra t gentleman do! resorts to parodying a negro song. Verrly,"Uut of the abun dance of the heart the mouth speaketh!" I had taken Mr. Smith for a gentleman, but I was deceived there And with his "machine" I have no more to do; with the remark', that if the taste of the people here is assimilated to that of Mr. Smith. (which I doubt,) and if he is their patron saint they are welcome to laugh so far as I am concerned. I am a legal voter of Cambria county have roted here and challenge contradic tion. I saw fit as a Freeman of Cambria to co to Ebensburg. and went, as I will go again as often as I please; for which Mr. Smith, a brother office-holder from some other county (I cannot savdeffinitely what one,) assumes to take me to task charges me with what he cannot, does not, attempt to substantiate, but merely plays the part of a ruffian blackguard, and says the community laughs at me. If he is the lion, the De Orsey, the guide of this community, I again say, let them laugh. But I would be sorry to do the good and intelligent people here the injustice to think that Mr. Smith speaks the truth. Mr. Smith informs the public that he was "requested" to expose me. Now, sir, while I regret this new evidence of his being in the humiliating position of a "cat's-paw," I am not chagrined at his giving the public the fact of my Yankee extraction. Yes, Colonel. I am of verita ble Yankee blood I am from the land of glorious Lexington, Breed's and Bunker I nil, where my father was a fifer boy where he saw "the deuce" played with certain importations of tea. I am recently from Potter county a county to which my friends true democrats as ever lived invite my return. Do you doubt this? then I "have the papers" to show. Can Mr. Smith say this much? To the Democracy of 'Cambria I wish - ...... m to give me assurance that wmie 1 may have the honor and pleasure of residing wun mem, i nave no other desire than to mind my own business, not exceed my rights, and ever vote the Democratic tick et. This the billingsgate of no man, di rectly or indirectly, will ever deter me from let him be a clown, bravado, or (what I believe the people here and else where prefer,) a gentleman. I assure you. Colonel, I feel no smart ing sensations from Mr. Smith's "casliga tion. Its severity, I apprehend, exists m.u own imagination. If others enter tain congenial feelings with him, I have the alternative left, that a "gentleman never insults, and a blackguard is not worth minding. Now, sir, to conclude; when Mr. Smith gets through "grinding" this, he may "put it in his pipe and smoke it." Perhaps his friends, whose bidding he seems to do, are not smokers, but all the consolation I can offer them is, if they do not wish the awakening of unpleasant sensations, they must not attack a stran ger who does nothing beyond his legal, indefeasible rights. Now, sir, I have done. I was forced into this much; but for yielding to circum stances. I hone the public as well as yourself, will excuse me, in whose hands I submit the justness of my defence. I remain, sir. Very respectfully, yours, C. B. COTTER. TO THE JBEMOCKACY. Of the Nineteenth Congressional District. FELLOW CITIZENS: A state of things has been brought about in this Congres sional District which every honest demo crat must deprecate. I think the demora cy of Cambria county is not responsible for the present embarrassing condition of the party, although on her soil has occur red, since the opening of the campaign, some very bitter political collisions. If Cambria was made the "battle field" she did not declare the war. What purports to have been two Con ventions were held, from which Cambria was most unceremoniously excluded. The friends of John Snodgrass, Esq., of Westmoreland county, persuaded some innocent and unsuspecting men in Cambria among whom was uocior triiuam a. Smith, that the Doctor was the choice oi Cambria for Congress. Among those who aided in getting up this impression were some who had voted for my unanimous nomination two months before. Of these Jfm. S. Campbell was one. Doctoi Smith had already asked, received and ac cepted the nomination for Assembly from Cambria. He had also positively, per- emtorily, and solemnly denied that he was a candidate for Congress, or desired to be one. This denial he uttered in his own hdi'se in Ebensburg, in the presence of Hon. Phil-' o Noon and myself. How honorable and IiovF sincere he was when he made that denial to Judge Noon and myself his subsequent conduct has demon strated. If democratic nominations are to be made in the spirit which it is said pre vails at the drawing of a Lottery, Doctor Smith acted discreetly because he took two chances. He remains a candidate for the Legislature of Pennsylvania. John Snodgrass, Esq., having come be fore the public in a letter signed John Snodgrass, bearing date September 3d, 1850, at Bedford, in which he expresses his entire willingness to run for Congress; and accepts unhesitatingly a nomination made by four men out of a conference which should have been constituted of nine; and in which he declares HE WILL serve the district in the 32d Congress. And Alexander M'Kinney Esq. of West moreland county, by his card to the de mocracy of the district, dated on the 4th September 1850, having announced his intention of being a candidate also. I take this means of informing the democrats of this district that I am a candidate for Congress at the ensuing election, that I remain in the field, and that since my nomination in Johnstown by five dele gates out of nine, I have never left it. I will endeavor, according to my limi ted abilities, (if elected) to sustain the in terests of the district, and maintain the principles of the democratic party. I propose to my respected competitors to meet them on the "stump," on the shortest notice, commencing at any point in the district we may mutually agree on. I can assure them that in traversing Cam bria county they will be treated with res pect and civility, That no stones will be thrown at either of them by any friend of mine. Joseph Mcdonald. Ebensburg. Septembr 12th 1850. Conferee Meeting The democratic Conferees from this Representative District met at Bedford on the 10th inst., for the purpose of putting in nomination two democratic candidates to represent the counties oi tamona Bedford and Fulton in the next Legislature On motion, Hon. W. T. Dougherty of Bedford, was called to the chair, and G. W. Todd appointed Secretary. On motion of Samuel Karns, L,sq.t He- solved, That three Conferees from each of the counties of Bedford, Camaria and Fulton be admitted into this Conference, and if this ratio of representation should hereafter be endorsed by a majority ot the counties forming this representative Dis trict, then said ratio shall continue lor the period of seven years. The following gentlemen, after some discussion realative to the right of "Fulton county to a representation, took their seats as Conferees from their respective coun ties. Bedford Vf. T- J)oiTgherty, Sanroel Karns, Kobect t ry.. - w Cambria John- G. Given, James M. Riffle, G. W. Todd. Tulto.t David Fore, Dennis Daniels, W. P.Schell. It was then moved that the Conference proceed to nominate candidates for the Legislature, whereupon Judge Dougherty nominated Dr. Wm. A. Smith of Cam bria, and W. P. Schell Esq., nominated John Cessna Esq., of Bedford. Nomi nations were then closed, and on taking a vote it was found that these gentlemen were unanimously nominated the Demo cratic candidates for Assembly. On motion, Resolved, That we hereby pledge our warm and he&rty support ta the nominees of this Conference, and rec ommend them to the suffr ages of the ster ling democracy of this Bepreientiti ve District. On motion the Conference then journed. W. T. DOUGHERTY, Prtt. G. W. Todd, Secretary. ai- To the Democracy of the 19Ui Congressional Districts . Fellow Democrats . Never havintr had a desire to seek through the medium of the Press a public notoriety, I have heretofore been content to remain a quiet observer of passing events. Nor would I . at this time have anything to say requi ring your attention had truth, justice or honesty, influenced or controlled the feel ings and expressions of those who cau-r for the favor of political suffrage. But the appearance of an article in the last number of the "Westmoreland Republi can," over the signature of Alexander Mc Kinney, imperatively demands from me, a passing notice. 1 can easily make al lowance for wounded pride, and disap pointed aspirations, when thev come forth clothed in the language of truth and sin- ceruy, out xor we man who, forgetful of his nature, descends to vile and scurrilous invective, I can have no sympathy. It is not my intention to make any charge or insinuation against the purity of motive which governed the actions of the mem bers of the "Congressional Conferees" at Johns'own, as well as at Ligonier. Nor is it my desire to make an apology for the course pursued by me as one of the Con ferees from "Westmoreland county." My only object is to place before you a few plain unvarnished facts to correct a few false statements made by infuriated minds: and having done this, I shall be content to abide the issue, feeling confident that "Truth crushed to earth will rise (gain, The Eternal years of God ere hers, But Error smitten writhes in pain, And dies amidst its worshippers. Before proceeding to explain the cause of the course pursued by me in that Con ference, I shall briefly advert to some mistatements made by Alexander McKin ney, and contained in his very able appeal to you for your suffrage. lie then goes on to say that 1 boasted of having refused one thousand dollars offered me to desert my friend McKinney. I hesitate not to pronounce this statement false utterly, absolutely false false as ihe JJemocracy ot the man who stated it; neither McKinney or any other person heard me state that I was offered a Bribe. Again Mr. McKinney boastingly says he never sougni me nomination this also falls into the catalogue of misstatements. For 'tis a well known fact, that he not only traversed the different townships himself, prior to our primary election, but his aids were to be found in every nook and corner of the county trying by their duplicity and cunning to win you to his standard. These few illustrations of falsehood would doubtless be enough to convince you. Fellow Democrats, of the utter re gardlessness of this would be Representa tive of the 19th Congressional District for political Truth or Justice. But it may not be uninteresting to you to know how or by what manner of "Political chicane ry" this man Alexander McKinney (who has scarce attained the constitutional age to fit him for a Congressional representa tive; and whose celebrity as a politician and a Democrat has been gained by play ing "popgun' in the different Democratic meetings of our county,) managed to se cure the majority of the votes polled at our primary Election in June last. It was thus Mr. McKinney, knowing that the disinterested democrats of this county generally were favorable to the nomina tion of Gen. Joseph McDonald, who at that time was and is now the favorite son of "Little Cambria,'' and knowing further, that his friends would support the man in this county, who would be most likely to yield his support and influence to the choice of Cambria, "True to his Instincts," goes to those men, whom he supposed to have" influence, told them his great object was to defeat Mr. Snodgrass in this coun ty that he did not care about tbe nomina tion farther than his own county, thai if they aided him in the consummation ot this his cherished wish, that his choice, was and would be McDonald, before any body else, that in the event of his success here and failure in Convention, his friends should be the friends of Gen. McDonakI and his influence should aid in his nomi nation, that it was only by defeating Snodgrass here that "Cambria would have a chance." Believing . these representations to be true, these men, amongst whom J teas one, used their efforts in procuring for him the majority of the votes polled in Westmoreland county jit our primary election; thus you will see that McKinney is indebted, (not to his own mighty pow er of influence, for the position he attained at our June election,) but to the friends of McDonald, who aided in procuring the defeat of Snodgrass in our county. Bat fellow Democrats no sooner had McKin ney became aware of his success here than hope mighty hope swelled his bosom visions of "Congressional revel" flitting through his brain, and he doubtless began the study of "Political Oratory,' in antici pation of the great responsibility that was likely to fall upon his shoulders for sure was he that he would be TL Congressfiwrn and how was this to be accomplished; why he immediately forgot his indebted ness to the friends of McDonald, and quj etly instructed his "good men and true to defeat their admission in the conven tion, and this they managed to accompli'1! by this act of M'Kinney and his "good
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