Bedford Inquirer

"WHISTLING TO KEEP THEIR COURAGE UP."

The last Gazette publishes a number of local elections in cities, and small towns where the Locofocos carried their ticket, and rejoices thereat exceedingly. This is the only kind of victories it gets to crow over. In the strongest Republican or Locofoco States, there are always some towns or counties that are on the opposite side, and these are the kind only that that paper publishes. It takes care not to mention the large majority of places where the opposition triumphed, but then this would not answer its purpose.

It crows greatly over an election for Judge in Wisconsin, but don't tell its readers the facts, and that no Locofoco was elected there. The Republicans are all powerful in that young giant of the West. They nominated a candidate for Judge, who, on account of local causes, was unpopular with the party; consequently a portion of the party nominated another man and voted for him. Locofocoism being in a vast minority, and seeing the hopelessness of electing a candidate of their own, voted for the latter Republican, Dixon, and he was elected. They now claim it as a Locofoco triumph. Bah!

That paper also crows over the recent election in Harrisburg. That city has been Locofoco by from 300 to 700 majority for many years. Last fall Wm. H. Kepner, the present Locofoco mayor, ran for Commissioner, and had, in this same Harrisburg, 53 majority. And this spring he has only 135 majority—a loss in six months of just 385! Locofocism is welcome to all the capital it can make out of that. If, in six months, the Opposition gain in a city the size of Harrisburg 385 votes, what will our majority next fall be, in comparison to the last, when our majority was about 18,000, in the State?