The Bedford Gazette

THE BRIBERY OF FILLMORE EDITORS
BY GOV. FORD.

The Daily News, the organ of the American party in Pennsylvania, is very severe upon the editors who last Fall changed from Fillmore to Fremont. It keeps the gentlemen who were bought by the Fremont agent, Gov. Ford, and others who were bribed in a different way and by different Fremont pursers, continually in "hot water." It taunts them with bitterest sarcasms, and when they pick up courage enough to reply, it laughs at them "consumedly." We copy the following interesting morceau from its columns, which, we have no doubt, will operate to the extreme delectation of our readers:

Another Man on the Anxious Bench.—The editor of the Lewistown Gazette, who last year started out for Fillmore, then for Fremont and finally for fusion, is anxious to know whether his paper is on the Ford list now in the possession of Mr. Swoope. He makes all sorts of protestations of his innocence, and after going on to say what hard names he will call any one who accuses him of having been bribed, winds up as follows:—"Let the list be published, and the parties made known, so that justice may be done to all and we pledge ourselves, so far as the Gazette is concerned, if it will appear that Gov. Ford has set us down among the number, we will spend something to know what he has done with the money." As Mr. Swoope has this job on hand, and is abundantly able to satisfy the public, we can only assure the Gazette man that his curiosity will be satisfied in due time, and that he will probably have a chance to "spend something" to find out what Ford did with the money. There is rare sport ahead.—The publication of the Ford list we apprehend, will stir up a pretty kettle of fish. When rogues are once brought at loggerheads, then honest men will get their dues.