The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-05-14
ERENSBURG:
-rne County superintendency.

We last week made the announcement
that Mr.. J. FRANK CoNDoN, of Johns
town, had been elected Superintendent OF
the common schools OF this county by the
eonvention of School Directors recently
holden here, and furthermore stated that
that gentleman had been so elected as the
caucus nominee of the Democratic por-
tion Of the Directors. We are now pre-
pared to shed some more light upon the
subject. Mr.. CoNDoN, it appears from
the acknowledgement of the Johnstown
Democrat, "appeared (before tho caucus
aforemeutiored) and voluntarily pledged
himself as being nnequivccally Demo
qrat-anS not only Democrat, but a
.Oopperhead Democrat. And the same
raper further adds :tUnder no other
circumstances could Mr.. G. or any other
man have been elected"
Here we have the whole thing as plain
as pike-staff. With partisan feeling
30 intense as to be almost beyond belief,
Democratic caucus was called by few
OF tho prominent men Of that orgamza-
4ion Just prior to the holding of the
convention, all the Directors of Democrat
!, rrocliyities were bamboozied into at
,euding its deliberations and being bound
thereby, and the various candidates for
the Superintendency were required to
appear and define their political positions,
er be debarred from any chance of elec-
tion. For, be it remembered, Cambria
county is ard always has been largely
Democratic, and where party lines are
thus strictly drawn, to secure Democrat
10 caucus nomination for an elective Office
is about equivalent to election itself
These are facts, and cannot be gain
sayod The caucus was the sole work Of
few rotten Democratic politicians, who,
for strictly partisan purposes, and with
the alterior design of injuring the com
mon school system aud its adjuncts,
dragged outside issues into the arena,
and made the election of the superinten-
dent question of politics This is GER
tsinly beyond all precedent. The men
engaged IN the dirty business, albeit
+hrcwd and acute to intensity, lave in
iured themselves thereby more than they
Imagine. From honorable, fair dealing
men, they receive only contempt and
-obloquy for their caicanery, while iu their
own hearts they must know they have
acted the contemplate part
It has been asserted by the Democrats,
as sort Of palliation for their own mis-
deeds, that the Republicans had caucus
nominee before the convention, in the
person of Mr DANIEL ". EVANS. This
is most urcquivocally false. The Repub-
licans held no caucus, or anything OF the
kind, and never had the slightest intention
Of so doing In fact, we do not believe a
single Republican candidate for the Su-
rerintcndeucy could have been prevailed
upon to so demean himself as to accept a
PARTISAN nomination for the office. a
glance at the figures composing the first
aud only ballot had will show the assertion
20 be correct that no Republican caucus
nominee was before the convention
See:
Frank Condor. Sc s. B. M'Cormick,- 2
Daniel ". Evans, 10 Miss n. Hindman,
Henry Ely, 70 ! d enhp.iiah'
John +. Allen, James fo'ts'
Now, Mr. EVANS and Mr. LILY arc
both Republicans, aud received nearly the
same vote This would of itself COM
pie,ely disprove the silly caslG,d of a
Republcar Caucus having been held.
Personally, re have nothing to say
against Mr.. CoNDoN. We believe him
10 be an estin,able young man, and wei
qualified to watch over and superintend
the common school IN .erests OF the coua
ty. But politicaliy-pro"idins always
that the assertion of the Johnstown Dem
.,,,ut az aforesaid, and other arerments o
ike imrprt, be eorrect-we detest pr
rospoN. IT there be any Office Within
the gif, Of the people which should b'
l~p, pure aud unsuilied-0 thing spar