The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-17


er-in-law of the Treasurer, who has enough |
of the County's money to start a Shoe Store, |
is nominated, and the Treasurer, being a
cousin of another Director, and a cousin of
the candidate for Sheriff, is to be appointed
Steward Of the Poor House, so that these
worthless can get their money back, ex ne.
cessitdte. This is the plan. it may be alter
ed as to form, but not as 70 substance. But
bad as this Is. the operations of your Cons
mlssloner's oIIi0e is far worse. Think of
pay ing your Commissioners 81, 10000 for
doing the business which good business
man can do forty in days. Think too of
paying S2,600.00 for the support of aboGt,
On an average, six persons for year in your
jail. But you may ask, have we not Audi
tors 10 settle all these accounts yearly. IN
fortunately the Auditors seldom know any
thing about their business They come to
town, aud tle first persons with whom they
confer are the Commissioners. They tell the
Aud! o they must have q Clerk, and that
the commissioners Clerk is tha proper per
son f.; he Is employed, and as one of the Au-
dltors Is always 10 be Commissioner next
year, any anu all bills are soon passed.
They then go to the Poor House, where
the Directors Clerk and the Commissioners
Clerk soon settle the accounts and cover all
tracks. This is the system, and it is time
the people knew it. The papers will never
say word, because they almost live by re-
ceiving exorbitant bills for public printing.
People OF Cambria county, whatever denial
Of the above may be made, you may rest
assured that the half has not been told.
The remedy is in your hands. and if you DO
not use it, you deserve to be taxed to death.
Break up these camps of dishonesty, the
Commissioners ana Poor House Directors,
and your burdens will be lightened, other
wise those burdens will be doubled within a
few years.
This mean, poisonous libel was without
a signature, and was accompanied by a
ticket headed by Sharswood and Linton,
and the rest made up of the radical can
didates, 1t elected the following reply:
CAMBRIA FREEMAN-EXTRA.
MIDNIGHT LYING.
The Democratic ticket of Cambria county
! was fairly nominated, in broad daylight, in
| an open Convention, where all the world
! might witness the proceedings. From that
! time to the present neither Of the two re-
| publican papers in Cambria county, con-
| Quoted by men responsible for what they
/ say have dared to utter word against the
/ honesty or fitness of the respective candi-
dates, and when We made no charge against
! the Republican candidates, we supposed the
canvass would be conducted on principle
/ We were mistaken. \ foul and SANDER
Gus midnight handbill has gone out, on the
eve of the election, not signed b. the re
spectacle Chairman Of the Republican Com
mitt' DR.. ! ell, or by any responsible
| name, no Republican in the county being
mean enough to father it. No doubt it was
| Fatched in the midn GIT orgies of the League.
We DO not blame the Republicans HERE
as the only ca udidate on their ticket from
this section of the county, Samuel Singleton,
Esq, has been sacrificed by the movement
This haadbIll contains more fII-ehoods
than sentences, and is libel not only on
nearly all the leading Democrats in the
county, but CT the Democratic party itself
Not content with lying about the candidates,
IL has the wickeC'ness to slander Col. Me-
/ Dermilt. brave soldier, as a heavy default
er without the shadow Of truth, as he has
not dollar Of public money in his hands
| Thus are the soldiers Of the Republic SLAM
/ dered for the purpose, of electing Canadian
( Rad cal Sheriff and a poor tool Poor House
/ Director.
1t viii be time enough after the election
! to trace up the parties to this infamous libel
/ For the present We can only say to our fellow
| Democrats, BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST
FALSE TICKETS. EXAMINE livery TICKET BE-
! FORE YOU VOTE, for along with this handbill
| is Republican ticket bearing the names of
! Judge Sharswood and Col. Linton, and the
/ balance of the ticket Republican, and an
other with all the Democratic nominees upon
/ it excepting John d. Blair and John D.
! Thomas.
Fellow Democrats! we shall carry the
! State; but let not the election of Judge
/ Sharswood, and the Joy it will afford, be
! damPeTred by the defeat of single candidate
on our ticket, especially when the effort is
made through secret midnight handbills.
r. l.. JOHNSTON,
Chairman Dem. Co. Com.
But it was not needed. The people OF
Cambria county have too much sense to
swallow a midnight fetch of this kind.
/ Some preserved the bill as literary curl
osity, some burnt it, and some even con-
verted it to an unscemly purpose-but
perhaps not score of them voted the
ticket which accompanied it. On the
contrary, while the fraudulent ticket con-
spired with Col. Lintons popularity to
throw our friend, Mr.. Singleton, behind
his ticket, the reaction on the part OF
right-rHinded Republicans, ran the other
Democratic candidates ahead of Shars-
wood.
The ign ORANGE of the poor devil who
got up the bogus ticket is equal to his i'm
pudence, as he spelled Sheriff Rickman's
nauc wrong, took an ''1' out of Com
missioner Flansgan's name, an GA and
sstn out of Treasurer McDermitt's, g
s'B' out of Coroner Stineman's, and made
an Auditor of Thomas Van Scoyoc insteat