The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-11-04
Some BIunders Corrected.

In the Harrisburg Patriot of Monday, Oct.
25th. appeared the following editorial:
The senior editor of this journal gratefully
acknowledges the honorable mention of his
connection with the late canvass, made by
the Altoona Yifldicater, Huntingdon MOni-
tor, and other papers, but begs to say that
without the efficient help Of the true men Of
the counties placed under his charge, he
could have done nothing, and that to them,
rather than TO him. belongs the credit of the
gains exhibited in the returns of those coun-
ties. The democrats of Adams, Bedford,
Blair, Cumberland, Dsuphin, Franklin, Full
ton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lebanon, Mifflin,
Perry, Somerset and York have good reason
to congratulate themselves on the results
which they have achieved. We speak of
these counties as constituting one of the di-
visions of the State, made to facilitate the
late canvass, by the chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee. At the October
election, last year, In this division, the radi-
cal majority was about l 800, and at the Ne
vember election Grant had 8 ,668 this year
Packer has about 500 majority, showing a
gain Of 2. 900 on the October election and Of
over 900 on the November election of last
year. In the last legislature the division
was represented by one democrat in the
House and one in the Senate. In the next
legislature it will be represented in the House
by four democrats and in the Senate by two.
This shows gain of three democratic Rep
rssentatives and one democratic Senator in
the division. These are cheering results and
should inspire us with renewed hope for the
final redemption of the State from the DOM
instion of the radical party.
While it is not our intention either to de-
tract from or under estimate the services Of
the Patriot and its "senior editor" during
the late political campaign, we nevertheless
propose to correct a tet0 paipable errors in
the foregoing article. We would not take
any notice of them if they had appeared i'll
an obscure country journal, but as they had
their origin in the Patriot. which claims to
be the central organ of the party, they seem
to us to demand passing notice.
1t is not correct that "tte decision" referred
to by the Patriot was represented in the last
legislature by one democrat in the House and
one in the Senate. In the last House of Re-
representatives. there was one democrat from
Adams. one from Cumberland and tco from
York, making toHr members, or three more
than the Patriot accounts for. In the last
Senate the democratic party of ''the dirision"
spoken of by the "seniOr editor" of the Pa
triot, was represented by Mr.. Duncan, of the
Franklin and Adams district, and by Mr..
Miller, Of the York and Cumberland district,
thus making ttoO democratic Senators, in
stead of one as the Patriot asserts. Nor is it
true, as that paper claims, that ''in the next
legislature it (the said division) will be rep
resented in the. House by four democrats and
in the Senate by ttco." In the nert House
."!he division" will be represented by one
from Adams, one from Cumberland, ttoo from
Franklin and Perry, tsco from York and t,Oo
from the Huntingdon district, making eight
members. instead of four according to the
the Patriot. In the neat Senate the demo
cracy of ''the division" alluded to will have
three Senators. instead of t,co accounted for
by the political arithmetic of the Patriot.
1t will thus be seen that the "senior edit
or" of the Patriot does not claim for himself
and his '.division' the full mede of political
That he did his whole duty is evident from
the results indicated above, and that the
democracy Of his division" did their entire
duty ia equally plain.
And now will the ''senior editor" of the
Patriot inform us acho had charge of the ''di-
vision" embracing the counties of ,Luzerne
aud Schuylkill2 As for Philadelphia, we
know, or think we know, all about that ''di-
vision" But we would like to be enlight-
ened as to who had "charge" Of those two
reliable democratic counties, Luzerne and
Schuylkill. We do not say anything about
Carbon, which is Judge Packers own coun-
ty, for the reason that, according to the old
adage, ga prophet has no honor in his own
country"
The elections in New York. Maryland,