The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-11-04
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Geary and Brewster.

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The Phiiadelphia Post. leading radical
paper, speaks thus of the Geary and Brews-
ter imbroglio:
Governor Geary is secure in his office
for three years, but he begins his second
term a dishonored man. He earned long
ago the distrust of his party. and his re-
election bv majority thousands less than
that of Judge Williams, was due only to tho
necessity of defeating Packer. Yet 80 gene
raj was the want of faith in his word and
his ability, that many Republican papers
could not give him personally any support ;
while others, like the EUening Telegraph,
openly accused him of falsehood, corruption.
and unfathomable meanness. We are sor-
ry to say this. but Governor Geary has COM
PEELED it. To be silent-1owa would be TO be-
come his aceemplice.-s-H He has maGe his bar
gain and may profit by it. The mere change
of one man fer another Is not the question .
/ The crime "a not that Mr. Brewster is re-
moved, for that might have been honorably
effected, but that Geary accomplished his
object in a cowardly and deceitful manner.
! The crime is that he has surrendered his
administration to the worst men in the party
to them he must henceforth look for the
support which he has hitherto had from men
of honor .an1 sincerity. He has disgraced
tie office he holds aud the State, and here
after be must be watched as 40 Governor OF
Pennsylvania has been before" - = -
JUDGE BREWSTER AND THE DISTRICT AT
ToRNEY.
It is now charged that Judge F. Carol
Brewster was promised the Attorney-Gene
raship as a reward for his decision in the
contested election case, charge which takes
some color from the notorious fact that he
was the candidate of the men who compell-
ed Geary to remove his predecessor. The
Democrs tic papers, of New York and Phila-
deIphia asserted. before ARorney General
Bre,oster tCGs remoDed that one Of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas was TO be
appointed in his stead as a reward for politi-
cal services.
Now we find that the last act Of Judge
Brewster on the bench was TO stretch mis-
authority to the utmost to secure Mr.. Glib
bons in Office, Judge Peirce was TO hold the
court on Monday, but before he had taken
his seat Judge Brewster appeared, and Mr..
Gibbons was sworn in as District Attorney
At this time Judge Brewster had already ac-
cepted the Office of Attorney General from
Geary His interference was indecent.
Mr. Sheppard, when it was decided by the
Court that he was defeated in The election.
gave notice that he should appeal to the Su-
preme Court, but in the meanwhile retired.
with the request that Mt. Gibbons should
succeed him. This was honOrably done
But we cannot but think that Judge Brews
ter was in suspicious hurry to swear Mr.
Gibbons in, and would have saued himself
much censure If he had left the matter en-
tirely with Judge Peirce.
WHO ARE ARY's MASTERS
Up to within three weeks of the election.
Messrs. Mcclure and Kemble were Geary's =
enemies, and openly boasted that they would
defeat him. Their enmity was well known
In all political circles to be savage and un-
relsuting, and it was aimed at Geary Princi
pally, because Acknowledgement Brewster
had been the means of battling their designs
upon the Judicial, City and State admins
tration.
About three weeks before the election
they changed their tactics. Geary was to
be supported and elected. Four Thousand
voters, who were claimed TO be ia the keep
ing OF the triumvirats. were to be led to the
polls to vote for him. At the same time
these gentlemen bossted that the Attorney
General would be removed.
Thus. as the price of the votes these men
control, the Governor meanly yielded TO a
perernptory demand from beaten Philadel-
phia politicians that the man who had baf-
fed their evil designs should be turned out
of the Office he had used to protect the pub
lie interest.
Col. Fitzgerald claims to be the first man
to discover Gov. Geary's untruthfulness.
We believe he is right. His paper constant
ly aud consistently denounced the Governor
at time when the majority of Republicans
could not believe that the Governor could
say one thing and do another. The Colonel
may congratulate himself on his foresight,
and the public will henceforth pay more re
spect 10 his warnings. Had his advice been
taken in 1868 the State would have beer
| spared this disgrace.