The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-10-28
Findlay's majority in the district. = %
These I6,irAs which are rrficinI would

1neS6 n2uTeS, WnlCn are DUGCtut5 A"Ould
seem to dispose cffectually of the whole case,
ard would elect Findlay. but that plain and
legal result is not IN accordance with the
radical arithmetic However, We viii let
the Somerset Democrat explain, in its own
emphatic language, how Hiram Findlny is
to be cheated out Of his seat in The State
Senate, to which he has been fairly and un-
doubtedy elected:
On Friday following the election, the Retura
Judges having met, 1t appeared that the return
from Allegheny township. which gave Findlay
n majority of forty, was somewhat informal
The Radical jud. es of the return conference
at once saw that-if this return could be cast
aside, Scull would have majority in the Dis
trict CT seventeen votes. An effort was made
to have the conference adjourn to Saturday,
thus giving the election officers Of Allegheny
township ample ii me to bring in proper re
turn. This the Judges refused to do, declaring
that if the proper return from that township
was not in by IL O'Clock, Midnight, II should
not be counted This was at nearly o'clock
P. NJ, giving only eight hours for messengers
to ride distance of over fifty miles to secure
a proper return. Although there was seem
ing show of fairness. they well knew that the
trip could not be made, and they only acted the
part OF the devil who proposed to barter away
the world on former memorable occasion =
At the silent hour of midnight the conference
again assembled. Allegheny had still not come.
Another effort was made to have the confer
ence adIourn to noxt day, but it was choked off
by few borough interlopers who, in whisper
ings loud enough 10 be heard, urged the Judges
to move nm adjournment sine die, which was
done amid shouts of savage delight that they
had gained temposary triumph, when thirty
minutes more would have brought the Allegha-
I nv return all rioht The Democratic Return
Judges refused to take part in these outrageous
proceedings. and moved an adjournment to Sat
urday morning. They assembled at the time
/ appointed organized in the regular way, count
| cd the Allegheny return and appointed one of
! their number ss Return Judge TO meet similar
I Jadges from Bedford and Fulton counties. W e
need hardly add that the &C ion of the Radical
| Return Judges is most severely censured and
/ condemned, not only by Democrats, but by
/ scores of / Ugh minded and honorable Reaubl-
| cGns. II is also a matter of pleasure to state
/ that among the Radical crew who thus violated
/ their oaths were some Republican Judges who
/ very unwilinsly followed the lead of the revo-
/ lutionary gentlemen of that body. Some were
4 simply mistaken in their duty-others were
wiiully and brntally cognizant OF the crime
| they were committing On more fitting oc-
casion We may single out these gentlemen and
! expose them more properly to their fellow citi-
zens. To reject return simply on account OF
/ informality is to break down law with ven
| eeance If for simple error on the part OF 4
/ stupid election board the whole people OF a
| township are to be disfranchised, then iaIeweli
to our boasted liberty. The right OF suffrage
! is one too sacred to be thus torn away, and a
! people who would for an instant submit to 1t
are worse than slaves. But when before was
such thing heard of In the county OF Ale
GhanY, IN this State at the same election, there
were Iwo. townships Whose returns were IN