The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-09-29
n. Milton Speer.

The democrats of the Seventeenth district,
composed of the counties of Cambria, Blair,
Huntingdon and Mif1in, have nominated
R. Milton Speer;, Esq. of Huntingdon, for
Congress. Mr.. Speer is good lawyer IN
full practice at the bar, is one of the most
eloquent and effective stump speakers in the
State, and Is n true democrat The conven-
tion appreciated the work that was before
them, and in Mr. Speer they have nominated
formidable opponent to Mr. Morrell, the
representative Of the Cambria Iron Works.
In going before the people of tie Seven
teenth district, Mr.. Speer win be able to pre-
sent the record of Daniel j. Mor1ell His
vote stands recorded in favor of every nfa-
nous scheme of plunder that has been pre-
sented in Congress during the last three
years. There is not land job flinging
away millions of acres of the public domain
to greedy railroad monopolists that had not
supporter in Daniel j. Morrell He voted
for any and every swindle that would bring
vote for the Besseme steel ring. that gi-
gantic monopoly which robs the people of
millions annually, and cripples railroad en-
terprise for its own benefit.
For the sake of the Bessemer tariff which
has raised steel rails to the enormous price
of one hundred and five dollars a ton, Dan
iel j. Morrell voted against every proposition
that was honestly designed to relieve the
public burdens. For that he voted to re-
duce the duty on pig iron two dollars ton.
while pretending to advocate oenrsylvania's
interests. To obtain support in Congress
for the Bessemer swindle, he voted to admit
bogus represen tatives from the Southern
States who had been defeated by maiorities
of thousands. To illustrate the character Of
the man who represents the Cambria Iron
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district, he has on several occasions had the
etfrontery to print in the Congressional Globe
at public expense ESSAYS on political economy
and finance. not line of which be wrote
himself. While voting the money of the
people into his own pocket, he had not the
ability to utter one word in his own defense
when attacked for his course on the floor Of
Congress. Yet he gives out as his own
speeches essays written by another. which
he did not even venture to read in Congress,
but asked leave TO publish in the Globe
de did not, like Sprague. print his bogus
speeches at private expense, but burdened
the official newspaper of Congress with the
intolerable trash. Morrell is odious to the
radicals Of his district. They are convinced
by the record that he has used his position
merely for his own selfish sggrandizement,
and not for the public advantage His only
purpose in going TO Congress is to maintain
the ring that has SO long plundered the peo-
pie of this country. They are assured, from
their knowledge of him., that he is a worse
humbug than John Coyode, for Covode was
always too much of man to conceal his
own ignorance by employing others to write
his tariff speeches. This is the man whom
Mr.. Speer will meet in the Seventeenth dis
trict, and if he does not make it as hot for
Morrell as one of his taxed Bessemer bars,
we are greatly mistaken in the temper of the
people of the Juniata valley.-Ha1risbu burg
Patriot