The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-19

Daniel j. Morrell in the Seventeenth district,
composed of the iron counties of the Juniata
Valley, by majority of eleven votes. Mr..
Morrell is we'll known as one Of the msmbers
of the Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown,
Pa, and as part owner of the Bessemer
steel patent. His votes in Congress In favor
of his own selfish interests were directly
challenged in the contest, and he was de-
feated on that issue. His ma ority two years
ago was 1904. The overflow of this member
of the tariff ring will do much to break down
its power.
Henry Sherwood, Democrat, defeats VIM.
II. Armstrong in the Eighteenth district by
twenty-five votes on the official count. This
is great victory. In 1868 Armstrong was
sent to Congress by a ma jority of POPS votes
His bad record in Congress in favor Of the
tariff monopolists, the land -iobbers and
other combinations to defraud and Cypress
the people, has caused this great revulsion in
public sentiment Two counties of this
Pennsylvania district lie along the Southern
New York line and the same state of opinion
on political questions exists on both sides of
the border. In Chemung Steuben, and AL
leghsny counties results similar to that ia
Potter and Mexican counties may be antici-
pated in November.
In the three Pennsylvania Congressional
districts above mentioned the aggregate ma
iorities of all three Democratic candidates
already notice has been given that the seats
of two them will contested. This has
been the radical game of late years. When
defeated by the people they have CARRIE
their cases before partisan committee of
elections in Congress, and have corruptly
secured fraudulent reversal of the popular
decree. But the people will not patiently
witness the renewal of such outrages in the
next Congress.
xryl,O rnnf 70 in
with majority of 1912 votes, is defeated by
Samuel Griffith, Democrat, in the Twentieth
districts and Donley in the Twenty-fourth
district, finds his majority of 1923 completely
reversed and Captain William McClelland,
Democrat, elected over him by majority of
nearly seven hundred. The same causes
which operated against Cessna, Morrell, and
Armstrong worked with double force against
these radical members in the extreme western
portion of the State.
Henry ID. Foster succeeds John Covode in
the Forty second Congress from the Twenty
first district. He was defrauded of his seat
in the present Congress by the Committee of
Elections, but he is now returned by ma
iority of 700-a vote so decisive that no COM
mittee of Congress will dare to interfere with
this verdict of the people. Covode himself
did not risk a contest and Andrew Stewart,
an octogenarian, familiarly known in Penn
sylvania politics as ''Tarif Andy, was thrust
forward to meet defeat at the hands of free
trade Democrat. Mr.. Foster has already
served in Congress, and is an able and expe-
riepced leader.
In the strong Democratic district of Lu-
Zerpe and Susquehanna a radical is elected to
Congress by apathy and divisions in the
Democratic party. In the districts in which
we have recorded the success of the Demo-
Gratis, they won by squarely facing the radi-
calls on their tariff record in the present and
former Congresses. But in Luzerne the can
vass was timidly and coldly conducted against
the monopolists, and defeat is the conse-
quence. The same may be said of the Leba-
non and Schuylkill districts, in which an
energetic campaign on the true issues would
have secured Democratic triumph.
Pennsylvania has done nobly. There is q
net gain of five Democrats for the Forty
second Congress, making a change of ten
votes in that body. Now for New York
| Let us make sure that our success is as great
in proportion and as credtable to us as that
! which has been achieved by our Pennsylvania
! friends.
At an early day we shall analyze the sue
cesses which have beer obtained in Indiana
and Ohio. We have taken up Pennsylvania
| first, because the result in that State is so
complete an answer to the timid counsels of
those who would have the Democratic party
dissemble its convictions on the doctrine of
free trade for the sake of winning Pennsyl-
vania votes. This election shows that even
in Pennsylvania manly stand on free-trade
ground is what insures the support of the
Democratic masses.