The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-10-07
NEXT TUESDAY,!

The Importance of the election to take
place next Tuesday cannot be overstated.
II ls,Of vast Importance to the taxpayers
Of The State that an honest and competent
man should be elected Auditor General.
That officer may almost be said to carry
ihe key of the Treasury in his own poe
Iet lie is the sworn guardian of the
peoples money, and If he is dishonest or
via corruptly lend himself in aiding and
"3atting the profigate rings that are con-
s'autly seeking fraudulently to tilch mon
ay from the Treasury under the cloak of
spocjous and improvident legislation, the
wrong and injury that may be done by
him is almost incalculable. An instruct
i've lesson of the amount of evil that may
be luhicted on the people of the State by
gn efficient or dishonest Auditor General
10 ought by the enormous robbery and
emhezziement of George 0. Evans. That
dsggaceful swindle is fresh in the recullec
lion II all, and ought to impress its warn
ing .ndellbly on the minds of the people
D5es any man of intelligence believe that
If General M'Candless had had control of
the affairs of the Auditor Generals office
has had, Evans could have perpetrated 30
s'upendous a fraud-that the Legislature
would have assembled four times since
Evans was appointed the agent of the
state, and not one word of information be
C0nmunicated TO that body Of the amount
of money he had received from the general
gcrernment, and what disposition had
been made Of it? William MCandless
is made of sterner and very different ma
terial, and his whole life is guarantee
lhat he would never connive at peculation
or fraudulent appropriation of the public
tInds. Stanton, the radical candidate,
3, as nominated by a faction or ring
imposed of set Of public plnnderers,
we'll known at Harrisburg, whose open
and notorious business FOR years has been
10 plumber the Treasury in innumerabIe
and dishonest ways If Stanton should
3e elected he will be the mere creature of
his scheming and corrupt cabal, and will
De prepared to do their bidding. How
important IS it, then, to the people to have
an honest, high minded, conscientious man
like General M'Candless to watch over
and guard their money against the rapacity
of this horde of public plunderers.
Another reason why the coming cleo
ton is an important one, and especially
go TO the Democracy Of Cambria county,
is, that it will be the duty of the next
Legislature to apportion the State into
Congressional districts. The Democracy
of Cambria want a representative at IIar-
risburg who will take care of their politi-
cal interests, and who will not permit
them to be swallowed up in the greedy
maw of radicalism If William II. Rose
is elected that game will not succeed, but
if through sheer and criminal indifference
Samuel Henry, who is bitter and un>
compromising radical, should succeed,
then as soon might we expect mercy and
protection for the lamb from it's old and
hereditary enemy, the wolf. as to look for
even handed justice to be meted out to
the Democratic party by such an unyield-
ing Republican as Samuel Henry. He
is the peculiar representative of power
in the radical party that now controls the
Legislation of the country, both national
and State, and whose watchword is
death to the Democracy !" If he is
elected, no man is so arrant fool rs not
TO know that it could only have been done
by Democratic votes. Is there Demo
crat worthy of the name in Cambria coun-
ty who will knowingly and designedly
contribute to that result! Suppose that
he is elected by the votes of good natured,
easy Democrats. and that his vote is the
pivot on which turns the political COM
plexion of the House Of Representatives,
can any unrefecting Democrat who has
been seduced into his support exclaim,
Thou canst not say did it o. Would
he not in his shame and remorse rather
teel like calling on the mountains to cover
him and hide him from the swift wrath
of a betrayed and an Outraged party :
How any Democrat who loves his party
and its principles can willingly incur the
such a heavy responsibility, is beyond our
conception. 1t Is no time 10 trade horses
while crossing stream, and every Dem
ocrat. when he casts his ballot next Tues
day, ought to feel as if the result of the
election might depend upon has o,cn rote.
If there is one Democrat in Cambria. or a
sufficient number of Democrats, after a
calm review of the situation and the
weighty responsibility resting upon him
and them, who is or are prepared to be
niisrepresented at Harrisburg, then on Ais
and he'r heads be the consequences of
their own folly. If they will show them
selves to be wilful!y and fatally blind to
the consequences of their own act-if they
will sow the whiriwind in order TO reap
the storm-if they will deliberately put a
weapon into ;he hands of the enemy with
which to knock out their own brains
tue Democracy of Cambria, while it can
aud ,oiU survive the blow, will not forget
the false treachery of those who inflicted