Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-11-01
The XsYsh Senatorial District.


GETTING a DOSE or THEIR OWN MEDICINE
The Radical papers of the State are
terribly exercised just now over the
action of the return judges OF the
Nineteenth Senatorial district, who
refused to give certificate of election
to Weakley on account of the villain.
Gus frauds perpetrated by him and his
friends at tho polls. To read their
charges, denunciations, threats and
warnings, ono would almost be induced
to believe that such an outrage (Y)
upon tho rights Of the people had
never before been attempted; that
such n fearful disregard Of tho voice
of the ballot box had never before
been thought Of. But, unluckily for
these would be preservers of the pub.
lie peace and purity, preccdcnts cstab
lished by themselves stare them in
the face, and compel them to admit
that the very 'outrage" they now
charge upon the Democratic return
Judges of Cumberland and Franklin
counties has been committed BY them.
selves time and again.
In the Congressional election Of
1870, in the district Of the counties OF
Indiana, Westmorcland and Fayette,
John Covode and Henry ID. Foster
were the candidates. At tho meeting
Of the county return judges it was
found that Mr. Foster, the Democratic
candidate, had a majority of the votes,
aud the Judges from the counties OF
Westmoreland and Fayotto so corti
fed but the Radical Judge from lndi-
ana county refused to sign the certii.
cate because, as he said, n fraud was
alleged to have been perpetrated
somewhere in Fayctte county at the
polls. This Certificate, with tho vote,
signed by q majority Of the judges of
the district, showing that Mr.. Foster
had been duly elected, was forwarded
to tho Radical Governor of the State,
whose duty it was 10 certify to the
election of Mr. Foster DM he do Il !?
No; but made the excuse that fraud
having been perpctrated at the cleo
tion, Congress itself should be the
Judge as to which, Covode or Foster,
should have the seat, and wrote let.
ter recommending that it should be
given to Covode.
In the case of Greenbank and Thay-
er, candidates for the Judge of the
District Courts of Philadelphia, only
last fall, when the Radical return
Judges met and found that Greenbank,
the Democratic candidate, had rcceiv-
cd a large majority Of the votes cast,
they deliberately set TO work and
threW out enough Democratic precincts
to elect the Radical candidate, on the
plea that frauds had been committed
in those precincts.
With these precodents within our
own State, and within the recollection
of every reader-made by the Radical
party-endorscd by every Radical
paper, and supported by Radical
voters, we should like to know how
any Radical can refuse TO acknowledge
that the return judges OF Cumberland
and Franklin did precisely right in
doing Just as they did.
lfit was right for a Radical Cover.
nor TO make himself the judge as to
whether fraud has been committed TO
secure the election Of Henry d. Foster
to Congress il it was right for the
Radical return judges of Philadelphia
to say whether frauds had been com.
mitted to secure tho election Of Green.
bank, why was it not right for the
return judges of Cumberland and
Franklin TO say that frauds had been
committed to secure The election Of
wOuld-be Senator Weakley? viii
some Radical Solon toll us?
Tho only difference la tho cases we
have alluded to is that the Radical re-
turn Judges took the matter into their
own hands and decided for themselves,
while the Democratic return judges
have very wisely referred the whole
matter to the Senate, which body, the
Constitution says, "shall be the judge
of the qualifications Of its own mem.
bers = BsliefoHte IPdtchman.