The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-24
The JOhnSloyvn TrIOune

we nave never sought any controversy
with the Tribune or its nominal editor. We
have always wished him and every other
brother of the press pecuniary success and
personal happiness. Besides. we have al
ways believed that the province of the news
| paper press is the advocacy of sound princi>
Piles. without descending to scurrilous attacks
on individuals, especially those neither hold>
ing nor seeking Office.
We had another reason for not desiring
any words with the Tribune. "Who can
| touch pitch and not be defiled % Who that
| publishes paper to be read by the wives
and daughters of its patrons, could be scduced
into vulgar controversy with New York
rat, as destitute of controversial decency and
the common amenities of life as he is of hon
| esty and truth-a man who openly avows
| that he always makes the end justify the
means, and that when he has "point TO
Make" no purity of personal character af-
| fords any shield from his falsehoods and viu-
dictive personal abuss2 Besides, we are not
an adept at blackguardism the Tribune
man could give US ten in the game and beat
US, and we court defeat in no such ignoble
strife.
For defending an upright and faithful Of
! ficer against an attack made in another
county. the Tribune, when ample apology is
made, renews the attack, and because it is
resented, opens up his filthy billingsgate
battery upon dozen or Sc of Democrats ;
not that they ever harmed him-not that it
had anything to do with the question-but
because he likes to wallow in this mire of
defamation.
The Freeman of Ebensburg is owned and
controlled by band of political There's" ,s
the outset of an article in the last number of
the Tribune. We assert and know that we
will be believed when We state that no man in
| Ebensburg or elsewhere has any control
| direct or Indirect, over the columns of the
Freeman but ourself, and that we possess
the exclusive right to accept or reject any
matter offered for publication. The Tribune
man knows this, but is black-hearted enough
to assert the contrary. 1t then goes on, out
of its own editorial brain, to describeiimagin-
ary editors, and as there is nothing good
in that brain, makes them out a sad set in
| deed.
The Tribune then "goes for" the Sheriff's
sale, lace wells, ETC., and writes half COL
umn of diluted vituperation which is in
tended to create harsh feelings among his
neighbors in Johnstown and vicinity
This malicious simpleton finally agrees to
''let Know Nothingism stand for the pres
ext" He finds it more congenial gust no,o
| to endeavor to stir up the Irish citizens
! against the Germans and the Germans against
| the Irish. But a juvenile Know Nothing
knows little of the German or Irish Demo-
| Gratis. They are Democrats because they
have taken an oath to support the Constitu-
| tion of their adopted country-because the
| Democratic party accords them all their civil
| rights and civil privileges, and opposes all
laws. ''local option laws or otherwise, that
interferes with the natural and inherent
rights of man.
The Tribune knows still less about the
| principles of the Democratic party That
party nomnates no man to office without
inquriDg, First, Is he Democrat2 Sec
ondly, Is he honest and capable? These
| questions rightly answered, it matters not to
! Democrats whether the candidate be native
or naturalized-German, Irish or Welsh
they nominate and elect him if thsy can.
The Moons, the Murrays, the McDonaids,
the McGoughs. the Keans, the Griffns, the
O'FrielS, the McNamaras, the Coxes, and
scores of others. were not nominated to Office
and elected in Cambria county because they
were lrishmen, but because they were "hon>
est and capable" The Hildebrands, the
Bucks, the Bonackers, tie Bergs, the BIochs,
the Annas, and others, were not nominated
| and elected because they were Germans, but
because they were "honest and capable''
The Prices. the Lloyds, the Humphreys, and
others, were not nominated ard elected be-
! cause merely they were Welsh, but because
they were ''honest and capable"
"a mans man for "a that" aud no true
| Democrat ever inquiries where mans birth
| place is, if he is qualified to discharge his
trust. This the Tribune cannot of course
understand. and hence its ill-contrived eff
forts to destroy the harmony and success Of
the Democracy must signally fail.