The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
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EBENsBURG, Sept. %, 1871.
10 The Editor of The CnlnIric L-r.ccrnnr

EBENsBURG, Sept. 20, 1871.
To The Editor of the Cambria Freeman:
MY DEAR SIR-I believe have never hereto
Iore asked for any space in your columns, ex-
cept in the way of Advertising but | request
you to give me a small space now, promising
this communication is to show how we NAV be be
hoodwinked and taken in by fair appearances.
II is not many years since our people, or many
OF them at least, were made the victims of the
sanctimonious, church going proclivities of a
certain Charles Day, who in his day was n'this
place the man from Canada with ropes of sill
yer and gold" But, coming down to just what
l mean nOlc, desire to call attention to the
fact that not long since The 4Heghdnidn, a RE-
publican newspaper, ceased to exist and out of
its ashes arose the Cambria He1dld This latter
paper is published by Ed. james, and, 1 might
say, he and grew Up as boys together. At the
time Mr. James embarked in the Herald enter
terpriSe, !, as a personal friend, felt like giving
man all the encouragement l could which /
did, and here is the result: When he started
his paper thought he intended to make il a
permanent affair, and that, as a respectable or
Quoted as a n fildependdnt, fearless cxponent or
Radl tal Republican principles, still treating
that he would not allow his columns to be
raped"
Believing that he meant "busipess,. md NOT
dirt, did feel like encouraging him as a vDrlnp
man trying to make an honest living, but look
at the sequel; In his issue of this date he h ner
mits many untruths to be published in his
co!unS over n1csporlstbe names, or cognomens,
that begin to feel that he has particular sniff
at me, else, which hope is not So for few
paltry dollars, he allows personal and untruth-
tl fni articles to go into his columns; For in
Sept =, 1871, and signed II, " which is lie and
false from beginning to end, and Ed. should
have known, if he did not know. that it was
neither a true nor fair report of that meeting
In the same issue he gives a letter from Hem
lock, Sept. %, 1871" signed IAN Observer" i'm
which, after mentioning the death of a very es-
Unable young gentleman, the writer proceeds
to pitch into ''IJrofesSiOndL men,, without stop
ping to think for moment that himself must
he ''prof feSSiOndt ScOuudrel," and pcry yenter of
the truth Then we have a aletter, without date
ners, in which WV gets the Herald man 1iT by
the and obtains permission to publish n
string of falsehoods and bilingSgate known at
the time to be false and not a correct report of
that meeting. We would like to see the Herald
man, or any OF the dirty, Sa eaking pimDS for
whom he prints such stuff, weighed in the bal
ance with any man who was at the meeting at
Closer S, and we would het two big apples that
he, pimps and all, would make very precipi-
tate balloon (beg pardon, sir, babOon ascension.
In the same issue of the Herald we find Rep"
under small black line heading of ION the
Wing trying to say something about Sunday
evening, but as he has about PLAYED himself
out and does not succeed in getting a word or
truth through him and as he is to much of n
coward, or too dishonest and sneaking to put
his real name to his dirty communications, |
must pass him by. Next. and last, and least Of
an, find Alva purporting to write from st
Augustine, Sept. %, 1911" who, if you believe
his own words, was at a meeting at ST. Angus
tine on the evening of Sept. 22d, and on the
sImc evening at a meeting at GalIitZin His
communication bears the imprint OF falsehood
on its whole face, and think there is NOT n man.
woman. or child in Cambria county, who has
not brains enough to see that.
am sorry to see young man, Just starting
out in life with the good wishes OF all his neigh
b0rs and personal friends, and with cohEidera-
bic patronage from DcmoCTdtS, lend his col
umns to iOID slIricc hounds for the purpose of
venting their dirty spite on men whom they are
afraid to attack openly. There is something in
argument, but nothing in hlackguardsm. In
conclusion i do hope that the Herald will not
use personal names and that it will change its
tCiO IciH report the truth.
Truly Yours, GEO. W. OATmAH.