The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-20
Sa7uuez Henry ana Lttfhel. Green.

!SGwaez Henry ana Luther Green.
At the general election last October LU-
TIER GREEN was the Democratic candidate
for Assembly i'll Warren county, and WM
H. SHORT was his Radical opronent.-
When the Return Judges met at the Court
House III Warren and added up the votes
east i'll the county. they certified, under
their hands and seals, that Luther GREEN
had received 1899 votes and that NM. II.
SHORT had received 1878 votes tGREEN'S )
majority being 15j, and therefore that LU-
THEIR GREEN had been duly elected mem
Der of the Assembly from Warren county.
/ This certificate was signed by each and
every one Of the Return Judges. twenty
five i'll number. Some time after all this
had been done, SHORT by some means pro
cured from thirteen of these same Return
Judges a hcgus raIer certifying that he
tSHoRT) had 1903 votes and GREEN 1898,
thus making SHORTS majority 10 votes.
Under this state of facts who held the legal
certificate? We answer, Luther GREEN.
Why? Simply because he received it
signed by all the Return Judges who had
met at the time and place provided for by
the Act of Assembly for counting up the
votes east in Warren county, whereas tie
thirteen Judges who signed the paper held
/ by SHORT had no sort of legal right to
act in any capacity whatever after the Re
: turn Judges of the entire county had met
and had finally adjourned. Noman of COM
mon sense will dispute the soundness of
! this position, because it is both law and
: common sense.
! When the Legislature met, LUTHER
GREEN was present To be sworn in az
member, and SHORT was also there with
his bogus certificate. which was not worth
/ the paper on which it was written. When
Warren county WAS called it WAS passed
over by a trick of the Radical clerk Of the
House. and as soon as a Speaker had been
elected and everything was ready for the
dirty job to bc commenced, Radical mem
ber named MCJUNKIN, from Ncnango, one
OF the counties adjoining Warren, moved
to refer the question Of GREENS right to
his scat, when there was no question at all
about it, to a committee of fcr, to report
whether GREEN or SHORT had what is
called in law a primo fdcie case. This mo-
ton Of course prevailed, every Radical vot-
ing for it, including SAMUEL HENRY, and
on the very next day this packed commit
tee made a report awarding the scat to
SHORT. On agreeing to this base and in
famous report, the name Of SAMUEL HENRY
is found with that of every other Radical
nhor ot in,
member and LUTHER GREEN WAS left
out in the cold-bascly dcfTauded of his
, seat-and the people Of Warren county
were disfranchised by as scurvy proceed
ing as ever disgraced even a Radical ma jor-
ity in the lower House of \ Pennsylvania
! Legislature. GRRES contested the seat,
but of course never got 1t, for the reason
/ that CAMERON, HARTRASFT and MACKEY
wanted SHORTS vote in favor of their plum
dering schemes, and having once got him
seated by fraud, resolved that he should
stay there and that GREEN had no rights
( which Radical House was bound 70
Spect. Luther GREEN held precisely the
| same kind Of a certificate that SAMCKL
! HENRY did and in pursuance Of which he
was sworn in ~ n member.
! Suppose, now, that the House lastse.sion
| had been Democratic instead Of Radical
and a week after the Return Judges of this
| county had given the certificate to Mr..
| HENRY, his defeated opponent, WM. II.
ROSE, had gone out and visited them at
! their homes az lie never would do, and
| had procured from 2l ofthe Al Judges which
could never be done in Cambria county, a
/ paper stating that ROSE had been elected
and giving the figures for it, and ROSE had
presented that document to the Democratic
clerk of the House and the same proceed
ings had taken place az in the GREEN and
SHORT case, and that the Democratic ma
jority had admitted RosE and excluded
HENRY, what would SAMUEL HENRY have
thought of such ali atrocious proceeding?
And yet he aided in perpetrating just such
an outrage OH LUTHER GREEN. Now Dem
ocrats are appealed TO and asked to vote for
SANUEL HENRY. viii they do it in the
face of his whole course in the case of
GREEN aud SHORT? If they ran, they are
lost to all sense of political honor and de-
serve once more to be represented by as bit
ter Radical as can be found in the Com
monwealth to-day.