The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-13
TFrom the Johnstown Democrat, Sept. III
FS,,chuIelC and the District Court.


/ A well-known disciple Of Esculapius o
! this city few years ago was suffering from
/ severe and dangerous illness, when the
physician who was attending him was
/ suddenly solicited to call and see him. Oh
/ his arrival at the bedside of the afflicted
member of his profession he was greeted
/ with the following doctor, it is all VI
with me nOo; unless you give me al
..emetic and start on a new basis I'm {
: dead man NOw,,r' The request was com
pIicd with, an emetic was given, a new
basis was started, and, we are happy tC
saw. the sick and suffering physician re
covered the possession of robust and vi
gorous health.
We believe that our District Conrt is
now in the same condition as was the i'll
docter. The 'emetic has already been
administered by the Supreme Court, and
all that is necessary for speedy, full, and
vigorous recovery is to start on a new
basis.
We cannot help but believe that if there
was mo authority of law to elect GEORGE
L. SwANK, ESD, clerk of the District
Court, that there was equally none to elect
the Judges of the said court. The same
process by which the clerk was elected
was used to elect the judges. The Supreme
Court, in its decision on this case, left no
and that opinion is clearly that none of the
officers of that court were chosen according
to law.
Now, we ask what is the use of CRITICS.
ing the action of the Supreme Court? We
cannot change that opinion, nor can we
overcome its effects ON the District Court
by producing all the learned opinions of all
the legal gentlemen in the country. In con-
firmation of this we merely state the fuct
and will remain in that position until new
officers are elected or appointed according
to law We think this can and may be
accomplished.
Believing this to be the case, we ask, as
a supporter of the interests of JohnstOwn,
is it good policy to force this into a
political question? We think not, because
we then array one powerful political party
against us, and if that is done through
unwise councils the District Court will
never be revived.
What has the Hon. CHARLES II. BUCK
LEW to do with this court Not anything
now, but great deal, perhaps, hereafter.
Mr.. BUCKALEw is not an enemy of Johns
town." but on the contrary he wishes for
the progress and success of every part of
our grand old Commonwealth. All cdi-
torials written in behalf of the District
Court that contains aspersions on his vote
do the court any good. 1t is, we believe,
an old custom, and generally found to be
good one, for members of the Senate to
vote on a question affecting a particular
locality as the Senator from the district in
which the people reside whom the legisla-
ton concerns desires them to. Hon. W. \.
WALLACE, our Senator, contrary to all ex-
pectations, was violently opposed to the
court bill and through his efforts 1t was
defeated. If the friends of the court had
supposed that Mr.. WALLACE would use
his position as our representative to defeat
the bill, no doubt the other Democratic
Senators would have had the measure
properly explained to them, and they
might, possibly, have voted differently. AS
the case stands, Mr.. WALLACE alone is
responsible in the Senate for it's defeat,
whilst Mr.. BUCKALEw only acted as an
honorable Senator should towards another
one in a matter which concerned that gen.
tleman's district alone. Therefore, let no
Democrat, or any other honest man, who
wishes to have a court in JohnstOwn, be
cajoled into voting against the honest
BCCKALEw on that account, because the
assertion that he is unfTiendly to our inter
ests is not true and is without any founda-
ton whatever.
If the moral feeling of the State has not
entirely departed, Mr.. BUCKALEw will lmost
aSSuredly be elected our next Governor
whether he receives large or small ma iOr-
ity in Cambria county, and it will be the
shcercst folly to have the friends of the
court arrayed against the chief officer of
the State without any cause. As soon as
the friends of the District Court make a
political question out of this purely local
one then it falls never be resurrected.-
On the other hand, those who fight it thro'
the lying dodge of party fealty, or for any
other transparent deceptive excuse, will
not be elevated to high position by major
ity of the votes of the freemen of little
Cambria. Happily there is no local issue
presented to the people of the county this
fall.
Democrats in this part of the county, AS
well as in any other part, while they are
as patriotic as their neighbors and as
faithful to all measures that will advance
the interests and importance of their town
and section of the county, have also sacred
duties and obligations To the political par
ty of their faith and choice which they
will not forget. 1t is the clear and unmis-
taxable duty of every Democrat to vote for
Mr.. BUcKALEw. He fills the JEFEERsoN-
IAN idea-he is honest and capable. Hun
dreds of the wisest and best Republicans
i'll the State say that his opponent, HAIR
is a member of the most infa-
mously corrupt ring that ever cursed any
party, that he shared in the EVANS rob
berry, that he gambled in stocks with the
State funds, that he was a partner of
YERKEs, who is now in the penitentiary,
and that he is the servile tool of SIMON
CAMERON, the most nororiously corrupt
man ''that ever lived or died"
THE Lancaster TOlE&freund, an old and
influential German paper in that county,
has dropped the names of Hartranft aud
A 4 L
doing SO, the VoIksfreund says: liar
tranft and Allen were nominated by