The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03
H4RRIS And GRIFFITH.

Harris, the radical candidate for Sher-
iff, for while the Voice opened a fire
in the rear and suggested to Harris
the propriety of his withdrawal from
the unequal contest, the latter worked
up his courage to the sticking point
and has made a vigorous assault on
those two democratic strongholds,
Carrolltown borough and Carroll town
ship, with a hasty diversion into the
young democratic township of Barr.
The efforts of radical candidate to
bring grist to his own mill in the
Democratic districts referred to, forci-
bly, remind one of the unremunerative
process of shearing pig for the sake
of the wool We cannot, however,
but admire the pluck of Johntown's
chief of police in thus "bearding the
lion in his den," and only hope he
will have happy time in extracting
his claws without receiving any Sc
rious injury. After he had satisfied
himself with the situation in Carroll,
he extended his Qulxotic ramblings
into portion of Chest, where Demo-
Gratis who vote for radical candidates
are as scarce as white crows, or straw
berries at the north pole. If he was
not utterly disgusted with Chest, he
ought to have crossed over into Clear
field where radicals, like angels visits,
are few and far between. After that,
and with no thought of throwing up
the sponge, he ought to have inter
viewed the Democracy of old Alleghe-
ny, and especially of that part of it
known as Hickory Ridge" If thus
far he failed to strike radical ile, he
would have had no better luck in Gal
litzin township and still the balance
of the Democratic Jordan, embracing
Summitville Munster and Washing
ton would remain to be travelled
Having at last run the gauntlet of
Northern Democratic Cambria, he
could then go forth to still brighter
conquests, to the soul-inspiring strains
of 1.-The Campbells are coming"
Thomas Griffith, the sprightly and
irrepressible candidate for County
Treasurer, following close in the foot
steps of his radical colleague, feasted
for a brief period on the rich and nour-
ishing pastures of Democratic Carroll
and Barr, but his condition was not
politically improved.
Do these radical Office seekers i'm
agine that Democrats are made of
such soft and pliable material that
they can be moulded into any shape
to suit their own political purposes
If they lay this fiattering JUNCTION to
their souls, the result on next Tues
day week will interpret for them the
fatal handwriting on the wall
If radical meeting were held in
the Court House, and if Thomas Grit
fifth could address it, his friend Harris
being present, the following speech
would fairly express the position he
occupies towards the Democratic par
ty, whose votes he is now 50 busily
and even so extensively soliciting:
FELLOW REPUBLICANs--You see before
you to-day two candidates for Office ON the
Republican county ticket, one of whom is
my warm and esteemed friend, John T.
Harris, the nominee for Sheriff, and the
other your humble servant, who is seeking,
under great difficulties, the office of Coun-
ty Treasurer. (Hurrah for the bully boys,
Harris and Griffith y 1t is very true, my
friends, and as sad as it is true, that neither
of us has the ghost of 4 chance of being
elected, unless about four hundred demo
Gratis (three cheers for the four hundred)
will baSely desert their own candidates,
Baumer and CriSte, and magnanimously
vote for Harris and myself. chaplain
Davis-'That's a big thing on ice, Tom
my Will they do it? 1t is their reply
to this question at the ballot-box that Just
now causes III us exceeding and very great
alarm. Ought Democrats to vote for US,
or ought we to expect them to do so?
(NOt much, if any, If they are so green,
however, then l have only to say that any
man who will hereafter assert that oil and
water will refuse to mix, knows nothing
about the mysteries of Cambria county
politics. l am not ashamed, fellow citi-
zens, to proclaim my political faith-I am
radical from the top of my head to the
soleS of my feet, (great applause and
here publicly ayow that | never voted for
democrat, even for the lowest office, (im-
mense cheering and never will, so help
me, Sam Henry. (Three cheers for Sam. }
l regard the Democratic party as whited
sepulchre-its members as disloyal and
dangerous to the peace of the country in
a word, as the fit refuge for all traitors
lGroans for the democrats.) Who has
abused and fought the Democratic party
with more bitterness than | have? Nv
bosom friend, John ID. Thomas, three
cheers and tiger for John D., late chief
OF the Ebensburg Democratic Ring, but
from whose eyes the Democratic scales
have lately fallen, thanks TO the efforts of
that great and good man, A. \. Barker,
Soui!y for Abraham,) may possibly do so,
put II he does, he will have to get up very
carry and go to bed very late. (He viii
that.) Have | not always on election day
acted as Republican ''whipper i'm at the
polls in Ebensburg, ever ready To aid tbe
Republican candidates and defeat their
unworthy Democratic opponents? you
have, Thomas.) W. It other candidate
has spent his money as freely in this cam
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