The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

! disgust throughout the county. We had
| hoped that the present political campaign
| would lie conducted by the press of both
! parties in the county without indulging
! in any personal attacks on the candidates,
and that elimination, which usually begets
! recrimination, would not form one OF its
| prominent features. Such was our own
settled and determined purpose but the
| article in the Tr!5uns referred to has sad
| ly disappointed all our expectations. What
| political advantage does the editor of the
Tribune expect to accomplish by his whole
| sale and indiseriminate abuse Of the Dem
oc:atic ticket? Does he imagine that all
| reason and common sense have fled from the
| minds OF ths Democratic voters fths coui--
| ty and taken refuge in savage breasts?'
I II would seem so, but we warn him now,
at the very beginning of the contest, that
he is hugging fatal delusion to his soul.
| Are the Democrats of Cambria county all,
| or any portion of them, either such fools
OF knaves as to be seduced from their
sense of duty and be driven from their
political propriety by the base calumnies
! and personal insinuations of the Johns
town Tribune against the Democratic can
ddatese Such mode of political warfare
is disgrace and will only react with tre-
mendous and fatal effect against the par
ty whose organ indulgessin it. 1t is un-
called for and beneath contempt.
Is it anything against the fair name and
reputation of John Hannah that he has
heretofore been defeated for Assembly by
Samuel Henry? We are very sure that
Mr. Henry is too much of a gentleman to
say SO. When Henry Clay, on a certain
occasion, was defeated for Congress in his
district, he told his constituents 'to pick
h5ir .t7tnts and try'H once more" and the
''brave hunters Of Kentucky" did try it
once more, and the gallant Clay was tri-
umphantly elected. SO will it be with
! John Hannah. IfJohn Buck was appoint
| ed post-mast of the small village of Car
rolltown, with the approval of ali its citi-
zens, is that any valid reason why he is
not fit to be noisinated by his party as
candidate for Assembly?
Because VIM. II. Rose was defeated fer
| Assembly in 1871, no man will say that he
is not now a fit candidate for District At
! torney. If John G. Lake, whe was de
feated in convention for District Attorney,
dresses aftor the manner and style Of the
| editor of the Tribune, ought the former to
| be stigmstized as the Beau Hickman of
Ebensburg or the latter as the Beau
Brummc Of Johnstown? Forbid it de-
! cency and common sense.
George Myers who is one of the Repub
| lican nominees for County Commissioner
and highly respectable citizen of his own
township, was defeated at the election
two years ago for the same Office, but do
we therefore presume to say that he has
no right to be again candidate in 1874
| Whenever we make that unwarranted as
sertion ''may our right arm forget its cum
ming and our tongue clsave to the roof OF
| our mouth" How often has Edwin A.
| Vickroy, an honored citizen of Southern
Cambria, been defeated by Henry Scan
Ian, the Democratic candidate for County
Surveyor? So often indeed that it may be
said that the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary" And yet Mr.. Vickroy
is again the Republican nominee, and if
elected, as he will not be- against Henry
Scanlan, would make most competent
| officer.
In reference to the venomous attack
against the County Commissioners, we
have only this to say. Assuming that the
County Auditors were correct in their re-
port, the Commissioners promptly sub
mitted the decision of the question as a
matter OF law to the Court, and the Court,
after hearing the evidence, rejected all
} charges for daily pay while in She discharge
of duties outside of their Office but allow
! ed them all fair expenses which Judge
Dean fixed at reasonable rate, and judg-
ment was accordingly entered for the
amounts thus ascertained against An
tbony Anna and VIM. d. M'Cleland, two
OF :he mmissioners-Ed~ard Glass, 6e-
ceased, the other Commissioners, not being
charged by the Auditors in their report
! with owing anything to the county They
peaceably submitted and are abundantly
: able to pay the amounts found against
) them, and either have done so or will
promptly do so at an early day. There
was nothing whatever fraudulent in thei,
conduct.
We will refer to this portion of the Tri-
bune attack hereafter, and in the mean
time we leave Martin +. Campbell, the sue.
cessor u Edward Glass, and who has only
held the Office by appointment since the
last June Court, to take whatever remedy
, he and his counsel may deem best to pro
( tect his reputation against the foul libe1
5 contained in the Tribune against him.
: Thus have we answered a fool accord
r ing to his folly.''
5 HENRY HoPpI.E, of Carroll townsb;n
: who once claimed TO be Democrat Of the
y frst water, and acted with his party con.
i sistentiy at that time, is now the Repub.
. hcan candidate for Poor House Director