The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-16

WE publish elsewhere the able charge OF
Judge Dean ir the case of Cambria county
against the Commissioners, and ask the at
tentive perusal of it by Republicans as well
as Democrats. Judge Dean is a good Re-
publican, and, what is much better, an up
right Judge and an honest man. His
charge is the best reply to the filthy epithets
gathered from the slums of New York;
and retailed through a press whose editor
received his education there.
The county officers do not give him their
patronage-hence his hatred. If they fed
him, he would lick their hands. If they
patronized his libelous sheet, he would be
as gentle .'as a sucking dove" The crea-
, turs who is trying to swell out his lank and
dyspeptic figure to the proportions Of man.
hood by official pabulum flched from
| MANNED soldier, cannot be choice Of the
means by which he hopes to grow fat.
The County Commissioners, under the
direction Of an Act of Assembly were pos
itively directed to have assessments and
election papers put into the hands of the
proper township and borough officers
This they did, as was admitted, at less ex-
been rendered 10y any other person or per-
sons. Judge Dean, while allowing their
expenses, as will be seen by his charge,
dts-allowed the services, which reduced
the amount a few dollars in each case
And this only applies to the three Commits
sioners while the bill of the Clerk to the
Commissioners was allowed in full
In fha Of 4
Steward, the Court plainly intimated its
| opinion, that the Auditors had nothing to
do with it, and hence thsir report falls.
There were eight cases, and the Auditors
were not sustained in single case ard
| the costs of all the eight cases must be
| borne Cy tho county. OF course the county
is the loser, not the gainei, by .hese suits
IS the Act of Assembly, Purdon .301, pl.
20. provides that if the Judgment in Court
Is more favorable to the appellses than the
report of Auditors, the county shall pay
the costs, which in these cases are much
heavier than the few dollars of reduction.
! The Commissioners were not liable on the
! report at all, as they haG not been notified.
but they voluntarily appeared before Court
! to have the matter adjusted
| The County Auditors are all Democrats.
They had heard the harpins of the Johns
town Tribune, and ''sich like" and sup
posed withou. knowing, that there might
be truth IN the charges. The counsel en-
! ployed for the county by the Commissioners,
at their best, and Judge Deans opinion
shows the result.
! We give credit to both the Auditors and
the Commi ssioners. That the Auditors
were mistaken, and involved the county
in costs, was not their fault. They were
honest men, and did what they thought
was their duty in the premises. The Iri-
6une praises them, and yet opposes the
! Democratic candidates for Auditor And
that because it's editor is not after honesty,
| but .poils.
If the Auditors had been Republicans,
and frauds had existed, they would have
slept unexposed SO far as the editor refer
red to is concerned. No man ever heard
of a Radical exposing Radical, excepting
one, and he got his reward. When Evans
stole $500, 600 of the peoples money, Nc.
Clure, then Deputy Attorney General, ex-
posed the theft; whereupon he was forth With
removed from Office. What right had he
to expose a Radical?
Radicals all over the country, during th,
present rule, have stolen mole than would
pay our National debt. Which of them ha
ever been punished /? The Radical office
holders of the State have stolen more thar
would pay the State debt. Which of then
has ever boen punished?
The Freeman has og,cGys treated its op
ponents fairly, without descending to low
abuse, and even now are not attacking TIN
Radical candidates. We shall defeat theu
on principle, as we have heretofore done
, but if the editor of their leading organ see
!. proper to put his character for truth Q
any other virtue in opposition to theirs
we shall be obliged to say things that W,
would fain refrain from uttering.
While our neighboring county of Indi
ana-the strongest Radical county in tn
State-has one of her officers in the Peni
tentiary for stealing $50, 600 worth of bonds
Cambria county has not had n defaute
, since she, in 1854, elected the last Repub
, ! iican Register and Recorder, whose heav
Indebtedness is still unpaid and we sin
cerely trust that it will be many a day be
folO she has another one, Radical or other
wise.
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TIE Philadelphia Erening Nail, speak
| ing last waek in re ferenco IN tha P.Dubl