The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-20
The Senatorial Delegate.


any truth in the prevailing runoT ina
the Senatorial confcrees from tins
county intend violating the instruction:
received from the county committee
when it appointed them, to vote fol
John II. Fislle, Esq, as the delegate
from this senatorial district (CambriS
and Blair counties) TO the State con
vention. which will meet at Erie on the
8th of September. We cannot give
strange as it may appear to All true
Democrats. either an affirmative Oi
negative answer to the question, Eut
will nroceed to state the facts connect
od with the matter and to make such
comments on them as we deem neces-
earv for the information Of the inter
rifcd Democracy OF the county.
When the Democratic county conven-
ton met last September, one OF Its last
acts was the election of VIM. B. Bon
acker. VIM. Linton and j. Gibbs Has
son as Senatorial conferees." 1t was
| we'll understood at the time, both IN
| the convention and outside OF 1T, that
| these conferees were appointed 1of the
I single purpose of uniting with like
conferees from Blair county i'll nomi-
mating a candidate for State Senator,
and it was not until about all t00tS'
/ day of the present year that frefend-
/ ed Democrat Of this county conceived
| the idea that they also possessed the
J power of voting for Senatorial dele
gate to the State convention, and that
he was Just the man for that position.
Some time in MAY the chairman of the
county committee published a call for
a meeting Of the committee, at the
Court House, OH the l4th OF June, for
the purpose of fixing the time for
holding the next county convention,
and also TO select cOHferecs TO meet the
con nfcrces from Blair county to elect q
Senatorial delegGte to the State cOnren-
tiOn. At the meeting of the committee
Il motion was made and carried, ap-
pointing these same September cOnftr-
ees to act also as conterees in selecting
Il Senatorial delegate to the State con-
vention, thus supplying defect in the
proceedings of the county convention
last fall and thereby admitting, what
was well known. Hat up to that dag,
June I4H, there were no cOnfcrees
from this county to elect Senatorial
delegate. The right, therefore, Of the
conferees to act in the latter capacity
. dates from the day on which the com
mittee met. Before that they had no
authority whatever to take any part in
the selection of the delegate, but only
to meet the Blair county conferees to
/ place in nomination candidate for
/ State Senator Thecommittee, having
| thus clothed the conferees with this
| additional power, adopted a motion
instructing them to support John II.
I Fislle, Esq, as the Senatorial delegate
/ This motion to instruct for Fiske had
+ a luminous tail to it, however, called
prOUisO, in the following words :
provided they (the confcrees juStHen
. app0jnted) were not dire0dy committed
/ to some other gentleman" This pro-
viso stands solitary and alone and
/ without II parallel It's counterpart
was never before heard Of in Il COM
mittee meeting orin any other meeting
! iii this or any other county in the
/ United states. Aud yet, without one
word of discussion, it was permitted to
stand with the motion to instruct. We
have said heretofore that it was a di-
rect insult to the conferces, for the
. reason that it assumed that before the
committee met, and before they them
selves were appointed, they had pOssi-
! bly, selected their man and given him
} their pledges. That it was also IL gross
/ insult to John II. F;ske is a conclusion
/ not to be doubted. 1t has no binding
! force, because it is preposterous and
/ absurd, and because it is repugnant to
and in direct conflict with the first and
{ clause. The question again recurs
( from the facts stated, will the conferees
carry out in good faith the instructions
/ of the committee and vote for John H.
( Fiske? The Democracy of the county.
! whose organ the committee was, expect
and demand that they do nothing else
J Common tumor, which is often COM
mon liar, imputeS to them very diff
/ ferent purpose, which we will not
credit until the deed has been done.
( 1t declares, sometimes in a whisper and
at other times loudly, that they will
disregard their instructions and vote
in the conference for a man who to-day
has no standing in the Democratic
/ party in this county-a man who for
four years has done what he could to
destroy the organization of that party
by opposing and voting against its
candidates for the most important
county offices, and who, if his name
were mentioned in county convention
(unless il was Republican, as candi-
date for delegate to a State convention,
could not receive the votes from a
single election district. Ifsuch man.
who does not and ought not to enjoy
the least. confidence of the party, is
foisted on the Democracy as their rep
resentative at Erie, they will resent the
insult. not on him, but on those acho
sent him there; for it is as certain as