The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02

TIE Freeman copies personalitem from
last weeks Voice and Echo in reference tc
Hon. John Lemon being tie strongest cam
diddte IN tie Republican ranks II the DIS
! trict for Senator. We are even yet IN,
clined to this belief and know many 9th
! ers of like opinion. We know there Is
not a prominent Democrat in our county
Z WHO has any desire to be his opponent.
Ncssrs. Linton. Johnston, Porter, Sechler,
Blair. Bonacker and several others we
might Ilention. seem not to care particular
Is about measuring lances with Mr. Lemon
Perhaps John S. Rhey. Esq, the veEera-
be editor and acknowledged great man of
the county, might with satisfaction be pre-
vailed upon to accept the nomination =
Suppose you try ii, John, and we II ''back
you. It's singular no person thought oi
YOU before When Lemon reads this he II
! quake. Don't you Think l0tcc an"
, Echo.
If the editor of the Voice and Echo
had originally stated what he says ne
did in the above article, viz: that Jollh
A. Lemon is "thc strongest candidate
in the Republican ranks OF the district
for Senator" we would have permitted
it to pass unnoticed. 1t may he true
for aught that we know or care At
the same time, it is somewhat singular
that a so called Democratic newspaper
should be 50 eager to communicate the
fact to is readers That business
would appropriately belong to q Re-
publican and not to Il Democratic ed
itor. But the TOice and Echo said
great deal mere, and we publ 5h the
original paragraph to which we took
exception. 1t is as follows:
Hon. John \ Lemon will be the Repub-
lican nominee in this Senatorial district
for State Senate, and there is no use to
disguise the fact he is the strongest man.
in the party, Il net IN tile district
This. as we said last week, is a con-
fession of defeat in advance, and made
too by a man claiming to be the ecitor
of Democraticpaper. The statement,
made for purpose well un-
derstood, is not true. If a proper
Democratic nomination is made, as we
it Will be, the candidate will
succeed in November, even though the
FOice and Echo should support him.
if it should oppose him, his election
would not be a debataLle question.
What a neat and delicate compliment
the editor bestows on such Democrats
as John r. Linton and Robert l..
J ohnston by representing them as as
pirants for the nomination, but afraid
to measure lances with the redCubtablc
J ohm \. Lemon? The first named of
of these two gentlemen Linton) was
not afraid a few years ago to accept a
from the Democratic party
for n State Office wheH defeat was in
evitable, and the second (Johnston)
was not afraid to run t,Cjce rs the
Democratic candidate for Congress in /
this district without any reasonable |
hope of success. We do not know
either of them is desirous of
becoming 4 candidate for State Sena.
tor, but we feel very certain that if
such was the case neither would be
afraid to shivcr 4 lance in Senatorial /
contest with John a. Lemon, the val !
lent Radical knight championcd bv
the Toice and Echo. Whenever, in
the course of human events, John s
Riley becomes a candidate for the State
Senate, or any other Office, he will
the immortal gods to save
him from the support of James +.
Campbell, editor of the Voice and Echo,
whose political friendship is fatal and
the sure precursor Of a very large fu-
neral on the day of the election