The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-10-27
Il R0dic0J Dodge.
An Ohio correspondent writes to the
Philadelphia Times

An Ohio correspondent writes to the
Philadelphia Times
The country has been, and no doubt
still is. infested with radical emissaries,
whose part it is to personate supposed
rebel officers from the South, who are
working up and talking up supposed rebel
claims, which they profess to regard as
secured in the event Of Mr.. Tilden's cleo
tion The vileness and shamelessness of
this scheme are almost atoned for by the
ingenuity and cunning which conceived
it. The Centennial grounds and the rail-
road trains are the favorite fields of opera
ton. Let a few cases attest the plan OF
action.
About two weeks prior to the October
elections the writer was standing in the
Arkansas state building, on the Centennial
grounds, when, in the confusion of the
crowd, he overheard a conversation near
him VIII ich at once especially attracted his
attention. The principal speaker was
tolerably intelligent gentleman. who pro-
fessed to be from the state of Arkansas
and to have been an officer of respectable
rank IN the rebel army. The other party
was from Ohio. The supposed Arkansas
rebel was warm in his expressions of hope
and confidence in the election of Dir. Til
den. He asserted that the Southern people
had nothing to expect from Hayes election,
but that ia the event of Tilden's success
IbeJ ult u CeTtdlh pros pccI OF bHe pay tIlcDt
of a largo amount of claims which he
avowed were just and ought to be paid
His description of the kind and amount of
these claims was simply ludicrous in its
extravaganza and folly, and was sufficient
alone to stamp the man as an impostor or Il
lunatic. But ne bad evidently found his
man, and was making the best use possible
of his verdancy and credulity. Without
hearing him through your correspondent
hpca Dna absorbed in tho atfracFiar1s of tIa
great show.
On the day after this the writer (who is
a resident of Ohio sauntered in:o the Ohio
state building TO take a look at the Toledo
and Cleveland papers. To his intense sur
prise he saw this same "ArkansaS Iebel''
sitting at the reading table, earnestly scan
ming the Cleveland papers. Believe me,
this man was at once, By the writer, ''stIs-
pected of being suspicious He was next
seen b. the writer looking over the Ohio
visitors register, when he was Casually
asked if he was successful III ENDING ANY
Ohio friends. lis reply was, ooh, yes
several of them" This man was a resi-
dent Of tho Western Reserve ia Northern
Ohio. He was simply a sneaking em;Ssary
Of Zach Chandl6r's ccmu1il tee, hired to
fire the Northern heart by the most
cowardly subtertHge that desperation can
conceive OF madness execute.
\ few days subsequent to this fiicnd uf
the writer as returning by rail from the
CeutenuiIi wheu 10 WAS Informed that in
the smoking car on the Same train was a
late distinguished officer in The rebel army,
who had just been to Washington TO file
some rebel claims against the day Of Til
denis election, when he had the assurance
they would be paid. He proceeded to the
smoking car, where, he found a deeply in
terested group of listeners surrounding an
eloquent ''calInant,' y who was delivering
himself of similar lingo to that which the
Arkansas man had given vent to. Our
friend elbowed his way TO within sight of
the rebel officer, > when he was not little
amused and nonpiussed by seeing an ac-
quaintance of many years, who was then a
resident of Ohio aad a Republican candi-
date Tor a county Office in one of the couu-
ties of northern Ohio! With much con-
fusion and with the statement that he was
only making ''lttle fun for the boys
and also with the request that our friend
would not expose him, this rebel claim
ant subsidized for the time
Other Ike instances have come to the
knowledge of your correspondent. 4
prominent physician of W illiains county,
IN this state, vino went to the Centennial
as Itlden Republican, encountered one
OF these bogus rebel claimants and came
back q convert to Hayes, and created not a
| little sensation by his narration of what
the rebels expected from Tildeu's election
Fortunately he has discovered the fraud
| and Is now, as we learn, doubly confirmed
! IN his convictions that we must have a
change.