The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-02
Horne and O'DOflneU.

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must have oppressed a man Of Nathanie
Horne's well known modesty and retiring
! nature during his extended political touI
! last week through the northern section OF
! the county. Both the roads and the resi-
| dences of leading Democrats were well
known Tn him, for ON several occasions he
had gone over the same ground before.
His mission on those occasions was honor
able, having for it's object the election OF
delegates to the county convention favora-
BILE TO his nomination as a candidate forthe
Legislature. Last week, however, he ap-
peared in his ne W character AS a political
guerilla, intent only on tho destruction OF
tho party of which until recently he pro-
posed to be so devoted a supporter. 1t
displayed an unlimited amount of cheek on
his part to ask tried and well known Dem
ocrats to vote for him as an independent
candidate FOR Prothonotary and by doing
SO repudiate the decision of the county
convention, and especially the acticn in the
convention of their own delegates. The
only conclusion at which northern DEM
ocrat could arrive, judging him iE the new
character he has assumed, is that his for
mer loud professions of devotion to the
Democratic party were secondary to his
inordinate and never to be satisfied craving
for Office. When he stated to Democrats
i'll Carroll and else where that the election
rested between himself and Charley
O'Donnell, be knew that the statement
f,fe
years old Democratic boy OF average in
telligence in that or any other township
who don't know better. He boasted con-
fideutly Of The immense Democratic vote
he would receive in the southern districts
Of the county, and asserted, as he has al
ways done, that his name was all potent
with the Democracy of that section. He
purposely forgets that no Democratic can
dida,e from the southern part of the county
ever yet failed to receive the warm and
generous support of the Democracy of She
north, and that they have now a just claim
on the gratitude of southern Democrats
which the latter cannot and will not dis.
honor. They will teach Mr.. Horne that
he does not hold them in the hollow of his
hand and that they will repay the debt of
political gratitude they owe to northern
Democrats for their long and unbroken
support of southern candidates for the
highest county offices.
Nathaniel Horne has but one object IN
view, aud that is the defeat of o. Donnell,
who has always been his (Horne's) warm
a fri ,,la
never opposes the regular nominations of .
county convention, and would never have
been a volunteer candidate against Horne,
but would have rolled up his sleeves for
him and been found, as he is always found,
in the thickest of the fight.
In addition TO O'Donnelfs long and we'll
known political devotion to Mr.. Horne, does
the latter forget that after the adjournment
of the late county convention O'Donnell,
at his (Uorne's) personal request, went to
the hotels in this place at which Mr..
Uorne's delegates had been entertained,
and out of his own pocket paid thei bills,
as we'll as his CIornc's) own bill? O'Don-
nell is reaping the reward of his politica |
and personal friendship for this model
Democrat and persistent office seeker, who
now unSratefully attempts TO avenge his
disappointed hopes in the convention on a
man who never placedsa straw in his path.
Will the Democracy of Cambria tamely
permit Nathaniel Horne, after having
pledged himself to abide by the decision of
the county convention, to defy its authority y
and treat it's action with contempt? Will
they permit O'Donnell, fairly nominated
and fully competent, to be stricken down
and their party organization destroyed by
a chronic office-seeker If they commit so
fatal blunder they will cause a breach in
their party which will be most difficult to
repair, and will have created a feeling Of
bitter sectional animosity which will re-
quire years to remove. Let the Democracy
of the county remember OH next Tuesday
that other candidates must be nominated
and other elections held in the future aud
being thus forewarued, let them Ue fore
armed.