The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-11
4 BHSe .SLSInsIe9'.
An EDITOR IMPOSED UPON-soME MORE OF
DELANEY's WORK.

There is published in Philadelphia
weekly journal styled the Catholic stan
ddrd, in the last issue of which appears an
editorial article assaiiing the Democratic
candidate for Governor on the ground that
he was a member of the Know Nothing
order, delivered Know Nothing speeches
and assisted in organizing Know Nothing
lodges, The article also attacks the Dem
ocratic party for failing to confer nomina-
tiuus and offices upon members of tie
Catholic Church. Referring TO this article
the Harrisburg Patriot of Friday says:
The editor is either the victim of gross and
wicked imposture or he has been corruptS
procured to publish this scandaloue ana shame-
fui article. In charity let us DeiieNe that ne
has been imposed upon and that tue extra edl-
ton of one hundred thousand copies OF MS pa
per containing the article IN question, now ne-
ing circulated a campaign document by the
Republican politicians, was printed az his own
proper expense, or that OF the puD!ishers, anu
was not paid for out of the Republican corrup-
tion fund.
AS to the charge made by the Standard
against Senator Dill, we have the authority OF
that gentleman for saying that u lS th"l"t0hD
and UtferIy false. In answer to inquiries made
of him by the editor of this paper respecting
the charge that he had been member OF the
Know Nothing order and had made Know
Nothing speeches, Senator Dill replied in the
most explicit and positive language that the
allegation is false. The standard says: w nat
we have said is based not on conjecture but on
certain knowledge, We know whereof we
sneak and have proof of every word we have
wPTitten." NeyertheIess it withholds the proof
II couceals the source of its knowledge. 1t
carefully avoids all mention or the character
OF the evidence on which IL bases Its charge
Why this singular reticene in regard to the ma
ture of the Information it claims TO haveE
Why this scrupulOus couceaiment OF the
PROOF 1t boasts is in its possession? Is it fair
to Senator Dill or to his party TO make tins
charge and send it out i'll an extra edition OF
hundred thousand copies without accompany
ing il with an iOta OF evidenceI Al The mo-
tive which actuated the STANDARD in this regard
is Only too transparent IL Is refEg gyHIdt
aud bU dfl38tIfg the publication u the pretended
pr,of Senator DI aud his friends lcdt be depriUed
its columns until It shall De too late to correct the
false impressions Intended 10 be produced. 1t is
evident, too, that the editor is fully aware o.
the fiimsy and worthless character OF the
proof" and therefore cunniEgiy excludesJit
from his extra edition. Thus thousands who
see the charge will never get a glimpse OF the
evidence on which it is based, even if that
should be printed in future in the ord dinary ed
ition of the Standard. Besides the crafty editor
knew that the name of the person who brought
the pretended proof to him would have TO be
diyuIged whenever the nature OF the proof
became publicly known That person is too
tCeH knOlCH ia this state tO DC cdpdbc II testffyng
or producing testimony t. the iftt3U uf dTig DEM
cerdtic candidate. He is the same tCiO treIIt
TO the anthracite region in 1873 10 cTnSs The LtJOd-
stained palms o5 JGcb Keboe aud his cDnfederGtes
n tftmc Ulth me bIfbe hgneH W ne Repubttedn
leaders. The editor OF the Standard may well
postpone the publication of his pretended
That the charge made by the Standard against
Senator Dill is false must be apparent to every
intelligent mind for the following excellent
reasons: Know NOthiugism rose aud hOuTished
in 1854 and disappeared in 1855. In 1856 the
slavery question OvershawdOwed all others
and the struggle was between the Democratic
party and the nascent Republican organization.
Now Andrew II. Din was born in 1886. He WAS
1s years old when Know Nothing lodges were
being established and he - when Know
Nothingism was absorbed by the newly organ
lied Republican party. The case, therefore, is
too plain for argument, 1T senator Dill made
any political speech in 1856 or 1851 it was upon
a n no m Il NJ, Nnt rfSFY,
was not then one of them.
10 answer to the allegation of the Standard
that the Democratic party does not confer nom
inations and Offices upon the members of its
Church. let it be said that the Democratic party
does not inquire to what religious sect cHudI-
dates for its nominations adhere or whether
they belong 10 any. 1t nOminHtes candidates
transaction or secular rather than spiritual ar
fairs. Nevertheless il has been the difficult but
tlon 10 do baItie siDgle-hHnded and alone in
defence of the rights OF conscience. II the cd
itor of the Standard is not wholly ignorant of
the history OF his own Church he must know
that 1t was protected from Know Nothing in-
tolerance only by the gallant stand taken in it's
defence Uy the Democratic party. Nor was
that stand taken by Democrats because it was
the Catholic Church that was attacked, but he
cause the great principle OF DemOcra tic liberty,
Freedom Of Religious Opinion, was assailed in
the attempt to deny CatholiSs the right TO
worship God in their own way Had not the
Democratic party been the constant defend r
OF the equal religious and political rights of all,
STANDARD published to-day, nor would the put-
fishers OF that paper, or the miserable renegade
who furnished the pretended proof" of Scua-
tor Dflls Know NOthingism, be clothed with
those rights of citizenship which enable them
tomeddIe in politics for the purpose Of stabbing
in the dark the political organization that has
defended and protected them.
In conclusion, we call upon the Standard 10
publish the proof" on which it preteuds &c
base its charge, and hope that the Democratic
State Committee will at once take steps to un-
mask the conspiracy which has eliminated IN
TINS foul but futile assault upon the integrity
OF Senator Dill 5 political character. In honor
and in Justice, the editor Of the STANDARD can.
not and will not dare to deny Senator Dill anj
his friends the fullest OppOrt tunity to rCfuJt
the SANDER he has uttered against him.