The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-11
TIE Biggest Lie Of the Campaign.


ocratie candidate for Governor, it would
have been an exception to all former expe,
rience. The DemocI attic press has treated
bis opponent Henry NJ. Hoyt, with becom-
ing respect and fairness, not even taking
advantage Of certain in6rmIties attributed
to him by members of the very convention
that placed him before the people as a can
didate for Governor, and which, if true,
would materially affect his fitness foI the
position to which they propose to elevate
him. 1t having become apparent, howev-
er, as The campaign progressed, that Mr..
Dill's election was absolutely certain, the
Republican managers have suddenly re-
vived their old and we'll known mode of
warfare, on the theory that desperate dis
eases require desperate remedies. AS an
evidence of this spirit, we note the fact that
the Catho!tc Standard, of Philadelphia, in
its last weeks issue, contains a lengthy
editorial article in which Andrew II. Dill
is charged with having been member of
the Know Nothing Order-of having assist
ed in organizing Know Nothing lodges,
and Of having made Know Nothing speech
es. The Standard does not specify either
the times sohen nor the places ohere Mr.
Dill was engaged in doing all these things,
now so dreadful in Republican estimation,
but asserts its ability to maintain them by
competent proof. Andrew II. Dill was
born (if he was ever born at all, which the
Republican papers at the outset denied,
because he first saw the light of day beneath
his fathers roof in Baltimore) in 1885. -
Know Nothingism first became 2 political
power in this State in the contest for Gov
ernor between William Bigler and James
Pollock in 1854, in which Bigler was de-
feated by the midnight conspirators of the
proscriptive order. At that time Dill was
just eighteon years old, and was a student
of Dickinson College, Carlisle, from which
he graduated IN the following year (1S55I,
when he was 10, Know Nothingism, ow
ing to the bitter feuds among its corrupt
leaders, Simon Cameron being its chief,
practically disappeared from the politics of
this State after it's first aud only victory in
1854, for in 1856 Buchanan carried it over
Fremont, and in 1857 the Democrats again
came into power under under William +.
Packer, their candidate for Governor. 1t
is cutting it too fat, to use vulgar phrase,
to charge young Dill at the age of Is, when
he vas diligently prosecuting his college
studies, with having been the organizer of
Know Nothing cabals, aud an orator before
Know Nothing midnight conventicles.
AS will be seen 10y an article from the
Harrisburg Patriot, published elsewhere,
the editor of that paper is authorized by
Mr.. Dill to pronounce the charge made by
the Standard as Thoroughly and utterly
false. The Standard will now have to
produce the proofs of its charge, or forever
forfeit the respect and confidence of it's
readers, whom it has either ignorantly, or
from some worse motive, attempted to mis-
lead.
This ''last effort has been the work of
the Cameron ring, and the Cameron State
Committee has purchased one hundred
thousand copies of the StGn1ard containing g
the infamous libel, and, like Jacob NJ.
Campbell's pamphlet in this district, with
it's lie against Coffroth about having cor
ruptly sold a cadetship is scattering them
broadcast over the State, taking special
care that they shall go into Catholic fami-
lies, The Herald, of this place, has been
furnished with liberal invoice of the
precious document, and will take care that
they find lodgment among the Catholics
of northern Cambria, with whom it is sup
passed they will do the most good. The
Johustowu Tribune, always ready for such
an emergency, will meantime not fail to
minister TO the political salvation of the
large body of Catholics within its bailiwick
by its free distribution.
One Of the lowest and meanest political
scavengers about the public offices in Har
risburg is John c. Delaney, of LuzernC
county. He is now, aud for many year:
has been, a messenger in HartranfJ's office
and being an Irishman and a Catholic, anC
{ on intimate terms with the Governor, ht
believes that he holds the votes of the IrisI
Catholics throughout the State in the hol
low of his hand. He has sounded all th,
shoals and depths of political baseness-i
the same man who, as the unscrupulou
agent of the Republican leaders in 1875
when Hartranft and Pershing ran for Gov
ernor, visited the anthracite region an,
corruptly purch ased the support of JacI
Eehoe and his confederates in crime in IA
vOr of Hartranft's election, which account
for the fact that KehUe has not been hun
but is still living-and is also the man VIII
visited Pittsburgh two or three times dul
ing the summer Of 1877, to array the Catf
olic Democrats of Allegheny county again,
Col. Noyes, the Democratic candidate f
State Treasurer, upon the miserable prete1
that Daniel o. Barr, of that county,
brother of the editor Of the Pittsburg
Post, had been defeated in the State Coz
vention by Col. Noyes simply because VI
Barr happened to be a Catholic. This
the man who has been for weeks engage
|, in connecting this charge against Mr.. Dill
and who has succeeded in persuading ii
editor of the Catholic Standard to eudor.
1t by giving it place in the columns of h
paper. In the language of the Patriot a