The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-11-13

WHILE the Republican JOY bells
throughout the land are praclaimirg
the magnificent victory won on Tues
day last, the rus Republicans Of
Somerset county are overwhelmed
with shame at the result in this, their
citadel of the district camp.
The Republican party of Somerset
county is forever disgraced by its
base desertion of its candidate for
Congress, when certain victory was
within his grasp, and worse than all
the bitter shame of this trescherou;
and cowardly act is brought directly
home to our own borough and town
ship.
If the dastards who betrayed us
could be drummed out Of the camp
in the face Of the assembled hosts, II
would m~easurably relieve the true
men frUm odium; but as it is, the jasl
must suffer with the unjust, and each
individual Republican must bear the
stigma Ct treachery, to which the or
~ganization is justly amenable.
Il is bootless now to inquire into
the causes of this shameful betrayal
of the party and its candidate. Ante
Nor to the election, not q single Re.
publican raised bis voice against
Gen. Campbell. None named him
bat to praise, and yet be was stab
bed to death in the house Of bis
friends, by secret assassins. The We
nal eamp-followers, the corrupt, the
miserable. mindless, purchasable
scum to be found in every commu'
nifty, naturally gravltated to the
Democratic candidate, to whom they
were conceded, and TO whom OF
right they belonged; but, apart from
this unsavory rabble, there were
scores and scorcs Of Republicans,
claiming to be honest and respectable
men. who served the enemy by
stealth, and to-day are covering up
their tr%eachery by loud professions of
regret, at the legitimate result of tberi
own treason. These are the men
who have lot only ~disgraeed the par
ty, but have brought shame and sus'
pieion and contumely upon the hon
est Republicans, who stood mantully
by Their candidate. The assertion
that the sorehead element produced
this result is not borne out by the
returns. 1t may be accredited with
a portion Of il, bnt bT far the greater
part mus. be attributed to some 9th
er cause. We know that some We
ters were imposed upon by means Of
& fraudulent ticket, and Others we
feel assured we're squarely bought
with a price; bat apart from this, the
Notifying DETECTION in this borough
and township must be largely ac-
counted for in some other way.
There are rumors, some Of them ap.
psrenlly well authenticated, of gross
treaehery aud fraud, on part of trust
ed members Of the party in this bor-
oueh. of them we will not now
speak, believing that crimes of this
stamp cannot be successfully conceal
ed. but Ike murder, viii out, some
day. Suffice it, that General Camp
bell was shamefdlly betrayed and
beaten. despite the best Efforts Of mis-
stauncn and true friends, and that
thereby this distric. has not only
lost the services Of an honest, pure
and patriotic representative, always
at his post and always right, but !
has had imposed upon it, one who is
not in unison with the political prin-
ciples of a large majority Of its people,
aud whose character is badly
smircbed by his public record. This
county %issolely accountable for and is
UNNECESSARILY disgraced by the re-
spl.