The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-19

Hts Ctl respondent tiBs dlit tiic zAitOOtist
Mirror undertake to discuss the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in this dis
trict, they ought to pay decent respect to
the time when certain recent political events
occurred in this and Somerset counties be-
fore they rashly jump at conclusions. The
correspondent of the Democrat asserts that
lit was well known to the delegates (mean-
ing the delegates to the Democratic con
vention Of this county, that Mr. Baer had
refused TO be a candidate, and that the
Democracy Of Somerset had already spoken
and had selected General CoftrUtL as her
candidate. The action, therefore, of the
Cambria convention can be regarded in no
other ligh, than a rebuko TO the Democra-
. cy Of Somerset iii declaring in favor Of Cof-
fr"th." In referring 70 the statements
made by Penn, the Mirror says they
''ieud credcucc to tLe theory advanced here
[in Al;OunaJ that the instruction Of Cam
Jriu's cUuferccs for Hon. VIM. J. Baer, Of
Somerset, who was known to have posi-
lively refused the nomination, was intended
to give AIr. Cuitroth to understand dis
tine " that the county was fOI anybody
before him" Enlightenment Of fJcts viii
simplify this matter amazingly aud place
it in its true light. We are not prepared
10 say, as "Penu" does, thai it was well
known to the delegates Of our county con
yeutiou that Mr.. Baer had refused to be a
candidate. All we know on tha. branch Of
the subject Is, that in the FREEMAN Of the
18Th Of June, ten days before the conveu-
ti0n met, we stated in pIaia and emphatic
language our regret to be compelled to an
uouuce ;hat from reliable information then
in our possession, Mr.. Baer would not per-
NIT his name to 60 before the conference.
II Penn" knew that such was Mr.. Bacr's
position he learned it from our statement,
and not from anything said by the Demo
crat on the subject. All this, however, is
not Of so much importance as the other
assertion Of Penn" that it vas well
known to the delegates to the Democratic
convention Of this county "that the DEM
ocracy Of Somerset had already spoken and
bad selected Gen. Cofroth as ber candi-
date, aud that 'the action, therefore, of
the Cambria convention can be REGARDED
in 10 other light than rebuke to the
Democracy of Somerset in declaring in "a
vor' Of that gentleman.
The Somerset convention and the Cam
bria convention both me- on the Same day
Monday, June 24th. The Somerset body
declared for Conrolh in the afternoon Of
that day, and the Cambria convention,
after being in session all through the night,
elected couferees about daylight on Tues
day u1oruiHg, aud instructed them to sup-
port Mr.. Baer, if he would consent to be a
candidate. No delegate therefore, to the
Cambria convention had any knowledge
whatever on Tuesday morning that on the
afternoon of the previous day the Democ-
racy Of Somerset had instructed their con-
fcrees to vote for Cofroth, nor was any
thing known here on that subject iii the
next day "Wednesday. No ''Iebukc" was
therefore intended to be cast upon the
Democracy Of Somerset by the Cambria
convention for declaring in favor Of Cof-
ioth, for the simple reason that the con-
vention didn't know what the Somerset
Democrats had done. Besides this. the
/ Democracy of Cambria would hesitate
long time before they would assume to
''reJuhe' their brethren in Somerset for
exercising their uudoubted right to declare
in favor Of General Cufirotb, or any o.her
Democrat of that county. In what we
have said we must not be understood as
advocating Gen. CofTroth's nomination, but
simply to remove any false impressions
which may have been created abroad by
the allegations of the Democrat and Mirror
50 far as they attribute unworthy and i'm
possible motives to the Democratic conven-
tion Of this county. The whole question is
one to be settled by the Congressional CON
+ !erccs, aud we do not propose to dictate to
them, nor in any way inter fere with them
/ in the discharge of their duties
/ p S.-Snce the above article was put in
type we learn from the Somerset Democrat
that the convention in that county was held
on Tuesdoy, Jgns 25th and therefore aftlr
Tie Cambria contention had adjourned
which makes it much tie worse for Penn. -
TIE official returns Of the late California
election slow that Dennis Kearuey, The
San Francisco diayman, and leader OF the