The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-14


looking to the placing ia the field
another so-called Republican ticket.
Why Mr.. Shsfer, who has twice
held the ofice of Sheriff through the
kindness of the Republican party,
should now most ungrstcfully lend
himself 10 az effort to divide and
break it down we know not, unless it
be because ii refused for a third time
to elect him to q position, which his
present action shows be never should
have held. The call is a cowardly
affair because it is anonymous, no
reputable Republicans daring to
take the responsibility of signing it,
and it is the more cowsrdly and
sneaking because it brings outra-
geous charges against members of the
regular ticket without the RESPONSE
bility of a single name TO vouch for
them. That il is a Democratic
scheme engineered by Democratic
leaders every one knows, and the So
called Republicans who are being
used are not the dupes but the tools
Of those leaders. At the instance CT
General Coffroth the Democrats in
large numbers cast their votes at the
primary election. Mr.. Sbafer and
other defeated candidates who shared
this vote are now ~virtuously .in1ig-
nant because they didn't get enough
of it, and are playing into Cofroth's
hand by trying to divide the party,
SO he may profit by his scheme and
secure his election to Congress. The
scheme is worthy Of Coflroth, and the
boast of its certain success secured
him his nomination but the Repub-
lican who can be fooled by anything
SO transparent ought TO be sent back
TO the Ounce cap of his childhood.
That this is a mere trick, a scheme
in the interests of the Democrats is
shown by the fact that no one calls
this election. Who, are MANY Re-
publicans ?" A few respectable
names might have given character to
the call, but evidently no Republic
an of standing could be found to
sanction this treason to his party.
If any number of Republican vot-
ers, however small, believed that he
primaries were unfairly held, or that
corrupt mean procured nominations,
they had a plain course for redress
within the party. The County Com
mittee would not, and dared not re-
fuse to take action to purge the
ticket, on evidence laid before them.
But this did not suit the conspira-
tors who want to disorganize and d.
vide the party. Who gave them the
power to call a new election II the
proper Committee had refused to set,
there nigh: have been an excuse for
this, but as it is, it is simply revolu-
ton, looking to the complete over
throw Of the party.
The stake to be played for is a
large one. The majority in the next
House at Washington may depend
on the election OF a Congressman in
this district. If there should be three
candidates for President in 1880, the
election will probably go tothe House;
there the vote is taken by States, and
the Congressman elected in this dis
tries may determine for whom the
State shall vote.
The Senator elected 10 November
will during his term have to vote for
two Z. S. Senators, and on the re-
districting Of the State, more import.
ant votes than any Senator will have
to cast within the next twenty years;
and the members of the Legislature
elected will have to vote this winter
for a U. S. Senator; and yet it is pro.
posed by Mr.. Shafer and the parties
with whom he acts to put in jeopardy
all those important interests.
If the allegations of this anoDy-
nous circular be true, and bribery
and other corrupt means were used
10 procure nominations at the late
primaries, the ~penitentiary yawns for
the scoundrels who used them. The
law provides ample remedy and pun
ishment. The Courts of Justice are
open to all, and they will not only
prevent such men from holding Office,
but they will punish them for the
perjury if they dare take the oath.
If it is the purity of elections, and
the punishment Of rascals, Mr.. Shaier
and his hackers want-withoGt dis
rupting and furnishing the entire Re-
publican party of the county, because
a few knayes, as they allege, procured
nominations by corrupt means-the
way is through the courts. We will
60 as far as any n to punish the
corruptionists 10 the party, if there
be any, but as this movement is
clearly in the interests of the enemy,
we advise all true Republicans to
have nothing TO do with it.
In his speech accepting that nomi-
nation for Congress, the Bedford