The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-06-21
The Prestige of Victory.

Dill, Ross, Fertig and Africa ! This Is
splendid combination personally and geo.
graphically, and will meet the demands of
the people in all parts of the great common
wealth. Andrew II. Dill has been four
times before the people as a candidate for
the house and senate in republican districts
and has never been defeated. His popular
ity has increased with each year of his pub
lie service until it has spread throughout the
entire state. The district which he now
represents in the senate was constru cted to
return a republican but it was not proof
against the popularity of Andrew II, Dill.
Upder his influence and auspices the dis.
trict has now become soundly and safely
democratic. This is a presage of victory.
Henry M, Hoyt, the opponent of Andrew
H. Dill for governor, on the OF her hand, has
been beaten on the only two occasions when
he was before the people; once as candidate
for district attorney and once as a candidate
for additional law judge in Luzerne county.
1t will not do to say that the odds were too
heavy against him. They were not greater
than those of his democratic competitor.
While Hoyt was beaten in Luzerne, whose
politics he has so often manipulated, Ketch-
um, Harding, Shoemaker, Payne and other
| republicans have been elected. This is an
omen of defeat.
Henry p. Ross, the nominee for the su-
preme bench, is President Judge Of the thir-
ty-eighth judicial district, consisting of the
large and populous county of Montgomery.
In the Tenth Legion his name is tower of
strength. The unanimity with which the de-
mocracy of his portion of the state demand
ed his omination in the present and form
er state conventions bears evidence of his
popularity. He is regarded as one of the
ablest and most accomplished jurists in the
commonwealth, and he will prove worthy
colleague of Judge Turnkey. Against him
is James p. Sterrett of Allegheny county,
who enters the contest with the burden OF
last years defeat, and with the additional
burden of having intrigued to push aside
the venerable chief justice. This is another
presage of defeat for the Cameron ticket
John Fertig, the candidate for lieutenant
in the state senate, having heen elected over
a popular opponent in that republican
stronghold. He is not a politician but bus
inesss man of experience. An oil producer
himself, the people of the oil regions have il
his nomination still further guarantee Of
the good faith of the democratic party in re
gard to their interests in the Legislature
Senator Stone, his opponent, was nominated
by the Cameronians in the hope that h
would be able to arrest the tide of indigna
tion which has arisen in the oil regions o.
account of the hostility Of the Republican
in the legislature to their interests. Bu
while Stone, could not bring a republica
senator beyond the limits of the oil region
to the support 'of the free pipe bill nearl
all the democratic senators stood with Fel
tig for the measure. The nomination {
Fertig completely efiaces all the advantsg
which the Cameronians hoped to draw fror
, the candidacy of Stone.
For secretary of internal affairs the cand
date of the convention is J. Simpson Afric.
of Huntingdon county, who has been praC
tically at the head of that department eve
since its organization by General M'CanC
less His punctuality, correct ness, meth cd
ica habits of business, and stfsbility com
bine TO make him model official. His POP
. ularity, too, has been fully tested He wa
elected a member of the legislature from tn
county of Huntington when the county CAV
a republican majority of thousand an
when all his associates on the ticket wei
defeated.
The candidates of the democratic conver
l tion thus enter the field with the prestige Q
victory. Dill, Ross, Fertig and Africa hay
= never been beaten before the people. Thrt
of them have been successful in strong n
: publican districts. The convention has dor
$ nobly. 1t has placed before the people
Pennsylvania the Strongest and best tick
+ alike in its personnel and its geographic
J position that has been nominated in gen,
Il ration, Dill, Ross, Fertig and Africa for
quadrlateral which will defy all the etfor
Q of the Cameron combination to break it,
. Patriot.
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