The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-07-04

4 TEMPEST IN 4 TEAPOT Johns
town Tribune went out of its way on two
occasions last week to indulge in several i'll
natured and uncalled-fOr filings, editorially
as well as locally, at a certain gentleman re-
siding at Portage, i'll this county, against
whom it is almost needless to say the Tribune
has sworn eternal hostility, or something of
that sort, simply because the gentleman IN
question had the temerity to appear in the
field last year as an aSpirant before the Re
publican county convention for COngreSSIOn-
al honorS in opposition to the pet candidate
and patron saint of said paper Gen. Jacob
NJ Campbell, whose political cake was so
thoroughly baked at the ensuing election by
Gen. 4. II. COffrOth. the Democratic nominee
The Tribune, we have already said, went
out of its way to indulge iIt a little personal
spleen, and in doing SO very broadly intima-
ted that we were party to the transaction
which has so unnecessarily excited its VlrtU-
Gus (?) indignation, and also leaves the inn
preston on the minds of its readers that we
were paid for doing what we did not do, and
what we would consider it personal and
professional disgrace for any one similarly
situated to be guilty of doing. The whole
burthen of the TribWle'S complaint is that
Mr. j. G. Martin, of Portage, took part in
the recent excursion of the Pennsylvania
Editorial Association to Cape May, and that
the pass issued to him for the purpose was
made out in the name of the CAMBRIA FREE
MAN. How much Mr.. Martin or the editor
of the FREEMAN is to blame, if there is any
cause for blame in the matter may he infer
red from the following plain statement of
facts About six weeks ago we happened to
meet r.. s Menamin, Esq, Secretary Of the
Pennsylvania Editorial Association, on the
Fast Line coming up the eastern slope of the
mountain and during a brief conversation
on the subject of the then approaching eX
cursion, he asked us whether we thought
Mr.. Martin, who was at one time member
of the Association, and who last year eX-
tended an invitation to the Association to
visit Portage while at CTcSSOn. would like to
take part in the excursion to Cape May. All
we could say was that we did not know. but
that if we happened to meet Mr.. Martin in
the meantime we would ask him, and if he
said yes we would 50 inform Mr.. Mcnamin.
During the first week of Court Mr. Martin
visited EbcnSbuTg, and while here we stated
the case to him, to which he replied that he
had no right to expect such courtesy, but
that if Mr.. Menamin saw fit to extend it he
. would certainly accept it with pleasure and
gratitude. This answer was i'll due time
conveyed to Mr.. Menamin, and few days
before the excursion took place we received
a note from Mr.. Martin thanking us for the
part We had taken in the matter and inform
ing lis that his pass had been issued on ac-
count of the FREEMAN, it being evidently
necessary to accTedit each participant to
some journal connected with the Association.
This Is all there was in it, and we leave il to
any candid man to say whether the Tribune
has not made mountain out of a mOle-hili
in the UnmiStakable though Intellectual effort
to belittlc a gentleman who aSpired to posi-
tion which to say the least he waSfullyas com
petcnt to fill as the special friend and patron
of the Tribune and its eTudite editor the
latter of whom, through the friendship and
in fiuence of the patron aforesaid, is now in
possession of the lucrative position of post
master at JohnstOwn.