The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

cans IN JIlS CITY iIOuDlb bilS t4eCIiOu
PENNSYLVANIA is fairly debatable State,
and the Democrats will make great eff
fort to win it. This city is chuck full Of
the Hancock boom and is unusually live
" in forming Democratic clubs. Penn
sylYania is to-day debatable state.
ORGANIZED FOR BATTLE.
The Democratic masses are fully or
ranized for the battle in November, and
active work has begun. At a meeting
at which all the leading representatives
of the two wings of the party participa-
ted. a resolution was offered by Mr..
Geo. MCGOWAN, which was unanimously
adopted, giving to the Committee an en-
tire set of officers. the chairman of which
is Mr.. Lewis G. Cassiday Secretaries,
Thomas May Pierce and Richard J. Len
non Treasurer, George II. Berrill. The
chairman was empowered { o appoint two
solicitors to attend to the legal business
of the committee. Also, committee on
election officers, supervisors and over
Seers q committee on printing and adj
vertiSing; a committee on town meet
ings a committee on assessments OF
candidates and an executive committee,
to have control of tax receipts and cleo
tion matters in general. Mr.. Cassiday
gave the cue for the conflict in a short
H.
plause. He said the campaign would be
an aggressive One-a determined effort
to bring to the polls every citizen who
desires to procure for the people an hon
est and economical government in local,
State and national affairs, and whose
heart beats with hope that the savior of
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg may receive
his reward from the people. Every vote
polled in the city, he declared, should be
honestly counted. Each committeeman
pledged himself to work increasingly un-
til November to place Pennsylvania, as
of yore, in the Democratic line. All
sides and shades will rally under the
Hancock flag. Viewed from every stand
point. the various elements Of the party
in Philadelphia VIII take theiT stand at
points where they Will do the most good.
With Lewis G.. CaSsiday as n director
of the forces, with such aids rs George
MCGOWAN, Thomas J. BargeT. George r.
Berrin, Edward IL Flood, John Sheven,
VIM. D. Uendrick, Thomas J. McDOn-
ough, John Robbins, Isaac Lcech and a
host Of others, and with score of such
gallant veteran Democratic soldiers and
able and eloquent orators as Major Moses
Neale, the Democrats of the rural dis
tricts may safely rely upon the assertion
of the Philadelphia Times that ''there is
now certain to be a poll of nearly or quite
serenity thousand votes fOr Hancock in
Philadelphia in November and the Re-
publican leaders may as well look the
fact square in the face now as TO figure
out a different result on paper, only to
be sadly awakened when the returns
come along"
Chairman Dill has not yet made his
appearance as manager of the State cam
best running condition by an experienced
political engineer, Captain William Nc
Clelland, who is now temporarily OccU-
pying chamber IS of the Girard House.
The Captain is putting the machine in
capital running order, and knows well
how to run it.
THE DEMOCRACY NEVER DIES.
Although the Democratic party re-
ceives many umcaIled for and cruel stabs
from supposed friendly hands, it always
RECEIVERS from the wounds. It is as i'm
mortal as anything human can be. 1t
may be betrayed and misled 10y selfish
and cOwardly leaders, and apparently
succumb, but the disaster is always tenn
pOrary. 1t may be apparently over
thrown, but it sinks only to rise again.
1t is founded on the ever-enduring plat
form Of human rights, and viii live as
long as man, to whom human rights be-
long, exists.
LET Is HAVE PEACE"
The New York World is trying its
best to kick up dust and bring sabout
another "OnpleasantnesS' by censuring
its Republican contemporaries for not
paying proper respect to the laws of lam
guage. 1t accuses Republican. Journals
of the crime Of using bad grammar in
saying 'The United States is a IA
ton" It's structures on their disregard
for the rules of grammar, by using
plural nOminatiye with singular rerJ,
are very insinuating and well calculated
to arouse tEeir ire. 1t fears that if they
are suffered to continue offending in
grammar that they viii continue 10 get
from bad to worse until finally they will
say Garfield are a weak candidate -
The World should cease its mkind
1t should remember that
some twenty years ago the country was
into a deluge of blood and
tears by difficulty between the schools
of South Carolina and the schools of
about how many ''g'S''
should be employed in the generic de-
ScriptiOn of that creature Which has since
become known in history and politics as
the eminent colOred patriot. The Mas
sachusetts school contended that there
was but one ''g'' in ''nigger'' and the
South Carolina school cOntended that
there were two ''g's'' in it. The World
should remember the disastrous result of
that spelling bee. =
Later too, the World shonld remember
how the spelling of the word bigger
with one g. come near causing another
'onpleaSantneSs, and how very un-
pleasant it made things for doorkeeper
FitZhugh. 1t should remember that Re-
publicans offend no more through bad
grammar than Democrats offend through
bad ortbOgrapky. y Democratic House
seeing how very near the question of
spelling bigger with one ''g'' became
being adopted as an issue in PreSiden-
tial campaign, grasped the situation with
great frmneSS, and forced FitZhugh to
spell resignation correctly, thereby
depriving the Republican party of what
bid fair to be its shibboleth of victory.
The World should remember a still later
instance Of ''onpleasantness" arising
from case of bad spelling. Polk, who
succeeded the unfortunate FitZhugh as
dOOrkeeper. and whose 0rthOgraphy
should have been beyond suspicion, while
he did not spell bigger with one 'sg.- =
spelled negro with two ''g's.'' Not
only was Polk's orthography outrageous.
but his enunciation of ''nigger'' was
more offensive TO New England ears than
phonetics. The case of Fitz-
hugh and Polk both teach us that or
biography is a pTimordial requisite in a
doorkeeper.
The fall of Fitzhugh was very melan-
choly in some respects, extremely ludic-
louS IN others, but exceedingly comfort