Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-10-20
From the Mercer Dispatch, Oct. 10, ]
a ROORBACH.

From the Mercer Dispatch, Oct. l5,I
"A ROORBACH.
On Saturday last most malicious,
and lying address was
started in circulation through the 26th
Congressional district for the purpose of
defeating the Republican candidate for
c ongress and aiding the election of
Caldwell, the Democratic candidate. 1t
is well known that Caldwell is very
wealthy, and for the past two weeks
certain parties have been negotiating
with Democratic leaders in this and
Crawford counties, offering for valu-
BILE consideration, to do all in their
power to defeat Miller At last it was
decided to issue and address purporting
to come from Republicans and get as
many persons to sign it as possible.
WHO PREPARED THE ADDRESS.
The address was prepared last
week in the office of leading Demo-
crat of Mercer, by Pierce, Magofiin,
Gillespie, chairman of the Democratic
county committee, and their gang. 1t
was taken personally by Gillespie to
job printing Office in Cleveland, Ohio,
where several thousand copies were
printed. and when printed the package
was expressed to Greenville to the ad-
dress of Z. p. Gillespie, who, as above
stated, is the chairman of the Demo-
cratic county committee of Mercer
county. On the arrival of the package
at Greenville it was taken to the Dem
ocratic printing office, owned by Gill
lespie's father, and there most of the
batch mailed to the Republicans of this
county was put up in wrappers and
directed. When all ready for mailing
this same Gillespie went to Postmaster
Krepps, of Greenville, and purchased
twenty dollars worth of one-cent post
age stamps, paying therefor with a
twenty-dollar gold piece, and saying
he would want twenty dollars worth
more in few days.
TO WHOM IT WAS ADDRESSED.
So far it has only been mailed to
Republicans, with the hope, as express
ed by its Democratic originators, that
it might poison enough voters to re-
duce Miller's vote and make possible
the election of a Democrat to represent
this district and add one more vote to
the rebel brigadiers in Congress.
WHAT THE ADDRESS CONTAINS.
The first assertion the address con-
tains, which is malicious and false in
every particular, is that Mr.. Miller de-
feated VIM. Stewart in 1866 for judge.
This assertion, apparently coming from
Johnson Pearson, will be considered a
huge joke in Mercer county. 1t is
well known to every one who was a
voter in the county at that time that
both in 1860 and 1866 johnson Pear
son was one of the men who assisted,
and boasted of it, in the defeat of Mr.
Stewart. In 1860, he and others fol-
lowed Stewart to the conference and
worked against him, and failing to de-
feat his nomination joined with the
Democrats in supporting Judge Camp
bell.
Again in 1866, Mr.. Pearson and
others of his crowd did all they could
to prevent Mr.. Stewards nomination,
and when the conference finally adj
journed on the Wednesday before the
election without making a nomination
the defeat of Mr.. Stewart was an ac-
complished fact.
For his course in this and other mat
ters Mr.. Pearson made Mr.. Stewart his
life long enemy, and in 1874, when
Pearson was nominated for Judge,
Stewart ran as an independent candi-
date, and as he openly stated, to defeat
Pearson.
The assertion that Taylor paid Mr.
Miller $500 for his support in 1866
is only exceeded in its falsity by its
stupidity. The conference at Franklin
broke up on Wednesday evening be-
fore the election. The Dispatch was
printed and mailed on Friday and
would not reach many of its readers be-
fore the election day (the following
Tuesday,, and it did not put up Mr..
Taylor's name in the ticket at the
head of the paper; and the statement
that Mr.. Miller was paid as much as a
nickle in the judicial matter of 1866,
directly or indirectly, is a base and
malicious falsehood.
The second and third assertions con-
tanned in the address are to the effect
that Mr. Miller acted corruptly in NOM
mating Gen. Allen for Senate in 1869,
and in assisting to nominate Mr.. Nc
Kinley for Senate in 1874 Both of
these charges, so far as they affect Mr..
Miller, are utterly and wholly false,
and he challenges any man who is con-
versaGt with the facts to state the con-
trary.
These falsehoods have been circu-
lated by the Democracy heretofore to
injure the reputation of Mr.. Miller in
the Republican party, and in every in
stance the Republicans of Mercer coun-
ty have testified their faith and conf
dence in him by supporting and sus-
tanning him. They are now reproduced,
not fer any effect they may have in
Mercer county, but with the hope of
aiding the Democratic candidate in
Crawford and Butler counties.
The next accusation is that Mr.. Mil
Ter betrayed Mr. McAdam when he
was candidate for the Congressional
nomination in this district in 1866 and
1868. This is if possible a more ma
licious and malignant falsehood than
those that p"ocede it, because Mr..
Pearson has a perfect knowledge of all
the facts. In 1866, when McAdam
was first candidate, Mr.. Miller was
not even present at the Congressional
conference, either as conferee or spec
tator Pearson, however aoas one of
McAdam,s conferees, and aoas acting
IN that capacity Mhen Hon. y. 4. Fin