The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-02-18
OUR STATE CANDIDATES.

III OCh STATE CANDIDATES.
The nomination of Hon. John A.
Lemon, of Blair county, for Auditor
General, and Hon. Henry Green, of
Northampton, for Supreme Judge,
will meet the appreciation of all Re-
publicsns, and prove at the election
TO be one of the most popular tickets
ever presented TO the voters of the
State.
1t is hardly necessary to say one
word of the candidate for Auditor
General, as almost every person In
the district knows him, has rejoiced
in his success, and now glorles In the
fact that bis elevation TO the office
for which he has been nominated is
assured. Mr.. Lemon was burne in the
Old stone house at the head of Plane
No. on the old Portage road-the
county line which divides Blair aud
Cambria running through the house
but he resided in Blair county near
ly all his life, receiving his Common
school education in Hollidaysburg
He was three times elected Burgess
of that Borough. In 1872 be was
nominated by the Republicans for
Senator in the district composed of
Bedford, Fulton, Blair and Somerset
Counties, and So great was his pop
ulsriIy that be was elected unani-
mously-the Democrats not naming
u man TO run against him. Ia 1875
he Was nominated for a one-year
term in the district composed Of the
counties OF Blair aud Cambria. and
was elected by about 600 majority,
although the district was over 500
Democratic. In 1876 ne was again
compelled 10 be the nominee, and
carried the district for a four-years'
term by an increased majority. His
strength is with the masses not with
rings OF monopolies, bat with the
people, whose friend he has ever
been.
We reprint from the editorial col
umns OF 1876 the following incident
illustrating Mr. Lemons character
Early in life be, with his brother
Robert, became engaged in the coal
business near his fathers home Roo
ert, who was somewhat Older than
John, superintended the mines. while
the latter attended to the shipment
aud contracts at Holiday sburQ,
where they had an Office. A strike
occurred at the mines, on account OF
some difference between employers
aud employed, and during the TEN
porary absence of Robert, John
thought he would go up sad see
about 1t. He went. The first place
he stopped 10 was one of his own
miners houses, where was q middle
aged woman with half dozen chill
dren around her. The woman ap-
pea-ed 10 be in great distress. John
inquired the cause. She said they
were OUT Of provisions and out OF
money. He asked where her hus-
band was. She said, "Gone to seek
work." and that, if be found it, they
would move, and leave all th,ir little
property behind them, that they had
accumulated by years OF toll. He
left little money with her, and pro-
ceeded TO the next house, aud 50 on
to all and while each family was not
as hard up as the FIRST, still, all were
depressed in spirits and some were 10
actual want. John went to Holli-
daysburg and loaded up q car of
provisions, and, when about ready to
start, his brother returned from his
absence and wanted TO know what be
was going TO do with the provisions.
John said be was going to reed them
strikers; Bob could hold out as long
as he pleased, but he (John) would
feed the strikers and their families
while the strike lasted. John had
gone over to tie strikers, and it was
house divided against itself; so the
strike speedily came to an end by the
senior member Of the firm yielding
wnen the distress Of bis employees
was portrayed to bim. This is only
an illustration. His purse is always
open, aud his services always at the
disposal of the poor aud unfortu-
nate.
Hon. Henry Green, of Easton, who
on Wednesday was nominated by the
Republicans for Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, is a native of
Warren County, n. j., though his
father was a native of Easton, and
his grandfather one of the early set
tiers. He was born August 90, 1928,
and was educated at Lafayette Col
lege, graduating in ls46. He entered
the law Office of Judge Washington
Mccartney. and in the fall of lS49
be was admitted to practice al the
bar of NortbsDpt,n couu y He de-
voted all his time to the pursuit of his
profession, though be held seat in
the Constitutional Convention of
1872 s, to which be was appointed on
February 81, 1878, as Republican
delegate at large, to Gil the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Hon
Samuel f. Dimmick. He was for
several years the law partner of the
late Andrew Reeder, who became IA
nous as Governor of Kansas in the
au'e-bellum days. His high attain
ments as lawyer are manifested by
the fact that for several years be
was employed by the Western Uuion
Telegraph Company, the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, the Le-
high Coal and Navigation Company,
the North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and other large and iDflu-
ential corporations On Septembe
30, 1879, Mr.. Green was appointed
by Governor Hoyt to Gil the vacancy
on the bench of the Supreme Court
occssioned by the death of Associate
Justice Warren j. Wood ward. This
appointment holds good only until
the close OF the current year, aud
! successor to Judge Woodward for a
fsii term of twenty-one years is to be
elected in November next. He has
not yet been able to assume bis seat
upoa the bench, owing to severe at.
tack OF Rheumatism. A few months
ago Judge Green had conferred upon
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