The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-28
The Ring and their PamnhInt.

the candidates for Assembly in Ell,
county, $780," AS it is unsigned and
without any publishers imprint an
intelligent public is justified in view
ing it with suspicion unless the state
ments made therein are accompanied
by sufficient proof of their truthfulness
In his preface Mr.. writer says he is
not in afliliation with the Democratic
( party; the candidates (Earley and
BROWN are alike Indifferent to him:
and his only object in preparing the
pamphlet is to give his fellow-voters a
full knowledge of the antecedents of
the candidates.
The body of his pamphlet shows that
he is not Republican, for Republi-
can would never undertake to prove
any thing by quotations from the
| Champion. He says he is not in affili-
alton with the Democratic party: the
! Ring is not the Democrats party
they will have to turn themselves IN
side out as efiectually as their present
candidate has on numerous occasions
done before they have anything Demo-
cratic about them, and he may be in
af1i iatiOn with them and still with
truth say what he does about his party
| preferences. But, he says the caudi-
dates are alike indifferent to him. -
| This might be construed to signify
| that both nave turued the cold shouI-
| der upon him, or It may mean that he
| is situated like Daniel in the picture.
! in which Daniel is represented as beinr
| in the den with two lions, and of which
the Snowman says: +: "NOw ladies and
! gentlemen, that blue spot there is n
I green cotton umbrellar, and that green
| spot carrying it is Daniel. You will
notice that Daniel is not afraid of the
lions, and if you look close you will
| observe that the lions don't care a d-n
! for Daniel
In the usual acceptatiOn OF the word
| Indifferent, the conviction is Irresistible
tlat he Lies IKE Il thiein when he
| says the candidates are Indifferent to
| him, or ne is Il Grecnbacker, Il poor.
! lone GreenUacker, ieIt out i'll the cold,
All his comrades have gone for Farley,
! ana He Is now DIlIIng aud cooling for a
companion ana soluclng himself in his
lonely hours with Il tile of the Cham
| ptOH. Where Is the skunk? Is he OH
lile too? Together tuGy lived and ia
|
| 1t Decaue 100 strong 1or both, and to-
! getner they died and were inferred.
and now one Is resurrtcted and the com
! nuuity bOO-hOOs Tor the other and will
not be com.orted. And now, dear
reddtr, IL you nave wiped your eyes
ana blown your nose We will try TO
! find out now much this writer has
misstuted tie respective records OF the
| TWO lnen. He deVOtcS TWO and one
! nalt pages TO personal sketch OF Doc
| tor Eufleyi covering period OF IS
| years, and during all these years he
! nss failed TO linu d single act which he
| deems worthy Ol iaVOraDlC mention
! he has not as much us one good word
! Tor him. How many are there in this
! county who cannot remember charit-
! able ana other connCudubie acts by
! the hundreds? And yet this writer
| vino claims to be 80 exactly impartial
| does not even mention one, while lie
| praises Mr.. Brown in two pages 80
| highly That one iuagincS the l. III his
middle name stands for Lovely. He
figures out that Dr. Eariey mas held
Office III years out of 26, but fails to
state That Mr. Brown has for the same
| length or time been trying his best
with all tue different parties which
V,
and has been repudiatcd by all. He
| figures out I years Tor the Doctor us
county superintendent, but he oniis
10 say that the first year he served Tor
the magnificent salary Of S37. 80 ana
! the highest nc received III any wear
was S4OO while MIR. Brown was the
| prime mover III taking out of the
| county trGasurpy S4OO Il year to add to
the $500 which .Hr. Dixon was already
getting for the same office. But it il
not necessary to comment further on
the trash this man has written about
the two men it will neither honor
| them nor do them good. In reference
TO DIR. Earlcy's votes on bills before
the Legislature, to get correct under
standing OF the course which he took
it is necessary to read the portions of
the Bills to which he objected. The
tile Of bill gives no idea rs to what
the provisions OF the bill may be. For
instance Bill may be entitled, can
Act to provide for the payment of the
public debtn As iuraS would appear
in this title any one would pronounce
it very laudable Butsuppose the Bill
went Oh to provide for paying the
public debt by contiscating il sufficient
amount Of private property to raise the
money. The Bill would evidently be
all wrong although that fact would
not show in the tile. Now, our impair
tial friend gives III the pamphlet gen
orally only the title of the Bills, and
only in one instance the part of the
Bill to which the Doctor objected, and
although his objections can be found
in the Legislative Record and should
have been quoted entire in order to
place his record fully before the people,
still the pamphlet does not in any iu-
stance give his objection.
Page of the pamphlet gives sections
3, 8, d II, and page . repeals section 8,
OF the 18th article of the new consti-
tuition and pages 6, I, s, 0, and 10 COM
mentS upon the Doctors course in re-
gard TO the same, apparently ali
quoted from the Champion This
whole mass amounts TO nothing.
Every law passed must conform in its
provisions with the provisions of the
constitution, and no law would be de-
clared valid by any court in the State
which did uOt 50 conform with the
constitution.
The bill particularly complained of
has been called the 'Ant-discrimina-
ton Bill" and purported to have been
drawn in conformity with the
new constitution adopted in 1874.
Now in the Constitution itself the
fact is made clear That the constitution
is not binding upon those corporations
which Were chartered previous to its
adoption by the people, unless those
corporations have voluntarily come
forward and accepted its provisions.