Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-09
SEN NATOR MITCHELL.

The WellSb0ro, 1loga Couuly, ASi
tator. of the 1st inst, the organ OF the
Republicans of that staunch Repub-
lican county, and a paper which the
new Senator himself edited some
wears ago, thus settles his political
position.
MIR. MITcHELL's POLITICAL POSITION.
Our Tioga county readers know very
we'll what manner of man Mr.. Mitchell
is. 9th personally and politically. Dur
ing the nine years of his continuous
service as their Representative they
have learned to appreciate his ability
and pulity as man and his industry,
independence and integrity as legisla-
tor. They well know that during his
public life he has never shi ked any
responsibility pertaining to his poslt-
ion; never failed to take prompt and
decided stand on any issue, and never
faltered in asserting and upholding the
rights and interests of his constituents
and the true principles of the Repub-
lican party, regardless of dictation from
any source within the party or without
it. In short. they know that he is no
mans man, and tnat the only service
he has ever entered is that OF the whole
BODY of his constituency
But there are some people outside
the county who may be deceived bv
the current assertion of few OF the
machine organs to the effect that the
new Senator is Cameron man "
One OF the most servile tools of the late
unlamented machine" goes SO far as
to claim that he must be Cameron
mae because nobody but Cameron
could be elected ia Tioga county! If
ths reader will recall the facts that
Senator Emery and Representatives,
Niles and Tubbs have just received
heavy majorities in Tioga county and
that the Republicans OF the county
were practically unanimous lnlndorslng
Mr.. Grow for Senator, he will be able
to appreciate the stupendous proper
tions of this machine whopper No
man at all acquainted with Pennsyl-
vania politics needs to be told that
Tioga is as far as possible from being
Cameron county" The Republl,
cans of this county are "stalwarts" IN
the true sense of the word. They dc
their own thinking and their own vot'
ing. They believe thoroughly in the
principles of the party, and they bow
down to no boss" big or little. And
the fact that John l. Mitchell is man
whom they have delighted to honor
a man whom they have indorsed nc
less than Big times within the last ten
years-is pretty strong evidence that
| the new Senator is the servant of nc
| "boss."
Mr. Mitchell's career in the Legisla.
ture, where for two years he was the
leader of the House and where one ol
his most intimate and trusted friends
vas Mr.. Wolfe, sufficiently attests the
fact that he is an independent self
reliant thinker and actor in political
affairs. And at Washington lie has
been equally independent Of the ma
chine. After the machine had been
made to grind out an anti-Blaine del
egation to the Chicago Convention last
year, Mr.. Mitchell became the active
representative in the Congressional
Blaine Club of the true sentiment oil
the great mass of Pennsylvania Re.
publicans. And when the Republicans
of Tioga county. feeling outraged by
the action of the machine at the State
Convention in imposing upon them
delegates to Chicago who utterly mis-.
represented the district, held a conven-
ton to denounce and repudiate that
action, Mr.. Mitchell wrote q strong
letter condemning the position of the
'bosses." We quote few significant
sentences from that letter, which bears
date March 10, 1880 The reader will
recollect that the managers OF the ma
chine then claimed that the State Con
vention had authority to appoint and
instruct district delegates. In direct
opposition to this claim Mr.. Mitchell
then wrote
am firm in the belief that each Con-
presional district has the unquestiona-
bic right to choose and instruct its own
delegates to the National Convention.
aud that no State Convention can de-
prive it of this right, if insisted upon
by the Republican party of the district
IN question. Therefore conclude that
the attempt by the. Harrisburg Copyen-
tion to override the plainly apparent
wishes os tho Republican masses, by