The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-04

THREE YEARS AGO the editor Of the
Johnstown Tribune used sixteen col
ums of the weekly edition of his paper in
an attempt to show that Gen. Coffroth,
then the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress, ought to be in the penitentiary.
Copies of the Tribune containing the at
tack on Gen. c. were showered all over
/ Somerset county, almost as numerous as
the falling leaves in October, and the re-
suit was that Jacob NJ. Campbell's ma
jority was reduced to the beggarly show
J ing of 4O1 votes, and Coffroth was cleo
/ ted by 307 majority. The Tribune man,
ignoring with'supremeco contempt the'bit-
: ter lesson then taught him by the peo-
/ pie of this Congressional district, under
took in his paper of Friday last to play
the same game in regard TO the present
Democratic candidate for office in this
county that he did in reference to Cot
I ffroth in 1873. His present experiment
will end as disastrously as the former
one did. He now arraigns at the bar OF
publie opinion all the candidates on the
Democratic county ticket and modestly
asks the intelligent voters to believe
that they are a set of thieves and scoun-
drels fatally bent on plundeTing the
county in the future, as they, or the
most of them, have done in the past
that they are not to be trusted, and are
unworthy of popular confidence and sup
port. II the editor of the Tribune can
/ get the people of this county to believe
even the one-half of all the charges con-
tanned in his indictment, he will of course
succeed in accomplishing the purpose he
has in view The Democrats of Cam
bria county are not fools, although the
editor of the JOhnstown Tribune seems
to think they are when he so grossly in
suits their intelligence as he did in his
last Fridays issue.
The Democratic county ticket was
not made by ring Of politicians, as the
Republican county ticket was notorious
" made. but it was the work of the
Democratic voters in the different dis
tricts voting directly for the men they
preferred for the various offices. The
voters knew what they were dong when
they cast their ballots in September and
are satisfied with the result, and if the
Tribune editor, who has such a wonder
full regard for the political morals of the
county, thinks anything he sees proper
to publish about the candidates then
r.
to vote against them on sext Tuesday,
he will be a wiser man when he learns
the result on Wedn esday. There is no
more certain way to get Democrats to
stand up to the vigorous support of their
county ticket than to have it abused
and denounced in the JohnstOwn Tri-
blnle. 1t has been so in former cam
paigns. and the outcome will be the
same in the present one. Instead of
making a hypOcTitical appeal TO Demo
Gratis to play traitors part toward
their ticket and elect his candidates.
why don't he show that he is true to the
grand old Republican party by de-
nouncing the treason Of +. H. Barker,
VIII OptH!N 'Ppo9G" anu ''''olo''u II A0
feating Daniel J. Morrell for COngTe S
when he ran against R, Milton Speer
If Swank was an honest Republican be
would do So, but as he ism t that kind OF
a man his annual assaults upon the
Democratic county ticket excite only
derision and contempt, and, as we have
already said actually strengthen it:
chances of election,