The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-04-13


ED HERALD Permit one of the many
Republicans who heartily sustain you and
who are proud of the history Of their party
and anxious TO preserve its integrity to say
word to your readers concerning the "In-
Dependent party now blntantly bawliug
/ for political recognition and doing What they
can to disrupt tlic Republican party.
1 Who and what are they
Many Of them are bankrupt politicians I;
scmc have very stiff backs and very sore
heads some have very supple backs and
very soft heads most of them for some pri-
vate reason or grievance don't any longer
believe in party politicsat all, but would
ike to belong to a party which is not par
ty with politics which are not politics
Like every other organization the Repub-
| lican party has its malcontents, its fault
finders, its selfish men of more rapacity than
popularity. more ambition than brains
Each recurring election has brought more
or less Of them to the surface To-day this
disappointed horde. this jangling, conten-
tious brood lusting for power are dsnounc-
ing the usages which preserve the Republic
can party, and through which they have
luckily been kept out of Office, and under
the name of Independents" hope by some
bargain or sale with Democrats, Greenback-
crs. or what not to elevate themselves to
power as was evidenced by Reformer Wolfe's
little game at Harrisburg a short time ago
to coalesce with the Democrats and thus
elect himself United States Senator, and as
it was further demonstrated by the recent
municipal elections Of Philadelphia, Pitts
bnrg, and even Somerset.
In our own county, heretofore so conspic-
uously stalwart, our valiant General, a man
of dominecring ambition and inordinate
vanity, jealous of every other man of popu-
larity or ability, seeking distinction, and
burning to crafty personal grudge against
Senator Cameron as well as yourself, has
by means of petitions drawn around him
the sore-heads and sap-heads of the county,
together with a few mistaken, unsuspecting
men, and with this motley crowd to charge,
and the Meyersdale Ananias to below, our
scarlcss warrior evidently intends to cry
Havoc and let slip the dogs Of war;" un-
less all asprants for Office hereafter bow
reverently to him and his.
Already the work of intimidation goes on
for threats are being made by some of these
delicious Independents that unless candi-
dates Join them they (the independently will
1 Il. 1ara
them next fall by fusing with the Demo-
Gratis. You can't recruit your forces in that
way gentlemen you had better, perhaps,
try few more petitions. The buildozcr
won't thrive in this latitude.
Now it is not surprising to see the Mey-
ersdale Ananias fuss and fume over inasin-
ary abuses and maliciously persecute people
because all this helps to sell his scurrilous
little sheet. lie is at best an irresponsible
fellow, the less said him the better, whose
sole object is to make money. His egotisrn
is only exceeded by his arrogance. The
idea that fellow whose paper had to be
bought in the campaign of three years ago,
in order to keep it from boiling, that he
should now designate it a. the organ of the
Republican party of Somerset county is
laughably absurd.
But General yoar inconsistency and yin-
dictiveness do surprise people. You sus-
tained the boiling minority at Harrisburg,
do you now sustain the Democratic minori-
ty at Washington? The same great principal
of majority-rule is at issue. How APPROX
ingly you could smile upon Ben Hill and
Dan Norhecs You remembe, too, General
the South bolted from the decision of the
majority in '6l, just as you have recently
been doing You must have been excited
when you drew your swerd at that time and
vowed TO wade through blood before you
would be coerced by a boiling minority.
You would have acted rashly General, had
you been as good as your word then, and
joined "Lincolns dogs" and helped lick
your boiling, bulldozing friends. Yes you
must have been excited when you said the
majority must rule, or didn't you mean it
Which 4?
The great trouble with you is, General,
that you have recently allowed your malice
and ambition TO run away with your discre-
ton. You have confeunded yourself with
the Republican party of our county, and
,'ou can't tell which is 'tother. Now to
man up tree it looks as though you were
only little General and not great, big
party The Republican party has honored
you and, perhaps, it may do so again, but it
viii never, never allow you to disi,onor it.
IL viii not suffer you to break down its
usagcs and preccdents just to crafty your
selfish designs. The people are not idiots
nor the descendents of such, and all your
sophistry cannot convince them that the
party ulcer which you now champion is an
angel. The people intend faithfully to
guard the party that has SO benificently
blessed their country. They do not intend
to bolt with you and your clique nor will they
help you scalp faithful and honored lead
er of the party simply to pamper your ex-
cessive malice. They are underso obli-
cations to you, it is true, for the delectable
trading you gratuitously furnish them in
the Meyersdalc Comn,ercial, but their fealty
to party comes first.
ANrI-BoLrER