The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-11-16

Judge. Inc man WHO HiS Niduc
more sacrifices of time and money;
who has labcred more increasingly
for his party; whose untiring energy
during last years campaign did
more to accomplish General Gar
fields success than any other half
score OF men in this district; whose
eminent legal abilities and personal
integrity are beyond the reach of his
assailants, has been stricken down
by the deliberate treachery of few
men who owe all they are, and all
they have, to the Republican party.
1t is no pleasant duty 10 say this,
but it is Gods own truth. There
is no use crying over spilled milk"
says the adage. True, where it is
spilled by accident. But when it is
forcibly wrenched from you by
professed friend, orstolen and thrown
away by one to whom you had in
trusted it, human nature cannot
suppress a cry of Indignation.
If we believed that the true Re-
publicans of this county calmly and
deliberately determined beforehand,
to elect Mr.. Baer to the Bench, we
would have nothing further to say
but we do not believe it. In fact,
we know that Mr. Baer owes large
portion of his vote in this county,
not to his friends, but to a few ma
lignant personal enemies of Mr..
Cessna. We knew that scores of
Republicans would vote for Mr..
Baer on personal grounds, others on
the question of locality, Others on
the pocket appeal that his election
would place $4,000 year at his dis
posal to be expended in the county,
others to whom he is indebted, that
payment of their claims would fol-
low his election, but these men do
not constitute much more than one
half of the Republicans who voted
for him. Their position was openly
known, and the loss of their votes
was discounted in advance. These
men are censurable only for the
looseness with which they are bound
by party ties, and yet there is not
one of them, were he a candidate
himself, bat would feel indignant if
he did not receive his party's full
support.
II was the malignants. the chronic
boilers and kickers, the fellows who
masqueraded under the cloak of
Reform" ingrates who have grown
fat on Republican patronage; Off
cials still sucking Justify at the pub
lie teat; men who claim to be Gar
field Republicans par encellcnce, who
went about the county stirring up
dead issues, and whispering in the
ears of their tools, here is n chance
to strike Grant man." these are
the men to whom Mr.. Baer owes his
election, and whom, if an honest
man himself, he must most heartily
despise.
These men who stole the livery
of Heaven to serve the devil WITH"
disgraced themselves, not the party !;
but their ally and co-laborer, Judge
Hall, by his coarse abuse and vii. .ifi-
cation of Mr.. Cessna; by his slan-
derous letters and circulars, his pet
ty spiteful charges and personal APP
peals to voters, not only reduced
himself beneath contempt, but inn
measurably disgraced the high office
which he unfortunately holds, and
brought dishonor upon the Judicia-
ry Of the State.
"Can ouch things be, and not overcome US like
A summer cloud, with special wonder
Disgraced as the Republicans Of
this county are, by the men, the
means and methods that defeated
Mr.. Cessna, the returns show that
the party still has the power to crush
out the traitors in its ranks. 1t will
stand, tower Of strength, despite
the 'vermin that are attempting to
burrow beneath its foundation walls.
The honest men who voted for Mr..
Baer from personal motives will re-
turn TO the ranks, while the men
who used its potent name to conjure
treason with, viii sneak self-branded
to their political graves. 1t is the
Republican party. not Mr.. Cessna.
that is injured by his defeat.