The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-06-07
That Pretended ConSontTon.

love Of fght To the average Amer.
ican peace seems to be species Of dry
rot, which merits nothing but his most
profound contempt. This pugnacious,
combRtive spirit makes for him q new
political party with every returning
campaign. A Barn. Burner, A Silver
grey Wing, Free.Soiler, a Know
Nothing, Liberal, and scores ofotheE
names might be recalled which have
marked the ephemeral excrescences
upon the body polite, born of the dis.
position to chit head whenever you
can see it," Some of these offShoots
from the old parties live for a brief
season, and measurably accomplish
their political purposes Others were
like the summer cloud and morning
dew, dissipated by the strong light of
substantial issues. But of all the
fading, festing factions which ever
stirred the bile or excited the laughter
Of the people, the last is the weakest
both in material and pretended reason.
The Independent party was conceived
in fraud and brought forth in false.
hood. Under the cry of civil service
reform it is led by trading politicians
of the smallest calibre, and under the
pretense of reforming the political
methods of the greatest political or
ganization this country has known, it Sc.
cures its first convention by tricks that
would put to blush South Carolina
Bourbon. While declaring that it
came fresh from the people to do their
will, it was composed o. delegates self
selected and unknown as such by the
people of the districts to which modern
independent journalism assigned
them. The Telegraph few days ago,
in answer to the claim Of the Tribune
that the convention was the "fairest
expression of the will of the people of
any that had been held in the country"
pointed out the way in which many of
the delegates were selected. Since, the
country exchanges have come upon
our table and we have taken from
their columns few more instances in
the same line, to show that as a fraud
the Independent Convention was
greater than Barnum's famous woolly
horse.
OF the man who pretended to repre-.
sent JLniata county the Herald in.
quired
"Who is II. S. Winter? Where did
ne spring from, where has he vanished
to, and who did he represent besides
himself at the Philadelphia conven.
tion ?"
The Cameron Press in its search
after knowledge wants a question
answered:
One of our townsmen's name ap.
peared in the proceedings of the Inde-
pendent State Convention as a dele
gate from this county. Who sent him,
how, when and where was he ap.
pointed, and who did he represent, is
what the Republicans of Cameron
county would like to knowi
Of the representative from ClearfsId
county the RGttma'a'S Journal says:
One of the most important reforms
the Independents demand is with ref.
erence to the method Of selecting dele.
gates to the State Convention. No
more significant comment can possibly
be made upon this point than to refer
to the fact that John S. Haynes of
Clinton county, appears in the printed
proceedings as the Representative del.
gate from CeayfeId county. We have
no knowledge Of any meeting having
been held.
The few Republicans who bravely
hold the fort in the Fishing Creek
Confederacy, through the Republican
Of that county, shout:
Where did Messrs. Diemer and
Monroe, Of Columbia county, get their
appointment? Where was a call
issued When were the Independent
primaries held in Columbia county {?
How many of the "dear" people as
sembled to choose these delegates Yet
they claim to have represented the
people. What hollow sham What
false pretenses
And from the far northwest, adjoin-
ing the county which the lone, self
appointed SilverthOrn represented,
comes this inquiry from the Mail:
Warren county, as we see by the
proceedings in the Times. had George
E. Mapes as Senatorial delegate.
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