The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29


There are thousands of men In the |
state who see and appreciate the alarm
ing situation, and only need thestimu-
lus OF a concerted movement to create
stampede; and as many more who
are bound to you and your fortunes but
are growing restive under the yoke,
who will desert on the first oppor-
tunity for concurrent action. You
will receive the most positive assur-
ances, until it is to late. that you can
drive this campaign though success
fully, and that the Republican ticket
can be elected under existing circum-
stances. 1t is better, however, to know
the truth now than learn it by defeat.
MR.. LEAR's COMPARISON.
For little plain talk of this kind
recently, while I had assurances of
approval and cooperation from the
most solid and reliable people and the
most intelligent and responsible of the
newspaper press, was assailed by the
most boistrous outcry from certain
class of a small politicians and insig-
nificant journals for my temerity.
They seem to consider themselves
called upon to rush TO the defense of
those who are doing the most damage
to the party, and to do it by denounc-
ing me and sounding an alarm against
the dangerous tendencies of my warn
ings and suggestions. While such
things do not convince any one of an
error, they have tendency to convince
can be saved only by such means.
Their course awakens thought
and reflection on the part of
serious minded men as to whether
the election of the highest officers
of the State is frivolous business
for mountebanks to sport with,
or grave duty for practical men to
reflect calmly and act wisely upon.
Important events, however, some
times result from mean sources.
A goose, placed sentry on her station,
saved old Rome from desOlation;
An ass, In Balaam's sad disaster,
turned orator and saved his master.
And ii the cackling of geese and
braying of asses have the same saving
efficacy which they had in ancient
times, the salvation of the Republican
ticket is assured for even the De-
mocratic donkey, who nibhles his
small lunch of oats out of your hand,
joins the bray to swell the assinine
chorus.
These people who write editorials
command me to go to the Democrats,
or, if l do not like the Republican
party, to join the Independents. But
you can rely upon it and assure our
friends that will not go. The Demo-
crat party is no place for me, for l au
not Democrat. Il will not go to the
Independent, for their oganization is
not a party, but movement tending to
destroy. They have the power of des-
truction, but II not of recreation. a mule
can kick man to death who is stupid
enough to stand behind it, and the
independent movement may destroy
the Republican party; but, like the
mule, which has no power Of procrea-
ton and cannot propagate and per-
petuate its species, when the Republi-
can party is dead, the Independent
organization, based upon the principle
of hostility to party methods, will be
a creed without an object, faith
without meaning, and a principle
without purpose. 1t is the policy of
the Republican party at this time to
get away from behind this organiza-
ton with such destructive tendencies,
and | want to secure your aid in this
direction.
No, sir, my dear companion in a
hundred trays, you and have fought
the battle of the party through too
many campaigns for me to desert it
now. 1t is true our duties ran in diff
ferent lines, yours being to make the
ticket, and mine, with you and others,
to assist in electing them. These
people have no right to order me into
another party. | was in the Republi-
can party from its birth, and before
some of my detractors were born, and
have vested, indefensible and un-
iInpeachable title to membership in its
ranks. You and l will stand by it as
long as it will stand by US. We came
up with it in its primitive purity, and
witnessed its splendor in the day of its
glory, and if it goes to its grave we
will be the mourners at its tomb.
FATHERLY ADVICE TO CAMERON.
But while we are friends, end should
be, for we have never crossed path:
personally, / shall have to find some
fault with your political management
and my plan of the campaign may re
| quire some mild animadversiOn; but i
shall be done in the most select langu
age, and not by the use of any such
odious term as the Independents ap
ply to you. But. as is said by tina
profound philosopher, Major yelling
ton De Boots, "What is the use il
having friend, if you can't make
stranger of him?" My idea of tn
campaign is. that you shall do nothing
keep quiet, aud look wise. This will
not require you to act wisely, and il
fact it is too late in the campaign 70
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