The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-07-21
CONCERNING "ALIENS."

CONCERNING "ALIENS."
Chairman Cooper is determined to
let his party know that he is doing some
thing, He has been engaged in distri-
buting what he calls an argument show
ing that the contest for for Governor is
really between. General Beaver and Con-
troller Pattison. . Without waiting for
his executive committee to meet and
make answer to the proposals of the In
dependents, Cooper assumes that thev
are rejected and as he appointed that
committee and knows his men he can
safely assume this. He berates the In
dependents very soundly for their failure
to nibble at the cheese in his trap. and
scornfully refers to four of the candi-
dates posing ''in the self-sacrificing at
titude Of maTtyrdOmn while McMichael
''thrOugha stimulated or real difference
of opinion, prOclaims in an incoherent
and inconsistent way that he remains a
candidate, and shall himself be the Judge
whether he shall support any nomina-
tion made even under harmonious con-
ditions. Exit McMichaeI.' - Whereupon
Cooper consigns them all to the demni-
tiOn bOwwows as ''factious, insincere.
tTifing and dishonorable men" with
whom he and his can have no affiliation
nor further negotiations.
Having thus taken the responsibility
of declaring the issue to be simply
whether Pattison or Beaver is to be
Governor, the Republican chairman
abandons the tariff question, which was
the leading question last week. and
boldly arraigns Mr.. Pattison for having
been born on the South side of the Mary
land line, the son of a Methodist timer.
ant preacher, Besides this unpardon-
able offense, Pattison committed the
heinous crime of coming into Pennsvl-
vania at the mature age of six years.
with the deliberate purposes of a 'sInere
adventurer. " That nativity elsewhere
entirely disqualifes one from serving
the people of Pennsylvania in a public
capacity, Cooper amply proves in this
able paragraph
The Office of Governor is one that special
! ly calls for an Intimate knowledge on the
part of its occupant of the people of the State
their peculiarities and local idiOsyncrasies.
their special wants and desires, and of the
measures necessary to promote their varied
interests. This is a knowledge which none
but native can fully attain. A man must
grow no among the people to understand
them fully and it is the unwritten know
ledge and experience thus ACQUIRED and
| which only native Pennsylvania can ac-
quire, that is essential to any one in the gu
( bernatorial chair.
Seeing that Tbaddeus Stevens came
into Pennsylvania when he was twenty
three, Benjamin Franklin 10, and Rob-
ert Morris 13 that Blaine left this State
after he had grown to manhood; that
! Daniel Webster was y when he entered
Massachusetts,, that Henry Clay was 21
before he ever set foot on Kentucky
soil, and Andrew Jackson of full age te-
fore he entered Tennessee that A bra
ham Lincoln was unknown to Illinois
before he had grown to the full stature
of manhood, and Sergeant S. Prentiss
had attained his majority before he land
ed in Mississippi--it is little remark
able how the men whom their adopted
| States learned to cherish, and whose
| memories they adore, became acquaint-
ted with the special wants and desires
of their people and the measures ne
cessary to promote their material inter-
ests," although there were aliens to the
soil of these States at an age when Pat
tisOn was growing up with Pennsylva-
MIA and fitting himself for that brilliant
career in which he has already done the
State such signal service. As Control
/ Ter of Philadelphia he has already done
more than any other official whom that
| city ever had to accomplish municipal
| reform and open the way for the wider
| field of state reform. 1t must be borne
/ in mind that Mr.. Pattison was elected
/ ii lines without the intervention of aSsis
/ tance of the Committee of One Hundred
! No such organization then existed, anG
| many of its members. as individuals
! did not support Mr.. Pa.tison. 1t grew
/ out of his labOrs it was organized tC
/ support the work which he had almos
/ siDgle-handed begun. 1t is 20 wonde
/ that this work does not suit Cooper anC
. his party. 1t has dislodged the corrupt
[ Philadelphia ring from power and driver
the thieves from their stronghold. Penn
syiyania feels far more pride in him thar
in degenerate native born sons who
/ have sold their birthright and shamed
their commonwealth by betrayal of trus
ana abuse of power.-LancaSter H,teILi
gepcer.