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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

The decided action OF the Independ-
ent Republican convention at Philadel-
phia last week thoroughly unnerved boss
Cameron. He spent Saturday last IN
that city, where he made Help me,
Cassius, or L sink'' appeal 30 several
leading business men, whom he invited
to meet him for consultation over the
present hopeless condition of the grand
old party in this State, brought about
by his cwn selfish policy. He told them
that he had ever stood by their interests
in uphOlding the tariff, and that they
must not now stand idly by and let him
be defeated. He also made the threat,
so it is said, that if they didn't come to
his rescue the tariff might go to perdi-
tion so far as he was concerned. This
man, who is nothing but a broker in Of
fetal patronage at Washington, assumes
for his own purposes that he can make
or unmake the present tariff system just
as his whim or his pleasure may suggest.
1t is a most impudent assumption, and
he might with equal propriety claim
that he can control the movements of
the present comet. His talk about the
tariff is simply cheap appeal to the
manufactures to forget his offensive po-
litical methods ard rally around him as
the friend of protective tariff. Wheth-
er or not there shall be any change in
the tariff don't now and never did de-
pend on the two Camerons, for, as Gen.
Moorehead, of Pittsburgh, tariff man,
said last Monday, when he read Gamer
on's appeal to the Philadelphia manufac-
turers 'The Camerons, Simon and
Don, have never done anything at Wash
ington except to peddle out Pennsylva-
MIA offices.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

4 WASHINGTON CITY dispatch was
sent to the Pittsburg Post on last Mon
day, stating that the editor of daily
newspaper at Harrisburg, who had ar
rived in Washington that day, had said
it was generally believed in Harrisburg
when he left there that the name of
General Hancock will be brought before
the Democratic State Convention on
the 2Sth instant as candidate for Gov
ernor; that during Hancock's visit to
Judge Black at York, last week, sew
eral prominent Democrats went to see
him there and had a conference with
him on the subject and, further, that
the plan mapped out is to nominate and
elect Hancock to the Office of Governor,
and then make him President in 1884.
Washington is the inexhaustible foun-
tain of all manner of political lying, and
we simply publish the substance of this
despatch as an item Of current news, at
the sametime expressing our conviction
that Gen. Hancock is not in pursuit
either of the Governorship or the Presi-
dency in the manner indicated.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN
PLATE Republicans of Penn
sylvania who will not surrender their
political rights and who maintain the
exercise of their own conscience and
judgment concerning public affairs, as
sembled in State convention at Harris
burg on Wednesday of last week and
made the following declaration of their
principles and purposes
First. We declare our attachment to the
principles of the Republican party-freedom,
union, nationality, equal rights before the
law maintainance of the public faith, pro-
lection to home industry-and we demand
that the record which has been so nobly
made shall be wisely and fearlessly perpetua-
ted.
Second We declare that the nomination
and election of James A. Garfield to the
Presidency signined to US the triumph of
true reform in the Civil Service and of an en-
larged liberty of action for the masses of the
Republican party in the nomination of their
candidates and the conduct of their party
affairs, and we deplore the overwhelming
evidence presented to US in Pennsylvania
that the calamity of his assassination has
been followed by the overthrow Of these re-
forms in the hands of his successor.
Third. We denounce the practice Of levy
ing assessments and demanding contriou-
tiOns for party uses from public officials. We
denOunce severally and collectively the evils
duct of the government as a 'spols system
and which are jnseparable from such meth
cd of administration and we denOunce the
system of 'bOSs rule" and machine control,
which, when tamely endured, makes leaders
into sautocrats and reduces the mass of the
citizens into political bondage.
Fourth. We declare our purpose to take
up the work which fell when Garfield fell !;
we demand in place of the '.spOis system"
the reformation of the civil service by law,
so the appOintve places therin may be free
ly open to all fit and meritorious citizens, and
removals shall be only for good and sufficient
public cause we demand, instead of the
prostitution of the public service to private
uses, its recognition as a high and honorable
trust to be administered for the peoples
benefit, with efficiency, economy and inte-
gritty we demand, instead of the insolence,
the prescription and she tyranny Of fbossism'
and machine" rule, the free and cOnscien-
tious exercise of private judgement in polit-
ical affairs, and the faithful discharge, bv
those who assume representative trusts, of
the expressed will of the people,
Fifth. We declare in favor of the following
party reforms First that delegates to State
Conventions shall be chosen by the people in
the.manner in which candidates for thei Gen
eral Assembly are nominated second, that
representation in the State Convention shall
be by counties and shall be apportioned ac-
cording to their Republican vote third that
State Conventions shall not be held without
at least sixty days notice nor earlier than the
second Wednesday of July, except in Presi-
dental years fourth, that those Republi-
for President at the Preside ential election
next preceding shall Oe entitled to join in
the choice of delegates to the State and Ma
! tiOnal Conventions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

Four of the thirteen survivors Of the
crew of thirty-three men of the United
States Arctic exploring steamer Jean
nettee, which was crushed by the ice
and sank on June 70, 1881. arrived at
New York on the steamer Celtic from
Liverpool on Sunday last. Their names
are Lieutenant ]. W. DanenhOwer, DIR.
Newcomb, naturalist, Jack Cole, boats
vain, and Long Sing, a Chinaman, one
of the'stewards. These men formed a
part of the crew under Engineer Mel
vile, who succeeded in landing near
the mouth of the Lena, in Siberia, in
one of the three boats of the Jeanette
last September. The nine other survi-
vors, with Melville at their head, are
still Drawing the hardships of Arctic
travel in the hope of discovering some
trace of the third boats crew, whose
fate is as yet unknown. Lieutenant
Danenhower has lost the sight of his
left eve from hardship and exposure,
and the mind of Jack Cole is a blank
his reason unthroned. He recognized
his brother and son, but in a moment he
was talking incoherently about the lost
Jeanette and the exciting scenes thro'
which he and his companions nad passed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

THE proprietor of the New York Her.
all, James Gordon Bennett, who fitted
out the Jeanette and sent her on her
ill-fated voyage to the polar seas, an
nounces that with or without the action
Of Congress, or of the public, care will
be taken Of the widow and orphan child
OF Lieutenant DeLong, and not of them
alone, but Of every widow and every or
Jeanette and have perished. AS Mr.
Bennett is abundantly able to carry out
so praiseworthy a purpose, the avowal
of his intention to do so will meet with
the warm ard sincere plaudits of the
American people.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

Run ever AND KILLED. On last Friday
evening, while Engineer Westfall was on his
return trip down the mountain, he observed
a man on the south track at or near Scotch
run, short distance from McGarvey's sta
tion, and on going ahead 20 look at the pros
trate form he discovered that the man was
dead. The victim looked TO be about 80 or
40 years of age aud was dressed like labor
ing man, wearing OveUalls and large brogans
His entrailS were prOtTuding from a large
hole IN his side and his abdomen was
squeezed out so fatty that it is thought that
the wheels passed over him about the mid
die. His left arm was unmistakably run
over and cut of. There was nothing about
the mans clothes to indicate who he was
a brakeman by the name of Troy Identified
the remains as those of man whom he had
put off a freight train at Gallitzin about SIX
O'Clock. He said he found three men on the
train, all more OF less drunk. He put two
of them off, but The other was too drunk to
be put OF at that point and he allowed him
to ride as far as GalitZin. Troy's train was
followed by a stock train, and Engineer
WeStfalls engine was the next thing that
came down the mountain. 1t is probable
that after the stranger had been put off the
train he got on the one following and being
stupid from drink fell off and was run over.
Altoona Sunday Morning
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

THE order to stand and deliver has al
ready gone out to the Federal office
holders from the Republican Congress-
ional Committee. A Autographed cir
cular has been sent the Philadelphia
Times by a Postmaster whose salary
doesn't half pay the cost of his boarding
and it calls upon him to make prompt
and favorable response to this letter by
bank check, draft, or postal money or
der, payable TO the order of Jay A. Hub
bell, p. o. Lock-box $50, Washington,
ID. c. One important paragraph of the
circular contains the assurance that
''such voluntary contributions from per-
sons employed in the service of the Uni
ted States, will not be objected to in
any official quarter" AS Field Mar
shall Cooper is forbidden lby his State
platform to levy or collect assessments
from offlce-hoiders, the Congressional
Committee will have d clear field for
the old game of political robbery. Pro-
badly Cooper will stand aside, let the
Congressional Committee collect the
party tithes and then draw on Washing
ton for his share of the plunder.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

THE General Assembly of the Presby-
terian Church NORTH and the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
(South) were both IN session last week,
the former body at Monmouth, Illinois,
and the latter at Atlanta, Georgia.
Mutual dispatches were exchanged be-
tween the two Assemblies, the initiative
having been taken by the representatives
of the Southern Church, looking to the
removal of all difficulties to a formal
and fraternal union by withdrawing all
former expressions Of the Assembly
tSouth) rejecting upon or offensive to
the General Assembly of the United
States. This was concurred in by the
Monmouth Assembly, and the breach in
the Church, which was caused by ques-
tions growing out of the civil war, may
now be regarded as finally and happily
closed,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

THE Lancaster InteL6qencer cannot
understand how some people, who pro-
fess to be able to interpret public senti-
ment and measure the average common
sense Of the people, reach the conclusion
that the mismanagement of the State
Agricultural College will not initiate
against Beavers election, We do not
assume that he has stolen any of the ap-
preparation or endowment of this con-
cern. He has been President of its
Board of Trustees since 1874. In that
period it has had SEQ, 900 per annum to
maintain it. besides the commodious and
expensive building, apparatus and farm
with which it is equipped for It's special
work, After these eight years of his
direction it's last state seems to be worse
than the first. We are told il now has
one student pursuing an agricultural
course. With an endowment superior
to that Of any other institution in the
State, except the University of Pennsyl-
vania and perhaps Lafayette College,
this Centre county school is absolutely a
cipher, though every year the $50, 900 is
spent and there are calls for more. -
Surely the President of its Board of
Trustees, il he has any capacity for pub
lie affairs, ought to have discovered be-
fore this what is the matter, and either
have remedied the failure or brought
this wasteful expenditure to a conclu-
sion That he has not'.done so proves his
utter lack of administrative ability and
this is good reason why the people
should not vote for him for their chief
executive.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02
THF New York TVorT of Monday

THE New York World of Monday
last contained a full and exhaustive re-
port of the present condition Of the crops
from all sections of the country. The
conclusion arrived at is that the outlook
is magnificent-that wheat, corn, oats
and tobacco are in good and promising
condition, and that a large cotton crop
larger than TIE yield of last yeal-is
confidently anticipated. This is most
gratifying statement, and will continue
to swell the tide OF European immigra-
tion to this country beyond all former
experience, the number of arrivals at
New Y ork since the first Of January up
to the close Of last week having reached
the enormous aggregate of 216, 900.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

SIMON CAMERON admits that the In
dependent State ticket is composed of
honest, conscientious men, but says he
would not have favored such ticket in
any regular convention. OF course he
wouldn't, for the very reason given by
himself, that every man on the ticket is
''honest and conscientious. Duri4g
his long and corrupt political career in
this State, Simon Cameron never mani
tested any special love for man who
had a conscience and who refused to
surrender it into his keeping. His in
struments in the game Of politics have
always been men who were prepared, at
his command. to do what Thaddeus
Stevens wanted old John Montelius, a
Whig member of the Legislature from
Union county during the Buckshot war,
to do. when he told him his conscience
disapproved of his (Stevens') course,
and Stevens suggested 20 him that he
ought to throw his conscience "tO the
ID" Any Republican in this State
who has had independence and nerve
enough to refuse implicit obedience to
the arrogant demands of the elder Cam
eron, while lie had charge of the Repub-
lican machine, or who has ventured to
do so since his son succeeded him, be-
came a marked mana monument to
the tyranny of boss rule-and was as
completely excluded from the councils
of the party as though he was Demo-
crat The Cameron power is now about
to be swept away by the Independent
Gevoutly to be wished, whatever may be
the political future of parties in the
Stota
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

GOVERNOR HoYT in speaking of the
present condition of the Republican
party in this State, says he saw the
storm coming last fall and gave timely
warning of it, but that he was ridiculed
and laughed at, He believes that the
real force of the Independent rebellion
against Cameronism has not yet began
to manifest itself, and that there is a
large body Of Republicans, who do not
make public and loud professions Of
their intentions, who will quietly vote
against what they call the machine, and
that it is a waste of time to attempt to
argue with such men. The'eonclusion at
which he arrives is that if the Republi-
can party in this State sustains ga good
licking this fall, it will be all the better
for it in 1884. :" What the outcome of
political affairs may be in 1884 no one
can now tell, but that the Republican
party, if the present situation in this
State remains unchanged, is bound 20
get a ''good licking this fall'' is 50
plain and unmistakable that no intelli-
gent man can dispute it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

Gov. HoYT speaks rather plainly of
the prospects of the Republican party
unless something is done and done Wig
orously and quickly. Said the Govern
or
'I saw this coming last fall, and gave a
timely warning, but ! was pooh -poohed and
the idea ridiculed. There is more behind
this than casual observer would think
Those who could always be relied upon here
tofore have stopped short. The real force is
not manifest. There are many who do not
make public and loud professions of their
intentions who willIquietly vote,against what
they call the machine, and it is hard mat
ter TO argue with such men. Their minds
are made up"
The Governor would not express a
suggestion as to the best course to pur-
sue for reuniting of the factions, but
seemed to be of the opinion that if the
Republican party sustained a good lick
ing this fall it would be all the better
for it in 1884.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

WE had good deal of faith in Tom
Marshall's judgment of politicians in
this State, but we have lost it all since
he has expressed the opinion that the
vacancy on the Republican ticket, occa-
stoned by his own resignation, will pro-
badly be filed by either General Lilly,
of Carbon county, or Josiah Cohen, of
Pittsburg, both of whom are 'irst-class
men," We know little, if anything,
about Cohen, but as TO Lilly there does
not live within the limits of the State a
man with so shallow brain and at the
same time with such extravagant pre-
tensions. Tom Marshall stands alone
among all the men in this State who
know William Lilly in regarding him as
a ''first-class' man. He isn't even a
third rate man.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

MITCHELL. the colleague of Cameron
from this State in the Senate, says the
best way to settle the difficulty in the
grand old party in this State is to with
draw Cameron's ticket, nominated at
Harrisburg, and that the Independent
ticket nominated at Philadelphia is the
true Republican ticket, nominated in
the Republican way. Or the other hand,
Cameron swears that the battle must be
fought out on the ticket set up by him
self at Harrisburg. and that if the Inde-
pendents want to kill the party they
may as well all go to destruction to-
gether. Mitchell's advice will most as
suredly not be taken, but Cameron's
prediction of the end will pretty certain
ly come to pass.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

SUMNER EXCURSION GUIDE. The Penn
svlvania Railroad Company has issued an
elaborate pamphlet showing the various ex-
cursion routes which will be open to travel
lers during the summer season commencing
Yesterday The work is a model of typo
graphical beauty. 1t contains an elegant
map of the great network of rails which the
PENNSYLVANIA Road operates and controls,
and points out valuable routes to resorts by
the seaside, mountains and lakes. The book
aims to describe each and every place of i'm
portance on the line of the road, giving pop
nlation, peculiar advantages, character of
hotels and such other information as is use
full 40 tourists.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

CAMERON declares for war to the bit
ter end against the Independents, and
pooh oohs the idea of compromise. The
Independents talk as boldly, and their
leading newspaper, the Philadelphia ia
Telegraph. says of the bosses
See that their defeat is accomplished un-
less they can beguile the Independents into
another treaty of peace. Possibly that is
what they are now scheming and planning,
and that is what the independents must be
wary against. They ventured once into the
snare of the willy bosses. They should pro-
fit by their experience, and not repeat their
blundeT. By the voice of the Republican
press of the country their position is declar-
ed Just and impregnable. Let them keep it
so. They are now the Republican party
the bosses are outside of it on the defense.
There let them remain until their absolute
submission is made-their submission to the
supremacy of the will of the majority.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

MEssRs. WHITE & BURDICK. Druggists,
Ithaca, Y. VI can recommend EIy's Cream
Balm to relieve all persons suffering from
Rose Cold and Hay Fever l have been a
great sufferer from these complaints; by us
ing the Balm have had great relief [ have
recommended it to many of my friends for
Catarrh, and in all cases where they have
used the Balm freely have been cured I.
KENNEY, Dry Goods Merchant, Ithaca, y. Y.
MEssRs. WM Rust & SoNs, Druggists,
New Brunswick, y. J. Since bOyhOOd
have been troubled with Catarrh and Hay
Fever, and have been unable to obtain per
manent relief until used Ely's Cream Balm,
which has cured me. After few days use
1 could sleep all night. E. L. CLICKENER
New Brunswick, Y. J. Price 50 cents.
Apply into Bostrils tCitH little finger.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

BUSINESS AND Politics. The pro-
posed nomination of John WaEamaker,
for Congressman-at-lar on tht Repub-
lican State ticket, has led to the saying
of some very foolish things by the Re-
publican politicians with regard to such
a nomination. One of these is that the
newspapers which he patroniZes so liber.
ally with his advertisements would not
dare to oppose him lest he withdraw his
patronage. While we have no sort of
doubt that, as as a candidate, Mr.. Wan
amaker's high enterprise as a business
man, and his good personal character
would exempt him from the scurrilous
warfare which is too often waged in the
heat of campaign, he would very soon
discover that the honest newspapers of
Pennsylvania do not sell their principles
with their advertising columns, and that
as a representative of the Cameron pow
eT in State politics he would encounter
just as vigorous opposition as that pow
er merits. Another suggestion is that
Mr., Wanamaker's nomination would
force all the small store keepers in the
city and in the State to vote against
him, and maybe against the whole tic p.
ket, To which the answer is made,
and II it does, all the ministers will be
with him in their congregations and in
preaching from their pulpits.'' Egu-
ally narrOw-minded and senseless is
each of these suggestions. The ''small
storekeepers'' will do we'll to stick to
their business and the preachers to their
text. The kind of men who would be
influenced by such consideration for or
against Mr.. Wanamaker are not poten-
tial. The day for that sort of thing is
past. Mr., Cameron may play the fool
with the business interests of the
State, but it is the privilege of United
States Senator to be the biggest fool in
the commonwealth Intelli-
qencer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

THE Chairman Of the Republican
state Committee has issued a call reas-
sembling the State convention at Har-
risburg, on Wednesday, June DIST, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate
for Congressman-at-large in place of
Thomas NJ. Marshall, who declined to
accept. We will now see whether Geo.
tion, will carry out his threat that he
would oppose tie election of any canGi-
date who is nominated in any other way
than by the members of a ne,D conven-
tiOn.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-02

How TO Cook RICE.-Rice is becoming a
much more popular article of food than here
tofOre. 1t is frequently substituted for pO-
tatoes at the chief meal of the day, being
more nutritious and much more readily di-
gested. At its present cost it is relatively
cheaper than potatoes, oatmeal or grain grits
of any kind. In preparing it only Just
enough cold water should be poured on to
prevent the rice from burning at the bottom
of the pot, which should have a close fitting
cover, and with moderate fire the rice is
steamed rather than boiled until it is nearly
done then the cover is taken of, the sur
plus steam and moisture allowed to escape,
and the rice turns out a mass of snow white
kernals, each separate from the other, aud