The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-30
a Scathing Letter To Stewart Froma
jefferson County Republican

A Scathing Letter to Stewart Froma
jefferson County Republican.
To tie Hon. John Steludrt:
DEAR SIR.-The Democrats and
their adjutants are parading in their
papers a letter said to have been
written by you III which you chal-
lenge Gen. Beaver 10 4 public dis
cussion. As you profess To be a Re
publican it puzzles me to know
what you wish to discuss. You pre-
tend to believe that the principles Of
the Republican party are right and
the Democratic party are wrong.
You pretend to be proud of the
achievements of the party and the
grandeur of the pages 1t has written
In American history and the noble
work ii has done in the cause Of hu-
manity, and as a Republican YOU
must know and believe that all the
wonderful work accomplished by
the Republican party in the last
twenty-five years was done in oppo-
sition to the will and wish of the
Democratic party, and if the Demo
Gratis had succeeded we would now
have a divided and dishonored ma
ton. All of this Gen. Beaver
believes, and all OF this the Repub-
licans believe. DO you believe the
Democratic party is better than it
was in 1860 or in 1880, and that the
interests of the country would be
more secure in its charge than in
Republican care If so, your proper
place is in the Democratic party
and then you can challenge Gen.
Beaver with some show OF consist
ency and sense. If you do not be-
lieve that the Democratic party has
improved, why not challenge Patti
son and show up the wickedness
of that party and keep it out OF pow
er, instead of aiding it to victory
and to the defeat of the party in
whose principles you profess to be-
lieve? The cry of machine" does
not come with good grace from a
cabal which represents a convention
composed of men who were appoint
ed by a self appointed committee
or by four or FIVE in each county,
who met for the purpose OF select
ing candidates for the destruction
of the party in the great State OF
Pennsylvania, and led and engi-
neered by A. X. Mcclure, who has
put more rascality and corruption
in Pennsylvania politics than any
other man in the State. DO You
deny that Beaver was fairly nomlna-
ted =? Do you deny that the dele
gates to the convention which NOM
mated him were fairly chosen? DO
YOU deny that Beaver Is the choice
of more than two-thirds OF the par
fly in the State If you think he is
not why did you agree TO 60 be-
fore the people and test your PROV
ess ? That was a challenge which
meant something when the Repub-
lican party challenged you TO sub
nit your claims with those of Bea-
Yer and let the people decide by
their vote how they felt on the sub
iect, and which you declined be-
cause you knew the people would
prick your bubble and let the wind
out oft. Your gas about Cameron
havlug his heels ON his necks of the
Republicans of this State is an in
suit to the intelligence of our peo-
pie. In this county, Jefferson dele
gates were elected by meeting
which was large and more ably rep
resented than any one that he had
met for years, and the voice was
unanimous for Beaver. You were
never thought OF, and in the name
of the Republicans of this county |
here resent the insult Won offer us
by telling us that we do not know
who we want or that we are the
tools OF anv man. We are not the
tools OF Cameron and wiIl De care
ful not become your tools 10 do
your dirty work or take your chest
nuts out of the fire and help YOU
put the Democrats in power simply
TO please faction which wants 10
run because it cannot rule. We
cannot agree to destroy the party
simply because you failed to get u
foreign mission.
Your pretension of reform is a
fraud your pretension of attach
ment to the Republican party is
piece of dishonesty and hypocrisy
of which you ought to be ashamed,
and your challenge for discussion
after refusing to go before thepeople
on direct vote is piece oflow dis
honesty and cowardice of which you
ought not be guilty.
The majority OF the people of
Pennsylvania do not want to put
the Democrats in power and you
know it. You also know that the
Democratic party has no hope of
success unless the Republicans are
DIVIDED. You know you cam, be
elected, and the whole people know
that your only object is TO elect the
Democratic candidate, and you vii,
find before you get through that the
masses are just AS independent and
intelligent as you are and will crush
you and your co-conspirators.
As you did not lay down any
proposition to discuss | will state
what | suppose to be the point on