Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-18
THE STATE SENATE.
Col. John vi. Sullivan Con-
senfs 10 be ~ Candidate in
the Allegheny City (42d
District.

BY the following letter of acceptance
it will be seen that Col. John M. Sulli-
van, formerly of this county, has &C
quiesced with the urgent demand of
very large number of the Republicans
OF Allegheny city to run as O citizens
candidate for the State Senate. This
request to him comes from the leading
business, manufacturing and profes-
sional men If that district, and arises
from disapproval and disgust at the
manner in which the Stalwart candi-
date, Mr.. Hugh NcNeill, was lately
put in nomination. McNeill was the
Boss Cameron candidate at the late
nominating Convention, and Noah W.
Shaffer, Esq, an anti-Cameron man,
was his opponent. The district is
strongly against Cameron's ways
but Mr.. Shaffer was defrauded out of
his rightful nomination, and McNeill
forced though, by the most direct use
of money and foul means, as Mr.. Shat
fer has and is now proving. Under these
circumstances the better class of the
Republican citizens of Allegheny
city joined in the call to Col. Sullivan
to become a candidate, and to whom
he sent the following letter which will
explain itself:
MR.. sULLIvAN's ACCEPTANCE.
Allegheny, Oct IL, 1882.
Messrs. John Walker, G. W. Robb,
Henry Kleber, William Stanton,
r. S. Smith, and others
GENTLEMEN-I have received your
| letter calling upon me to become citi-
zens' candidate for the State Senate in
the Forty second Senatorial district OF
PENNSYLVANIA. This call has been
supplemented with earnest personal ap-
peals from other friends, to the same
effect, from all parts of the district.
The confidence reposed in me, and the
support given by the people of this
district in years that are past, and es-
peeially within the past few months,
when by the thousand they entered
their indignant protest against the ar
bitrary exercise Of the one.man power,
which deposed me from official position
without cause, hearing or notice, in de-
fance of the popular will overwhelm-
ingly expressed, and in violation of
solemn pledges made to the people in
the platform of the last Republican
State Convention, are considerations
which place me under obligations OF
gratitude and service which | can
neither ignore or disregard. | recog.
nize the claims upon me of that portion
of the citizens of the Forty.second Sena-
torial district you represent-a district
In which have been citizen, taxpay-
er and voter for the last eight years
to my active cooperation in every
effort to promote the integrity, eff
cheney and prosperity of the Republi-
can party, with which / have been con-
nected from it's organization. We be-
lieve this party can only be perpetua-
ted to the full accomplishment of its
grand mission by adhering to the spir-
it and purposes of it's founders. They
recognized no master. We to-day be-
lieve no true Republican organization
will ever succumb to masters dicta-
ton. In this faith we labor.
Sympathizing with you, gentlemen,
in the purposes and aims of your call,
| gratefully accept the invitation you
have most Unexpectedly given me to
become citizens candidate for the
State Senate in this district, pledging
myself, if elected, to represent the in
terests of this great district faithfully
and to the best of my ability, and in
the election of Senator to succeed
Senator Cameron to cast my vote and
exert every honorable influence at my
command to crush that political des-
potism in Pennsylvania of which he is
the acknowledged chief
Very respectfully,
Your friend and fellow-citizen,
JOHN Nj. SULLIVAN.