The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-11-15
|. GLnRIors ON SOMERSET

GLORIOUS OLD SOMERSET.
Col. SCULL.-SH In the name, and on
behalf of the Republicans of Cambria coun-
ty, hereby tender you, and other worthy
and efficient advocates of pure Republican
ism, in Somerset county, hearty eongratula-
tons. Your fight was truly gallant one,
and your victory simply magnificent. As
Minnesota stands out so conspicuously
among the other States for the victory she
achieved on the 7th, so Somerset looms up
above all the other counties of the keystone
State, not only for so heroically contending
for the faith of true Reppblicanism, but
for the signal success that crowned her eff
forts. All honor to her frosty sons of
thunder.
Against the combined and boasted infiu-
ence of the richest man in the county," of
ex-judges, ex-sheriffs, prothonotaries
would-be county officials, the Slrer-tonGped
General, the " Scientific" " manipulation. the
bragadocia Co,RBieTcidl. and so on ad ndusean1,
the q noble sons of noble sires arose in the
majesty of their strength on the day of
election, and hurled the vaunting and mot
ley crowd of sore-heads and Rourbons from
their lofty eminence of puritanie political
pretensions, down into the pit of justly
merited and ignominious defeat If all the
other counties had done as well as Somer-
set, General Beaver would have been tri-
umphantly elected. But other counties
did not have the aid Of two such opposing
powers as the Commercial and the General.
In the eyes Of Halfbreeds and Bourbons
your official returns have most exaspera-
ting and mortifying appearance. per
centum calculation shows the relative
strength of parties 20 H. about as follows
Republican, % Fer cent. Of the vote; DEM
Ocratic, S3i Half-breed. O. Instead Of GO
10 20O0 for the renegade Stewart, as claimed
by his followers. the result shows only G99.
while General Beaver polled $3.50. giving
him the magnificent plurality majority Of
loss. Even the " Scientific" who 80 con-
fidently relied on carrying the county Is
showed under TO the mOurnful depth OF
66i; while. worse than ell, the matches
Independent legislative ticket, supported
by the BOurbons, lies buried under the
weight ola 300 majority. How ap,ly do the
words Of the Philadelphia Bul>,ia apply to
the Somerset Independents "Of all the
piiiable wrecks that are strewed along the
track Of Tuesdays cyclone the most pitiable
is that of the Independents After all their
braggadocio and bluster, and all their costly
demonstration Of political Phsgi4aisHs. they
crawl out Of the campaign with such con-
temptihle hgures as to make them the
laughing stock of the political world
But what of the glorious future - of the
Independent party? Professor Tyndall in
writing up Niagara Falls, gives some inter
esting figures in reference TO what he terms
the proximate future" of tha, wonder of
nature. At the rate of the natural sxcava-
ton going on annually, he says that $500
years OF so will carry the cataract above
Goat Island, A similar process Of reasoning
with reference to the "proximate future +"
of the Half-breed party, taking as the basis
of calculation the Stewart vote of this year
and the Wolfe one of last, shows that the
date of their possible triumph must be
placed in the far distant future. At the rate
ofthis years increase over that of last year,
it will require about 5000 years or so Of the
Stewart koontx kind Of palaver, the Tom
Marshall Mitchell abuse, the Philadelphia
Fress double-dealing editorials, the Pitts
burgh Dispatch and Meyersdale CopsmTcial
kind Of advocacy. and the Governor Hoyt
eve-of-election-treacherv to kill off all the
horrid = bosses and carry sirlon- pure
Half-breed into the chaiE eaaesnatorial. So
mote il be. CANBRIA