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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

GENERAL CAMPBELL has been in this
city for several days making a personal
canvass from door to door, asserting his
claims to the votes of our citizens on
the gound of having procured for them
a free mail delivery This was an act of
Justice due the city and neiehborhood
long ago, and it is passing strange that
it was not thought of by General Camp
bell until he received the fourth nOmi-
nation for Congress and the election
was very near at hand. He could not
have been ignorant of the wants of the
people of Altoona, for the newspapers
had discussed that subject thoroughly
for the past three or four years. If Gen.
Campbell had looked after the matteriat
the beginning of his second Congression.
al term then his action might have been
looked upon as unselfsh, but left un-
touched until he received a renomina-
tlon creates the opinion that it was done
for political effect, leaving the people to
infer that they never would have
heard of free delivery of mail matter
except as sop to conciliate the voters
toward General Campbell It is a tub
thrown to the Democratic whale here.
Another point in Gen, Campbell's still
hunt canvass is his promises in regard to
the letter carriers. While Postmaster
Patton has the power of appointing, vet
these appointments are to be made in
the interest of General Campbell's re-
election. In consideration of votes de
Hvered to General Campbell. a Knight
Of Labor is to have one of the appoint
ments and a Democrat another, while
the other four will he gobbled by the
Republicans. With the two first will de-
pend their ability to deliver the goods at
the polls. They may be able to control
their own. but when they trade on part
OF their fellOw-partisans that part OF the
contract will most likely prove failure.
The voters this year have independent
ways about them, and are not going 30
be sold like beef on the hOof for the ben
eft of mere tricksters. whose political
opinions are measured by office and mOn-
ey. When any voter is asked as a per-
sonal favor to vote for Gen. Campbell
on this postoff1ce business, it is only ne
cesary to regard the person doing it as a
speculator in votes for his own benefit,
while cheating the party from whom he
asks the favor.
The citizens Of Altoona are under no
particular obligations to support General
Campbell because of the prospective
adoption of the free delivery system.
Having the requisite population, the
free delivery Of mail matter was due to
| them as an act of justice, and General
Camphell's hardness in securing it adds
nothing to his credit, when it is clear
that political necessity was the motor to
move the pOstoffice department to estab-
I lish the needed postal accommodation.
| This power might as well have granted
the faculty year ago as a month before
an election. General Campbell cannot
plead ignorance of the postal wants of
the city, for both new post office bull
ding and the delivery have been advO-
Gated and demanded by our citizens for
years past. Let all Democrats stand
by General COffroth who deserves well
at their hands.-AltoOnd Times.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

IT was PattisOn. the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania who in a
speech In Philadelphia when he was rpiOic-
ing with the Committee of One Hundred and
other snohs and Miss Nancips. of that citv
over a Reform victory, said the Macs and
the O's must fall to the rear and take to car
rying the hod.
The above bald. naked lie was printed
in the editorial columns of the Johns
town Tribune on Monday last. It is
hard to conceive how man who claims
to have a conscience can calmly write
and publish to the world what he knew
at the time was a wanton and deliberate
falsehood. That the editor of the Tri-
btme knew when he polluted a sheet of
clean. white paper with the above sIimv
paragraph that it was a continuous lie
from its commencement to its close, ad-
mits of no kind of doubt, from the fact
that he saw and read in the early part
of October. in at least three daily Phila-
delphia papers received at his office, a
report of Mr.. PattisOn's speech i'm 1891
as published bv them on the morning af-
ter the speech was delivered. and that it
did not contain a single word about the
Mes and the O's" much less did he
say that they must fall to the rear
and take to carrying the hod." These
words constitute the forged addition to
Mr.. PattisOn's speech. which Delaney
and Gallagher, two Irish Republican
scoundrels, in the pay of Beavers polit-
cal managers have been huckstering
over the State for the infamous purpose
of injuring Mr.. Pattison among Irish
Democrats. If it were even possible to
impose upon the Irish Democrats of
Cambria county by such a stupid and
transparent fraud, the attempt must be
made by some one in whom they have
more confidence than they ever did or
ever will repose in the editor of the
JOhnstown Tribune.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

A PECULIAR TELEPHONE FREAK.-The
wonders OF electricity will never cease. The
telephone wire OF W. d. Wood & Co be-
tween Pittsburg and McKeespOrt. is attach
ed to the poles OF the Western Union teIe-
graph company, and from the pole at the
corner of Fifth and Walnut streets the wire
turns down Walnut street to the mill. The
telepone wire OF the borough runs from the
First National bank building up Walnut
street and Is attached to pole OF the West.
ern Union telegraph company at the corner
OF Shaw's avenue and Walnut street, and to
other poles along the route to the engine
house of the water works. The wires of these
two telephones touch the poles OF the Wes-
tern Union telegraph company, two blocks
apart at the closest point, and yet all the
messages spoken over either wire are heard
on the other, which can only be accounted
for in either of two very strange ways
Either the messages are conveyed between
the offices by ground current, OF else the
wires OF the Western Union telegraph com
pany which span the two blocks of space
between where the telephone wires connect
with them act in the capacity of eavesdrOp-
pers and tattlers. II the latter Is the case il
proves thattelegraph and telephone messages
can travel on one wire and at the same time
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03
PATTISON'S WORK.

Mr.. PattisOn's qualifications for Gov
ernor are eminent. His record shows
that. His record as Controller of the
city of Philadelphia is constantly re-
ferred to in a general way. but it is in
teresting occasionally to look into the
details and see just exactly what he did
do. The more closely his work is IL
spected the more admiration is excited
for the man. In 1877 Mr.. PattisOn was
elected controller Of Philadelphia, He
did his work so well that in 1880 he was
reuominated and reelected. In 1873
Mr.. PattisOn's methods of administra-
tiOn were first put to the test.
Against the former average increase
in the yearly city debt of So, ,622, 106, MIR.
Pattison's administration shows an
average decrease of 81. .246. .737-a differ
ence in favor of the PattisOn system,
and to the advantage Of the taxpayers,
of S4, ,S69. 143 per annum, or nearly So a
year in the pockets of every man, wOm-
an and child in the city of Philadelphia,
for directly or indirectly every class Of
people feel the burden of increased city
debt. The department expenses have
gone down from SO, 1874 961. 20'tO Sc. SSS, =
326. %, a reduction of the annual burden
on property of 40 cents on every S100 of
NdIudLlOD. DeDb1J 10 OWueT anu ItHltT,
making real estate more valuable while
at the same time it lightens the burdens
of the poor and dimishes the expenses of
the business man. Prior to Pattison's
term one fifth of the city taxes were un-
collected and went into the hands OF the
delinquent collectors. Last year only
eight per cent Of the city taxes were
uncollected a gain of twelve per cent.
over the days of ring rule. It was these
reforms that enabled the controller to
say in his last annual report 1.-The bur-
dens of the taxpayers are being tighten
ed. increased encouragement are given
for the employment of capital within its
limits. and an auspicious beginning has
been made in freeing the secOnd'city of
the Union in population, and the first in
industrial ente Tprise, from taxation for
Indebtedness. - This is precisely the
sort of man that is needed at the head
of our State government, and this is the
sort of man the people propose to place
there. Patriot.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

WE are not aware that we can add
anything TO what we have already said
during the progress of the campaign by
way of impressiug upon the Democracy
Of the county the Importance as well as
the duty OF doing their work thorough
ly at the election on Tuesday next. The
supreme duty is to attend the election,
and Democrat who stays at home on
that day and thereby Indirectly aids
Camerou's candidate. Beaver. is recreant
to every dictate of duty, and especially
so at this time when the chances Of ut
terly Overthrowing the supremacy Of
machine politics and boss methods in the
State are so flattering. not to say abso-
lutely certain. Let every Democrat,
then, forego his ordinary avocations on
Tuesday next and devote that dav to the
promotion Of the success of the historic
party that was founded by the immortal
Thomas Jefferson. supported by the able
pen OF Madison and triumphantlv up
held and maintained bv the heroic ad-
ministratiOn of Andrew Jackson. In an
honest cause. the cause Of a good and
pure government. the country expects 5
every man to do his duty.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03
On Tuesday next elections for mem

On Tuesday next elections for mem
bers of Congress will take place in thir-
ty-three States. the five other States of
the whole number 1881 composing the
Unicn, viz Maine, Vermont, Ohio,
West Virginia and Oregon, having al
ready elected the number of Congress
men to which they are respectively en-
titled. The present House of Represen-
tatives consists of 293 members, but the
apportionment bill passed by Congress
last winter on the basis of the census of
1880. fixes the number of members for
the House for the next ten years at 325
an increase of thirty-two. 1t so hap
pened that the five States we have nam
ed and in which Congressional elections
have already been held, were entitled to
just thirty-two members 50 that in the
thirty-three States which will vote on
next Tuesday, 293 members will be cleo
ted, which also happens to be precisely
the number of which the present House
consists. Governors will also be elected
in several of the States on Tuesday next
and in nearly all of them members of the
Legislature will be chosen, With the
gain of eight Democratic members from
Ohio at the recent election in that State
there does not seem to be any substan-
tial reason TO doubt that the next House,
which will meet in December, 1888, will
contain very decided Democratic ma
iOritV AS regards the result next Tues
day in four of the thirty-three States, we
are willing to stand by the prediction
that in Indiana the Democrats will car
ry a majority Of the Congressional dis
tricts, and that they will elect their can
didates for Governor in Pennsylvania,
New York and Connecticut, with the
probabilities strongly in favor of the
election of the Democratic candidate in
New Hampshire. Don't, therefore, ne
glect to vote the whole Democratic tic
ket on Tuesday next.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

THE entire bottom is rapidly falling
out of the Republican tub in the State
of New York. The Express, a leading
Republican paper published in Buffalo,
where Grover Cleveland. the Democrat
ic candidate for Governor resides, and
whose election it supports, published a
few days ago a list of Republicansiin that
city and I'm Erie county, in which it is
situated, who have avOwed their inten-
tion tovote for Cleveland againstF Folger,
the Republican nominee, and the roll
contains thirteen hundred names. A
similar condition Of affairs. but not, Of
course, TO the same extent, exists in
nearly every county in the State. The
Republican tub in PENNSYLVANIA is sure
to meet with a like fate, bnt i'm order to
make a complete wreck Of bottom.
slaves and all it is only necessary for
every Democrat TO 60 TO the uoIIs on
Tuesday next and vote the whole ticket
State, judiciary and county
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03
LUTHER WILL BE ELECTED.

Demetrius A Luther will be the next
Sheriff of Cambria county. The sland-
eTs against him have reacted, and he
stands pure and unassailed as Dem
ocrat without guile OF deceit. Three
years ago he was an aspirant for the
same Office, but Michael J. Nagle, an
other Democrat. received the nomina-
tion. and Mr.. Luther left the sick bed
of his wife to vote for Mr.. Nagle, his
successful competitor.
d. H. Kinkead, the present candidate
Of the Court House Ring, Travelled the
county, day and night, against Mr.. Ma
gle and by deceiving the people succeed
ed in defeating MIN. Thomas Griffith
was elected, and, as a reward, appoint
ed Kinkead as deputy, ard the latter has
used his position ever since to elect him
self and keep up the Court House Ring.
He is now candidate for second term
in his own name, but for the following
and other reasons Democrats will not
vote for him.
1st. He was born and reared a Demo-
crat, but fOrsook the faith of his fathers
and has always bitterly opposed and is
at present bitterly opposing every Dem
crat who has sought or IS now seeking
political preferment.
Sd. Every Democrat knows that he
will use the power of the Sheriff's office.
as he has heretofore used it. to defeat
every Democratic candidate who pre-
sents himself for the suffrages of the
people.
Sd. They have reason to believe that
he is politically corrupt, and that he has
bribed, or offered TO bribe or purchase
votes to defeat Democrats. in violation
of the constitution or laws of the State.
4th. They know that if they or any
friend of theirs should be nominated. he
will use the influence of the Sheriff's of
fee to defeat them.
5th. They all know that he is the crea-
ture of the Ebensburg Ring. and. like
them, will trade off every other candi-
date for his own success.
9th. They know that he never did an
honest days work in his life. and vet he
is begging the labor vote against Mr..
Luther, who has been an honest. hard
working man ever since be was able to
work.
7th. They know that he is in theCam-
eron Ring to enslave the free expression
of the public will.
Sth. They know that he is in favor of
sumptuarv laws to prevent the public
from eating or drinking as suits their
pleasure.
9th. And. finally. they know that if
elected, he will be as he has been. the
Sheriff of a party, and not the Sheriff of
a whole people.
Next year we will have a Register and
Recorder, a PrOthonOtarv. District At
tOrney. and perhaps President Judge to
elect, the latter for ten years. and we.
as Democrats. do not know what bosom
friend of ours NAV he on the ticket for
either Of those Offices If we elect T,u-
ther and the entire Democratic ticl5et
as we can elect il. thew will be all as
ststinr us next year hut if we elect a
Republican. and especially such an un-
scrupulous Republican as Kinkead. they
will be opposing rs and perhaps defeat
the very man whom the Democracy
would be most likely to elect
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

A SPIDER SEAREs A SNAKE.-Things are
constantly occurring. saws the EastOn (Pa.)
Gazette, that cause the public to look with
wonder and amazement, and il is supposed
by many that no such thing ever occurred
before, very frequently such Impressions are
erroneous. Some weeks ago a spider was
found under the settee in Esquire Robinson's
office, with a snake entwined in his web.
Many thought il a most remarkable feat for
the spider to accomplish. Well, it was but
spiders in years past have shown Just as
much ingenuity. We find in the Easton Ga
rette of 1924 the following statement which
was copied from the Connecticut Mirror, the
statement Of a case very similar to that of
Esquire RObinsOn's snake:
One day last week the workmen in Mr.. Peck's
machine factory, In SouthinEton. q dscovered under
one Of the work rzhenchas a hlaczsnaEe If the white
throat species and about six inches long SUSPENDED
by the web of spider. The spider was Of the COM
mon house sort. and not uncommon large. When
first discovered the little insect had raised his VIC
tim about half foot from the floor. and had him
hung by single thread. The ingenuity and power
of the spider were truly wonderful Passing rapid
ly down hIs line he would flsteu his cordage
around the neck OF the snake. pass back his own
ing again down. " cast n hitch " around the tail
and returning to his nest. would avail himself OF
the contortiOns Of the snake. alternately hanging
mp his lines so as TO bring his game nearer home.
In this manner he continued his labor until even
ing. leaving the snake alive. but completely
hausted and secured to be safe Tor the nznt but
by morning he was dead.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03
DFHAGoeU ENG wITH.RELIeTo

lJhm A6OdO ELMO WITH
The Telegraph and other stalwart papers
assert. says the Harrisburg Patriot, that
the Republican party is the especial
champion of the Catholic Church i'm pol
itics. They also claim that sit is non
the ghost of the Know Nothing party''
but the Democratic party that tramples
on the Catholic" In Saturdays IeIe-
graph appears an elaborate editorial in
which these statements are made with
great deliberatiOn and emphasis.
Every right thinking man of whatever
politics must deprecate this attempt to
drag religious sect into the political
arena. Every true Catholic will regard
with contempt and indignation this base
device to degrade his Church. But the
telegraph adds insult to injury. It in
suits the intelligence of the people
whose religious faith it seeks to bedrag-
gle with the mire of politics
Hon. James Campbell, of philadelphia
was defeated for Supreme Judge in 1851,
but he was made Postmaster General hy
a Democratic administration in 1853
Hon. Francis Herman was defeated for
Governor of New York in 1872, hut not
by any CRATER majority than the remain
der of the Democratic ticket. The same
Francis Herman was soon thereafter
elected to the United States Senate by
the Democratic party. Daniel O. Barr
was defeated for State Treasurer in 1873
but not by so large a majority as was
! given to Grant in 1872 and Jas. P, Barr
/ was elected Surveyor General by the
[ Democrats of Pennsylvania in 1862.
! Campbell, Keirnan and the Messrs,
Barr are Democrats to-day and not only
satisfied with their treatment by the
/ Democracy, but Indignantly repel the
/ unholy demagogueism which singles out
/ their Church as one TO be controlled in
/ politics by the spoils of office. The
/ Democratic party simply favoTs freedom
/ of conscience and therefore protected
! Catholics from the assaults OF Know
/ Nothingism. 1t does not prefer one sect
/ to another, but resists bigotry and intol-
/ erence when they assail the rights OF
any religious society. Only this and
/ nothing more.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

DANIEL DOUGHERTY, the man who
the Republican papers have been telling
the peoplelwas opposed to Mr.. PattisOn,
presided at a Democratic mass meeting
held at Horticultural Hall, Philadel-
phia on last Saturday night. and made
ringing speech in favor Of Pattison and
reform in the administration of the
State government. He congratulated
the meeting that ''the people of Penn
sylvania are at last opening their eyes
to the infamy of the dynasty of corrup-
tionists, who have for a generation made
the name Of Pennsylvania a by-word and
a repTOach among her sister States. "
Let every man in Cambria and else
where do his entire duty on Tuesday
next and the dynasty of corruptionists''
will never more make the name of Penn
sylvania a by-wOrd and a reprOach.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

SCARECROw TARIFF SHRIFKERs.-The
Independent Republican Telegraph, Of Phila-
deiDhia exhibits the poverty of the resources
OF the Sta alwarts. who insist that il Demo
Gratis get power they will repeal the tariff
It says:
Any one who assumes 10 play the part Of public
teacher or political guide who would 20 hacksto
the year 1912. just forty years ago or back thr0'
nc1rlE one-haif Of the life of the Republic 20 find
argument tn prove that PeunsyIvaniau repre-
sentiug In whole or in part hts State would vote
for free trade Is scarcely the sort nF teacher on
guide 70 De calmly listened 10 OF followed. They
should know. and do know. but thev conceal the
fact, that the Democrats have controlled Congress-
controlled It continuously from 1872 to 1861 and
that from 1873 to 1881 they controlled the House
and from 1872 10 1881 the Senate also. and that
they never voted for free trade. and only
recent reduction that made I'm the tariff fr -a
direction Of FREQ trade. that Of removing the durv
on quiniue. was made by the aid Of Republican
votes Ihere has been no i'eunsylvanian in Con
greSs. since George N. Dallas sat In the Senate s
Vice President. who has east his vote for the re-
peal OF the tarh-that is. for free trade there is
one Pennsylvania sitting in the present Senate.
however. who has puhlicly threatened that if the
Hepuhlicans Of the Commonwealth did not sup
port hin In his insOlcnt pretenEtous as political
autOrrat OF Penn sylVauia he would be found
the side OF free trade. hut he not = Democrat
he, Seustor J. Donald Cameron, claims TO be not
only = Stalvart Republican, but the Republican
Boss of Pennsylvania. He slone Of All the neo-
pies representative in either hOua or Congress
has since 1852. threatened To bring down uDon HIS
attempted 20 cOcrce the people OF Penusv1vanfa
especially tho manufacturers and work fnrfuen
through their pockets He did not succeed. how
ever. and foremost and most active among the In
dependent Republicans to-day are hundreds Of
manufacturers and tens OF thousands Of honest
Intelligent worEingmen Who remember Senator
Cameron's free-trade threat. but who refuse 70 be
dismayed or turned from their principles because
OF tt.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03

THOMAS B. SCHNATTERLY of Fay
cite county, to whose disorganizing
course in announcing himself as an in-
dependent candidate for State Senator
against DR.. Patton in the Fayette and
Greene district, we referred last week,
attended a Democratic meeting at Con-
nellsville on Saturday night last, and
stated that he had withdrawn from the
contest and would support the whole
Democratic ticket. 'All's well that
euds well - but we utterly fail to see
wherein Schnatterly deserves any credit
for getting out of the nasty scrape in
which he involved himself He knew,
as nine out of every ten Democrats in
Fayette know and admit, that Greene
county was entitled to the Senator, and
when he took the field against DIR. Pat
ton, of that county, for whom the Fay
cite conferees voted, he clearly put him
self outside the pale of the Democratic
party and committed an act of the foul
est political treason. He showed what
he was capable of doing and we have a
right to infer that he only withdrew af-
ter he plainly saw sure and disastrous
defeat staring him in tie face. If he
had remained in the field, and after his
defeat taken up permanent quarters in
the Republican camp, the Democratic
party would have been well rid of him.
1t is never safe to bet on man like
Schnatterly, ard any future political
gymnastics he may attempt will not
create the least surprise, though it
should prompt all Democrats deprecat-
ing as they do the conduct of Schnatter-
ly, to go to the polls on Tuesday next
and vote the straight-out Democratic
ticket.