The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-13
VOTE THE WHOLE TICKET.

WE can hardly deem it necessary at
any considerable length to urge upon
the Democracy of the county the duty
resting upon them of giving the differ
ent candidates on the county ticket a
united and energetic support. This
duty naturally forces itself upon every
man claiming to be identified with the
Democratic party, and as a consequence
anxious for its success, from the simple
fact, in the drst place, that the nomina-
tions were all made in pursuance of a
method or system adopted by the Dem
ocratic voters of the county for the ex-
plicit purpose of designating candidates
to be voted for at the general election.
No political party can successfully exist
i'll a county without a full recognition
by each and every one of its members of
the doctrine of implicit acquiescence in
the will of the majority when fairly ex-
pressed. So firmly was jefferson i'm
pressed with this fundamental doctrine
that he declared it to he the vital prin-
ciple upon which all Republican institu-
tiOns rest. If, therefore. county nomi-
nations when regularly made by the pro-
per authority, are to be disavOwed or
set aside through mere caprice. the or
ganization of the party for all practical
purposes might as well be abandoned,
and the right of every man to run for an
Office who desires to do so distinctly and
squarely recognized. That may be a
pleasant theory for some shallow poll
ticians to speculate about, but every in
telligent man cannot fail to see that it
would produce utter political chaos.
ard completely destroy all responsibility
by party for the official conduct of the
men whom it has invested with impor-
tart public trusts.
In the second place the duty of yield
ing a cordial support to the present
county ticket becomes specially mani
fest from the fact, admitted by the Re-
publicans themselves, that it does not
contain the name Of a'single candidate
who is not fully competent for an honest
and Intelligent discharge of the duties
OF the Office for which he has been NOM
mated. VIII any man who knows them
say that Joseph Mcdonald and Nathan
ial Horne, the candidates for Assembly.
y. A. luther, the nominee for Sheriff:
John Rorabaugh. the candidate for Poor
House Director Anselm Weaken, the
candidate for Jury Commissioner. and
John Cox. the candidate for Coroner.
are not one and all honest and cana
bic. and in the event of their election
will faithfully discharge the trusts con
fded to them and return them to their
constituents with clean hands
While thus urging uponDemocrats the
duty of supporting the ticket, we again
caution them not to rest in fancied Sc
curity that the ticket wifi be elected. as
it always was some years ago. bv the
mere force OF Democratic numbers.
That time has passed, owing to the large
Of population in the southern
section of the county, and the certain
success of a Democratic ticket ro,c.
means that active and thorough work
must be done. Democrats of Cambria
the chairman of your County Commit
tee has been doing all be legitimatelv
can, and viii continue to fight It ont on
that line until the day of the election.
his object being, as yours should he to
maintain the ascendancy of the Demo-
cratic party in Cambria county: and if
YOU heartily co operate with him in vOnr
al Il
we are justified in saying to Won that an
Democratic victory will
be the result.