The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-11-22
een'l Harry White to his Friends.

tue hepuOllcan party ana Otnef IrlendS
of the Twenty.iiAh Congressional dis.
trict: IL gives me cheerful pleasure
to return cordial thanks for the very
generous support given me at the elec
tion on the 9TH inst, by 1890 voters
Of this Congressional district. 1t ap-
pears to me quite proper to speak
briefly of the political condition of the
district and the late campaign. Since
the Greenback party was formed, in
1878, the combined Greenback and
Democratic vote in this district has
had IS clear majority over the Re-
publicans as the Democratic party has
in Berks county or in the tenth legion.
A Greenback and Democratic fusion
in 1873 would have had majority of
7,161. In 1879 it was ], ,26S; in 1880
it was 757; in 1881 it was 791, and the
campaign just closed discloses there
were 1853 for Pattison and 2,514|
votes for Armstrong, Greenback, while
for Beaver there were 1896, making
a majority for the combined vote of
Pattison and Armstrong of 1891 over
Beaver. The combined Pattison and
Armstrong vote has a majority of
1929 over the joint vote of Beaver
and Stewart.
As the Greenbacker went to the
polls with ticket for Armstrong for
Governor, with singular inconsistency
he had also ticket for the fusion can.
didate for Congress, and so with the
Democrat, with his ticket for Pattison,
he had also the fusion Congress candi.
date-always two for Congress, against
one.
1t will thus be seen that the contest
for Republican success in the district
was hopeless from the first against this
fusion. 1t is gratifying to note that
in every county in the district / ran
ahead o. my ticket. In the district l
received 1890 votes, while General
Beaver received 1896 and Stewart
received 562 votes.
1t will thus be observed l was com.
plimented with 594 more votes than
Gen. Beaver and 80 votes more than
the combined vote of Gen. Beaver and
Mr.. Stewart. Quite number of Dem
ocrats and hitherto Greenbackers gave
me their support. They will please
accept my sincere thanks for their per.
sonal confidence.
When the conferes from the differ.
ent counties met III August last at
Clarion, to make the Congressional
nomination, / told them the contest
looked to me hopeless and I asked to
be relieved from the canvass and
should labor as earnestly, and, proba.
bly,, more effectively for the success of
some one else than for my own candi-
dacy. 1t was replied, however, that
the Democratic Greenback fusion had
nominated candidate of recognized
unftness for the place ard large
mass of the voters relied on by the
fusionists would not support him.
With this hope we accepted the can
vass. AS the excitement of the State
campaign progressed, with attendant
political complications, it became man.
ifest that Democrats and Greenback.
ers were blindly accepting and sup.
porting the fusion, and the vote shows
that reason and argument induced only
few hundred of them to withhold
their support from their candidate
Twice in the canvass l called together
trusted friends and proposed withdraw.
'ng and substituting some other candi
date for myself with assurance of con
tinued labor and aid, in the hope that
l could do more for another than fol
myself Advice was to fight on. With
unremitting zeal and labor we contin.
ued the contest against unequal mum.
bers. At no time until within few
days of the election, when many voters
seemed to be changing to our cause
did l have much hope for success. The
result is now before us.
Be assured, my friends, 1 have nc
regrets for any of the incidents of tn,
campaign. Early In life was tano,hl