The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-16

The Democrat has not the decency to
apologize for the gross insult offered
the Greenback party by it's recent
assault on the associate judges, but
intimates that we are welcome to
publish all such. Well, we have lots
more 10 store which are likely to make
very entertaining fusion reading mat
ter for these bosses as the campaign
progresses.
Both sheets deny, poipt blank, any
violation Of their rules and system of
Let us see In the Dem
ocratic rules we find the following.
The italics are ours:
9. No candidates shall be eligable TO n
nomination for any office unless notice of
his candidacy has been published i'm at
least three issues of the Demo cratic papers
of the county Immediately before the
holding of the primaries
l6. The County Committee shall have
power to alter or amend these rules as
occasion may require by giving notice in
two issues of the Democrat papers in the
county Immediately before the meeting
of the Committee at which said amend
ments are to be made.
And from the Greenback rules we
quote as follows:
1st The candidates for the several of
fees shall hare their names announced
in one or more of the county papers at
least two weeks previous to the primary
meetings. stating the office, and subject
to the ac!ion of the party at the said prlm-
AIRY meeting.
Sth. The Return Judges may at any
time change the mode and manner of
selecting candidates as they may be in
Structed by the people at their primary
meetings due notice being gtCen by The
County Committee.
Now we leave it to any honest per-
son to decide who is making the false
representations? Do either of the
above quotations need any palmer
Interpretation? Have We not read
in both Of those sheets that "no an.
nouncements will be published" and
do uOt their rules say candidates
must be announced? ? Do not both
sets of rules prescribe, as plainly as
words can, the manner in which they
shall be changeu? Has the proper
manner been resorted to in order to
make nominations as the BOSSES have
planned? And yet, we are accused
of mis- representation when we state
that they have departed from their
rules in order to carry out a system
of bossism that could not we'll be
accompliseS in any other way but by
direct and fagrant violation of the
rules. We hurl these facts into the
teeth of these sheets and ask them tn
crawl out of their unenviable pre-.
dicament if they can. 1t is custom.
ary to publish the party rules a week
or two before the primaries take place
VIII these sheets do it this year as
they have formerly; dare they be
honest enough to do it? we want
every body to wait and see. The
Democrats of this county at one time
used the delegate system. Why did
they change to the Crawford county
system? Simply because they could
not get fair expression of the party
by the former, as they admitted them
selves. Why have the self.appointec
bosses of both parties adopted the
f delegate system now? Why simply
to carry out their scheme, or "busi
ness transaction" as is patent to every
honest voter.
The Commonwealth is inst now re
calling its readers with Democratic
: communications, but will not allow
true Greenbacker to have hearin,
through its columns. Last week
prints, and thereby indorses, lette
from "simon pure Democrat" whicl
f contains the startling announcement
: that "the difference between th
b Greenback party and the Democrat
J.. party is very SMALL" Honest an
f conscientious Greenbackers, is thi
r true? has it come to that pass whe
t there is little difference between thos
: two parties? If the ringsters hav
their way we doubt not they woul
s have it so; but do the few ringster
d here in Tionesto speak for the entir
e party? We guess not.
a The Democrat pines out. "The Den