The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-11-20

IMAEDIATELY after the late election
three or four Democratic newspapers in |
different parts of the State undertook 20 |
hold Mr.. Hensel. Chairman OF the
State COMMITTEE, responsible for the re-
suit, and plainly intimated that a
change should be made In the heads bip
of the Committee when the proper time
arrives. Did any one Of the editors Of
these papers expect or believe that Con-
rad B. Day would De elected State
Treasurer II he did we have only to
say that the past history of Penusylva-
mia politics has failed to teach him a
lesson that is we'll understood, and that
is that Pennsylvania is a Republican
State, aud that Republican voters will
sustain a State nomination no matter
how Objectionable the candidate may be.
There wasn't single delegate to the
State convention at which NJ. S. Quay
was nominated who WAS not perfectly
familiar with his corrupt and rotten re-
cord, nor was theIe a reading and Intel
ligent Republican voter in the State
who was not equally familiar with it.
No movement was made anywhere in
the State by the Republicans, except a
small sids-show performance in PhiIa-
delphia, tending in any degree to prove
that the Republican party was not a
unit in favor Of the " brilliant states
man - from Beaver county. And with
this acknowledged condition of the
contest staring every sane man in the
face, Mr.. Hensel, according to these
wise -after-the. fact and progressive edi.
tors, was expected to revOlutionize the
State and elecs Mr.. Day. whose fair,
honorable and bpOtiess record when con-
trasted with Quay's, ought to have been
sufficient or itself in a healthy State of
public opinion, to have turned the scale
in his favor without Mr.. Hensel raising
his hand or opening his lips. This was
an of year, as it is called; there was no
excitement in either party, nor could
any have been creatsd by either Mr..
Hensel OF Thomas V. Cooper, Chairman
of the Republican State Committee, no
matter how vigorous their efforts might
! have been in that direction. The cam
paign naturally drifted listlessly along
with a may the devil-take-the hindmost
feeling of Indifference pervading both
parties, and resulted in Ill. $50 Demo-
Gratis and 149, 10 Republicans refusing
to go to the election, as compared with
the vote Of last year. If Mr.. Hensel is
to be ostrac:sed for not marching this
army of Democratic sluggards to the
polls, what punishment ought to be
meeted out to the more unsuccessful
Thomas V. Cooper, who in a campaign
is always as busy as Il bee, for his fail
ure to drum up 80 large a percentage of
the Republican voters throughout the
State They both did what they could
both of them, like Glendower, could
call spirits from the vasty deep, but
they would not come, and when voters
refuse to go to an election. that is an
end to the argument. When William
a. Wallace was g hartman of the State
Committee he enjoyed the we'll earned
reputation of being a remarkably able
and efficient political organizer. but he
could not accomplish impossibilitIes
and IL csmpaigh after campaigu the
Democracy of the State went down to
defeat. Wha: other Democrat in the
State occupying Mr. Hrnsel's place
could have done better than he did un-
der the circumstances in the campaign
that has recently cIosedY No such
man car be named, and the fault fud-
ing editors who have been abusing him
and swapping at his heels, are simply
gnawing at a file.