The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-11-04

can with safety to himself, Is not man."
Defamation of character is not argument,
suspicion is not certainty. your or anyone
else's euesscsat the identity of Piumbago are
not proofs, and Courses are like chickens,
which sooner or later come home 10 roost."
1 now shall take up the worst part of this
arsicle.--a part that lies below the morality
of an - Asiatic eanuch and Edward Glib
bon. the historian OF 7" "Rone's Decline and
Fall, says "They are II set Of unfortunate
; beings. without morality, without passions
except hate Now let us see These Ash
attic eunuchs, IN hate. tell their beardless
amauuensis TO write that the professional
gentleman Is an aspirant for office, and if
he doesn't keep his pen from paper he lnot
get the Office he seeks. What follows2
Why, Keep quiet; | will work for you
you will be elected by ol1 influence. and ne
expect your support because you will be the
creature of our votes" Good God All
the plain talk amounts TO this. And
still there's more to follow" | feel detil-
ed-as though my friends would say to me,
"Ayaunt. Wash off the stink of the cess
pool" and yet Pye assigned the task, and /
! see no way to AVOID il. Here is the asser
tion Mr. Plumbago You are
fast driving from your support friends who
stood by you in the past, when friend in
I need was friend indeed Every friend of
the gentleman alluded to knows the cir
cunisiances he has never hesitated to tell
! them He had but fo'S friends uieJ were
enough it is an utter impossibility that
either of these could have penned Keen
Thoughts" in the Commercial, because all
doesn't associate with any other kind of
men, and all of them know that when a /
friend casts into the teeth Of his friend the 4
act which established his friendship. he has 4
given a receipt in fuil-with the balance 4
perhaps in the debtors favor casting up
OF so-called land supposed friendly acts
done toward another, is not the evidence of
friendship. but rather Of the desire to subsi-
die J,ty. There is but one man in the
whole county Of Somerset who has always
made IL a point to solicit friendship on the
ground of past fayors-but in this case he
has never granted any favors Before |
leave the professional gentleman, in whose
behalf Eve penned all the foregoing, may
say in times past he's been my friend, and is
so to-day, but il is not his habit to defend i
himself against silly liars, or bitter asper-
sionists
" For Time, at last. sets all things even,
And never yet was human power
That could evade, If uuforgiyen,
The patient search, the vigil long.
ofhim who treasures up a wrongr
Now let US turn to more pleasant things.
The so-ealled keen thoughts of the Com
inercial are so much of the nature of a Phil
lippic against supposed antagonist, a
mental ignisfatuus existing only in the
diseased intellectually fthe creatures who
dictated the article-that il is exceedingly
difficult to find aught worthy of reply. But
then quote the Commercial as an illustration
of the falsehood of my assertion that Smith
had been failure in all he had ever under
taken, and add the Inyidious comment
" The Commercial! has grown more in five
years than the HERALD has in twenty-five"
- The Commercial is a grand success" Well
admit that the C.lam9eidl runs, but it is
like a carbnncle it runs filth, and how soon
the mortgages plastered all over it shall check
its ordurous course, no man can tell. The
HERALD sprang forth like an armed Pallas-
the goddess of wisdom among the ancients
and during all the vicissitudes of years has
maintained its position as the intellectual
representative of thecounty. No position it
has ever taken has been abrOgated when it
came to a vote OF the people Of the county.
demagogues to the contrary notwithsiand-
ing. The Commercial is grand success, and
has registered against it more Waterloos
than it has seen years. All the reputation
it has ever won has been built on the de-
feat of principles it has laid down.
Plumbago admits that no new Jail can be
set. He goes further and claims that the
two grand jnries last convened acted con-
scientiously and according TO their oaths.
He therefore disnisses the new jail from
controversy But look for moment at the
attitude of the Commercials correspondent
in regard to new Jail The COnuacmis said
it should not be, and lol the thing was not. -
0mnipotence and omniscience are attributes
of the 8 Grand Architect of the Universe"
and of Him alone; and fulsome fiattery, or
gross ignorance only belittle themselves
when they attribute or assume them as be-
longing to any creature of his handiwork,
to say nothing of the feelings of the sworn
jurors at such an imputation. | thought :
that the jurors said there should not be
new jail Keen Thoughts" " says twas the
Commrcial-what do the jurors say? Even
Fayette county has only got her i'll repute
through traverse juries-not through grand
juries.
Keen Thoughts calls Pumbago an anon
ymous fellow When | saw 1.-The soft i'm
peachment'' | turned at once to the end of !,
the article to see who wrote it and found
NO matter what but sure it was not that :
sought"
Was the third term movement success"
asks this keenest of Keen Thoughts /,
answer, in Somerset county, 'Yesr in the !,
nation at large, No." WAS Beaver elect ,
ed governor in 1892" he again inquiries /,
In this county. Yes In the State MOI"
But will the Commercial man claim for
moment that he bossed the few hundred ,
that voted against James A. Beaver? Gods :
will the Anti-bossists of Somerset County
stand idly by, and silently list TO the base
aspersions of 50 great an ignoramus2 Surely
the semi Weekly osumscidl, great though it :,
be in both ignorance and doubly great in :
Sillainy, does not pretend to be the lever :
which moves the State or the Nation. and !,
therefore shall say no more in reply TO the !,
questions pertaining to either which have :
been asked by Keen Thoughts"
The Poor House Frauds" 50 called have
been like things appeared in the Arabian
Nights that is mere figments ofthe imagina-
ion. In other words there has been no =
'raud. There has. however, been the pay