The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-09-17
wharton Barksr.s Committee Its
Declaration in Favor of Demo
cracy.

The long promised declaration of whar
ton Barker in favor Of Robert Z. Pattison
f,r Governor has been given to the public.
The address is singulariy like that issued
BY the three tailors Of Tooley street, who
began it thus: we. the people OF England.
address our fellow citizens, etc. Mr.. barker
is sonaewh hat more modest, as he begins bis
address thus We the voters of Pennsyl-
vania, address our fellow citizens, ETC.
and then follows deliberate misrepresenfa-
ton in the statement, that Some of us who
sign this paper. are and have been since the
birth Of the party earnest Republicans who
have given its policy and plans our constant
approval and support.
This statement Is wiIlfuliy false. as Mr..
Barker knows he cannot possibly name two
signers to that address who have given
constant support 10 the policy and plans OF
the Republican party. Time and again they
have, almos; without exception. given earn
est support-as Mugwumps or Barkerites-
to the Democratic party in city, State and
National politics and elections, and it is not
surprising that they seek TO qualify that
recklessly false assertion in these words:
Bat all of US. without exception, are of Re
! publican affiliations; we reverence the par
| ty traditions and fully recognize the great
national work which the party has accom-
plished in tie past"
There are just IS signers to this declara-
ton in favor OF Free Trade Democratic
measures and men. There is not Protec-
/ ZIONIST among them-not one They are
Free Traders, not outspoken, bold, manly
Free Traders. but Free Traders in disguise,
| Of the bushwacker order Most of the num-
Der are importers of the products of the
pauper labor Of Europe, and every man
whose name is signed to that address hopes
To profit by the enforcement Of the Free
/ Trade policy Of the Democratic party.
The reward of Judas Iscariot, for betrayal,
was thirty pieces Of silver, but his price was
so contemplate that, upon reflection, be
went out and hanged himself 1t is said that
Wharton Bakers reward is to De the Secre-
iaryship of the Treasury under Grover Cleve-
land, in the event of the election Of that
Free Trader who as President of the L niied
States challenged the protected industries
to the DEATH" In the event of the defeat Of
Cleveland in 1892, the price of Wharton
Darkers betrayal of Republican principles
may appear more contemplate than that of
Judas
For his opposition to John Sherman, in
1880, Wharton Barker expected to be made
Secretary of the Treasury under Garfield,
but missed it. He was candidate for the
same Office under Harrison and hit the mark
just where he missed il with Garfield. As
neither Quay nor Cameron supported Barker
in his pretentious ambition TO pose as
statesman, be holds both responsible for his
failure to secure the Treasury portfolio under
Harrison, and he hopes to get even with
them by electing Robert f. Paitison, the
Democratic candidate for Governor William
L. Scott, Senator in place of Cameron, and
Grover Cleveland. President in 1892
Duplicity never gained cause or won
battle, and had Wharton Barker said in his
address: I'VE are Mngwumps, Free traders
in disguise, who hate the Republican parry
with malignant hatred. We have sought
Office at its hands, and it having been de-
MED to us, we now seek to destroy the party
OF Protection to American labor and capital.
and we invite your assistance" his state
ment would have had the merit of candor
and courage and it would have gained quite
as many convers as the shameless duplicity
he has attempted to impose upon ar intelli-
gent people.
Now that the facts are made public-not
one of which cn be successfully denied
it is not likely tlat Wharton Barker and his
Free Trade Committee will succeed in their
attempt to betay the Republican party,
and, Judas like, ieliver it, bound hand and
foot, to the Democratic party.
The effect of this, Wharton Barker's ad.
dress, ought to5e still more disastrous TO
those making il by stating that, to use the
words or the address Some of US who
sign this paper" addressed their fellow
citizens in opposition to Mr.. Blaine in 1854
and 1888, and had the effrontery to ask
them to support Grover Cleveland for the
Presidency.
The addres is simply part of well un-
derstood program to pave the way for Cleve-
: land and Ere Trade.