Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
Communicated
RUTAN SEES DEFEAT
Staring Him in the Face and Resorts 10
Mud Singing Tnctics.

Staring Him in the Face and Resorts TO
Mud-sIinging Tnctics.
In answer to an article in the evening pa
pers of yesterday, attacking Mr.. John n.
Neeb, Senatorial candidate in the Forty
second district, the following has been re-
ceived:
"Senator Rutan, after making one of his
boasted house to house canvasses, found tnat
am going to be the successful candidate Tor
Senator in the Forty-second district. DE
has long communication in this evenings
papers, in which he alleges that the frm
with which l am connected has received a
quarter of million of patronage from the
National, State, county and municipal gov
ernments, for public advertising In the
Freiheits Freund since 1856. Would there
be anything detrimental 10 me If that was
fact? The amount stated is, however,
nearly twice what the Freiheits Freund re-
ceived from official advertising in that
period, during which the Freiheits Freund
paid several millions of dollars in wages
alone, and never had any trouble with Its
employees, and besides, every cent that
the Freiheits Freund got was honestly
earned and value received given. 1 never
found fault with the thousands and thou
sands of dollars Senator Rutsn drew as
county, State, Government aud legislative
official during the past so years. The last
canvass he made was on the plea that he was
DOOR, He has had two terms in the Legis-
lature since, to which a salary of 81 500 per
term was attached. He has not lived in
Allegheny six months continuously since
his election, but travelled considerably in
Europe sojourned at Atlantic City and
Philadelphia. Still he is wealthy. The
most ridiculous charge made is the one
against my Republicanism, because
a Democratic German paper, the Beobach-
ter, prefers me, among the Republican can
didates for Senate, instead of man, who in
the last session of the Legislature misrepre-
sented his district in the State Senate. My
great grandfather, grandfather and father
were Wings, residents of Allegheny, where
/ was born, and more remote ancestors were
Wings in other portions of this State, and
soldiers, too. The whole family was among
the first and most ardent Republicans when
the Republican party was born and has con-
tinued so. As to my own Republicanism
leave the records of the party from period
long before / attained my majority to
speak.
"It.is'true that never represented Beaver,
Washington and other counties, as Senator
Rutan claims he has, because this has always
been my home Must we import talent from
those counties to properly represent us?
''The charge that advised anyone to vote
the Democratic ticket, Is false, and don't
think that Senator Rutan is responsible for
that statement. expected to conduct this
campaign without entering into personali-
ties, but the Senator has opened his bat
teries He shall have the full benefit of
this kind of warfare. 1 can stand it, but
can he? The truth of the matter is that the
gate of public opinion has pinched his Sem
atorial ears and whispered into them his in
evitable defeat, which has caused the por-
cine squeal-it is too loud to be called the
swans death song. JNo. n. NEEB,
FIRST WARD, ALLEGHENY, Pa, March
26, $780,"