Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-15
FROM THE SHOULDER.
Rev. J. Franklin Core Declares Him
self in Favor of Pattison.
HIS REASONS GIVEN FOR DOING so.
He Will Vote to Save the Country From
Political Plunderers.
SOME BIG BETS MADE YESTERDAY

Rev. j. Franklin Core, prominent Meth
odist divine and ex-presiding elder OF this
district, now pastor of the Williamsburg NJ
Z. Church, has addressed the following SELF
explanatory open letter to Chairman w. d.
Porter, of the Republican County Commit
tee:
w. ID. Porter, ESQ.,:
DEAR SIR-There came to my hand to-day
mass of documents purporting to come from a
soldier to a soldier, and the object of which was
to secure my vote for G. w. Delamater for
Governor. Allow me to say, in reply to those
documents and the committee sending them
out. that in the first place do not believe
respectable and honorable soldier would en-
gage in any such small business-and GER
talnly not in such a cause.
have been duped by such men and through
such channels as often as ever intend to be,
and unless you can give me better grounds for
opposing Robert E. Pattison than are therein
contained, shall give him my VOTE and use all
honorable means to secure his election as Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania.
1 happen to know Governor Pattison, and
also happen to be perfectly familiar with his
record as public man. He is not briber,
perjurer, or forger. Unless you have
better material than Delamater to offer me for
my support, you must take my excuse in this
campaign. don't train with that 'ilk."
THE FRIEND OF THE SOLDIER.
know that Robert E. Pattison is as good
friend to the soldier as Pennsylvania ever had
in Governor; that he was the only one who
had the courage to uncover the outrages per-
petrated on the soldiers orphans by the very
gang who are now bounding him. With tireless
vigilance he hunted down and brought to light
their inlqaity, and. as far as was in his power,
visited condigD punishment upon those con-
nected with it. He was not willing to allow
set of scoundres to go on abusing the father
less little ones, and making gain out of the
tears and groaus of the soldiers child. know
also that as soon as his successor was elected
soldier and one from whom the public had
right to expect better thipgs-there was not
another word said for the soldiers child, nor a
person punished for robbing and abusing them.
1t is true Mr. Pattison had the cour-
age to veto bill that classed every soldier
it affected as pauper, and so placed his name
as such upon the records of the county and
State, and honor him for it. I'd rather be
buried by the roadside in an unknown grave. to
rest unmarked by tablet or monument until the
Judgment Day, than be written down "A
Pauper Soldier" and, as a reward, have pine
coffin and bit of granite to tell the story of
my humility and shame. 1honor the man who
had
THE MANHOOD TO REFUSE
to lend himself to such an infamy. Governor
Pattison made a record as Governor of Penn
sylvania that any man may well be proud OF
There were no Kembles pardoned during his
administration. There were no bills lost or
left unsigned by him, the object of which
was to tighten the burdens of the common
people. He entered upon his high trust with
out ostentation, and he retired from 1t without
a stain. He was found equal TO every occasion
that called for executive capacity, and the peo-
pie were never humiliated with the thought
that the head of the State was mere figure
head, a tool in the hands of designing men.
He comes before the people to-day with
clean hands and a pure heart. He is good
enough for me; and as once fought to save
the country from armed rebels, 1 shall now
vote to save it from a more dangerous and de-
cided enemy-political plunderers.
J. FRANKLIN CORE.