The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-29
THE PRESIDENT JUDGEsHIP /
From the Warren Afnl.1

From the Warren lfaIl
ED. Mail! 1t is an admitted fact proved
by actual observation, that the continual
dropping of water upon the hardest flint
rock, will in time wear it away. These
thoughts, and others that follow, have
been the result of the constant and con-
| tinual reading of the Warren Mirror and
Ledger, as well as 1--WE, the Bars" person
al and unjust abuse of Geo. II. Higgins,
the Republican candidate for Judge OF
this district.
Let any honest, unbiased and intelligent
| man who knows the Warren county law
yers, read the list OF names which these
papers publish as being opposed to Mr..
| Higgins, and who are trying by all means,
fair and foul, to defeat him. Carefully
analyze the list Begin at the head and
! follow it to the foot carefully leaving out
/ of the analysis all who are known TO be
/ Democrats, but include, for arguments
sake, all the rest of the list not excepting
/ the extremes OF age from tour score years
down to the tender and inexpei fenced age
of indiscretion, and when your analysis is
/ completed, then ask yourself this ques-
| ton: 'Is il far, is 1t right, is il rise, that
| should allow the opinions of such men as
| this analysis proves I'VE, tn" Bar" to be,
/ to influence me in my opinion to vote
/ againt good man as well as n good Re
| publican, as we all know George Ii. Hig-
gins to be9
Why, my friends, there are names in
this I'VE, the Bar" list who have not prac-
ticed law tor thirty years; others who
| probably never had n client, and are en-
gagged, and have been for years in other
callings, as well as the names of men
whose opinions OH any subject were never
known to be considered valuable.
Fellow Republicans, will this I'VE, the
Bar" list change your Republicansm and
convert you into mugwump and cause
you to vote against so good a Republican
as Geo. II. higgins? In the language of
popular song | will answer for YOU "No,
1 guess not, guess not"
have been a resident of Warren for a
great many years, and until tho present
campaign l never heard or saw any evil
dence that Chas. II, Noyes was such an
immaculate human being, endowed with
either the moral character, the high at
tainments, the excessive development OF
intellect, combined with all the Christian
graces with which the Mirror and Ledger,
the mugwumps and the Republican kick
ers now accredit him.
have always known him to be a fair,
average citizen and lawyer, with some
| friends and his full share of enemies, and
until the present campaign l have never
for moment conceived the idea that it
was he and he alone of all our lawyers
who possessed the necessary qualifications
for making Judge.
i am frank to admit that the elements of
| greatness, purity of character, broad ex-
panse of intellect. and the boundless love
of the Christian religion with which now,
for the first time in his life, to my knowl-
| edge, has ever been accredited to him,
must have been among his hidden lights,
as it has been only during his candidacy
for Judicial honors that they have ever
come 20 the full knowledge of his fellow
citizens who live in his own town.
have never known of his attaining a
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classes of society for any notable deeds of
charity, and as for his getting down from
his supposed high perch of social life to
the level of the good, honest mechanic and
laboring man-the bone and sinew of our
country, as well as the pride of every
American citizen-and seeking at least re-
spectacle companionship and friendly rec
ognition from such men, all of whom are
voters, and all of whose votes he now asks
for, is thing unheard of by those who
have known him for years. and will ven
ture to assert that during the present cam
paign, he has felt the warmth of the press
ure of the honest, horny-handed working
man more, during any one week OF this
campaign, than ever before during his
natural life.
AT present, for a special object, his hand
is extended to all with whom he meets,
regardless of whether the man has on his
dress suit or his working clothes.
Is there voter in this judicial district
who is sufficiently blind or dull of COM
prehension as to think for moment that
all this lying, filthy, slanderous, abusive
Mirror and Ledger upheavals which are
strewn broadcast throughout this judicial
district against Mr.. Higgins, comes from
simply the pen of the owners of these pa.
pers, and is not approved of by his oppo-
nent for judicial hOnors? And is it ri0htP
Is it not rather an insult to the intelligence
of their readers to ask them to believe it,
aNa Il aaasI \ leu, IL
emanated from the purity of the bosom of
this immaculate candidate for the judiciary
were he gifted and endowed with the
Christian graces and many virtues which
the Mirror and Ledger, mugwumps and
Republican kickers and jealous attorneys
ascribe to him?
Now, then, upon whom is all this venom
and abuse heaped? What manner of man
have they selected TO heap it upon?
One Geo. ii. Higgins, Esq, man about
3S years of age, the offspring of poor but
honest parents, who came to live among
us about 10 years ago from another county;
possessed simply with good health, a fair
education which he rapidly improved, and
brain chock-full of the very best of good
common sense, natures greatest gift to
man, unincumbered by either wealth or
rich and influential friends, but possessed
with the honorable trade of Stone Mason,
land he was good one tool In this line
in his left hand (Which hand now lies bur-
led under the sod of mother earth) and his
mallet in his strong, right arm, dressing
the stone which now constitutes the foun-
dation upon which our grand court house
is built.
From this condition of life there sprung
a desire on his part to go up higher, hence
he gave up his trade of stone cutter and
became pumper of oil wells, and in this
calling 1t was said of him that he was a
good one, too!
His object in thus changing his occupa-
tion was that he might have better facili-
ties for the study of law, which he had al
ready begun, and to become a lawyer was
the fondest dream of his life. There. at
his post of labor in the boiler house, Geo.
III. Higgins could be found poring over his
law books by the flickerng light of the
torch hlled with the oil which he pumped
nom the bowels of the earth.
In due course of time, after long and
weary hours of hard work and long study.
and after rigid examination, he was duly
admitted to the bar, and it is recorded Of
one OF the oldest and most classical law
yers in our county, who sat on the exam
lnlng board, that at the conclusion of his
examination, after Mr.. Higgins had sue
cessiully passed, he arose from his seat and
made this remark:
Gentlemen: There's man who will
make bis mark, There's a men who con-
tains the elements that make Gar6elds -