The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-26

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MAUCH CHUNK, Sept. 81, 1891.
This is the last appeal through the
press that / shall make during the
present contest, fearless Of the anathe-
mas which the prejudiced and un-
scrupulous ring will hurl upon me. l
flatter myself that among the Demo
cracy of this county, of which have
been a voting member for thirty seven
years, have not a few friends who sin
cerely regret the present state of af-
fairs, and who, like myself, are not
blind to the cause of this condition.
As long ago as last November the edict
had gone forth, "Esser must be downed,
no matter at what cost, even if it in
wolves the destruction of the party; we
are strong enough land the people gull
ible enough to believe us) to put the
odium for the disruption of the party
on George W. Esser." A combination
of blase office-holders (some of them
Democrats) was formed, and every de-
vice known by such experienced and
unscrupulous heads was used to coun-
teract the will of the majority. Rulings
by a man, who should be the last one
to defy the will of the majority in such
a manner as was done at our last coun-
ty meeting and repeated at our late
convention, will only stimulate the in
telligent voters to oppose such bare
faced injustice, and by their ballots
they will rebuke the outrages perpe-
trated upon them by a coterie who are
blindly jealous of the man who has en-
deared himself to them by his manly
and impartial conduct both in and out
of office.
There is not Democrat in the whole
county of Carbon who does or dares
endorse the autocratic rulings, the de-
ceptions practised upon an unsuspect-
ing and confding people at our county
meeting, and to-day there is not a
Democrat in the county who cannot
and will not acknowledge that the ma
jority of the Democracy is with George
w. Esser. 1 see by table handed me
showing the number of votes of each
contested election district is 1899 for
Esser and 1164 for the combination.
The guburnatorial vote of these dis
tricts is 3343. These contested districts
are "a in number; there were six un-
contested districts whose guburnator-
ial vote was 459. In all the election
districts in the county Esser had 43
delegates and the combination 80.
No committee on contested elections
was appointed by the combination for
they were hopelessly beaten and feared
the result.
Hopelessly beaten at home, these
usurpers and bosses HE themselves to
Harrisburg in such numbers, and com
posed of the same material that made
the grand motto, "that the majority
shall rule" farce in this county. The
great PohBah, the Major, the Senator
the Great Parliamentarian of Mosque
honing the suaYe disciple of any and
Tall parties, the man from LehightoI
who does the heavy work for the Major
, the Andrew j., of the same place, Whose
popularity is proverbial with con
tingent from Summit Hill and Lans
ford see chance to retrieve their fall
r en- fortunes by the acceptance of thei
delegates to the convention. We dt
not know by what means they accom-
: plished this other outrage for can cal
it by no other name-the mere matte
5 of fact still remains that they are TIN
? same men who are responsible for tn
l dastardly political actions in thi
e county, and who knowing that the ma
jority of the Democratic voters of thi
county will not be fooled OF cheated
: concentrated all their efforts to hav
= recognition from some other body thai
: the Democracy of the county of Car
bon, who are intelligent enough to tax
n care of themselves, and are also tire,
v of Boss rule and will throw off tn
yoke next November, thereby relegat
, ing these usurpers to the shades o
u privacy, from which it is ferventl
= hoped they will never be disturbed.
n MEMBER OF THE Co. Con