Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-25
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Wilkes-Barre Pa, October %, 1894.
EDITOR TRIBUNE.-Assuredly the TRI-
BUNE secured a big advertisement
through its bold and unqualiiedly
aggressive and truthful disclosure of the
record made by "Little Billy Hines. !"
Everybody has been talking about the
scathng editorials calling attention to
Hines unscupu' Gus modes, and large
number of honest Democrats who happen
to know as much about Editor Buckley
as they do about Hines, applaud the
denunciation of the Democratic congress
sional candidate as just and timely.
1t may be encouraging to the anti
Hines voters in and about Freeland to
know that the methods adopted by
Hines to belittle the editor of the TRI-
BUNE will cost him many solid votes in
this section of the county, which other
wise might have gone to him. Hines is
losing ground every day and no man
knows it better than Chairman Smoulter,
of the Democratic county committee,
who can't hold him in check. Hines
seems to have little idea of diplomacy,
or he would not conduct his personal
canvass as he does. There is a com
plant, too, that he cares for nobody else
on the ticket but himself. His associ-
ates have caught on to this fact and are
governing themselves accordingly.
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"down-trodden" workingmen, as he
calls them, have lost their significance
in the light that has dawned upon these
same workingmen, that he cares only
for his own interests. His promises
amount to nothing and. are only made
to get votes. After he is pushed through
the "dear workingmen" may go to grass
for all he cares.
The truth of the matter is, and it is
openly announced by some of the mana
gers, Hines is the incubus that weighs
the ticket down and which threatens to
bring disaster to it. This fact is well
known to the Republican leaders and
they are taking advantage of it.
In comparison with John Leisenring,
who represents the principles of his
party without fear or evasion, Hines is
nowhere and that is the reason why
many, very many, honest sons of toll
mean to vote against the man who thinks
more of his own selfish interests than of
the party which made him what he is
today.
Mr.. Editor, your defense of the Demo-
cracy of Luzerne county and your brave
attempt to save it from disgrace by re-
electing this man has struck responsive
chord in the rank and file of the organi-
zation. The Democratic voters of this
congressional district will not dishonor
themselves next month, and had the
question been placed before all the voters
of the party as you have placed it before
the readers of the TRIBUNE their answer
would be an awful warning to Demo-
Gratis who in future days would be temp
ted to stray away from the path of duty
aud righteousness.
Mr.. Editor keep up your noble fight.
Your boldness has encouraged others to
throw off the bonds of submission, and
on election day your true Jeffersonian
position will receive such vindication
from the independent "upper end" that
towards and pot-hunting politicians will
bow their heads in shame for trying to
besmirch the grand history of our party
with the name of William H. Hines
Strike out, Democrats, strike straight
out from the shoulder. Fight for the
preservation of our party's principles in
Luzerne county and by your ballots pro-
claim that you are Democrats-that you
believe in living up to Democratic plat
forms and in the teachings of Jefferson,
Jackson and Cleveand-show to the ma
ton that you think more of Democracy
than you do of her betrayers, do your
duty by rejecting the false candidate
who now asks you to indorse him after
committing treachery to our party in
congress, a charge which he does not
deny, a charge which should and will
bring defeat upon any man who is guilty
of it in Luzerne county.
Sincerely yours, with the hope that
every real Democrat on the ticket, from
Singerly to Hart, will have a rousine
majority. Democrat.