The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-15
NARYLANp's aovERNoR.

"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Il am very glad To be here To night as
the guest OF your distinguished fellow
citizen, Mr.. Abuer Mckinley, a son of
the Buckeye state. (Cheers.l
This great state of yours would have
been a greater one if the pretensions of
William Penn had been cIrried out, be-
cause if his claims had been acknowledge
ed, Ohio would have belonged 10 Penn
sylvania and the Keystone state would
have had the honor of naming 80 many
presidents of the United States. But If
the pretensions of Lord Baltimore on be-
half of Maryland had been sustained,
then PENNSYLVANIA would not have been
50 extensive in territory, and Mason and
DiNon's line would have been pushed
further north, and yOu, my friends of
Somerset, would have belonged to that
state of which 1 have the honor 10 be the
chief executive.
IL was in Pennsylvania the first Con-
gress of the United States met, and in
l775 il WAS from Maryland the delegates
came that nominated Washington As
commanier-in chief of the armies.
When Washington, after eight years of
war. came to lay down that position to
Congress he came To Annapolis, the cap
ital of Maryland, and that Congress WAS
presided over by General Mifiiin, the
first Governor of Pennsylvania, state
settled by the Quakers, by the
MennOnites and by the Dunkards, people
who were persecated in Germany and
who came to settle in this grand old
Commonwealth to find freedofn-free-
dom of worship, freedom to accumulate
a plentiful store of this worlds goods,
which they did from the time they land
ell at Germantown. The Quaker, Pas
torius, | believe was his name, great
teacher. who knew seven or eight Ian
guages sent his scholars from German
town throughout the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania. Ii was the Dunkards and
Mennonites who found their destination
out here in Western Pennsylvania IL Is
known that among the Qnakers there Is
no poverty, among the DGnkards there
are no drunkards, and among the Men,
onites criminal classes are not known.
They and their descendants have ever
been reckOned among the best of the citi-
Zsns of this state. The Scotch-Irish also
have lent their sturdy race To the up
building of this state. They were alto
gether different from the Quakers and
the Dunkards, and their fighting quail
ties were amongst their Distinguishing
characteristics. They have also adorned
the bar and bench of Pennsylvania.
Your first chief justice was descendant
of that sturdy race aud among the many
brilliant legal lights are reckoned Gibson
and Attorney General Black, who Tor
many years was "a resident Of your coun-
ty. tApplause.l
Ii was related of Judge Black that he
carried his Office in his hat; that when he
came up into the hills of Somerset he re-
fused to open any letters addressed TO
him or receive any correspondence. fear
ing they might contain some command
necessitating his return TO Washington to
take charge of some case. As long as he
was at home among his constituents, the
frosty sons of thunder" he preferred 70
associate with them and live with them.
and then go back TO the Capital of the
United States, at which place he often
appeared before the supreme Court, the
highest judicial tribunal in the world.
Among other distinguished descendants
of the Scotch Irish OF Pennsylvania /
NAV mention yonr great war Governor,
Andrew q. Curtin, and the present dis