The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-11-03
UNDISpUTED FACTS
FIR Loyal DEMOCRATS !
'BLACKBu2N" AGAIN PAYS HIS RESPECTS TC
THE traitors NOW SEEKING DEMO-
CRATIC VOTES.
Success Means a Blow to BryaniteS
To the Editor of te HERALD.

To the Editor of te HERALD.
The discharge blunderbuss In a barn
yard could not reate more CONSERVATION
anoug the chickes, than did that broadside
of unpleasant trths in my former letter
among the fieudof Judge Wadinger and
the Kingites on he Democratic ticket To
me the effect he been most interesting
study. The cumRign managers and political
heelers have chated the authorship TO every
man in the partyhat is known to have ever
peuned line ld publication, aud to some
who are not knGn to that particular kind
of fame.
while they hae done great deal of wild
guessing as TO M identity of Blackburn"
they have w.selyefained from any attempt
to controvert thcacts set out in the indict-
meut against MrWadluger They admit
the truth OF thcpharge that MIR Wadlinger
is nota DemocIt, but they tell those who
attack his recordJhat he is as good as the
other fellow, ati Democrats have nothing
to expect from aRepublican if he should be
elected Ii is te same argument used by
Mr.. Wadlinger' sbackers the day Of the con-
veutiou. When Ex-senator King, who is the
power behind Oh. throne, was asked on the
day Of the Deiocratic county convention
how he expected to get the support of the
| Chicago PlatforuDemocmts for his candidate
| for Judge he relied in his usual terse and
characteristic maner: TO b - with them;
what can they d, but vote for him. when
election day comes,rouud they will have no
choice but Republican and we can easily
keep them in lin for the ticket Their
prate about principe, he said, lis all moon
shine and is soon fcgotten when they face
the alternative Of Nting for the party candi-
date or a RepublicaE"
And now Mr. Wadinger is being defended
on the ground that b is as good "a Democrat
as Judge Henuing. 1t is not denied that
like King himself, ID has affected an air Of
superiority toward tie rank aud file of the
party and supercilioHness toward those who
occupy a little higherstation in life and that
in doing so they haw both offended every
! Democrat in the count who possesses a spark
Of spirit. Mr.. Wadlinter gave his vote and
his influence against Depocraey in 1885, MOI
is it claimed that he suppgrtCd the candidates
Of the party in ls9s. On the contrary, it /,
known that he bitterly opposed the ticket
| last year. And as if this were not enough
he has missed no opportunity during the las
three years to offer insult TO the Democrat
who gave loyal support to ,he ticket in 1895
And now Democrats who question his loyalt!
are 1ippantly told that lie 5 ''as good as tn,
other fellow" They musl choose between
a Republican who has the courage and con
sistency to remain with his party and defen,
its course, and renegade Democrat, who j
elected, will use his influence and position t
defeat the purposes of Democracy. In brief, tn
Democratic voters of the county have befor
them the alternative of choosing between al
open and secret enemy, and by supportin
the latter and electiug him they will put hir
in position in which his power for evil vii
be two-fold greater than that Of his Reput
lican opponent if he should be elected.
Little in all that have said on this subjeC
is new There is not an active Democrat i
the county, who does not know that Nj
Wadlnger's attitude toward the Democrat
party during the last three years has bee
that of unwarranted and inexcusabl
treachery. There is not a single active c
intelligent Democrat in the county who doe
not know that his desertion of the Dem,
cratic party in the great fight of 1896 was i
obedience to the command of eK-SenatC
King, who denounced the Democratic part
for its espousal of the cause Of labor NJ
Wadlinger is fairly entitled to the support {
King and his friends, but no man who b,
lieyes in the principles of Democracy, WI
believes in the honesty and integrity
William J. Bryan and those other Democra
who framed the Chicago Platform, can vol
for Mr.. Wadlinger without stultifying hin
self His election would be Democrat
defeat, instead of a victory.
did not intend at the start to devote