The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-05-30

true Of ell the other counties OF my dis
trict. / experienced great difficulty in
procuring applicants and had 10 send
parties into these districts to get some
one 10 apply. This was no doubt owing
10 Mr.. Thropp's premature announce
ment thst all appointments had been
made.
mo applicant received notice of his ap-
pointment before April 30th fer the good
and sufficient reason that no appoint
ments were made before that date.
y have named 200 Enamerators, four
special agents and tao clerks, ali OF
whom, am confident, viii willingly
testify that they did not receive notice of
their appointment until after it wRs made
snd no Enumerator will say be received
notice OF his appointment prior to April
sOtb.
''No man living can truthfully say that
Ipromised him an appointment or that
authorized anyone to do so in my name.
had the most emphatic instructions
from the Director OF the Census not TO
make public my list of Enmerators until
the list was finally completed. The list
was only completed to day.
''In response TO letter from me Direc-
tor Merriam wrote me, under date Of
May Z, 1900:
This Office has not intended to give out
the list of proposed Enumerators foI any
Of the enumeration districts. II there has
been published such list purporting to
be authentic it has been without the sane
tion of the Census Office. The embar-
easements which are likely TO arise from
8 premature publication are so patent
that it is inclmprehensible how anyone
could fail to recognize it,"
In view of the above, the HERALD sub
mits to its readers whether be truthful
ness Of every lire it has ever printed rel
stive tc the appointment of Census Emu
merators in this district is not borne out
by the facts.
We can understand why several Of our
county Contemporaries have persisted in
publishing lying and absurd statements,
and in abusing and blsckguarding the
HERALD for stating the truth. Il was
done with a view of making political
cspitsl-to put bread in their mouths
for for such services their masters and
owners are willing to pay. But why q
would persist in such baseness is beyond
our ken, unless it be that having first
lied about these appointments the latter
part of March, when be caused the first
article quoted to be published, and again
when he caused the second one, he
thought he could blaff 1t out and have it
pass for the truth If be kept at it, and so
made the third attempt.
"In some single enumerating districts in
| Somer ct county many persons were
promised the same position, and that the
number of those misled in the county, is
said TO have reached into the hundreds, :"
says Mr. ThrOpp.
The lie here is so wilful, so apparent
that one wonders that even candidate
for Congress who had just been repudiat
ed by the people of mis- own county would
be guilty of il. In all there were ~ ap-
plicants in Somerset county, yet Mr..
Thropp, who has not been in the county
since he wssa candidate two years ago.
unblushingly asserts that the number
promised reached into the hundreds"
Now it viii be understood that ap
pointments had to made beforehand and
reported to the Supervisor, who was in
| Somerset, and then re-mailed from Som
erset here, 30 yon can see bow far back
beyond April End, when most of them
were received here, the appointments
must have been made" says the veracious
Mr.. Thropp.
Such utter mendacity. Who, pray,
made the appointments and reported
them to the Supervisor? Were not the
appointments made by him after they
icere 0pproUed Or the Director?
Is it to be wondered at when you take
| the above false and mendacious state
ments into consideration that the Repub-
lican voters OF Bedford county utterly
repudiated this political Ansnias and
placed him in the unique and humilisting
position Of being the only candidate for
| Congress in the history Of the district
who was refused an endorsement for a
| second term by the voters of his own
county. The people Of his county took
his right measure from the start and he
couldn't even fool a large part ofthe peo-
| pie of Bedford county any part of the
time. 1t is indeed humiliating that the
2Oth Pennsylvania district should be rep
sented in Congress by an individual Of
the capacity OF Joseph L. Thropp.