The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Open Letter Of Judge Reed to the Voters
of the County.

Open Letter Of Judge Reed to the Voters
of the County.
ToTHE PUBLIC
There have been great many false
hoods told in this campaign. The ad-
visibility of noticing them is doubtful,
but lest there may be some who think
that the mere statement of bald and
bold falsehood, without proof OF any
kind to support it, demands a reply, |
want to say that the charges and insin-
uations that Illegal votes were cast at
the recent Republican primary election
and that voters were bribed, coerced,
debauched by Intoxicating liquors, or
otherwise corrupted, so far as am con-
cerned or have any knowledge of the
facts, are false and untrue in every par
ticular, and / shall have to revise my
estimate of the good people of the coun-
ty If they do not answer for themselves
these attacks made upon their manhood
and political integrity by burying this
campaign of vilification, cant and hy-
pocrisy under an avalanche of votes on
the 7th day of November next. All
charges and insinuations made against
my judicial integrity, or ascribing i'm
proper and venal motives to judicial
action by me on any subject, matter or
thing that has ever come before me for
consideration and determination, de-
nounce as absolutely unfounded in fact
and characterize all such charges and
insinuations as being wickedly and ma
liciously false in every sense of the
word.
When Mr.. Whitehill announced his
candidacy in circular letter dated July
-, 1905, he said 81 shall make clean
fght-I shall conduct clean campaign.
There shall be neither Intoxicating
liquor nor money used to influence
voters This was a manly PROMISE
but now at the close of the campaign
the inquiry, how has it been kept, is
both pertinent and proper. leave it
for the people to judge whether dirt
Ter or more cowardly campaign was
ever waged in the county than that con-
Quoted by Mr.. Whitehill and his hired
help from Clearfield county and the
State of Michigan. Wicked, malicious
and slanderous falsehoods have been
scattered over the county as thick as
autumnal leaves, and every prejudice
and bias OF human nature has been ap-
pealed to by Ex-Rev. George Muller,
Colporteur E. II. Walker, and a pre-
tended temperance lecturer from for
eign state, who openly and aauntingly
boast that they can stampede the vot-
ers OF any county for the candidate
whose cause they espouse. In my hum
BILE opinion, however, the people of this
county will not be swept from their
feet by false statements masquerading
in religious garb, or by eloquence
that has for its sole object the assassiua-
tion of either private or official char
acter for lucre or gain, and | have no
doubt that the electors Of the county
will render fair and impartial decision
at the ballot box and settle in their
usual intelligent way the political ques-
tons which personally and locally con-
cern them regardless of the gratuitous
instructions received from Clearfield
county and the State of Michigan.
Realizing that there is always a large
percentage of the voters who neglect to
go the polls on election day, desire to
urge the vital Importance OF doing so
and will esteem it a personal favor If
every voter in the county will come out
and cast his ballot for the candidate of
his choice. I have an abiding faith in
the integrity of the voters of the coun-
ty, and am perfectly willing that my
candidacy shall be submitted to your
free and untrameled suffrage, and with
your decision I shall be satisfied.
With high appreciation of your re-
spect and confidence in the past, and as
surance of an honest purpose to retain
both in the future, am
Sincerely yours.