The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-16
A DESPERATE GAME
Democrats Resort to Campaign
of SIander and Abuse.
BOURBON TACTICS REVIVED
Despite Onslaught Of the Enemy Re.
publican Lines In Pennsylvania Are
Unbroken and Moving On to
Triumph.
Special Correspondence.1

Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. Is.
without single issue upon which
to make a campaign, the Democrats
of PENNSYLVANIA, in desperate effort
to win the coming election, have re-
sorted to the old-time tactics of SLAM
der, personal abuse and wilful mis-
representation of the Republican party
and its candidate,
In the closing hours of the present
state contest the Democratic editors
and professional spellbinders find the
tide of popular sentiment running so
strongly against them that they seem
to have lost all regard for decency and
self.respect in the reckless and un-
scrupulous methods employed to pro-
mote their cause.
Despite the fact that before he was
made the Republican nominee for
state treasurer, John o. Sheath was
lauded by every Democratic newspa-
per in the state as fearless, inde-
pendent and public-spirited member of
the state legislature, these same jour
nalistic stars are now filling the col
umns of their newspapers with violent
attacks upon Mr., Sheath, with state
ments entirely at variance with their
laudatory references to him while he
was member Of the general assem-
bly,, fighting the battles of the people,
and they are calling upon the voters
to defeat him at the polls and elect in
his stead a man whose strongest claim
upon them is that he is Democrat.
Reckless Democratic oratory.
Supplementing the work of the Dem
ocratic editors, are corps of profes-
sional Democratic politicians who are
stumping the counties repeating
charges that are absolutely unfound-
ed, and circulating most flagrantly
false statements in regard to Mr..
Sheatzs votes in the legislature and
in other ways misrepresenting the Re.
publican candidate and his party.
This campaign of vituperation and
abuse is logical sequence to the at
tempt at the very outset of the con-
test to weaken Mr.. Sheath among the
old soldiers of Pennsylvania by the
distribution of circulars teeming with
falsehoods and malice, and designed to
array the veterans of the Civil War
against him in the matter of the sol
diers' pension bill
The prompt and emphatic repudia-
tion of this scheme by leading and in
fiuential members of the Grand Army.
who knew Mr. Sheatzs ardent and
conscientious interest in the old sol
diers and sailors, and who, over their
signatures, told the story of his devo-
tion to their cause, for the time being
completely demoralzed the managers
of the Democratic machine.
Bourbon Tactics Recalled.
Hostilities have been resumed. how.
ever.
There has evidently been an agree.
ment among the Democratic politi-
clans to 90 the limit in the closing
days of the canvass in the matter OF
misrepresentation and abuse of every
thing Republican. and especially OF
the Republican nominee for state
treasurer
Last week marked the opening OF
this contemplate campaign. 1t is tc
be carried on without cessation unit
the polls close upon the 9TH of No
vember, but there is every reason tC
believe that the well-meaning citizens
of the Keystone state will recognize
this revival of the despicable Bourbon
methods which for years characterized
Democratic campaigns in this ant
other states
The citizens of Pennsylvania are
all familiar with the high persona
character, the unblemished public
record, the clean purpose and the
proved integrity of John O. Sheath
and 1t is certain that the more tht
Democratic editors and machine ora
tors attack him the greater will be hi!
majority at the coming election.
The people have confidence in Mr.
Sheath and will resent the disreputablt
campaign that is being waged agains
him.
Locking to the Presidency.
Under existing conditions in Penn
sylvania, the success of the Republi
can ticket is inevitable.
Every effort on the part Of the OF
position to divide the Republican vot
has been a failure. Independents VIII
have recently been figuring in fusiol
movements are practically all line
up for the Republican candidate. The
see that this is but the beginning of
great national fight in which the Re
publican hosts will be lined up agains
the national Democracy in a struggl
for the presidency. They want to hav
their party united now, so tha
Republicanism will not be hand
cappoa next year when it shall b
Ialled upon to elect a successor I
President Roosevelt. They want to le
the nation know by the size of the r.
publican majority in Pennsylvania thi
fall that the Keystone state is agai