THE SOMEESET HERALD ESTABLISHED 1827. SOMERSET, PA , NOVEMBER 1, 1882. X'hile J. M. Reynolds was in one of Bedford county making die-, denouncing Gen. Garfield . noriurer, Hon J. H. Longeneck- was following him up, denying chanre and defending the fair of General Garfield. Bedford tiMican. et Republicans read what Mr. ine paid in a speech at Portland, the day of last August. He K'o candid man believes that a tective tariff would be upheld for kingie year if tlie opponents of the tpublican party should come into wer, and by just so much as any iter neips 10 eievaie me iree ira rs to power, by so a.uch he aids iruperil the manufacturing and ricultural interests. We ask Republican soldiers who ouldered their guns and went nuth to fight Democratic traitors, to nine to the election and help to ijuelch the traitors at home. Jeff )avis and his colleagues plotted reason in Congress and pretended i) be still for the Union, until they lad their plans arranged for its over hrow. J So with the traitors at home, they lent to the primary elections and oted, professing all the time to le Republicans, but as soon as they i t ready to bolt, they forfeited their ledge of honor, marched out of the arty and combining with our old Inernies, set up an independent cket What is the difference be- Vveen Jeff Davis' treason to the nion, and theirs to the party ? Turn lut, soldiers, and prove to these raitors that treason is, and always kill be, odious. "329." General Campbell aad Polygajny. In 1880 until August 1st, Mr. Rev (old? was editor of the Gazette, and if our readers will examine the files )! that paper during the month of luly, 1880, they will see how bitter Bie fight was waged against General Barfield bv Mr. Reynold. "Credit lobilier"and "DeGolyer" Garfield vere the names he called him, and the columns of the paper were filled from week to week with the effort to Blacken the character of General Gar Seld. Mr. Reynolds was chairman f the Democratic County Commit Ve during the whole campaign, and publicans will rtmember, how in JLe darkness of the night, the door tepB and front doors of Republicans ere placarded with the infamous Sbel onGafireld in big letters, "329." Now Mr. Reynolds is asking Repub licans to support him, and is spread ing broad cast over Bedford and Somerset counties a speech he pur forte to have made praising Garfield j&fter his death. Let Mr. Reynolds publish and send out some of his peeches of 1880 in which he called general Garfield a perjurer and de nounced him as a bribe-taker. Re publicans will remember Mr. Rey nolds and "329." Bedford Rnmbli-taru The democratic newspaper can al ways be depended on to do absurd things in New York one of the speak ers alluded to the democratic party as "an organized mistake" and this happy remark is likely to become a national proverb. The leaders and organs are perpetually showing what adept hands they are at blundering and how sadly they are at sea in es timating the intelligence of the voters. A recent notable example of the lack of common sense display ed by the average democratic news paper is an article in the last issue of the Somerset Democrat wherein it is charged that Gen. Campbell voted to sustain polygamy. The official record shown that General Campbell not only did not vote to sustain po lygamy but that he steadfastly voted for the Edmunds bill, which is now the law of the land and which dis franchises polygamista. The record further shows that while every Re publican in the house voted for the Edmunds bill at every stage of its passage through that bod v, over forty democrats voted as steadily against it. For instance, the eighth section of the bill disfranchises polygamists and declares them ineligible to any office in, under or for any such ter ritory or place, or under the tinted i States. A democrat, Mr. Mills ul Texas, moved to strike out this sec tion. Forty four Democrats and not one republican voted to so strike out. General Campbell and all the other republicans present and voting, supported the section and it stood as a part of the bill. And on the final passage of the bill forty -two democrats and not a single republi can voted against it The anti-Mlyg-amy bill became a law in spite of the strenuous opposition of a large body of democratic representatives, and yet a democratic paper in tlii district has the audacity to charge the sins of its own party to the ac counts of Gen. Campbell 1 But the point of the Democrat article, if it can le said to have a point, consists in its attempt to make it appear that Gen. Campbell's vote on tSe resolution to seat George Q. Cannon, as delegate from Utah, was a vote in favor of polygamy, whereas the question of polygamy did not enter into the matter at all. The facts in the case are as follows ; George Q. Cannon, who had al ready sat in congress eight years, fix of them under ademocratic majority, was re-elected from Utah in Novem ber, 1880, by a vote of 18,565 to 1, 357 over A. G. Campbell. At the time of his re-election there was no law making a polygamist ineligible to a seat in congress. It was not on the ground that he was an alien. Now it so happened that a previous congress had passed upon this ques tion and had decided that Cannon was a duly naturalized citizen of the United States. There was no at tempt to deny that he had received an immense majority of all the votes cast, and the Edmunds bill did not become a law until about eighteen months after Cannon had been elect ed. While this law would prevent his electfon in the future it could not affect the validity of his election in November, 1880, since the consti tution expressly forbids ex-jmtfado legislation. Convinced that Cannon was a citizen of the United States, that he had been dulv elected and that he could not lawfully be preju diced by legislation which had oc curred after his election, General Campbell obeyed the dictates of his conscience and voted for the follow ing resolution : Resolved, That George Q. Cannon wab duly elected and returned a delegate from the territory of Utah, and is entitled to a seat as delegate in the 47 congress. Seventy-seven members of the democratic party voted with General Campbell for the above resolution. Whatever may have been their motives he was actuated by an hon est purose to judge fairly. He had previously voted to place on the statue books a law which would ren der it impossible for Cannon or any other polygamist to get back into congress. But he was unwilling to do a wrong to any man, however unpopular or despised. The democratic party which championed the cause of polygamy in congress and bitterly opposed the passage of the Edmund's bill had better be cartful bow it attempts to handle this polygamy question. It will probably burn its own lingers and certainly do no damageto Gen. Campbell Altoona Morning Trib une. Although the DcmocrU went to press at the usual time hist Tuesday morning its editor refustd to allow the paper to be circulated until after dark and instructed the carrier not to go out until the Herald was car rit. I around. This is not to be won -di red at as it contained more lies to the square, including the fraudulent O'Connor card, than any paper it has issued during the campaign. Such papers ought never be circula ted till after dark. Sixty Thousand Families) Rendered Homeless by the Typhoon. Madrid, Oct 24. An official dis patch from Manila dated the 21st inst states that the typhoon destroy ed all the wooden and thatched house and carried away the iron and tiled roofs of the others. Sixty. thousand families are homeless The barracks, hospitals, government nffiHH and factories are destroyed. The lo6s of life, however, was relative ly small. Malacan and iiouiacan were also destroyed. Cemmunica tion is interrupted between Manila and the other towns on the Island of Luzon. Et. Herald. The Meyersdale Commercial of the 27th inst., takes the liberty to refer to my speech at the Weller school house, in this county, in which the statement is made that my speech was mainly personal ti rade against Gen. Koontz, F. J. Keotter, Esq., and other prominent members of the Independent Republican party. In reply I would only say that the statement is an un mitigated falsehood, manufactured out of whole Icloth. As for the other epithets ap plied to me in the same and other articles, they are personal, to which I would disdain to reply, since it la but the upheatings of troubled waters and the foal tongue of slan der. Yours respectfully, Confluence. Oct. 28. B. A. Fichtkkb, Take it straight : don't scratch. Hon. J. H. LoNOEHECKER stumped Bedford county for Garfield and ex posed and denounced the venomous lies heaped upon him by Mr. Rey nolds. Bedford Republican. The Republicans of Jenner X Roads and vicinity propose holding a rally and having a torch-light procesion on Monday evening, Nov., 6th. The procession will form at Jenner X Roads and march to Jen ertown and back to Cross Roads where the meeting will be held. Mr. J. M. Reynolds is saying very sweet words to the Independent Re publicans of this and Somerset coun ties trying to capture their votes with taffy. If these men had been in Bedford county two years ago and had heard Reynolds defame and slander General Garfield from the platform calling him a corrupt and perjured scoundrel, tfcsy would not be long in deciding" tor whom to vote. Bedford Republican. A drover Waylaid and Bobbed. Fkyeburoh, Me., Oct 26. John Q. Mason, a drover of Albany, was waylaid and robbed about dusk last night near Lynch ville. The robber addressed Mason in a familliar tone, saying: "Give me a ride, John; then threw pepper in his victim's eyes, while an accomplice bound his arms and relieved him of $1,061 and a watch. Mnrder Near Jabnstowa. Johnstown, Oct 23. Near South. Fork, this county, about ten o'clock, on Saturday night, Steven Moore shot and killed Daniel Finnegal. The Moores keep a disreputable house. Finnegan and others went there and were ordered away. All. walked away except Finnegan.. Moore then took up a gun and sent a load of buckshot into Finnegan ' head. Moore gave himself up and is now in jail. Terrible Place for a Fight. Lewistown, Me., Oct 29. Mat thew Connor and Patrick O'Connell, hod carriers got into a fight on the wall of a new building at Auburn, where they were working this morn ing, and closed in conflict on the edge of the third story wall. They lost their balance and fell, clasped in each other's embrace fifty feet to the ground, being instantly killed Both leave large families. Enticed from His Home aad Murdered. St. Louis, Oct 26 Advices from. Christian county, in Southwest Mis sauri, say that Daniel Stephenson, a young son of a widow lady, was en ticed or forced from his home last Saturday night by two nea, sained Bill Wilson and A. J. Iaman, and murdered on the roadside,, kis head being crashed with a wagon stake. No cause is assigned for the deed. A posses of enraged citizens is scour ing the woods for the murderers. The Republicans of Confluence will hold a grand rally and will have a torch-light procession Monday evening Novemoer 6thr
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