The - Democratic Watchman
iIRIII4I3N‘ VINA.
It GRAY - Editor
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 18, 1888
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TERMS.—!r2 per year when in ad
nines, 2,50 when not paid in eilvanee, and
SLOB when not paid before the erPiration
et the yeat,
National Damocrati6 Nominations
Foit vitEsiDENT, •
•HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE•PRESIDENT
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR
OF MISSOURI
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
ELECTORS AT LARGE
W 11.1.1111 V. M'Onkrni.
ELECTORS.
13 leo C Ammerman,
14 wi n I' Withinloci
15 Wm K Gorges
16 Wm P Schell
(ISCISKIII W. CAL,
DISTRICT
1. E Kamerly
3 Chao. M Lesenz
8 Chan. Ituckwaltet
4 George It. Berth!
II P. Coggmholl
6 Reuhen Stabler
7 B. B Monaghan
8 Dar Wenderick
Bernard M'Grau
10 Wiiban) Shirk
II A Broadhead
12 John Blandig
17 Cyrus I. l'ersh Ing
18 A C Noyes
ii 9 Win A Galbraith
r?) Jean R Prekerd
21 JainesC Clarke
22 James Hopkins
1 23 hderard 8 Golden
124 Samuel P Wilson
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Democratic State Ticket
FOIL AUDITOIO, uENKRAL. _
HON. CII ARLES R BOYLE,
of Fayette Coudty
FOR 8 URVI. YOR. GENERAL,
QEN. WELLINGTON 11. ENT,
of Colutnbis,Couuiy.
District and County Ticket.
FOR JUDGE,
0. A. MAYER,
of Lock Haven.
FOR CONIIRESS,
L. A• MACKEY,
V' Lock U&veo
FUR AesEmBLY,
P. (MAY MKEK,
- TOR 1,13 T R -te l. ATTORNEY
• IL F. STITZER,
FOR L'OMMI' , “ONEt
JOHN LUNG,
FOR AU urroit,
JOIIN RISIIEL
F)R COUNTY SURVEYOR
WM. P. MITCHELL,
BE ASSESSED !
It Is but • short time until the elec
tion. You have but a few days to be
Assessed in and unless you attend t•
it at anon, you may be deprived of
Voting. GO TO-DAY AND BE AS
SESSED. Make sure alit. Have the
Assessor give you a certiflste of As
sessment Don t be put oft Attend
to it at once. gee that your Neigh
bors owe is upon the list also, and
when election day comes be ready to
deposit your ballot in favor of white
supremacy and equal taxation
Democrats t• Work I
Dernnei?ats the news is cheering!
Glorious tidings come in Prom ,ever}*
quarter. The tide rung in our favor.
and if we work weIVTLL win Pat
your •honlders to the/ wheel and help
along. Gt." TO WORK IN KARN
EST, See that all who vote the
Democratic ticket are assesse4. Hoe
that the wavering arc furenana with
proper reading, and thlt every wan i
ready for the brat onnteet. TO
WORK DEM ormATs
-JOHN HICKMAN, we notice, has
been tasking Cstaerr and Courax
speeches for his party in Chester
county. And it is right that he
should. Ile represents the real feel
ings and spirit of that party.; little
better than most etutn speak
ers, and has the courage to say Oat
the others dare only think. It was
this Sallie .1041 N HICANIAN, Dow
stumping eastern Prirt.ylranla for
•GBANT and Cot,P.ti., who said in a
speech in the Legislature of this
State last winter, that
-7714 aelrovn flhs :ouch lad a idler
insult m you Arm the IG NODA NT AND DS
PRA VIC!) MIND AND DUTCH echo owe
.A6emocrelfir tteket."
—z—The Had iculm of the State arc
eirohlating a document headed "Oem
4iiiatio Frauds," which pretends to
give an account of the manner in
which /ion. S. T. SIIUOVti was elec
ted last fall. From beginning to ead
it is a VILLIANOUS LIE. They
know it. And they know too that it
cost them [arty thousand dollars, to
buy the radicals on the committee
that ousted Mr. SIRJOEMT, to decide
in favor of Robinson his competitor.
If ho was not legally and fairly elec
ted, why did they have to pay forty
demand dollars to get a committee of
their own men to so decide ?
How Much for Your Leg,?
flaw much for youi - lfg lf
It if to yow wcunded and maimed
veteran—you who are hobbling abdut,
crippled for life, supported by crtitch
es and a wooden leg., in place of the
bone and fleoh and muscle. that you
left buried on some of 'the battle
fields or taunt the hospitals in the
South, that we address the inquiry,
How much for your leg? - .
You sacrificed it to p'reserve the
Union of our fatLers—you suffered
the pain and agony of the wound to
perpetuate the government you were
taught to love—you gave up home
and friends for years, and came hack
crippled and helpless for life,and now,
we ask
What hove yros got for it
Look. down where your foot once
was—where the flesh and blood the
good God gave you should be now,
and answer us honestly and fairly.
Was it a Union with ten of the
States controled by bayonets and ne
groes that you fought to preserve ?
That is the Union Radicalism gives
us to day.
Was it a Union with Texas and
Mississippi and Virginia, that gave
the country a WAstu:soms, a J iF-
Yrßsom, and a PATRICK HENRY.
stricken off, that you fought to pre
serve? That is the Union Radical
ism gives UR to day.
Was it, a Union of States crushed
by militlity_pojer, disgraced`with no
gro legislatures, controled by Realm
wags and cOnvicM, that you fought to
presdrve That is the Union Radi
calism gives us to-day.
Was it for Oat you gate your leg ?
. .
Wei it for 1 governtncut whose
,xturts arc filled with negro junirsi,
whose law makers are elected by ne
groes, whose taxes are taken to feed
negroes, whose legislative halls are
filled with thieves and representatives
of negroes, and the chief object
of which seems to be the oppression
of the labonng masses for the hone
fit of the negroes, that you fought to
perpetuate? This is the government
Radicalism gives you tg-rirty.
Was it a government whose tax col
lectors meet you at every turn— a
government that promised you gold
and paid you in greenbacks—that ex
esnpts the rich man who staid at home
,from taxation and co.npells you, who
Ilea health and limb, to pay his—that
gives to the negroes of the South ease
and indolence, and to you toil and
taxes, thegovernment that you fought
for? This is t' e government Radi
calism gives'You to-day.
Was, it a government, with white
eititens disfranckiSed and black' citi
Lens made voters—with white men
toiling to pay taxes to keep negroes
in ease and idleness—with Ishorinv
men working their finger ends sore
to keep rich men living in luxury—
wish the bone and simw -f the emit
try mortgaged for years to pay tri.
bate and taxes to thcives and negroes
—a government tan( of white men but
of black men and bondholders, the
government you fought for? This ix
the goverment you have to day.
far Warm gave your leg I
You went into the war earnestly and
honestly—you fought nobly and 1,1.11
you came back sod what do you end?
Rich men who urged you to go but
who staid at home themselves and
/osovi the government their money
IE;XEMPTFItOM ALL TA X ATM N
and you, who wetti and °siva the
government YOUR LEG, compl'lled
to pay taxes to humid roads for them
to ride over —tobuild school houses
and pay teachers to educate their
ehildren—to keep the poor for them,
to pay courts and jurors and (Anent to
protect their properties and persons.
xt•tir home, if you have one, is not
exempt, from tazaiion —their bu-ds
are. You have property worth per
haps a thousand dollars, it 18 tared.
Yon know how much. The bondhol•
der .bas ten, twelve or twenty thous
lkod•dollars worth of bends, ho phys
Itb Onus. You have to pay your pro
portion of his.
Was IT for this you gave your leq
And it does not stop here. The
bondholder loaned the government
his mosey 'and it is exempt from tax
ation. Von gave - tie government,
your leg or arm and you are taxed.
For what the bondholder loaned the
govcrntneoto he rceeires WALD IN-
T.ERBST. For what you gave the
government you receive PALTRY
PENSION er GREENBACKS.
Wir not your leg as valuable to you,
and as serviceable to the government
as the rich man's money? Why then
should be GET GOLD FORUM MORIN
AND VOU ORS WISINDACKB FOR
YOUR LEG ?
We ask you in all earnestness to
think over these things. To post' up
the books, square up the accounts
and tell us what. Itadicalisor has given
yens for your leg. You know what it
was worth. You know the suffering
and pain arid /teeny you endured %hen
you lost IL You know the Union you
gave it fur is not restored,nor the kov
ernment fo'r which you sacrificed it
preserved. What then have you for
it?
If you believe you'thould pay taxes
and g•t greenbacks and the bondhold
er pay none and OCT then vote .
with the party that la vo this doc
trine fur (ILtANT and Cot.FAx: but if
•or think your leg was a 4 good to
you ss tic bondholders gold V/ O.Y t o
hint; vote for Se.Y.AotAt i and
the candidates of the party whose
rult lug cry is "one eurren .y fur all."
A Black Sink Hole
if litii)n a I
Tens a mullions !
nandreils of millions 1
And what's that?
It is the amount that the GRUNT
and Cot.F,tx party nutke% the'lahor
ing white men of the North pay to
feed, cloth and educate the negrons of
the South. It is the amount that is
taken from the purses of the loor
white men of the e9unery. to give to
negroes who • put in their time sun
ning themselves on cellar doors, vo.
tang the radical ticket, robbing hen
roosts, outraging white women, dan
cing, fiddling and enjoying theMselves
generally, while the white men here
in the North arc drudging, and work
ing until their bones ache and their
fingers are sore, to pay these taxes,
There arc three millions of laboring
men—farmers, mechanics, miners aud
day laborers—in the Northerit states.
These men paw• the taxes. It is out
of their incomes that the fitly millions
of dollars that goes directly into the
freduteit's bureau atid the one bun
dred and fifty inillions,that ins eaten up
Hitty the army to boss the hureau, ista
en. It is from them, in fact that
all mica arc drawn, and it is easy to
e.dimate what each titan's share of
the expenses of the Freedman's Be -
reau is. By our calculaticp we
make it,
66 Dollars ani, 66 Cents
per
.year for every laboring man in the
North. This is not drawn directly
from 'him in taxes, but he pays a por
tion of it when he buys his sugar, his
coffee, his spices, his flour, meat, and
other articles necessary for tho exis
tence of himself and family ; when he
gets his muslin. calicoes, satinets,
boots, shoes, shirts, &c., to clothe
them, or when ho tries to enjOy him
self by lighting a taxed pipe with a
taxed match, and sits down on a tax -
cd chair, to send forth puffs of smoke
from taxed tobacco.
Three millions of toiling, sweating
white men with sun burned brows,
blistered hands, aching hacks and wea
ry limbs, working from day-light till
duhk, in sun shine or shower, in cold
or'heat, to pav two hundred millions
of dollcrs yearly to keep four millions
of Diggers, in idleness, and to pay •
few lousy officials for watching them
sleep on cellar doors or dance under
shadb trees.
Pretty picture is it not tax-payer?
Figure it for yourstelves tax-payers
and see that nur statement is correct.
Divide two hundred millions by three
millions and you will find just what
we have said
SIXTY-SIX DOLLARS AND SIX
TY •SIX CENTS
as each man'e ' , hare of the negro bu
reau expense. Think how many
lit
tle luxuries fur your family this
amount you have to pay to keep ne.
gross in idleness, would procure for
your families. Estimate how long it
would take yon to purchase a neat,
comfortable little home, could you but
lay by every year this sixtyseix dol
tars that negroes and negro overseer's
eat up for you. Imagine how long it
would keep you in flour, how much
meat it would buy, how long it would
pay your store bills, or furnish your
stoves with fuel. flow many days
rest would it five you? The average
price of a days labor here in the North
is $1 50. Some get more, some loss,
but this is the average. Figure a lit
on this and you wilk find that you
WORK OVER TWO MONTHS
EVERY YEAR to pay this tax lev
ied upon yon te maintain this outrage
upon the laboring men of the North,
the Freedman's Bureau.
Are you ip favor of continuing tills
Bureau and bureau tax? If so, vote
for GRANT. Ile has not a supporter
of any influences anywhere whO de
nounces it. His party fastened it up
on you and his party if successful
tend keeping it fastened to your
backs.
If you would get rid of it; it you
would save to your families what the
negreer of the South are now taking
from you, vete for SITAIJIIII and
BLAIR., who will abolish this black
rink hole, and save to each of you, to
every laboring man in the North, in
this one item alone, NIXTY-131.1
LAM 01P TAXIS eta TZAR.
"Look out for Malmo?"
Such has been the cry of Jacobin
politicians and papers thoughont this
state for the past :three weeks. We
have "looked out" for Maine. We
have watched its pol&cal nianceuvers
and waited for its political action,
until time and the election have shown
us shat we looked for, and gave us
what we expected a paticht waiting
would bring—a r eduction of THOUS
ANDS UPON THOUNANDS OF THE HAD•
ICAI. MAJORITY iN TrtAtBTATE. Th e
last Congressional' election in Maine,
gave the bondholders party 27,690
majority. That. wag but two years
ago. The returm orate election held
on Monday last, indicate that thesamo
party has estried the state by about.
114000 Mnjori ty, or ALMOSTTEN THOUS
AND I,Es:I THAN IT DID IN 1?I6. In
"looking out for Maine," did wo not
as Democrats see something to re
joiee ON cr. If inongrelism cannot hold
its own among the bondholders, and
spiritualists away eas'," what
Ivey it expect in Pentisylvaida and
the Western states. If, in a voting
population of 120,0100 the Democracy
gain 240 000, what will a proportionate
gain give us in a vote of 600.000? Just
five times tell, or PIPTY THOUSAND.
Pennsylvunia then, taking the date of
1h66, and guitihig only in proportion,
to the Derntitcratie ;gin] in Maine, will
give a Democratic majority of at least
THIRTY Ftvis TitousAtin. "Look out
for Maine."
• ry
• 1.•
and we have seen much to rejoice the
heart of every patriot in the land.—
We have seen thousands upon thous
ands of honest men who have hereto
fore acted with the mongrel party,
flock to our banners , we have seen a
streak of light come in from the far
cast and lighten up the blackness of a
mongrel administration ; we have seen
our Democratic brethren if Maine re
joice over their increasing numbers ,
We have seen a radical majority of
TWENTY SEVEN TIRMISAND
SIX lIUNDRED.AND NINETY,
REDUCED TO EIG lITEEN THO lI
SAND , we have seen hope and vie
t:l)FY /or the Democracy; and despair
and defeat for their opponents , we
have seen all that. was necessary to
see to give assurance thst the days of:
fanaticism and mongrelism, and abo
litionism, are ended—to insure victo
ry to the Democratic hosts, and to
bring peace and prosperity and union,
to our country.
Armstrong —*lackey
Do pm want a CotAresetrnan who
will vote to continue the Freedtneu'e
Bureau—a cost to the tat-payers of
the country"( over two hundred mil
lions of C6nars per year? Vote for
AttasTitowt
Do you want a Congressman who
says Pennsylvania should be controlled
entirely by Congress and not by her
people? Vote for ARsorraoNo.
Do you want a Congressman who
will vote for the outrageous Funding
Bill. that will saddle upon the backs
of tax-payers over two hundrsd mil
lions oldolleirs per year for forty years
as interest to bondholders? Vote for
ARMSTROMO
Do you want a Congressman vho
despises the laborer, who teduses,only
when a candidate, to shake hands
with a working man, and who says a
man "who cannot make money with
out working with his hands has not
sense enough to vote ?" 'Vote for
Anwwritowo.
Do you want. a Congressman who is
an aristocrat, a bigot, a fanatic and
the enemy gibe laboring men? Vote
for Atthwritom.t.
Do you want a Cougrevsman who
will vote for the immediate' abolish.
meet .)f . the Freoilinen's Bureau, and
save you two hundred millionv of dol
lars per year ? Vote fur 111 tCKYX,
Do you want 'a Congressman 'who
will vote to restore the Dillon of+our
fathers and the graven:merit, as it
was handed .down tl us by the patri
ot; of the revolution 1 Vote for
MacKtlr.
Do you want a Congressman who
will vote against negro suffrage all the
time and under all circumstances ?
Vote fbr MACKEY.
DO you want a Congressman who
will vote against the infamous Fund
ing bill, thatueeks to perpetuate and
increase' the .debt now upon the
country ? Vote for MACKEY.
Do you want a-Mngressnattn who
knows the wants and wishes of the
people and will take care of the in•
cereals of this District? Vote for
MACKEY. i
Do you want a Congressman who
has over been the friend of the work
ing men, and will vote against exempt
ing the money of the rich from taxa
tion? Vote for MACKEY. '
EMEIMiI
—A vote for Loan AILMsTILONG
is a vote in favor of $5.000 Jig wages
to Congressmen. A vote for L. A.
MACKILT is a vote in favor of $3.000.
White Mon Pay Your Taxes
The monthly statement; of the Sec
retany,pf ,tho Treasury for August
and September, concludes as follows :
August. September.
Total debt ' 4.2,543,258,289.01
Anent In
Tres.* y
Coin • $l3 409 9093 92,570.901.21
Currency 211..614 358 15,07%070.77
...$116,054,270 14 $107,641,971 98
Am'uot of
debt leo
cae.b i
Tress'y $2,57.3,534,480.67 $2,535,614,313.03
showing an increase from the Ist of
August to the Ist of September, of
$12,079,833 36,
71telre millions, sei;enty nine thousand,
eight hundred and thirty three dollars
and thirty six cents.
It is a nice piles, taxpayers, o add
in one month to the enormous load
that is bearing you down.
Twelve mallow; per month.
Doe hundred and forty four ntilliona
per year !
Look nt it !
Figure it up 1
This is not the debt but the IN
CRHAS h: of that debt. The amount
that is added to it yearly. The ra
pidity with which it grows 14 it
not startling? Does it not savor of
the slavery of the masses or the repu
dittrion of the whole amount ?
How arc you bit payers of thr
country to get rid of the load that is
now bearing you down, when in plane
of being decreased it is daily being
increased.
year robbed you of
. 500 millions of DOtars,
in the shatto of direct and indirect
taxes. And yet with this enormous
amount of money collected from the
toiling taxed masses of the country-
six times VIA ranch its a Democratic ad
mil istra (ion Cost you—it still fa llt
short of paying the expenses of a
radical administration.
144 IY/1111-nsof Dollars !
Herr long enn the country stand thin
kind of iquanderinh , ol" the public
money? [low long can it affurd to
pay thuiving offmials and lazy loafing
iiegrooA per year
644 DZlllioas of-Dollars 7
For it is these two elas:.es that. the
moat of this ex horbitant sum goes
TJie actual, real expenses of the gov
eroment need not be over one hundred
millions of dollars per year. The
Democracy carried on the government,
maintained Peace, Union Prosperity,
and the greatest amount of money
ever expended by them during any
one year, Aumihed up hut
, 81 MC 'Mons of Dollars.
We have peace now There is not
an armed enemy within our border:.
There.is not a threat of war from any
power There 14 not even an imailin
ary danger in any quarter. Why
then, in the name of High [leaven,
should the expenses of the govern
ment be what they are ? Why should
five hundred millions of dollars he
wrung from the people annually to
carry on the gc,vernment, and one
hundred and fourty.feur millions of
of dollars be Yearly added to the pub
lic debt
What has breorne of the,rnoney?
We want the party that is 'Kilian
dertng it in this outrageous manner
to answer We'know that there is a
Freedman's Bureau to feed and clothe
and school and enfranchise negroes.
kept up at an expense of fifty
millions of dollars per year. We
ktinw that there is an army maintained
to prevent the people of she South
returning to their agricultural and
business pur-uits, at'an expense of
one hundred and fifty million; of dol
lars annually. We know that there
is a Navy, used alltnost exclusivel y to
carry lazy officials land theivi ng fol
lowers on pleasure and excursion
trips over the Atlantic, at a cost to
the people of about five millions of
dollars per year. We know that the
Interior Department of the goverp
ment costs about fifty millions per
year. 'We know that eighteen mil
lions of dollars in gold, is taken from
the public treasury yearly, and given
to National Bank controllers. But
what become., of the ballance alter pay.
iug the interest of the bondholder
This is a question that tax-payers
ask. ' It is a question they demand to
be answered. it is a question they
want an answer too now. Bui they
wilt not gee ie.
The supporters of GRANT and Cot,
LAX fear to answer it. They
know that it is STOLEN FROM
THE TREASURY, by those whom
they have placed in power, and used
by .corruption committees, to carry
elections 4vith negro votes.
Do you believe in this manner of
conducting public affairs? Do you
believe in this Radical mod a of Bean
ceering, by which you,the tax payers
of the country, are yearly ROBBED
of five hundred millions of dollars
If you do, if you wj to continue a
party in power that costs you six hun
dred and forty-four Will ionscfdollars
annually vote for (PUNT and COLFAX.
If not, elect Szvatoun and 13,,Ala,and
the government will be adinkpistered
as it was in the good old !hays of
Democratic peace. and prosperity,
when the entire expenses of the .ad
ministration' for one year amounted
to but 't . f . thly one millions of dollars.
_DEIVIOQRACY_ ALL RIGHT 1 -4
Democratic Victories and Democratio
Gains all Round.
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN COLO
RADO!
Radlesti hajority 1 Ntalne
Decreased 10,0001
Democratic Victory in Alton, Illinois I
CLORY ENOUGH FOR THIS TIME
The ItarlicabArave been churning (hal
they had carried Colorado by an in
ereaned majority, 4( the Clam an _,T_____
the Democrat lc Teritorml (7ommittre tel-
egraphri l'rt.sident .Johnson thitt the
Democratic candidate for Congre4s hay
been elected by 860 of a
majority. At the previous election the
!radicals had 870 majority
Kr L 0 1 ,19, Sept. 11 —The charier elec
lion in Alton, 111., on Tnerftlay, reBtille,l
In & Dirmocratic victory. The vote bow
a Democratic gain or over 200
liAN,lOlt, MAINS, Sept. 1.6
turns from the Mute are nearly all in
Tbey give Chambeartn, Radical mull
date for Governor a majority of about
17,000 Two years ago Ida majority aas
27,00 The official vole will show
Dernocrstic increase of almost 10 000
over 1868, and 12,000 over 1867 The
vote was the larger( ever po led lo the
BEE
Look out for Lies!'.
Already the opposition are eireula•
ting the most villianous lies alslut our
candidates and party intentions They
arc driven to desperation and seek o°-
prevent an overwhelming defeat Li
bare faced falsehoods and down right
lying. They are concocted by vaga ,
bond. about county towns and cocu
lated throughout the country by pet
tv tboliticiana
LOOK OUT FOR THEM
BEWARE OFTUEM !
--Senator FISIIER, of lAncaster
county, who is now one of the quinp
spealers of the GRANT and Col ,FAX
party. declared in a ~ .peeelt in the
State Soate, hurt winter, that the
"iatelltlieet lie!/e° o/ Squth mashr
tuperwr to the R S KI NO
BEER GUZZLING DuTcii...
Ia there a German 80 10Mt to all re
spect as to vote for a party whose
leaders and apeakere thus heap insult
after insult upon hint.
Aratsritovri, the Itadi
eat eundidate for Congross,ts extreme
ly polite arid courteous just now. Ile
shakes hands with every one he meets
'Ten minutes after the polls close on
the 2nd 'Tuesday of mat month, he
will turn up his nose at any laboring
man who would have the audacity to
speak to his high lICM.
In 1856, NO. G. Fttv.r.moNT
carried the State of Maine by 28,159
majority and the Same year Pcnm.yl
vania gave a Democratic majority, to
her noble BtieliANAN. Thili year
Maine gave only 18,000 againet us.—
Canknot Pennsylvania give MOW more
than skin did in 'M. If we can gain
ten thousand in Maine,can we not in
Pennsylvania?
—The first tomb or lamp light
procession that we have any account
Of was the one led 'by JUDAS when
he betrayed (Inaba; the last, are
the ones led by the "tanner" GRANT,
to betray the people ...if this country.
—When the Democracy succeed
ed in ytting, a maturity of the board
of• Commissioners in this county, the
county debt was over atre hundred
tnousand dollars, it is now, loss than
twenty-fire thousand.
—LORD ARMSTRONG, the special
pot of Bondholderti, and radical
thieves; mays that "a mina is just as
good as any working -man."
—The ro