The Huntingdon Journal J. A. NASH, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A FRIDAY, - - - SEPTEMBER 6, 1878, Circulation LARGER, than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. Republican State Ticket. GOVERNOR: Gen, HENRY M. HOYT, OP LUZERNE. JUDO OF THE SUPREME COURT : Hon. JAMES P. STERRETT, OF ALLEGHENY. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR : Hon. CHARLES W• STONE, OF VENANGO SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Capt AARON K. DUNKEL OF PHILADELPHIA REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. CONGRESS : HORATIO G. FISHER, of Huntingdon ASSEMBLY : SAMUEL M'VITTY, of Clay, WM. S. SMITH, of Jackson. PROTHONOTARY W. M'K. WILLIAMSON, of Huntingdon REGISTER AND RECORDER I. D. KIINTZLEMAN, of Huntingdon. DISTRICT ATTORNEY : GEORGE B. ORLADY, of Huntingdon TREASURER: 8. H. ISENBERG, of Penn COUNTY COMMISSIONERS : W. H. BENSON, of Tod, S. P. SMITH, of Union. DIRECTOR OF THE POOR A. B. MILLER, of Porter. AUDITORS : J. H. DAVIS, of Morris, A. W. BROWN, of Oassville. REPUBLICAN MEETINGS. There will be Republican meetings to be addressed by able speakers at the follow ing times and places, to wit : Huntingdon—Monday, 9th inst, in the evening. Petersburg—Tuesday, 10th inst., in the evening. Alexandria—Wednesday, 11th inst., in the evening. Spruce Creek—Thursday, 12th inst., in the evening. Birmingham—Friday, 13th inst., in the evening. Mount Union—Saturday, 14th inst., in the evening. J. G. ISENBERG ; Chairman Rep. County Com. Republican County Committee. Alexandria—Wm. 0. Varner, Clifford Graffius, Jacob A. Hoffman. Barree—Wm. Conch, Job Slack, Wm. McAlevy. Birmingham—David Parker, Emanuel Zeek. Brady—J. G. Allison, W. J. Wagoner. Broad Top City—W. J. Ammerman, Chas. K. Horton. Carbon—George Slemmons, S. B. Donaldson. Caw--J. A. Griffith, W. W. Crotzley, Jacob Chi loots. Cassville—J. A. Rindlaub, J. 0. Heaton. Clay—R. W. Hudson, Robert Griffin. Coalutont—A. J. Rialtos, Luther Flanagan. Cromwell—Gwin M. Harvey, W. H. Hart. Dublin—J. S. Harper, J. B. Peterson. Dadley—James Hooper, Amon Wright. Fraaklin--Cyrus B. McWilliams, Edward Neat ly, Jacob H. Isett, G. D. Blair. Henderson—lsaac Wolverton, David Grove. Hopewell—H. C. Huff, Wm. Enyeart. Huntingdon First Ward—Stewart Herteler, Davis G. Zeigler, Frank Stewart. Huntiagdon Second Ward—John Carothers, Reward Docker, H. C. Madden, W. H. Smith. Huntlacdon Third Ward—T. W. Montgomery, A . J. Africa, Loden Dean. Huntingdon Fourth Ward—l. R. Hatfield, John Dey le. Jackson—W. A. Oaks, Wilson Henderson, John Harmon, Samuel Magill. Janista—E. F. Yocum, John Hawn, Sr. Lincoln—Adam Fouse, J. H. Donaldson Mapleton—A. W. Swoope, M. L. Rex. Marklesburg—John Householder, Jr., Martin Hen. Morrie—S. C. Taney, David Hileman. Meant Union—Dr. A. R. McCarthy, Frank 11. Harrison. Mount Union District—Wm. E. Shaver, Wm. Swoops. Ossinda—Jasnes Foster,Barton Green. Orbisonia—B. F. Rippe, W. B. Gilliland. Penn—Jacob Hafley, Scott Garner. 'Petersburg—Henry Holtaapple, Thomas Brinin g'''. Porter—Harry G. Neff, Robert Speer, Peter Sprankle. Saltillo--Charles R. McCarthy, Phillip Fisher. Shade Gap—E. 8. Walters, H. C. Zeigler. Shirley—John Douglass, David Long. Shirleysburg—Jacob Isenberg, John M. Clark. Sprield—Samttel Weight, David Ashton. Tellwrge Schmittle, A. S. Cisney. Three Springs—P. H. Bence, R. M. McNeil. Ted--Jonstban Evans, A. J. Miller. tribiou—J. Oliver Wright, Simeon Wright. Walker—Levi Robb, James Ward. Warriorsmark—.Dr. J. W. Dinwiddie, David Gluier, J. H. Waite, Geo. G. Hutchison. West, Upper—Samuel L. Striker, James F. Thompson,Henry Days, Jr. West, L ower—Wm. McClure, Henry Gra ffi us. JOS. 4.4. ISENBERG, Chairman. Two frauds have recently been discov ered in Huntingdon county, the Alexan dria cave and the National party. Wno summoned the evil spirits of De mocracy from—"that other place," as Rev. Doyle would say T It mast have been Bor ing. Tinc result of the greenback movement in Huntingdon county is easily to be seen. The Democrats who joined it will vote again with their own party, while the Re publicans are expected to go over to the Demo zracy. IF the Democratic party should go back to the place from whence it came—"not Nazareth, but that other place"—while it has Rev. Doyle in its clutches, he would feel that he had spent his ministerial life in vain. Tn success of the Democratic-Green back coalition would give us three years more of the present administration of the District Attorney's office. We hope to be saved such an infliction. It seems to be the policy in that office to "let no guil ty man escape" acquittal. THE reported finding of a large sum of money in silver coins in a hollow tree in this county, has revived recollections of Lewis, the robber. The Nationals ought to preserve his memory as he was the first communist we ever had in this section of country. He was always in favor of a "divide." NORTH, the banker, is the only candi date of the Greenback party who didn't get the endorsement of the Democrats. After the workingmen had nominated him over a practical printer, he was laid aside by the Democracy and the attorney of a National bank taken in his place. Is this his reward for the noble battle he has made for the laboring man, for greenbacks, for repudiation, and against resumption and the National banks? How unappreciative the Democratic party is S. R. MASON'S SPEECH POLITICAL INCENDIARISM. Editor. A BETRAYED PA 1Z T Grrenback Patriots Reduced to Menial Cats-paws Daring demagogues, with unlimited ef frontery, are sometimes thought of in a hopeful, wishful way, as an obsolete pro duct of past generations. So happy would a people be to have none of them, that it is not uncommon to allow ourselves to think, dreamily, that we have seen the last of their kind. But it can never be long, as things are, before such a dream is dissipated, for it is only a dream. things are, we say, for, whatever our hopes, whatever may have been our fancies or judgments touch_ ing the current affairs of our land, it has now been demonstrated in our own old town, and in its temple of justice and civil liberty, that the race of demagogues is not extinct. Perhaps the condition of the people, many of them still floundering in the un settled dregs of the late civil war, many of them new arrivals comparatively on our shores from the turbulent scenes and as sociations of foreign lands, all of them strained to a painful degree by natural anxiety and solicitude for a safe deliverance from our present troubles, affords just that kind of fatness to our civil soil that is needed to start the crop of demagogues among us. But whatever be the facts in this regard, or, last Wednesday evening, the 28th day of August, we heard, in the Court House, a man, who whether he in 'olds mischief or not—whether he knows or cares what damage may result from his incendiary words, did, without hesitation or blushing, play the part of the demagogue with dangerous skill. Will the churning of milk produce but ter ? Certainly, and the wringing of the nose brings blood. So, also, the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.— Now, if the latent ire, both of well-disposed and evil-minded persons, was not artfully sought for, that it might be kindled by S• R. Mason, the present candidate of the Greenback party for Gubernatorial honor and power, on the evening above named, then we know not when language is in flammatory, and when it is calculated to extinguish wrath. As one of our citizens briefly puts it, "He stabbed the living, said slandered the dead, with venomous malice, and with the unbridled license of a political libertine." Nothing could more power fully promote the utter overthrow of the Greenback party in this campaign than the circulation of that exasperating speech, verbatim et literatim, from the exordium to the peroration, among the people. Use evidence of the correctness of this state ment will be found in the fact that when Mr. Mason, supposing that he had warmed his audience to the point of explosion, sought to evoke the salvo of applause by unwarrantable slanders of the Anti-Slavery party, and ill-mannered, as well as un patriotic, assaults upon the now well settled title of the present President of the United States, be failed—notably failed. Not a whisper, not even a shuffle of approval es caped to gratify his itching ear. It was more than pleasant, it was highly gratify ing to more than one in that promiscuous multitude, to witness the reception of that mad appeal to our Huntingdon county jurymen. With patient, but deeply anx ious curiosity, we watched the on-flowing torrent of words and waited for the climax, and—the reward of it. The climax was reached, the speaker's verdict of "The Great Fraud" as the just title of the Presi dent, was delivered. He had his reward, he will have more of it when he needs it, and when he will more abhor it than be would "the fiercest loud-mouthed noise, the most vociferous racket that any sten torous cavern of horrid sounds can make." That reward was a profound, aye, a nobly patriotic silence—an audible silence, an eloquent silence, a powerfully suggestive silence, a silence which must have made the aspirant for gubernatorial robes, wish that he bad known as well when to be si lent, as they did whose suffrages he sought and whose moral sense he had so wantonly, aye, ambitiously outraged. "There was speech, eloquent speech, in their dumb ness." Yes, it was plain, from the manner in which the baffled demagogue staggered onward for a time after this abortive effort, that "that silence had been so mighty in its dumbness, that even from his bad cun ning it drew the very soul of counsel." It is to be regretted that there is no stenographic report of that speech. No putting of Mr. Mason's propositions could be so damaging to his own cause or helpful to the real in terests of those who oppose him as his own statements. Whatever is given must be from imperfect notes and general recollec tion. Even when we give his data they will appear less injurious in our setting than if they were expressed in his exact words. There is such a fitness sometimes, and that all unconscious often, in the very clothes that a vagabond wears. While dis claiming sympathy with organized riots, he endeavored to foment them. He ap pealed to the sleeping tiger of hungry multitudes by reminding his hearers of the lawless depredations of others who had made mad crusades with cries for "Bread." He falsified history by ascribing public movements of past generations to causes that formed but a small, and that not the essential, part of the foundation of them. He pretended to quote from a document presented to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1820, if we understood him correctly, which if it is of any practical value today, would operate as a powerful argument for excluding the Democratic party, with its present temper, forever from political su premacy. He adroitly concealed from his audience the well-known fact that the bulk of the evils that distressed the people in 1820 was directly traceable to the disasters that followed in the wake of the Revolu tion of 1776 and the wars of 1812 and 'l5. He did this, of course, for a purpose. For it would not have profited him, even al though he has succeeded in having him- self set upon a well-meaning political body as its monster, unnatural head, to have shown that the evils, the chief evils which distress us, as a people, to-day, are the legitimate outgrowth of a disastrous civil war which itself grew out of too willing a following by many people who were led astray by just such designing political teachers as Mr. Mason himself is. Why did not Mr. Mason tell us how the Revolu tionary war was carried on ? Why was he so silent agout the memorable, yes pro verbial, continental money which is not worth its weight to-day as old paper ; and never was ? Why did he suppress the vital truths of history when he sought the aid of history ? is that his way ? Then may we justly ask, why does he not have an honest, manly regard for the vital in terests of the National Greenback party when he seeks its aid to further other am bitious personal ends? Will be be any more true to an infant and magnanimously trusting party, that has so generously opened its doors to him, than he has been to the records of history ? Men who thought it possible that they might vote for Mr. Mason for Governor, be fore they had heard his recent speech here, are now entirely certain that they will not vote for him at all, for that high office. It needs better men than he. The people are anxiously longing to listen to public men who have the sturdy, re freshing simplicity of honest manly truth about them, in their hearts, in their heads, in their arguments. They want the whole some nutriment of unadorned and un blemished facts—facts not deformed in any way—from men who show by their demeanor and life long conduct that truth to them is dearer and more highly prized than gaudy jewels for the person and oily distortions of the truth for the lips. This just and reasonable hope was sorely disappointed by S. R. Mason, the prescni candidate of the Greenback party for Governor of Pennsylvania—the man fur whom Democrats 'dyed in the wool," will solicit all possible Republican votes, but the man for whom no one of these same properly posted partisans, will favor at the expense of one vote for Andrew H. Dill. But this is only the opening of what remains to be said. More may follow hereafter. This is but a skirmish. PERSONAL. We are satisfied, from what we have heard and observed, that newspaper read ers generally are not pleased when the col umns of the papers for which they sub scribe are taken up with the personal con troversies of the editors with others, or in answering charges that are of no conse quence to any but those against whom they are made. We therefore resolved some time ago to keep ourselves out of the Jomt- NAL as much as possible, and we trust the foregoing statement of our general reason for doing so, will suffice for the future as well as for the present. But the Monitor has indirectly, and un intentionally, we hope, called into question our good faith to our readers, and the mat ter is therefore one of interest to them. Speaking of our editorial of two weeks ago, in which we said that Mr. Lytle had been absent a couple of weeks and had probably not seen the accusation that had been made against him, the Monitor takes an eistract therefrom and replies : We believe that the editorial from which the above extract is taken, was written by Mr. Lytle himself, and sent by him from Philadelphia, to be published in the JOURNAL. Although he is nominally one of the Secre taries of the Republican State Committee, whose head-quarters are in Philadelphia, he finds plenty of time to furnish the editorial matter which appears in the JOURNAL each week. He reads the Monitor regularly, and comments on the editorials which appear in it, and sends his manuscript by mail to be published as editorials in the JOURNAL. And yet in the face of these facts, Mr. Lytle, after having read the charge as published in the Monitor of the 15th inst., sat down coolly in Philadelphia, and wrote—" Mr. Lytle has been absent for a couple of weeks, and we presume has not seen a copy of the Monitor containing this charge !" How the compositor must have smiled, as he stood at his case in the JouRNAL office, with Mr. Lytle's manuscript before him giving a pretext why the charge had not been answered Considering the Monitor's self-proclaim. ed boldness, we are almost surprised that it did not deny that Mr. Lytle was away from Huntingdon at all when it male its "broad and emphatic charges." But his absence, not only at that time, but until after the next issue of the JOURNAL, be ing acknowledged, all its other allegations would perhaps have fallen to the ground without another word from us. That the whole matter may be disposed of, however, finally and conclusively, we now declare that Mr. Lytle did not, in Philadelphia or else where, see the copy of the Monitor refer red, to nor has he seen it since, and that he did not write the JOURNAL editorial from which the Monitor quotes. He could, of course, have obtained a .Monitor of the 15th ult., without difficulty, had he de sired to do so, but was indifferent about seeing it, even after he learned that it bad attacked him. HON. HORATIO G. FISHER. The Republican Congressional Confer ence, which met at Newport on Thursday, the 29th ult., acted wisely and to the very best interests of the party, by conferring the nomination upon Hon. H. G. Fisher, of Huntingdon. His distinguished merit as a citizen, his ability as a Senator of Pennsylvania, his fidelity to his constituents, and his efforts to advance their material welfare, were worthy of the recognition. The standard of the party was placed in his hands without his solicitation, in fact he hesitated to accept it, and that he will carry it to victory is one of the events of the future upon which the people have de termined. In view of his location, of the condition of parties in Huntingdon county, and of his personal fitness, he is the strong est candidate that could have been selected from the Republican ranks, and stronger than any that the Democrats can put in opposition to him. Off with your coats and up with your sleeves to give him a rousing majority. If we but do half as much for him as be will endeavor to do for the people of the district, he will go to Congress with such an endorsement of the people as will at once place him in a posi tion of power and influence. Do not tire in your efforts for Fisher until the last vote is polled on election day. IF the Democrats are not in favor of the payment of rebel war claims, why do they raise such an outcry when Republicans say anything against it. WHO DID IT AND WHY ? The friends of Mr. Speer, for the pur pose of allaying the "prejudice" of the peo ple, as Organ No. 2 styles it, against the unnatural combination which cffocted the nomination of the Greenback ticket and its endorsement by the Democrats of this county, have denied that he was the con trolling spirit in it. But it seems to be desired by that gentleman or by Dem ocratic newspapers speaking with apparent authority, that the impression should go abroad that he was its principal counselor and manager. The Harrisburg Patriot confirms the general belief in this matter, notwithstanding the denials of the Monitor and others who are interested in the suc cess of the coalition. We would ask at tention to the reasons given by the Patri ot for commending this movement, espe cially to the words we haveitalicized, in the following extracts : The adoption of the legislative ticket of the greenback-labor party by the democrats of Iluntingdon county is one of the most signifi cant events of the campaign. This movement means a cordial alliance of all who are sin cerely opposed to the Cameron succession and to the prolongation of the present iniquitous rule in the government of the state. Questions of finance and currency are matters of minor con sideration in this alliance. It is enough that the candidates for legislature are opposed to the Cameron succession. Whom among the dis tinguished citizens of the state they may pre fer for United States Senator as representa tives of the people of Huntingdon county will be for them a subject of future consideration. A practical end has been reached in this union of the opponents of the Cameron ring, who hoped for success through their divisions. It is here stated almost as directly as it can be that the Democrats are to be the gainers in the election of the half breed candidates for Legislature, Foust and Doyle. In this alliance "questions of fi nance and currency are of minor consider ation." Did the Greenback party so con sider when it met in convention to nomi nate a ticket ? Were not the currency and finance matters of paramount importance with it at that time ? Did it not select its candidates for Congress and Legislature with especial reference to their views upon and the policy they would pursue in refer ence to those subjects ? And yet, since Mr. Speer has captured it and its ticket, his orgadat Harrisburg declares that those things are of no consequence and are not to be considered in this contest. As if to be more emphatic and to avoid being mis understood, it repeats : Questions of finance and the currency may be remitted to the representatives of the people in congress, as they do not legitimately enter into a state campaign for governor and members of legislature in which state issues are peculiarly involved. Now, let us ask candid Greenbackers a few plain questions. Do you believe what the Patriot says about the unimportance of currency and financial questions in this campaign ? Do they not enter into the con test for Governor and members of the Leg islature ? Are you willing to abandon these issues at the bidding of one who would make himself a dictator in your party, as he is in his own ? The very fact that Democrats lay so much stress upon the subject of the election of a United States Senator shows that they are insincere when they thus belittle the principles for which Greenbackers have sunk every other. And besides, members of Congress are to be elected, who will no doubt have the settle• ment of all the questions of finance and currency that now agitate the public mind. Yet the only issue in this campaign, accord• ing to Mr. Speer and the Patriot, is the defeat of Mr. Cameron. Is the Greenback party of Huntingdon county, which claims to number many hundred voters, going to allow itself to be used for that particular purpose ? But our object at this time is to present to members of all parties the testimony of the Patriot that it is Mr. Specr's band that is managing this strategical movement to capture the votes and candidates of the Greenbackers, while ignoring the issues for which they are battling: This wise movement Gf the democrats of Huntingdon county was effected under the auspices and counsels of Mr. Speer, the chair man of the state central committee. In ac complishing it prejudices were to be encoun• tered and antagonisms overcome. But the work Las been well done. It has narrowed down, therefore, to a merely personal fight of Mr. Speer's to se cure for himself a seat in the United States Senate, and every other consideration, no difference of how much importance to oth ers, is to be laid in the back-ground, or made subservient to his purpose. In the face of Democrats who are conscientiously opposed to the Greenback theory, he adopts candidates who at least make a pretense of supporting that theory and who are bound by written pledges to do so. He then turn s and stabs the party whose candidates he has endorsed by telling it that its principles are of "minor importance" and that the campaign is not to be conducted with a view to their success. He is guilty of double political treachery fur his own selfish ad vancement. Democrats and C-reenbackers are expected to assist him in attaining his object. ECHO. Who was it that wrote a communication, which was published in the Greenback Nation • alist, pretending to plead for the success of the Greenback party? Echo answers—Ma. LYTLE! —Monitor. The Monitor has given about three col umns of attention to the person whose name closes the above item, but it has not sus tained its "bold" charges, as it designates them, by any authority or evidence. It inadvertantly, however, in an editorial par agraph from which the above is taken, says that "Echo" has given the answer to the inquiry as to who is the author of the now celebrated "Straight Out" communication. We thought it must have been some such re lie able fellow as "Echo." To the ques tion as put by the Monitor the correct an swer would of course have been "Greenback party," but "Echo," in disregard of the custom he has invariably observed hereto fore, and in violation of what was believed to be a law of nature, replied, "MR. LYTLE." But we may be wrong in assuming, upon the strength of the Monitor's statement, that "Echo" gave such a response. Now, let us afford him a chance of defending himself. We will put the question. Mr. "Echo," who told that lie, you or Air. Flem ing? Don't you hear the answer coming from the hills across the river —"llk. Flem ing." THE decrease in the public debt last month was nearly $6,500,000. LOOK OUT FOR THE DETECTIVES . The National-Greenback Labor party claimed some time ago to be made up of all that was decent, and honest, and rep utable in the old parties, but it seems to delight recently in telling us that it is not as pure and angelic as it ought to be. In the first place, it nominated two candidates for Legislature whose party allegiance or word it did not regard as reliable, although one of them is a minister of the gospel, and required from them written pledges that they would remain Greenbackers until re leased from their obligation, which will be done when the contest for United States Senator between the Democrats and Repub licans becomes close and hot, and their votes are needed to elect a Democrat. It has silica gone further than this, and has taken to its arms the entire Democratic party, which even Speer's organ No. 2 pro nounces "infernally corrupt." And now, totally distrusting itself, it has appointed a "secret vigilance committee" (Speer's organ No. 2 again) for the purpose of see ing that its members are not bribed on election day or previously, and it is recom mended that this plan "be adorted by every club in the county." "It is the only way," says the organ, "to break up the buying and selling of votes." The Re publican party is not afraid that its mem bers will be bought or sold. It has more confidence in their political integrity, more than it had before it lost a few voters who went over to the Nationals. And the lat_ ter party evidently realizes what kind of material it has relieved the Republicans of, for it puts a squad of detectives on the track to watch that the greenbacks do not come in in the wrong way. It is the communistic element, we suppose, that needs especial attention, the element that is always looking out for a divide about election time. But who will the detectives be ? The organ says that "the chairman and the parties appointed will only know who compose the committee." The Green backers themselves then, are not to know whose vigilant eye is to be constantly upon them. They will be afraid to accept a ten cent piece, only to buy—some bread, you know—lest the alert detective, armed with authority from the National Greenback Labor club of Huntingdon, should step up and lead them off by the ear to be made examples of for accepting bribes. Oh ! humiliated Greenback party ! We never would have bad such suspicions about you if you hadn't appointed this "vigilance committee" to protect yourself against your own communistic practices. You shall have our assistance in carrying out your good intentions. We trust you will be able to resist temptation and evil desires. We approve of the suggestion of your organ "that it would be well enough to offer a small reward for conviction." The fear of the law may deter you to some extent, and,as a matter of local pride, we hope that all who may be guilty will receive their just punishment. Our town is almost cer tain to be the location of the new peni tentiary, and if your "vigilance committee" does its duty, we will have a nice squad of Democratic bribers and Greenback bribe takers to occupy its capacion3 apartments. We think the detective idea a very practical one, if not very camplimen tary to yourselves. But be careful not to let the Democrats get the names of your detectives or they will be bought up before the rank and file can get a chance to turn an honest (?) penny. A column and a half is wasted in the Jona- NAL, by a fruitless effort to divert the public mind from the real point. It would have been far better for both Mr. Fries and Mr. Lytle, if no attempt had been made to answer the charge against the m.—Monitor. When Mr. Fries prepared his able and complete vindication of himself from the attacks of the Monitor, he perhaps did not realize that he was dealing with a matter upon which the "public mind" was so pro foundly stirred as that paper seems to think it to be. lie certainly would not have at tempted to "divert" it from any important issue. If the question, who is the author of the 'Straight Out" communication ? is to over-shadow all others in this campaign, then we must turn our minds from the nine million steal, Dill's votes in the interest of corporations, Democratic aid and comfort to the rebellion, greenbacks, rebel claims, payment for the slaves, repudiation, and kindred subjects, to the new one which the Monitor has discovered and brought to the front. Well, we will observe closely for a while and if we find the "public mind" to be very deeply agitated over this issue, we will give it the attention it may then appear to deserve. HoN. R. W. MACKZY, who knows more about it than any other living man, with the exception of Col. Quay, says that he considers the Republican party in Penn- sylvania in better condition to day than it was in 1872, when Governor Hartranft had over 30,000 majority. He thinks the Nationals are losing ground through the folly of their leaders and that they are not to be feared. The Republicans are eager to attendmeetings, and to hear financial questions discussed. Hort. GALUSHA A. GROW, in his able and active support of the Republican State ticket, seta a wholesome example not only to Republicans generally, but especially to those who aspired to nominations in the party and failed to get them. It must be remembered that office can be conferred upon but a few of the members of any party, and that only those who support their principles even in disappointment prove themselves worthy of political favors. VERMONT fired tlte first gun of the campaign on Tuesday last. The result is an overwhelming Republican victory. We have carried the State by a majority of twenty thousand. This is the beginning of the tidal wave that is to sweep from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Now for Maine, Ohio, Indiana, lowa, end Pennsylvania. THE Democratic orgsksis no longer deny that Dill voted for the nine million steal. They now say it was no steal at all. True, it was not, but because a Republican Gov ernor vetoed the bill. IF the Republican candidate for State Treasurer had been elected last year, it would have been discovered before this where that over-issue of $lOO,OOO worth of bonds went to. REV. DOYLE knows where the Demo cratic party came from and when he com municated the information to the Green back convention it was received with laugh ter and applause. And it is funnier still that the Democrats have taken hold of the reverend gentleman and are carrying him along with them, not to the Legislature, but to "that other place." KEARNEY, in one of his recent speeches, advised his party to "pool the issues and put them in one pot." This may be original as public counsel from a political leader, but is not new as a secret practice among Democrats in Pennsylvania. It is not long since Wallace pooled several is sues of fraudulent naturalization papers in a coffeepot. You need not try to imagine bow Jeff Davis will look in one of the seats of the United States Senate chamber, for you will have an opportunity of seeing him there in reality as soon as the term of Bruce, the colored Senator from Mississippi expires. THE Democratic party, pointing to a seat in the Legislature, says to Rev. Doyle, "all this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me." Knowing from whence the tempter comes, he ought to reply, "get thee behind me, Satan." THE Greenback Nationalist, of this place, formerly a Greenback paper, has gone over to the Democrats. It has become especi ally abusive of Republicans. There is al ready some question as to which is the real organ, No. 2 or No. 1. "Ecilo" responds to a wise man wisely, but always answers a fool according to his folly See his answer to the Monitor's ques- tion as to the authorship of the "Straight Out" communication, THE Democrats have indorsed the Green back ticket, but the Greenbackers have not endorsed the Democratic ticket yet. POLITICAL CHOW-CHOW. —The Mud-Slinger, Speer's newspaper No. 2, is heavily freighted with that commodity this week. —Mr. Baker wants to know who it was who forged his name to that letter of declination. —Mr. Speer, having succeeded in giving Foust, the Greenback nomination for Assembly, pleads hard, in last week's issue of the Nationalist, for the Greenbackers to stick to the ticket "set up'' for them. —The "fraud shriekers" have taken a rest since "Square Timber" Noyes revealed the unpleasant fact to the Democrats of the State that one of their former State Treasurer's is short $lOO,OOO in his accounts. —Hon. H. G. Fisher's nomination for Congress is well received, and the vote given him in Novem ber next will convince the hirelings of the Salary Grabber that throwing mud at him don't pay. 'Rah for Fisher. —The Salary Grabber, in his newspaper No. 2, chuckles and boasts that his convention contained only twelve straightouti Democrats. The honest Democrats of this county will teach him a lesson in November that he will not soon forget. —The question now is "who forged Mr. Baker's name to that letter of declination ?" Baker says he never signed a letter, never declined being a candidate for commissioner, and that he proposes to have justice done him. Trouble in the camp. —Speer's .Nationalist of this week begs and prays of the Greenbackers not to nominate a candidate for Commissioner, to take the place of Mr. Baker) who was forcedoff the ticket by forgery. Will they allow him to prevent them from exhibiting their manhood and Independence? Capt. Means complains that he was recently robbed of about thirty dollars worth of postage stamps. Perhaps Speer, the Democratic State Chairman, got them, Captain. We understand he has made a requisition upon the ex-members of the Legislature for their extra stamps.—Carlisle Mirror. —Mr. Speer was so busily engaged in getting up his circular, imploring the Democrats to "come back," that he could not furnish sufficient editorial matter to fill the Nationalist, his news per No. 2, that he was forced to re-publish a column or two from the Monitor, his newspaper No. 1. —Voters must pay a State or county tax, on or before Saturday, October sth, if they desire to vote at the coming election. We hope that no vote will be lost to the Republican party on account of the non-payment of taxes. This is proper work for the members of the county com mittee. —lt causes a person to smile to read Mr. Speer's editorial in the Nationalist, his newspaper No. 2, of this week, under the caption of 'Tally one for National Banks." It is cool, coming from a stockholder in a "shave shop" where they charge as high as eighteen per cent. for money. 'Rah for Fisher . —"Either of the gentlemen defeated by Mr. Fisher would have been far more preferable."— Mr. Speer, in his newspaper No. 2, of this week. Yes, .o the Democracy. Fisher's nomination has knocked the talk out of that party, and in November he will knock it higher than Gilderoy's Kite. 'Rah for Fisher. —Dennis Kearney, the blackguard, who left Ireland for Ireland's good, and who is now roam ing from city to city in this country traducing the country which gives him a home, was in Wash ington the other day, and from the steps of the Capitol uttered language which should have insured him a ducking in the Potomac. —Speer's newspapers are both wonderfully hurt because Messrs. Port and Dewees were not re nominated for the legislature by the Republican convention. These gentlemen are perfectly satis fied with the action of their party, and do not desire any spmpathy from the Salary Grabber's organs. 'Rah for M'Vitty and Smith. —Mr. Speer, in his newspaper No. 1 of last week, tries to make the people believe that he had nothing to do in nominating Foust and Doyle for the legislature. Ile pleads absence from home, isit North was here, and delivered the goods as he had promised his brother-in-law he would do when he assumed the leadership of the party. —The following is the Bedford county Demo cratic ticket, nominated on Tuesday of last week: Assembly, Daniel R. Anderson and Joseph E. Noble; Associate Judge, John Nelson ; Prothono tary, H. D. Tate; Sheriff, W. G. Eicholtz ; District Attorney, Frank Fletcher; Treasurer, P. G. Mor gan; Commissioners, Samuel Crisman and J. L. Albright. —What do you think of the sincerity of a man who is always howling about his liberality to the poor, charging a poor crippled laborer thirty cents for the loan of a dollar for one month? We have a man of this kind in Huntingdon, and ke is a noisy greenbacker at that, whose voice can be heard about the street corners complaining of the high rate of interest. Out upon such demagogues. —How did Mr. Speer try "to run the Greenback party ?"—Speer, in the Monitor, his newspaper No.l By getting brother-in-law North to go into the organisation, and by hie apparent seal for the . oause win the confidence of the honest members of that party that he might the better betray them. This is the way he "tried to run the Greenback party," and the way he did ran it. Call 'another. —Mr. Speer thinks that any person who char_ gas him with having anything to do with setting up the Greenback convention or investing in anoth er newspaper, "is green enough for the cows to eat." If this were so, cow feed would be very plenty, for it is a fact well known to all men, who have paid any attention to politics in this county during the past few months, that brother-in-law North joined the Greenback party for the purpose of running it in the interest of Mr. Speer. There are hundreds of people "green" enough to believe this, and the nomination of B. F. Foust, his tool for years past, is evidence strong enough to con vince the most skeptical. —Dennis Kearney, the ignorant boor, who is travelling the country making incendiary speeches, vomited forth hie blasphemy and vulgarity to a Philadelphia audience on Friday night, in the course of which he defended the crimes and mur ders of the Mollie Maguires. And has it come to thi3, that American citizens are to be instructed as to their duties by such an unmitigated black guard as this "wild hoodlum" has proven himself to be ? The "Monitor Gag" Growing Blind and Desperate. A Den of Hissing Vipers all Con-Fused. The despicable and God-forsaken wretch who attempts to edit that vile and ecandlous sheet, styled the Monitor, having, without any just cause or provocation, made an exceedingly false, cowardly and scurrilous attack on the late editor of the Greenback Nationalist, some two weeks ago, which he (Fries) thoroughly and effectually con tradicted and demolished, now, the said party and paper, returns to the attack with the same old libelous falsehoods and vituperation—scarcely varying the phraseology the'eof, while they do not, dare not, and cannot refute a single charge we made against our unscrupulous defamers. We again emphatically pronounce these misera ble slanderous accusations most positively and absolutely false, in manner, form and fact, par ticularly, the gist of their contemptible charge which is, that we were paid for inserting "Straight Out's" communication, that cut so deeply. And now we again throw it into their teeth, that we are ready to be qualified before an officer compe tent to administer oaths, and dare our malignant opponents to do the same. We, also, want atten tion to the following matter included. That one of "Speer's tools"—so called, did more than ones call on us and propose that, if tae should conduct the Greenback Labor organ in the interests of the Democratic party, or for fusion, we would be all right in a pecuniary way and our business also. Before going further, we earnestly ask, what has this man Fleming, the editor of a pretended rank Democratic organ, to do with our affairs, especially so far as relates to our connections with the Greenback Labor party ? Or, of the actions of any of its individual members ? His sudden and violent championship is passing strange, and the most of us consider it an astounding freak of brazen impudence. As the N. G. L party of this place is fully organized and officered, and also, has its own organ, and likewise all theappliances for attending to its own business. Now then, if the writer, or any other member has done any thing amiss, or committed any gross improprieties, the authorized organ is at liberty to denounce such violations of the rules of their body, and our "National Greenback Labor Club," to which Mr. Fleming does not belong, can summon its deri lect members for trial. That there has not been the slightest move in either direction, is another positive evidence of the futility of the Monitor's lying charges. On the other hand, we are contin ually receiving the good wishes and congratula tions of true and faithful Greenback men, far and near, prominent and humble, but chiefly the masses for the course we have pursued while an editor, and subsequently. This shows that we did right, and that's what's the matter. That Mr. Fleming and his few co-conspirators, in their mad efforts to crush the man who obstruct ed their nefarious designs and would not join in the unholy scheme to hoodwink the people and then share the spoils resulting therefrom, is the avowed belief of every honest and intelligent per son in the community. Now suppose the above gang were to succeed, what would they gain? We are no candidate; we are not seeking any position, why we are not even in business here. Bo they would only have their trouble for their pains. But suppose we and our friends (and every person has some friends) were to do our utmost against them and their policy, it might amount to something. Especially if there is a close election. Why, we have heard some of Fleming's own partizans de nounce him as a miserable blunderer. Said one recently, "Why didn't be wait until after Fries got away. Then he could not have defended him self so successfully, norstruck back so effectually?" Ah ! but Mr. F. thought he had us "foul" any way, as we were without a newspaper to reply to his unmitigated slanders. But, thank God, we found editors here not devoid of journalistic courtesy, and if we have not quite so great privi leges as in a paper of our own, we may cover a wider range at each shot. The following item from that mongrel Demo cratic sheet we wish to call particular attention to : "He had so shamefully betrayed the cause of his party, that its members openly denounced him, and insisted that he should not be permitted to edit their organ any longer." That is news indeed ! When the word "betrayed" is applied to us in any form, it is simply a base and wicked lie—and an exceedingly bold one. No one in possession of the facts believes it, and an exami nation of my past acts will undoubtedly prove the accusation false. How can a person betray that which be never promised to protect, or defend, or sustain ? Did weever promise to advocate "fusion" under any "shape" or guise whatever ? Did we ever assist in making any "rings 7" Did we ever help to "set up" any candidates? Did we ever conspire to blindfold the masses of the Greenback Labor party that they might be ruu into the Dem ocratic "recruiting camp," for the chance of suc cess and a share of newspaper patronage ? Did we ever agree to barter principles for profit f No! emphatically no ! to every question. But the plan we persistently upheld and stood by, and which constitutes our most grievous sin in the eyes of our enemies, was this : Put none but true Greenback Labor men on guard 1 Thereby follow ing after Washington's famous order at Valley Forge, when dangers seemed to fill the very air, such was our "treachery." Treachery to the cursed coppery serpents that were and yet are secretly seeking to crush and drive out every man in whose blood flows a drop of patriotism and true devotion. That the members of our party openly denounced us we do not believe, for they were not too cowardly to tell us of our faults, we hepo. But whether there were any complaints or not, we make this declaration of defence. First, if the "Greenbackers" of Huntingdon and vicinity are to be believed at all, then nineteen out of every twenty were in favor of the policy we pursued. Second, we dare and defy the "Monitor gang" to publish the names of those it alleges denounced us openly, or otherwise—they surely would not be afraid to do so now. Then we will show you the men whom the party mistrusts and denounces, and if candidates whom they will "out" at the polls—in the most improved style. Third, we were not compelled to step down and out of the Nationalist office, and we dare you or any one else to show such to be the case. We done it at our own pleasure and at our own time, and since it has come to this, we will inform the public that we compelled a purchase if it was to be the or-gran of a "Fusion" instead of a "straight out" party. And every reader of that paper knows that we controlled it while we owned it, and we must have owned it, or it would not have been bought from us. Then what right had any man or set of men to insist that we should not edit our own paper even though its contents didn't exactly suit them ? Rather tall impudence, that. Some would call it by a much worse name. And now as regards another point. Does the unprincipled editor of the Monitor think he can force or scare us into revealing or betraying the name of a correspondent—something held sacred by every honest editor, printer or attachee of any newspaper office. The very effort is deemed high ly dishonorable, even if attempted by one wholly unacquainted with the rules of journalism. Did we make the exposure demanded, the said gang would gain nothing except the chance to denounce us as treacherous for doing so—and that would be true. Before closing we must refer to another little matter; that of unwittingly complimenting our former article. The aforesaid editor after calling it "a long rigmarole of wishy-washy stuff," also says, "every one who took the trouble to read it, was of the opinion that some one else than Fries wrote it." We doubt that very much. Bat if so, why did they think so ? Please tell us. Once for all, we will assure all doubters that we don't follow the Monitor style, don't have any "assis— tants" in writing anything we claim as our own. And to satisfy their troubled souls, we will allow them to appoint a eommittee to watch over us while we write down our malicious slanderers. This article is again growing longer than we had intended, for we would be safe in relying on the common-sense and justice of the public who now plainly perceive the animus and latent of the dastardly attacks on a private citizen, by certain personal and political enemies of his, for the causes above enumerated. Although our acquaintance and fellowship here has beed limited to the brief period of only five months, yet we are abundantly satisfied that we have earned the confidence of the masses of the Greenback-Labor Party, simply because we up held and pursued a straight forward course, which strange to say, mysteriously offended some of our would-be leaders as per Monitor's insinuations, and now they and it would sink us to perdition, if they could. Well let them all strike, thick and fast: we fear them not; for it has always been our lot to contend with tyrants and the money power, some of whom wielded a thousand-fold more influence, in every way, than the pigmy combination of Speer, Fleming k Co.—the "com pany" being the Green-fly faction—a few "fusion" schemers, represented by what was once the organ of the staunch old Democracy of this county, but has now, alas ! for them, sold, betrayed and kicked them into the very gutter of politics. And this really treacherous political "What-is-it !" now has the andacity to try and besmear honest men of another party with its own foulness. Again we ask, what is the object of this eleventh hour convert or rather deserter from the camp of Democratic despair, this untried champion of the new cause, who is photographed so exactly in Butler's Hudibras, when he says : "Now like a lobster boiled, the man From black to red began to turn." What political color he will next 8133111116 no earthly being can predict. Nevertheless he works hard at the dirty work. The old parties generally had plenty of "dirty work." He may think the new party has some of that to do, too, and took to it by choice, as a hog does to swill—"natural selection"—per Darwin's theory. Then what is to be the compensation ? Men don't do much dirty work for nothing. Does he aspire to become the Grand Generalisimo ? Well, this new fledged commander and his secret staff, are unequalled in the art of making the party which they assume to defend, odious, and the cause they espouse, ob noxious. They can knock a party into "smither eens" and make it more enemies in a less time than any other set of ordinary mortals this side of the Styx. As an evidence of the first charge, we would ask whore is the Democratic party of this county to-day, that was so formidable only a year or two ago? Let Speer, Fleming a Co., tell! As regards the next charge, we would just refer to their recent policy of trying to drive off, abuse, disgust and embitter every one who a straight out, honest anti-fusion, Greenback-Labor advo cate; every one who at any time in their life voted and sustained the Republican party ; every one who is now a fearless, independent, no-party voter, and even many who are straight-out old Jacksonian Democrats. Now then, having out rageously insulted and almost driven off nearly all the foregoing large number, and of course having the active opposition of the regular Re publicans and Democrats is it not possible, "to come out at the little end of the horn ?" And that is just precisely what the Afwsitor's assinine policy would lead to. We don't mean simply the loss of an election, fur that can be retrieved, but less of confidence, which is "a plant of slow and tender growth," but " Let the galled jade wince. My withers are unstrung." 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I am thankful to the general public for the very liberal patronage given to the late firm, and as I propose to continue in the business at the old stand, I respectfully solicit a continuance of the same, and I promise that nothing will be left undone on ley part to render satisfaction. GEO. W. PREIDLEY. 5ep1.13,1878-31. ASSIGNEE'S SALE OF Valuable Real Estate. {ESTATE OF ELIAS ALLEN STEVENS.] By virtue of an 'order of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, I will offer at public sale, on the premises, on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1878, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, A farm in Clay township, :Huntingdon county, Pa., containing ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTY ACRES, more or less, about 80 acres of which are cleared and under good cultivation, having thereon a LOG DWELLING HOUSE, Log Barn, ne and outbuildings, a good °reli gig ard, Limestone Quarry, and oth g er improvements. TERMS OF BALE.—One-third of the purchase money to be paid on confirmation of sale, and the balance in two equal annual payments, with inter est, the whole to he secured by the judgment bonds of the purchaser. D. F. STEVENS, Assignee of Elias Allen Stevens. 5ept.6,1878-ts. PRIVATE SALE - OF - Valuable Real Estate. The undersigned will sell, at private sale, the farm upon which he now resides, situate in Hunderson township, one and-a-half miles east of Hunting don, on the line of the P. R. It., containing ONE HUNDRED& SEVENTY ACRES, about one hundred of which are in s high state of cultivation. Forty acres are river bottom and the balance rolling. The improvements are a LARGE COTTAGE HOUSE, with a ) good Cellar under it, a large BANK BARN Corn Crib, Wagon Shed, Wood House, Wash House, Bake Oven, Smoke House, and all other necessary out buildings. There is a'so an APPLE AND PEACH ORCHARD ' of over 300 choice trees, together with Pears, Cherries and Plums, and a large Vineyard planted with excellent Grapes. For further information address the underigned at Huntingdon, Pa., or call and see him on the premises. 5ept.6,1378-Imo. PHILIP SCHNEIDER.
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