The Huntingdon Journal.
J. A. NASH,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A.
FRIDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 13, 1878
Circulation LARGER than any other
Paper in the Juniata Valley.
Republican State Ticket.
GOVERNOR :
Gen, HENRY M. HOYT,
OF LUZERNE.
JUDGE 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:
S. H. ISENBERG, of Penn
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
W. II BENSON, of Tod,
S. P. SMITH, of Union.
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR
A . B. MILLER, of Porter.
AUDITORS :
J. IT. DAVIS, of Morris,
A. W, BROWN, of Cassville
THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED.
The election, November sth.
Voter. must pay a State or county tax by Satur
day, October sth.
Foreigner, must be naturalized by October sth.
HOYT ON FINANCES.
Ptofessing to be an honest man, the candidate of
an honest organization, I favor honest money.
The volume of the currency should be regulated
by legitimate demand, and not by the requirements
of bankrupts and wild speculators.
The currency should be redeemable as early as
the exigencies of the Government will permit, in the
currency recognized by all civilized nations.
The contracts of the Government should be heid
as sacred as the contracts of individuals, and the
bonds, the evidence of its indebtedness, should be
paid according to the understanding between the
Government and the lender.—Speech at Butler,
Sept. 2, 1878.
A SLANDERER REBUKED.
The "Monitor's" Charges Proven False.
Ever since the nomination of W. M'K.
Williamson, esq., for the office of Prothon
otary, not an issue of the Monitor has ap
peared which did not contain ungentle
manly attaks upon his character. We
had intenfid to treat these charges with
the contempt they deserved, but as the
members of the Bar have seen proper to
speak out in vindication of the man who
seems to be these special target for Mr. Speer
and his lackeys, we deem it our duty to
say a word in his behalf.
The Monitor charges Mr. Williamson
with taking advantage of his office to far
ther the professional interests of Mr.
Woods and his clients, and in so many
words says, that he would do so to the in
jury of other members of the Bar and their
clients. The Monitor knows that these
charges are groundless and unwarranted,
and it also knows that the real cause of its
bitter opposition to Mr. Williamson is not
because it thinks that "he will take undue
advantage of his position as Prothonotary
to advance the professional interests of Mr.
Woods," but it is because Mr. William
son refused to give that paper a share
of the patronage connected with that office.
This is the great sin of his offending, and
for the loss of a few paltry dollars it week
ly utters slanders most foul against the
character of a man who, in all that goes to
make an honest man, stands a head and
shoulders above the hired scribblers who
are attempting to injure him by base false
hood and misrepresentation. But there
is no need for us to say more on this sub
ject; we will let the members of the Bar,
who know him well, and who have trans
acted business with him, both before and
since he became Prothonotary of this coun
ty, give their opinion of the man, which
they do in the following letter :
HUNTINGDON, Sept., 6, 1878.
The Monitor of this week having published an
editorial containing an unwarranted attack on W.
Sidi. Williamson, the present Prothonotary, we,
the undersigned members of the Huntingdon Bar,
deeming it but simple justice to Mr. Williamson,
cheerfully unite in saying that he is a CAPABLE,
HONEST AND OBLIGING OFFICER, and has discharged
the duties pertaining to his office IMPARTIALLY,
since hie appointment :
D. BLAIR,J. F. SCHOCK,
R. A. ORBISON, H. C. MADDEN,
K. A. LOVELL, JNO. W. MATTERN,
G. B. ARMITAGE, THEO. H. CREMFR,
S. T. BROWN, WM. P. ORBISON,
GEO. B. ORLADY, JOHN WILLIAMSON,
D. C. ZEIGLER, W. A. FLEMING,
P. M. LYTLE, H. E. SHAFFER,
S. L. GLASGOW, J. R. SIMPSON,
M. S. LYTLE, WM. W. DORMS.
"A Riousracerr(?), in last week's
Monitor, says :
"For several weeks the Globe and the Jona-
NAL have contained articles attacking the
character and reputation of some of our best
and most respected and respectable citizens."
We deny that a Republican ever wrote
such words, and we deny further that the
JOURNAL is not guilty of "attacking the
character and reputation" of any man since
the campaign opened, and it does not pro.
pose to do it. We defy the writer to show
where we have done so. We intend, how
ever, to discuss the merits of the candi
dates, and the motives of the man who
"set up" and made the ticket, but in doing
this we will refrain from "attacking the
character and reputation" of any, or either
of them, but the political actions of men,
who aspire to positions of honor and profit,
are fit subjects for newspaper controversy,
and we propose to deal with them in our
own way, regardless of the whines of the
Democrat who figures in the Monitor un
der the nom de plume of "A Republican."
THE latest figures from Maine show that
the Republicans have gained about five
thousand votes over their vote of last year,
and that the Democrats lose about fourteen
thousand. The same changes in Penn
sylvania will elect Hoyt over Dill by a
hundred thousand majority.
MASON'S SPEECH AGAIN.
In our last issue we took a general sur
vey of Mr. Mason's speech without paus
ing to deal with its detailed statements. It
will now be in order to consider some of
these utterances and try them at the bar
of truth and sound judgment. Republicans
take no stock in Mr. Mason and it is not
strange, now that he has spoken several
times in public as the candidate of the
Greenback party for Governor, that the
Democratic managers who wanted to use
him as a helper for the benefit of Mr. Dill,
"go back" on him, and send secret circu
lars to their party agents instructing them
what to do with him. "There is
no conceivable reason," says this circular,
why a Democrat should join the Green
" backers. By doing so he takes at least
" one vote from Democrats, and gives the
" Republicans that much better chance for
" success." Thus while Mr. Mason pro
fesses to be trying to secure favor from
both of the two leading parties, he appears
to be in a fair way to feel the crushing
weight of both. Between the upper and
nether millstones he has a good prospect of
being ground to powder. If Mr. Mason
were a truly independent man, represent
ing ideas not formulated or embraced iti
the platforms of either of the other parties,
and representing them with stern and just
impartiality, without fear or favor, he
would occupy a better position than he
does now, and would command respect, if
not suffrages. But as it is, he is too plain
ly a restless demagogue, who, in his am
bition to be famous and powerful, is willing
to avail himself of any vehicle that he
thinks may bring him to his desired goal.
If he were to be brought to his desired
haven, he would, no doubt, find it entire
ly convenient to abandon and forget, if not
to spurn, his conveyance, and give free rein
to the political impulses that were started
long before the National Labor party was
thought of, and which have always been
recognized as the natural fruit of a species
of Democracy which the better class of
Democrats disown.
But let us notice some of his statements.
Among other things, after eulogizing labor
and hard handed laborers, and recognizing
many of his hearers as such, ho said sub
stantially, "Here is a bond-holder, who sits
in his easy chair in hie home or office, and
with a nimble pair of scissors clips a little
piece of printed paper from a bond every
now and then and sends or carries it to a
National bank and gets for it varying
amounts of gold coin, according to the de_
nomination of the bond he holds. There
is a blacksmith, who pounds away at his
anvil, year after year, but the only metal
he handles, year in and year out, after all
his toil, is hard iron. No gold for him.
Now who," asks Mr. M. "is the producer
and who is the consumer ? "Manifestly the
latter," he answers. Now, as Mr. Mason
manifested it, it did seem as if the black
smith was the "producer," as between
those two persons. But with all his skill
in fallacies we do not remember that he
dared to say that he who cuts coupons from
a bond is not to be called or considered a
producer. But he did worse than that, if
possible, he left the impression, purposely,
that the bond-holder is only a consumer,
and his endeavor was to create prejudice
against the bond-holders, as if they were
lazy drones reaping where they had not.
sowed, and gathering where they had not
strewed. Was this the fairness which the
people have a right to expect from one who
is running for a prize that depends upon
their intelligent votes ? Do we want in
the Governor's chair, a man who can deal
so flippantly in half-truths and whole false
hoods ? Nay, more, do we want for a Gov
ernor a man who can so impudently sneer
at the multitudes of dead men and toilsome
women, whose hard-earned living was often
all laid up in those same bonds, in order
that a fearfully imperilled country might
be rescued from the murderous grasp of
its destroyers ? How were those bonds pro
cured by hundreds and thousands of hold
ers ? Does not the money which was ad
vanced to the Government in the day of
its awful peril, which was itself launched
upon a dangerous sea of risk, and for which
the bonds were given by the Government,
does not that money represent toil, and
frugality and production ? Shame on the
man who will thus insult the dead, as well
as slander the living ! If he knows better,
shame on him ; if he does not know better,
pity him, but turn your back upon him
because with such disqualifications, he has
the audacity to aspire to be Governor of
the enlightened State of Pennsylvania. If
they who first received the bonds from the
Government could all rise up and show
themselves to-day, and tell, each for him
self and herself, how much hard-earned
wealth they gave to the Government for
those bonds, would no 'producers" be
found in the throng ? Why, in that
mighty multitude that came forward in
answer to their country's call for help in
her hour of peril, you might see venerable
men and women, who never had a thought
of their country but to honor her and ad
vance her power and glory. You would
hear them say, "for three and four score
years we have lived and flourished in this
favored land, never oppressed by tyranny,
never disgraced by our flag. Peacefully,
prosperously have we lived and labored,
and enjoyed unbounded blessings of free
dom in the fairest fields beneath the sun.
Reaping the harvests from virgin soils,
warmed and fed and enriched by the sub
stantial products of fields and flocks and
mines, we have acquired competence and
riches. But what would that be worth it'
our Government is destroyed, its constitu
tion abrogated, and its free career of civil
liberty blasted in the very flower, nipped
almost in the bud ? No, no, the Govern
ment shall have my little savings that it
may be saved, and when it is saved, we
shall not lose our reward. If it perishes,
why need we survive ? Here, my country,
are the proceeds of years of toil, and to
kens of unspeakable endeavors. Take them,
and use them as your own, and we will
trust you to restore them in days to come,
either to us or to our heirs." Summon
the widows, the maidens, the seamstresses,
the artizans—hard-handed laborers, mark
you—yes the hosts of people who gave their
money in those fearful days and took the
bonds of the Government in exchange, and
you will see, not drones and indolent con
Editor.
snipers, but productive heroeA, ready for
any peril or sacrifice, that their 1.-,3i.)ved
land might live. Very likely, Mr. Mason
"never did own a bond," as he sap. Let
him have the bad ewit.ence and notoriety
that this fact gives him, if lie had means
to buy bonds, and would not. It argues
only that he was not the product of heroic
blot - ,d, or else that it was debased in his
veins. lle would have held bonds. ii' he
had been able, in those days, unless he was
destitute of the heart of a patriot and the
self-sacrificing courage of a hero. If he
"never held a bond in his life," as he says,
we may here find the true original reason.
Is such a man fit to be Governor of a State
that was saved in spite or him by sacrifices
and labors in which he performed and bore
no honorable part ?
If Mr. Mason should here protest that
the dead purchasers of the bonds are not
the present holders of them, we answer, first,
neither are all the first purchasers dead ;
and, secondly, that even if every present
bond-holder were but a spendthrift of the
gold obtained by bonds, has any ono a right
to slander his fellow-citizens for freely put_
ting into circulation among his neighbors,
funds to which no one has a better right
than the bond-holder ? Or yet again,
thirdly, taking his own putting of it,
does not Mr. Mason know that they
who get great wealth easily, are apt to
squander it freely, and ought he not there
fore to rejoice when coupons are cut from
bonds and turned out in gold. Fourth/y,
If bonds are now in the hands of shylocks,
money-getters, and bad men, it may be
because, unhappily, every land is disgraced
by broods of men who, like himself, as he
told us, "study and contrive, from their
cradle to their grave how they may get
money and increase it" and study little else.
Fifthly—Mr. Mason ought to remember
that too many good citizens, honorable men
in the best sense of the word, and too many
widows and orphans cut coupons from
bonds, or have them cut for their use, to
make it politic, to say no more, for him to
confound all holders of bonds in one indis
tinguishable mass of dishonest people. Of
course, it will be a matter to rejoice over
when the Government has no further need
to pay interest on bonds. The borrower
is servant to the lender always. But when
these bonds were created it required patriots
to take them, and every bond was a badge
of honor, courage, hope, faith and noble
purpose, in the hand of him who held it.
It would seem as if Mr. Mason would not
be true to his dominant instincts if he did
not denounce "the bonds." The bonds of
which he complains, we all well know, arc
some of the manacles which ,men, with whom
he has evidently sympathized and co-operated
have placed upon the limbs of the nation.
Do not wince, Mr. Mason. The Republi
can party is not to blame for these bonds.
It did not make those bonds a necessity.
It was necessary for the Republican Con
gress to issue these bonds. If offensive
things happen, they by whom the offense
was caused are the guilty parties. The
Republican party has cast off other bonds
from the limbs of the nation ; and before
it is done it will lift these bonds off also—
but it will do it in a way to save the nation
and not cripple or destroy it. Mr. Mason's
method would be a violent wrenching that
would do more harm than good. Remo
ving "bonds" from human limbs requires
both wisdom, and strength, and skill. The
illustration will suit the nation. Denun
ciation is misdirected when it is aimed at the
"ber:ds." Its true target is the evil agencies
thet made them a necessity and would pro
long it ; and those frantic malcontents
whose chief' source of anger now is, that
they cannot control the treasures that an
incensed people rescued from destruction,
by wresting from their grasp. These are
severe statements, not pleasant to utter,
but necessary to be said. Demagogues may
toss the dearest rights and interests of the
people to and fro, as players bandy shuttle
cocks, but no honest man, with true patri
otic instincts can be indifferent to truth
and honest dealing, or satisfy his con
science by inaction in the presence of such
trifling.
I can and do truly' say, that in no way or
manner has any member of the Democratic
party approached me with a requebt or prom
ise respecting my candidacy for the legisla
ture.—Rev. Doyle.
How evasive ! Was it ever alleged that
any member of the Democratic party had
approached you with a promise respecting
your candidacy for the Legislature or any
thing else ? You use language now with
almost as little precision as you profess to
have done in the Greenback convention.
The charge, if we understand it, is that
the Democrats are relying upon promises
or assurances from you. If you mean to
deny that you have given them any, you
place yourself in a queer position for a
Democratic candidate. You must remem
ber that you are looking to the Democratic
party for "salvation" now, even if you
"never thought of that in your life before"
the Greenbackers nominated you. That
little touch of Democracy you gave them
in your letter to the Monitor will not suf
fice. The party that came from—"no, not
Nazereth, but that other place," is natu
rally suspicious and distrustful, and must
have a pledge, and a written one at that ,
as the Greenbackers have set the example
of taking that kind from their Legislative
candidates. It is about as easy to ride two
horses as to be tke candidate of two par
ties, and the man who can do it can easily
give two pledges.
THE speech of Mr. epeer, at McCon
nellsburg, on Friday last, was the utter
ance of a demagogue. In the language
of the Chambersburg Public Opinion he
arraigned the Republican party for its
loyalty in war and patriotic efforts in peace
to manfully discharge the just obligations
of the Government, in putting down the
Democratic rebellion ; indirectly justifies
the Southern claims and their payment;
denounces the National banks; encourages
inflation and repudiation, and places the
Democratic party squarely in accord with
the communistic doctrines of the Green
back-Labor party. The hand of reformer
McClure in the preparation of this key
note is patent, and in commendation of
the rag-baby doctrines thus promulgated,
editorially, as the leading Democratic organ
in Pennsylvania, gives them his endorse
ment, saying that "Speer has given his
organization the only inspiration that:can
command success."
REV. DOYLF.'S CONFESSION
AN ILL-ADVISED, NONSENSICAL, ABSURD LETTER
The Monitor of last week contained a
letter from Rev. Doyle, which, we suppose,
he desires to be taken as a denial that he
used, as we allege. in the Greenback con
vention, by which be was nominated as a
candidate for the Legisl3ture, the follow
ing language :
"And to look to the Democratic party
for salvation, I never thought of that in my
life NO good thing conies out of—no, ?Mt
Nazareth—BUT TIIAT OTHER PLACE."
There is something significant, if not
suspicious, in the fact that this denial
comes at so late a day, that it has been made
by none but Mr. Doyle himself, and that he
denies so little. Perceiving the importance
of his words, which he, too, seems now to
realize, we have in each issue of the JOUR
NAL si.ce the meoling of that convention
six weeks ago, charged him with having
used them, and, at one time, called atten
tion to their omission from the hfiniltor's
report of his remarks. Although thus
challenged, that paper has never made the
denial or explanation now attempted by .111 r.
Doyle himself, and while publishing his let
ter, has preserved a perfect silence upon the
subject. The other organ, to which he
certainly could have looked for a defence,
if any could have been made, has offered
110171 e.
Left to his own resources by the Demo
cratic and Greenback newspapers, and ad
vised, no doubt, unwisely and injudi
ciously, to say something, to appease the
wrath of insulted Democracy, he rushes
into the following absurdity :
I did not use the term, "the other place."—
My expression was, "no good thing comes out of
—no not Nasareth—but the place beyond."
The reason why I used the words, " the place
beyond," was simply this : when I proceeded
in the sentence as far as Nazareth, I rememberd
that Jesus came from that sacred place, and
hence I did not think it proper to compare any
party with it. To finish the sentence, there
fore, I said—"no not Nazareth, but the place
beyond ;" without attaching any importance
or meaning to that expression, save as a sub
stitute for a sacred name, and the finishing of
the sentence.
Can this be true ! Let the question be
answered without any insinuation in the
negative from us. We would hesitate about
coming to an unfavorable conclusion con
cerning the truthfulness of one of whom
we have entertained so high an opinion
personally as we always have of Rev. Doyle.
And if his assertion is correct, we would
not deprive him of the benefit of it. It
has been far from our purpose to misrep
resent or injure him. .
But he is a minister of the gospel and
has preached many able and excellent ser
mons, he is a writer of some ability, and
an orator, as he proved himself, even in a
Greenback convention. He has had the
reputation of being a sensible man, of
knowing the meaning of words, and of
never using them foolishly or lightly. Can
it be that in speaking to a political con
vention upon such an important occasion
as his nomination for a high office, and
upon such a great subject as the Demo
cratic party, he actually ran out of words
with which to express himself, or out of
ideas to express, and went on talking in
meaningless jargon, "as a substitute for a
sacred name and the finishing of the sen
tence ?" What a poor "substitute" for a
"sacred name" are words to which the
speaker himself attaches "no importance
or meaning." Was it the atmosphere by
which he was surrounded, the presence of
his party friends, and the associations of a
Greenback convention, that took away his
self-composure and good sense ?
Leaving Rev. Doyle just where he has
placed himself, we will introduce another
extract from his letter, and in answering
it will state the authority upon which
we assert that he did use the words, "that
other place," and not "the place beyond :"
That the political editor of the Journal, in
presenting me to the Democratic party as one
who compared that party to Dell, did so, not
because he believed what he charged to be
true, but because he hoped thereby to preju
dice that party against me, must be evident to
every intelligent and unbiased person, no mat
ter what may be his political faith.
If Mr. Doyle regards us as the originator
of the charge as to his language, he is mis
taken. We have stated heretofore, as he
must be aware, that we had a reporter in
that convention, Mr. R. McDivitt, who
took down faithfully and correctly his
words, who had no motive for misrepre
senting them, and who furnished them to
us from his notes. We are willing that a
discriminating public shall determine which
is more likely to be correct, Mr. McDivitt,
who was there for the purpose of reporting
the proceedings, or Mr. Doyle, who de
pends upon his recollection and whose
words, according to his own statement, were
senseless and meaningless.
Now, let us call attention again to the
other significant fact, that he denies so lit
tle. We allege that he said, "./Ind to look
to the DEMOCRATIC party for salvation, I
never thought of that in my life." He does
not refer to this in his letter. It is prac
tically confessed, and we presume he will
stand by it. Will Democrats give him the
"salvation" for which he will not look to
them ?
SECRETARY SHERMAN has ordered that
on and after Monday next the Treasury
at Washington and the several Sub Treas
uries of the United States shall exchange
standard silver dollars for United States
notes. This will be recognized, or ought
to be, by all shades of financial opinion as
an important step in the right direction.
It makes greenbacks practically available
for all the purposes for which coin is now
used. Each dollar of them may be ex
changed for a dollar in silver, which is a
legal tender and is receivable in payment
of import duties and for the fbur per cent.
bonds. It is also so near an approach to
resumption of specie payments as to cause
a further decrease in the premium on gold,
and will assist in bringing actual resump
tion in commercial transactions before the
date for the Government to resume. Will
the Nationals accord to Secretary Sherman
and the Republican party the credit they
are entitled to for this new effort to make
a greenback dollar equal in value to a gold
dollar ? Are not such measures better
than inflation and the driving of gold and
silver out of circulation and supplying
their places with depreciated paper cur.
rency ?
THE Communists of Massachusetts have
nominated Ben. Butler for Governor.
I PERFIDIOUS DEMOCRACY.
The Democratic leaders in Huntingdon
county are bise, false, inconsistent and in
sincere. They have nut at any election
during the last nine years supported a Dem
ocratic ticket, if they could by any kind of
legerdemain transfer the support of their
party to the candidates of another party.
They lf•tve been f,r fu-ion at all times and
with anybody whom they could induce to
unite with them. When the Republicans
were divided into opposing elements, they
coinbinc , l first with one side and then with
the other. They did not stop to inquire
about the name, color, character, antece
dents, or qualifications of those with whom
they allied themselves or of the candi
dates whom they endorsed. Anything,
they said, to smile the spoils. Their
policy was to divide and conquer. They
pursue the same course to day. - Could
they have united with what they term the
"Woods faction" in this campaign, they
would willingly have done so and would
have accepted the candidates whom they
now denounce because of their friendly
relat.ons with the gentleman whose leader
ship they so bitterly denounced. Could they
have thrilled a coalition with what they call
the "Orlady faction" in opposition to any
other portion of the Republican party, they
would gladly have supported any candidate
he might have suggested to them. Has
not their history shown these statements
to be true ? Have they ever exhibited any
inclination to follow a direct and consistent
line of action as a party ? After several
fusions with Republicans, they now sur
render their whole party organization to
the Nationals, taking the ticket of the
latter without hesitation or reserve.
And yet, when the Republicans are
united, as they now are and have been fbr
the last three or four years, much to the
chagrin and disappointment of the Dem
ocrats, their fortunate condition in this
respect is urged as a reason why Republi
cans should not support their ticket.—
Why, as we hive said, the Democrats
would rejoice to vote solidly for any portion
of that ticket if they could thereby secure
any advantage to themselves. It is not
alleged that our ticket is weak, or that our
candidates lack ability and honesty, that
they so violently oppose it. They do not
urge a single personal objection to any one
upon it, but play upon what they conceive
to be a prejudice against prominent and
influential members of our party who have
the same interest that other Republicans
have, and no more, in its success.
The Monitor• goes back to the files of our
local newspapers of 1869, for extracts to be
used in its arguments against a portion of
oar ticket. But does not the Monitor re
member that in that year the Democratic
party co operated politically with some of
those whom it now stigmatizes as unworthy
of public confidence ? And does it not re
member further that in the following year,
1870, it supported the very men whom it
denounced the year before. "Anything
for spoils," has been the motto of the Dem
ocratic party in this county for years. Un
der its present leadership, it has never
enunciated any other sentiment of politi
cal policy. It has had no principle but to
succeed, even if success had to be attained
by the sacrifice of every doctrine that hon
est Democrats ever adhered to. The men
who have been leading it in this course are
base politically and personally.
WHAT A KETTLE OF FISH.
Years ago Huntingdon county was fa
mous for political wonders. But never be
fore did it see such admixtures of all the
odds and ends that Speer has been trying
to tie up in one bag this fall. The world
has never before witnessed the like. A
Labor party, without a laboring man on
its ticket. The proud Democracy merged
into the ephemeral Greenback. Speer
owning two papers, running two parties,
and trying to ride two horses running in
opposite directions. A salary grabber ma
nipulating a Reform party to promote his
own selfish purposes. Specimen of a po
litical reformed thief. Expediency rides
over former professed principles. The
great "what-is-it ?" ticket. The anti cor
poration, anti-monopolist and anti note
shaver's banker for Congress. Hard-shell
Democrat Foust and hell-denouncer Doyle.
Spiritual medium and orthodox preacher.
Opening prayers and infidelity. Sore heads
and sap-heads. Rule in hell rather than
serve in heaven. Extremes meet. Owls
and snakes in the same hole. Speer, North
and Bailey, Rev. Labor Foust, Reformed
Esquire Doyle, and little "Daddy" Fleming.
Did mortal eyes ever see such a mess ?
Spe(r-ites and spirits—disembodied and
green, make such a mixture as the world
has never seen.
Black spirits and white ; red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, all that mingle may.
'What unions are here witnessed, what
coalitions entered into, what fusions patch
ed, what conspiracies formed to decieve,
to cheat, to blindfold and over-reach the
people ! Those who profess opposite princi
ples, who with acrimony have assailed and
with bitterness denounced each other are
now seen to coalesce for selfi4h purposes,
to heal private griefs and throw their pro
fessed principles aside, in order to gratify
their avarice, vent their spite or feed their
unholy ambition. Men whose sentiments
are as opposite as light and darkness asso
ciate together, resolve that they have con
fidence in the integrity of each other, then
require shrewdly worded extra pledges
from their candidates. With others of
them, there is but one idea that actuates
them, namely, detraction of men, like the
Camerons, who stood up for our country
in the day of her peril. No calumny how
ever groundless, no falsehood however un
blushing, no charge however silly, no in
vention however wicked are spared against
such efficient, loyal men. Floods of filthi
est abuse, torrents of the boldest, vilest
calumny are poured out on the truest and
best of our patriots.
Speer's .Mud-Slinger, his organ No. 2,
has taken its cue from organ No. 1, and
this week opens its flood-gates of Billings
gate against Mr. Williamson. Mr. Speer
can't run the Prothonotary's office whilst
Williamson has charge of it, which ac
counts for him hissing his kennel at his
heels.
RALLY, Republicans, and attend the
township meetings.
THE GAME DEVELOPING.
One More Card Out.
The secret workings of the back-pay
Salary Grabber are being day after day
brought to light, but as his political exis
tence is based on the result of this cam
paign we must expect desperate means to
be employed.
He uses the Greenback Labor party as
his stock in trade. By his design the nom
ination of their candidates was wrested
from the honest element of their conven
tion, and men obnoxious to the rank and
file of that party, on account of their be
ing known lackeys of Speer, were forced
upon them. When the Democrats met in
convention for the same reason their strong
est men were set down in the back seats)
and by Speer's resolution the people were
recommended to endorse his first ticket.
His every action proves his desperate in
tentions. The open intimacy of North
and Fleming, the purchase of the Nation
alist, the slap at Mr. Fries, the boast of
Fleming. in their convention, that "the
Greenbackers were to be used to defeat the
Republican party this fall, and that in two
years the Democrats could do without
them and defeat the field." Baker, a man
of high repute, was forced off for the rea
son that he would not serve their purpo
ses, and James Smith, who is known as
one of his most obedient men servants, was
substituted.
In last week's issue of organ No. 1, he
has the devilish effrontery to justify, yea,
claim credit, for taking the iniquitous
Back• Pay Salary Steal, and now he follows
it up with a secret circular, headed "Doc
ument No. 1," issued by the Democratic
State Committee, of which he is chair
man, which is confidentially given to
Greenbackers, who were Democrats, earn
estly, almost prayerfully, calling on them
not to support Mason, but to return and
SUPPORT DILL AND THE BALANCE OF THE
TICKET.
Republicans are expected to vote for
Mason, but not a Democrat who receives
one of these circulars will ; they will all
vote against Col, Hoyt by voting square
for Dill. The most officious Greenbacker
to receive Mason, conduct him to the
Leister House, and busiest at introducing
him to Republicans, has all the time said
he would vote for Andy Dill and J. Simp_
son Africa.
Does it require anything further to con
vince Republicans, who act with the Na
tionalists, that they are being sold out and
their franchises bartered to serve the per
sonal aspirations of a National plunderer
who despises their principles ?
Do Speer's candidates for legislature
look like Labor Reformers ? A wealthy
merchant who has accumulated large means
by exacting from the poor, and a preacher
without a charge, who has abandoned the
service of God and now bows down to a
political mammon, who has left his godly
calling and is now tramping through this
and adjoining counties making political
speeches.
Read and reflect before you do the ser
vile bidding of a man who will sacrifice
friends and his own honor to succeed for
self. Do not sell your party and deliver
to an open foe the honest allegiance you
owe the party which preserved the nation
from destruction at the hands of Speer
and his kind.
DILL ON FINANCE.
The following is the portion of Dill's
speech at McConnellsburg, which was tel
egraphed to and published in the limes :
The rag baby sprang from the loins of the
Republican party. It was conceived and
brought forth when the Republican party con
trolled both branches of the National Legisla
ture. The Democratic party says that if a ne
cessity for this measure ever existed it exists
still, and forced contraction shall not take
place. Contrasting the principles of the Green
back and Democratic parties the speaker said
that the Democratic party insists that the vol—
ume of Greenback currency shall not be di
minished, because the necessity still exists.
The main idea of the Greenback party is that
the National Legislature has the right to make
paper a legal tender. The Democratic party
believes that there is no legal tender but gold
and silver, and that under the Constitution
there is no right in existence to make paper a
legal tender.
After this talk about the "rag baby,"
and the Democratic belief "that there is no
legal tender but gold and silver," and that
the Government has no Constitutional right
"to make paper a legal tender," perhaps
the Nationals will receive with some hesi
tation the effort to make the impression
that Mr. Dill is a good Greenback candi
date. He is correct in saying that the
"rag baby," as he called it, "was conceiv
ed and brought forth when the Republican
party controlled both branches of the Na
tional Legislature." Although done in a
very ungracious way, this is giving credit
to the party to which it properly belongs.
Nationals need but to read the above brief
report of Mr. Dill's speech to be convin
ced which are the friends of the theory of
legal tender notes, the Democrats or the
Republicans. A few days before this
speech, the Pittsburgh Past (Democratic)
claimed Mr. Dill as a Greenbacker, as fol
lows :
It would certainly be a funny controversy a
debate between Dill and Mason on the green
back-financial question, as we hardly think
there is a shadow of difference between them,
or for the matter of that, their platforms, in
all that is practical or valuable in the finan
cial question.
THE Democratic organs call loudly upon
the Nationalists to rally to their standard
in opposition to the re-election of Senator
Cameron. At the same time, they point
to his record upon financial issues and set
him down as a "soft money" man. The
Harrisburg Patriot and Philadelphia Times
pursue this contradictory policy. Their
efforts to drag him into the campaign in
this way, proves that they will hesitate at
no inconsistency, however glaring, to con-
vert the contest into a personal one against
a prominent member of the Republican
party. How would it be if the Nationals
should take them at their word and ac
cept Mr. Cameron as the representative of
their own views ?
TUE election for State officers in Maine,
on Monday last, resulted in no choice by
the people, but as the Legislature is Re
publican, Gov. Conner, the Republican
candidate, will be chosen.
G. DAWSON COLEMAN, a prominent
citizen, and president of the State board
of public charities, died at his residence,
in Lebanon, on Monday afternoon.
THE Southern Democrats adopt a great .
variety of methods of overcoming, de
stroying, or capturing the political power
of the negroes. In some sections they at
tempt it by intimidation or the shot-gun
policy, as it is called. But in South Car
olina a wore cunning scheme has been
devised. An orator at a political meeting
in that State suggested to the blacks how
it might be made to their pecuniary ad
vantage to vote with the Democrats. He
informed his audience that each man re
presented the sum of nine hundred dollars
—that having been the average price of a
negro in 1860. "Now," said he, "if you
will vote the Democratic ticket, we will
make the Yankees pay for you, and then
we will give you half of the money." He
then illustrated the beauty of this plan by
singling out a man with a wife and eight
children, for whom the Yankees were to
be made to pay nine thousand dollars.
The N orth," continued this orator, "will
have to pay me this nine thousand dollars,
when I will give one half of this sum to
Uncle Jim, and keep the other half my
self." This, he argued, would make Un
cle Jim independent, and be a much bet
ter thing than "forty acres and a mule."
To compel the North to pay them for
their slaves, they would bribe the negroes
with a portion of the spoils. The North
American says in regard to this scheme :
"We may laugh at this Charleston lawyer,
who tells his 'dear colored friends' that
when the South gets control it will make
the Yankees pay for the slaves. But
while we laugh, it is as well to remember
that almost every Democratic leader of
note in the North took decided ground in
favor of remunerating the slave owners
for their emancipated chattels. It does
not much matter that the organic law, as
amended, declares all claims for compensa
tion for slaves emancipated illegal. Unless
the Republicans build well, and high, and
strong, the defences of the Constitution,
the day will come when a desperate effort
will be made to supersede the prohibition,
and with the solid South at their back, the
[Democrats dare do anything."
THE imputations in the Monitor against
the character of Mr. Williamson, our can
didate for Prothonotary, that he runs his
office in the interest of any man, are un
gentlemanly and unwarranted. Such
charges will inure to the benefit of that
gentleman, and the honest men of this
county will teach the calumniator who
makes them, by electing Mr. Williamson
by a large majority, that they do not sanc
tion the wholesale slanders uttered against
him from week by week through the col
umns of that sheet. The character of Mr.
Williamson is beyond the reach of the
scribblers who figure in the Monitor.
POLITICAL CHOW-CHOW.
—ln Speer's M'Connellaburg speech he didn't
refer to the "shirt-tail" brigadelonce.
When the Monitor is prating of enormous taxes
it should have the honesty to tell its readers
that these taxes are the fruit of the Democratic
rebellion.
—The Monitor can rest its soul in peace, for we
assure it that Senator Fisher will not resign, and
that he will be on band next winter to oppose
Speer or any other Democrat for a seat in the
United States Senate.
—When Mr. Chairman Speer speaks of the
"swift hand of the avenger" he has in his mind
the indignant people of Huntingdon who bounced
him from the Congressional ticket because he
filched his back-pay.—Harrisburg Telegraph.
—The last speech of Andrew H. Dill, in the
State Senate, was made against the granting of a
pension to a one-armed soldier,crippled while in
the military service of the State. Soldiers, re
member this when you come to cast your ballots.
—The Lewistown Gazette says that for the first
time in the political history of this State a broth
or of the democratic candidate for Governor, who
holds a kind of missionary appointment in the
M. E. Church, makes it a point wherever ho goes
personally to solicit votes for his brother.
—Messrs. North and Doyle, of our town, made
speeches at a Greenback meeting in Mifflintown
one night last week. Republicans from that coun
ty tell us that the movement is under Democratic
auspices, thinking to weaken the Republican
strength in that county. "That's what's the mat
ter" with the movement here, end all sensible and
honest men are leaving the party like rats desert
ing a sinking ship.
—The Democratic papers in this Congressional
District, and the Monitor in particular, are insist
ing that Senator Fisher resign his seat in the
Senate. This is "cheeky" to say the least, when
they are supporting Judge Ross, who now holds
office. This reminds us very much of the fellew
who married a colored wench and then cast up to
his brother that he had a nigger sister-in-law.
—Hon. P. Gray Meek, of the Bellefonte Watch
man, is a candidata for Congress in the Centre
District. Ex-Governor Curtin is also a candidate,
and there promises to be fun in the Democratic
fold over there. Meek has donned his war paint
and feathers, and in his issue of last week gave
Aleck McClure, who is championing the cause of
Curtin, his man Friday, some wholesome advice.
—Down in Huntingdon county there are a num
ber of persons who ain't running for office catch
ing particular thunder, while the candidates
themselves escape the thunderbolts —Altoona Tri
bune.
So far as the fusion candidates are concerned
they are mere cats-paws for Salary Grabber Speer,
and all that is necessary to insure their defeat is
to let the honest voters of the county know this
fact. We don't eare much about the candidates,
wer'e after the man who made them.
—The popularity of H. G. Fisher, has won for
him the nomination for Congress in the eighteenth
Congressional district, and the next news we shall
hear after the election, will be that Horatio is
"booked" for Washington. He is eminently a
man of the people, and for the people; yet we can
hardly understand why they wish to send him
down there among those wicked men who infest
the capital of our nation.—Osceola Reveille.
He is just the kind of a man to send there.
His good example may be the means of improving
the morals of those "wicked men."
—Huntingdon is just now trying to find out
who runs the National Greenback party in that
county.—Osceola Reveille.
Yon are mistaken. We have known for months
that that party was being run in the interest of
R. Milton Speer, and at their convention, in
August Mr. North handed it over, "body and
breeches," to the keeping of the Salary Grabber,
as was evidenced by the nomination of his fast
friend and political tool, B. F. Foust, for the
Legislature. Oh, no, we know who runs it, and
we also know that it is almost "run in the ground."
—A Democrat, who writes in the Monitor over
the signature of "A Republican," is anxious that
we "let up" on the "Salary Grab." Well, Mr.
Democrat, we don't propose to do anything of the
kind. Mr. Speer has undertaken to run the op
position to the Republican party in this county
under the banner of "reform," and we don't .a
tend that he shall play the fart of a demagogue
without exposure. A man with $5,000 of the peo
ple's money in his pocket, is a pretty specimen to
bawl "reform." Vote the Republican ticket
from Col. Hoyt down to Mr. Brown, and by so
doing you will assist in defeating Mr. Speer in
"the battle of hi, life."
—No act of Congress awakened so great a feel
ing of contempt among the people as the "Back
Salary Act." Mr. Speer, who was in Congress,
not only favored the measure, but he took the
"back salary ;" and now a certain clique of his
party have succeeded in putting him at the head
of the State organisation as Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee. how much
re form can there be in a "back salary grabber,
or in any reform measures that he may propose.
The people are nut so blind as to follow so blind
a reformer. As a gentleman Mr. Speer is pleasant
enough, but how pleasant was Satan when he
beguiled the first parents.—Juniata Sentinel.
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sallow appearance of the skin peculiar to
habitual invalids, and persons deficient in
vital energy, is replaced by a more becoming
tinge. [sep.6lm.
Can the Truth Overtake a Lie ?
Investigation discloses the fact that the
lady reported in the Associated Press dis
patches, about Aug. 10th, to have died in
Chicago after two weeks' use of some reputed
remedy for corpulency, had not taken Allan's
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that physicians attributed the lady's death to
the use Of Anti-Fat (which is only put up by
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NOTICE TO TRESSPASSERS.
Notice is hereby given that the law will be
enforced against all persons found treespassing
upon the lands of the undersigned, lying on the
East branch of Stone Creek, in Jackson-town
ship.
J. C. CUMMINS, JNO. CUMMINS,
WESLEY MILLER, STERRETT CUMMINS,
W. H. HOMER, CYRUS CUMMINS,
Sept.l3-3t*) ROBERT CUMMINS.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
-A- UNITED STATES, for the Western District
of Pennsylvania. JAMES MAGUIRE, of Maple
ton, Huntingdon county, Pa., a Bankrupt under
the Aot of Congress of March 2d, 1867, having
applied for a discharge from all his debts, and
other claims provable under said act, by order of
the,Court, Notice is hereby given to all creditors
who have proved their debts, and other persons
interested, to oppear on the 25th dsy of Septem
ber, 1878, at 10 o'clock, A. Y., before John Broth
erline, eeq.,
Register in Bankruptcy, at his office,
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, to show cause, if
any they have, why a discharge should not be
granted to the said Bankrupt.
S. C. McCANDLESS,
sept.l3-2t. Clerk.
ASSIGNEE'S SALE
---- OF -
Valuable Real Estate.
ASSIGNED ESTATE OF AARON STEWART.
By virtue of an order of the Court of
Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, Penn's.,
the undersigned, Assignee of Aaron Stewart, will
expose to public sale, on
_ _
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878,
at 2 o'clock, r. N., at the Court House, in Hun
tingdon, Pa., the following described real estate,
to wit :
No. I.—A part of a lot, situate on the
south side of Penn street, in the borough of Hun
tingdon, fronting twenty-one feet and two inches,
and extending in depth at right angles to said
street one hundred feet, being part of lot No. 87
in the recorded plan of said borough, having
thereon erected a TWO STORY BUILD
/ ) ING, now occupied by Weal .1 Long. To
liibe sold subject to the annual payment
of eighty dollars to Mrs: Catharine WV
- longbby durin: her natural life, and
the payment of one thousand three hundred and
thirty dollars and thirty-three cents, at the death
of Mrs. Catharine Willoughby, to the heirs and
legal representatives of Armstrong Willoughby.
See mortgage given by Aaron Stewart to David
Black, trustee, recorded in Register's offlee of
Huntingdon county, Pa., in Mortgage book No.
5, on page 258.
No. 2.—A part of lot No. 146, in the
recorded plan of said borough, fronting 50 feet on
Mifflin street, and extending back at
right angles thereto 50 feet, having i.
thereon erected a two-story FRAME
DWELLING HOUSE, now occupied by
Charles Stewart.
No. 3.—A part of lot No. 146, in the
recorded plan of said borough, adjoining the
above described lot, fronting on Fourth
; street fifty feet, and extending back at
111 right angles thereto fifty feet, having
I" thereon erected a TWO STORY FRAME
DWELLING HOUSE, now occupied
by Aaron Stewart.
TERMS OF SALE.—One-third of the purchase
money to be paid on confirmation of the sale by
the Court, the balance in two equal annual pay
ments, with interest from the confirmation of sale,
to be secured by judgment bonds of purchaser.
GEO. B. ORLADY,
Assignee.
Huntingdon, Pa., Sept. 13, 1878-Bt.
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