The Huntingdon Journal
J. A. NASH,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A.
FRIDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 20, 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 :
Han. JAMES P. STERRETT,
OF ALLEGHEN Y,
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR :
Hon. CHARLES W- STONE,
OF VENANGO
SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS:
Capt. AARON K. DUNKEL7
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
REOISTIER AND RECORDER:
•4, D. KUNTZLEMAN, of Huntingdon.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY :
GEORGE B. ORLADY, of Huntingdon
TREASURER:
S. 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. 11. DAVIS, of Morris,
A. W. BROWN, of Cassville.
THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED.
The election, November sth.
Voters must pay a State and county tax by
Saturday, October sth.
Foreigners must be naturalized by October
sth.
HOYT ON FINANCE.
Professing to be an honest man, the candi
date of an honest organization, I favor honest
money.
The volum3 of the currency should be reg
ulated by legitimate demand, and not by the
requirements of bankrupts and wild specula
tors.
The currency should be redeemable as early
as the exigencies of the Government will per
mit, in the currency recognized by all civili
sed nations.
The contracts of the Government should be
held as sacred as the contracts of individuals,
and the bonds, the evidence of its indebted•
ness, should be paid according to the under
standing between the Government and the
lender.—Speech at Butler, Sept. 2, 1878.
Tn Nationals o" Juniata county, on
Monday last, endorsed C. C. North, of
this place, for Congress.
BORING hasn't more than the ghost of a
chance. Bat that's chance enough for a
spiritualist.
TELE twelve Judges of Common Pleas
Courts of Philadelphia have re-appointed
Col. Wm. B. Mann Prothonotary.
IT is generally believed that Rev. Doyle's
words, instead of being "a substitute for a
sacred name," were a substitute for Hell.
There is some difference.
KUNTZLEMAN knows all about the duties
of the office for which he has been nomina
te& and being a young man of unblemished
reputation the people of this county can
not do better than elect him by a rousing
majority.
THE Nationals of the Blair district met
in Altoona and nominated Samuel Adams,
of Somerset county, for Congress. The
candidates are Campbell, of Cambria, and
Coffroth and Adams of Somerset. Gen.
Campbell will have an easy victory.
THE Nationals are no longer the third
party in Maine. They have 35,000 votes,
while the Democrats have bat 28,000.
The greenback movement was encouraged
by the latter and now it seems likely to
swallow them up. They preach "soft
mr)ney," and those whom they convert to
their views carry them into practice by
voting for the Greenback candidates. This
is very natural and logical.
B. F. FOUST claims that he is the friend
of the laboring man. We know of an in
stance where he exhibited his friendship(?)
by refusing to allow a poor man the use
of his warehouse scales because he did not
buy the article to be weighed from him.
Of course Mr. Foust has a right to refuse
the use of his scales to whom he chooses,
but his action in this case was caused by
his greed of gain. Vote for Smith and
M'Vitty, neither of whom could be guilty
of a dirty trick of this kind.
Tau national debt reached its highest
point on the 31st day of August, 1865. It
then amounted to $2,843,151,605. On the
Ist day of July last it was $2,250,611,332,
showing a reduction of $592,540,273. At
the former date, we were paying interest
at the rate of $150,977,697 per annum.
We are now paying about $94,000,000, a
decrease of nearly $67,000,000 per annum.
The barthens placed upon us by a Demo
cratic rebellion are gradually being remo
ved by the Government, controlled by Re
publican policy. Shall we thus continue
to lighten our load of debt and interest ?
No party favors that course but the Re
publican.
EVFAY Republican knows from rough
experience what it is to work for a prin
ciple. His party has been engaged every
moment of its existence since its formation
in a desperate struggle. Its battles have
been many and long continued, and were
never lost, because victory was necessary
to the salvation of the country. It taught
the people of the world, especially those of
the South, that our national unity could
not be:destroyed. To it we are all in
debted for oar personal security, for the
safety of our homes, for the protection of
the law. The same party must now teach
the lesson that the national credit must not
be impaired, that our obligations and good
faith must not be violated, that our cur.
rancy must not be depreciated, that the
country must be saved from the disaster
and disgrace which dishonesty and repudia
tion would heap upon it. This will re
quire another bard battle, but success will
again 60 ours.
MASON'S SPEECH ONCE MORE
AND FINALLY.
Editor
We would willingly stop with what has
been said, and bid Mr. Mason farewell,
but where shall we find a stopping place
so long as any part of this extremely vulner
able liarauf!ue remains without comment.
As we have already said, it is a great pity
that there is not a full report of the very
words of the speech. That portion of it
in which Mr. Mason, endeavored to show
how easily money of different degrees of
value could be made from the crude copper,
silver, or paper has been so well attended
to by the Harrisburg Patriot that it is only
necessary to insert here the following ex
tract front the Patriot of the 4th inst. :
"The Hon. S. R. Mason, the 'National' candi
date for Governor, addressed an audience of res
pectable size in the court house last night. The
money question was of course his principal theme.
He came out fiat-footed for 'flat' money, and in
dulged in some very fallacious reasoning on the
subject. his illustration, for instance, of the pow
er of the government to make a dollar out of a
piece of paper by simply stamping upon it the
declaration, 'This is One Dollar,' was neither cor
rect nor happy. He said that the Trade Dollar
although containing 420 grains of silver was worth
less than the United States dollar of 4124 grains,
and that this proved the potency of the govern
ment stamp. But ho failed to inform his audi
ence that while the trade dollar is worth 90 cents
without the government stamp a piece of paper of
the size of a bank-note would sot be worth one
cent without the government stamp. So that his
attempt to prove by this illustration that the in
trinsic value of the article used as money has
nothing to do with its purchasing quality was not
as satisfactory to his hearers as some of them
could have desired."
Is it worth our while to follow this cun
ningly devised harangue further, abound
ing as it does in such glaring fallacies and
positive misrepresentations ? Unless this
man were now before the people as a can
didate for the honorable post of Governor
of the State we would not have felt called
upon to give him even so much notice as
we have given him. Much that he says
may safely be left to fall upon its own de
merits, for it does not have enough merit
to make it stand. Of this character is that
nonsense which he gave us about National
bank currency. It seemed a cheap rating
of the intelligence of his audience when
he talked so loftily about the paper cur
rency of Venice as a non-interest bearing
currency. And what must he have thought
of the practical common sense of the peo
ple when he said we would have a much
better financial system, a safer and more
satisfactory currency, if the Government
would issue all the currency and abolish
all the National banks with their subordi
nate issues, and that, as things are. how
this would be better, lie did not explain.
How it would be safer or cheaper to the
people, so long as the Government bonds
exist, he did not and cannot show. Let
any man show, if he can, how $90,000
would be better secured than it now is by
the deposit of $lOO,OOO in bonds with the
Government as security for the redemption.
Having done this he might try the task of
proving that anything would be gained by
th.(' people if, with such security as is fur
nished by the bonds, the Government, with
all its other great cares, should assume the
business of attending to every private cit
izen's bank account without the interven
tion of some such agency as a National
bank. No wonder that the man, after all
his vain tirade against currency, banks,
and bonds, should have a twinge of remorse
started up for himself, by the under-strat
um of hard money democracy that used to
give the key-note and battle-cry to his po
litical struggles of other days, and still
lingers within him, that forced him,
against his will, perhaps, and in spite
of his cunning fallacies, to declare himself
in favor of bonds at a low rate of interest
and running on long time. What is bred
in the bone will come out in the flesh, and
Mr. Mason is too old a dog not to let out,
now and then, some of the tricks that he
learned in his earlier days, even when he
is trying hard to play other tricks that
promise better luck. Is he not a demagogue ?
Another conspicuous mistake was made
by Mr. Mason, when he attempted to en
courage the party that he misrepresents as
a candidate "not to despair of success be
cause% beginnings are so small." He
was unfortunate in this effort at consola
tion and inspiration. It will not do for a
man who desires the votes of Republicans
to tell them tiat the inauguration of the
Republican party, as a party, was "uncon
stitutional ;" and the steps it took from
time to time in its progress towards the fi
nal deliverance of this nation from its
years and badges of paralyzing thraldom
"were unconstitutional," and defiantly so.
"Although unconstitutional," he said "it
has grown and grown until it became the
tremendous power we have seen controll
ing the policy of the nation. "Therefore,"
he left every one free to argue. "therefore,
it won't matter whether we are constitu
tional in our proceedings or not, if we can
only succeed." Now Mr. Mason knows,
or ought to know, that issuing paper mon
ley, at all, by the Government, is only jus
tified by the Constitution AS A WAR
MEASURE, and not desirable as a measure
in time of peace. But 'the Republican
party paid no attention" he says "to the
Constitution," and left us to infer that we
need not be particular to do better. If
this is not an open invitation to anarchy,
what is it ? But it is not true that "the
Republican party had its birth in uncon
stitutional cabals and attained its maturity
by unconstitutional measures." This is
simply one of Mr. Mason's slanderous
misrepresentations and needs no other an
swer. And these are not times of war,
but welcome days of peace; and before
Mr. Mason goes further with his vain en
deavor to establish war measures in time
of peace, it would be commendable if he
would explain satisfactorily how it came
to pass that he was energetic, an opponent
of the Government when it was devising
and adopting the best possible war meas
ures, in time of war ; and cease to attack
measures that were indispensable for the
nation's life and safety, while be is advo
cating schemes that are absolutely forbid
den by the fundamental law of the land.
It must have been noticeably evident to
every unprejudiced person who heard the
plausible fallacies and misrepresentations
of Mr. Mason, that be spoke as one who
was pleading a case for a special purpose
without having any particular care as to
the result. In no one of his many sen
tences did he lead any person to feel that
his utterances proceeded from a deep con
viction of the truth and need of his doe.
trines. As he plead, so might any one
plead in a cause which was espoused only
as a temporary convenience and advocated
without any ardent hope or concern for
its success us a matter essentill to the
healthrul existence of the Governmcnt.
Such an advocate
.brings no credit to those
who set him forward. lie would bring
disaster even to a good cause. Every
speech he makes will more and wore im
peril a cause that is doubtful. Whatever
might be the merit of the principles of the
Greenback party, no genuine patriot will
consent to exchange men of known princi
ples awl steady fidelity, for uncertain' dem
agogues whose position on public questions
is so fluctuating that no one can tell, not
even they, to what scheme of political wis
dom or folly they will be steadfast for six
months at a time. From Mr. Mason's own
statements we were led to believe that,
after all his antagonism to bonds, we might
expect to find him, if elected Governor,
inviting us from one set of bonds to•anoth
er, and what sort of a financial dance he
might lead us before he was done, we could
only imagine. If only such disappointed
political aspirants as Mr. Mason is can be
found as candidates of the new party, the
party may already consider itself old and
dead.
In these days the people want honest
men, men of integrity, and fidelity to truth
and honor. Too many envious, jealous,
spiteful schemers are seeking notoriety and
power to day at the hands of people whom
they hope to cajole into a willingness to
become the executors of their splenetic
purposes. It is never safe to put such
men in power. Far better "bear the ills
we have than fly to others that we know
not of." Spiteful men are bad execution
ers, they kill too much, and know not
when to pause. They succeed in "conjur
ing and raising quite too many devils
while they seek some issue of their spite
ful execrations." No doubt there are evils
that might be remedied. But it is the
unmistakable duty of the people to see to
it that they do remedy and not multiply
evils. What aid, that is worth having,
can be expected from a demagogue like Mr.
Mason ? How can the solid people of
Pennsylvania be deceived by his incendia
ry fallacies ? Can he be Governor of Penn
sylvania by the aid of Republican votes ?
We have no doubt of the reply.
We take our leave of Mr. Mason in the
use of some very sensible utterances from
two persons who are now holding high posi
tions in the nation, and are also represen
tative men in the parties to which they
belong.
The first quotation is from Senator Wal
lace's speech at Lock Haven on the 9th
inst., and is good reading even if it does
come from a Democrat. It shows also
that the Democratic leaders today
are not all of one mind :
Is there such a thing as money separate from
value? It is the measure of value. As the meas
ure of weight must have weight, so the measure of
value must have value. It is not vital that it
should be intrinsic value, but it must be reducs.ble
to intrinsic value, readily and promptly. Gold
and silver have intrinsic value and make just
measures of value Paper, redeemable paper, the
maker of which can pay it on demand, paper in
quantity commensurate with the resources of the
maker, and convertible at will into taxes, debts or
coin may also be made the measure of value. Ir
redeemable paper, notes that the maker cannot
pay and does not promise to pay, or paper in un
limited quantity, and beyond the command of the
resources of the maker, are not and cannot be just
measures, for they fluctuate and vary in value,
and a measure that is longer one day than it is
the next is not a safe measure either of length or
of value. The stamp of the government may give
potency to paper, and may equalize it with money
of intrinsic value, but the quantity mast be limit
ed by our ability to promptly meet it; it must
have the confidence of the people and must be is
sued to supply an actual necessity of commerce.
The policy of the new organization that would is
sue large quantities of irredeemable paper in pay
ment of bonds to save interest - thereon would in
tensify the evils we have.
Here is the President's laconic state
ment at Madison, Wisconsin. How strong
and wise and unanswerable it is :
MADISON, Sept., 10 —The President received a
hearty welcome here to-day. Ile discussed infla
tion, saying that its friends wanted the dollar print
ed on good paper with a good-looking picture. The
cost of its production would be less than a cent. Here
we certainly had a great saving or 99 cents in la
bor over the silver or gold dollar. Now it cost no
more to print the word "two" than the word "one,"
and in that case we should save 198 cents. "My
friends," be said, "does it not begin to dawn upon
you that there is some mistake about this ; that
this is really inflation, and if Congress can pass a
law for such currency, which will not be good be
yond the boundaries of the Union, why may not
Wisconsin adopt a currency which will not be of
value beyond the State limits ?"
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These deliverances seem to wipe Mr.
Mason's absurd theories, and all other
Greenback inflation theories, quite out of
sight.
"PHANTOM FOOTSTEPS" is the name
of a new song. It ought to be sung by
the Oreenback evangelists at Boring's
meetings.
THE Greenback is the child of Republican
patriotism. Born of rebellion and cradled in
the conflict, it was the star of hope and prom
ise of redemption to struggling liberty. Per
secuted in its infancy by the Herods and High
Priests of Democracy, who sought the young
child's life, it was jeered for illegitimacy by
the Pendletons ; buffeted for vagabondism by
the Vallandighams ; mocked with a crown of
rags by the Thurmans, and crucified by Copper
heads and parricides on the cross of treason ;
a❑d now, on its re ascended estate and glory
of matured strength, the bondsmen to whom
it gave freedom, the heroes to whom it gave
victory, the patriots to whom it restored coun
try, have sworn that its old arch •enemy shall
not crucify it anew by substituting the wor
ship of their spurious god ; but receiving from
gratitude a crown of gold and silver, it shall
reign.—Judge West's Speech at Hillsboro.
HON H. G. FISHER, the Republican
candidate for Congress of this district,
spent Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning in our midst, and was cordially
received by his many friends. Mr. Fisher's
nomination has been well received through
out the District, and he made a good
impression here. He is a gentleman of
sterling integrity and will represent this
District in Congress according to the real
sentiments of its people. lle will be
heard from on the stump in this county
some time in October, probably during
Fair week, when it is intended to arrange
for ° a series of meetings at which he will
be present and discuss the vital issues of
the campaign, at various points in the
county. He begins his canvass in Fulton
county, today.
That our readers may form an idea of
the popularity and acceptability of his
candidacy, we reproduce on the first page
of to-day's Opiniox the expressions of the
press of the District, and other counties.
Such hearty unanimity is rarely seen, and
we believe that he will be elected by a
large majority. To this end Franklin will
do her share.— Chambersburg Public
Opinion of Tuesday.
IF the Greenback detectives should ar
rest and imprison members of their own
party for bribery, it would be a rtil on
them, surely.
THE SAME KIND OF MONEY FOR
ALL CLASSES.
It has been said very often by those who
would drive gold and silver out of circu
lation and replace them with greenbacks,
that the Government offers one kind of
money to the pen-inner and another to
the bondholder. The fact that this appeal
to the sympathies of the people for our
wounded soldiers and for the widows and
orphans of our dead ones comes from the
copperheads, who branded those soldiers
as -invaders," as "thieves and robbers,"
and as "Lincoln's hirelings," is enough to
cover it with suspicion as to its sincerity.
In reality it is baseless and fallacious. The
Republican party is bending all its efforts,
in the face of the bitterest oppositioa from
these same copperheads and their allies,
the so-called greenbackers, to furnish the
same kind of money to all classes and for
all purposes, or, in other words, to make
the different kinds of currency, treasury
notes and coin equal in value and, there
fore, interchangeable, the one for the oth
er. Resumption is intended to bring about
and will effect this result. As the day fixed
for the resumption of specie payments ap•
proaches, the price of gold falls. The pre
mium is now down to one-half of one per
cent., and will continue to decrease until
it disappears entirely. The pensioner can
then exchange the notes he receives for
coin, or can obtain coin from the Gov
ernment instead of notes, if he desires to
do so. In truth, payments of pensions are
now made in silver to those who prefer it,
the silver being a legal tender for all debts,
and equal in value, dollar for dollar, to
gold, and the fact that pensioners accept
the paper is evidence that they do not
want the coin. On the other hand, re
sumption practically secures payment of
the bonds and of the interest on them in
greenbacks. The bondholder will not
care what kind of money is given him if
it is worth as much as any other
kind of money. If gold and green
backs are exchangeable at equal values
for each ether, he will naturally, as a mat
ter cf convenience, accept the latter. He
will gain nothing by taking the former.—
The policy of the Republican party, there
fore, tends directly to the accomplishment
of the two purposes 'that Democrats and
Greenbackers clamor for so loudly, the
payment of the pensioners in gold and of
the bondholders in United States paper
money. In no other way can these objects
be attained than by that in which the
Government is now attempting it, by
making gold and greenbacks equal in value,
by resumption. The issuing of additional
treasury notes to the amount of many hun
dred millions of dollars, or to an extent to
which its advocates have placed no limit,
would cause an unlimited depreciation of
the greenback currency and thus decrease
the value of the small sum that the soldier,
or his widow and orphans, new receives. The
eight or ten dollars per month allowed them
by our laws now purchase three or four
times as much of the necessaries of life as
they did when the laws were passed, and to
again run up the price of gold, and of
every article purchased in the market, as
would inevitably follow, would have the
same effect as to decrease their pensions by
one-half or three fourths. The friends of
the pensioner are they who would increase
the value of greenbacks, rather than di
minish it. His real friend is the great Re
publican party which sustained him when
was denounced by a rebel Democracy, by
the same disloyal, cowardly, treacherous
Democracy that would now defile him with
its maudlin sympathy and hypocritie tears.
OUR, nominees for Legislature, Messrs.
MrWitty and Smith, are both active business
men, and knowing the wants of the people
will see that their interests are properly
guarded. They deserve well at the hands
of the Republican party.
WHAT INFLATION DID.
The Cincinnati Gazette presents an ex
planation of the labor depression that will
probably command more attention than
anything that has been said recently on the
subject. .That paper thinks there is one
great cause, and that is inflation. Here is
the gist of the Gazette's argument :
It was inflation that made everybody expand
their credit to the utmost, in the delusion that ev
erything they bought would rise in value on their
hands. It was the delusion of rising wealth, cre
ated by inflation, that caused the vast increase in
debts. It was inflation that neutralized the pro
tection of the tariff by increasing the cost of home
production, so that, as the bubble grew, foreign
imports increased. It was inflation that deranged
all the prices of labor, and of commodities, and of
fixed property; that made it harder for the work
man to support his family while nominally raising
his wages; that filled all the workmen with dis
content, and has caused them immense losses and
hardships by strikes, and that has turned a once
comfortable laboring population into a nation of
sorehead grumblers.
Is not every word here true ? Or who
can deny this : "It was inflation which
made such apparent profits for a time that
owners of factories and of iron furnaces
thought only of building more and of en
larging the old, and which led them to
build where the conditions were such that
only a continuance of inordinate profits
could sustain them." Run your eye over
Pittsburgh and see wherein this conclusion
is erroneous. "It was inflation that caused
farmers to stretch their credit to buy farms
and to stock and build upon them, and that
has thatched farms with mortgages." A
great drop in live stock, a prodigious fall
ing off in prices of produce of every de
scription—these help out the story. Com
pare the prices of cows, of horses. This will
not be denied. "It was inflation which
bankrupted traders by shriveling up the
values of their stocks and investments of
every kind, while their inflated debts re
mained the same as before ; which dried
up all the things to pay debts with, while
the debts grew greater by the process."
True, in every respect. And the truest
thing of all this : "It was the drunkenness
of inflation, whose natural reaction has fill
ed the land with soreheads, with men in
monetary delirium tremens, who are cry
ing for a renewal of the inflation debauch;
who say they were happy when they were
drunk, and they want more drink." Re•
spectfully recommended to the people who
want to repeat the process of inflation
Pittsburgh Chronicle-
IT is conceded by everybody that Geo.
B. Orlady is the man for the District
Attorney's office Elect him and you
will have an officer who will give scound
rels a "hard road to travel."
WHERE TO LOOK FOR WORK.
In the pending political contest in Penn
sylvania, says the llarrisburg Telegraph,
the Republican party occupies ground in
reference to the interests of workingmen
which no other party can or will take. In
the first place, it is the party of protection.
All the talk that can be done about "labor
reform" and "greenbacks," from new until
doomsday, will not help labor, because
matters of currency are controlled by the
laws of' commerce, supply and demand, and
the influence most potent on this is that
by which the labor of the land is pro
tected from undue and unfair competition
from abroad. Hence the policy of the
Republican party, as advocated in the
lower house of the present Congress, in•
volves the true interests of labor. If that
policy is carried into effect it will assure
the circulation of money, because it will
create a demand for home manufactures.
When our domestic manufactures are ac
tive ; when the spindles, the looms, the
furnaces, the forges, the rolling mills, the
nail works, shoe and boot factories, tailors,
carpenters, painters, joiners and other
skilled mechanics, are at work, money is
plenty. We must have work to make
money—and this work is what the Re
publican policy proposes to command for
the American manufacturer by protecting
him from the unfair competition of foreign
ers. The idea of swelling the circulating
mediums of the country is not the true
way to revive industry. All the world
knows, and experience of all nations has
demonstrated, that the Republican policy
is the true road to success. We don't be
lieve in shortening the inches of yard
sticks, or lessening the ounces of a pound.
This would not insure prosperity. The
true idea is to protect labor—to shield it
from outside injury. The laboring man
who understands this, and it is as plain a
truth as ever was uttered, will never desert
the Republican party.
" OF all the contrivances for cheating the
laboring classes of mankind, none has been
more effectual than that which deludes them
with paper money. It is the most effectual of
inventions for fertilizing the rich man's field
by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordi
nary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation
bear lightly on the masses of the community,
compared with fraudulent currencies and the
robberies committed Ly depreciated paper
money.
"We have suffered more from this cause
than from any other cause or calamity. It has
killed more men, pervaded and corrupted the
choicest interests of our country more, and
done more injustice than even the arms and
artifices of our enemy."—Daniel Webster.
THE record of twenty-five years of Dem.
ocratic control of the Legislature of Penn
sylvania prior to 1855 has not been wiped
out, and by that record the party must be
tried. During that period of Democratic
control a debt of forty millions was created,
and the credit of the Commonwealth se
riously impaired by neglect to fulfill its
obligations to its creditors. It was under
this regime that a system of expensive and
comparatively worthless public improve
ments was established, the cost of main
taining which, so far from having been
defrayed by the earnings, was an annual
addition to the debt burden. The Canal
Ring, a purely Democratic creation, once
known far and wide as the "Forty Thieves,"
flourished and enriched its members at the
expense of the taxpayers during all that
quarter of a century of Democratic rule in
Pennsylvania.
It was not until 1858 that a system of
debt paying, instituted under Republican
auspices, began to promise relief. The
public improvements were sold for less
than a quarter of what they had cost, it is
true, but for all they were worth, no doubt,
and the proceeds turned into the Treasury.
Sinoe 1860 the State has had Republican
Governors, and for the chief part of the
time Republican legislattires. In eighteen
years, then, the Republican party has
actually paid $20,000,000 of a total debt
of $42,000,000 created by Eernocrats, and
has provided for the gradual but certain
extinction of $9,000,000 in addition. The
debt to-day, less security in the sinking
fund, is only about thirteen millions. And
this reduction has not been felt by the
productive interests of 'the State. The
agricultural interest has been relieved of
all taxation on real property meantime,
while rich corporations, in the interest of
which it is charged that the Republican
party has legislated, are the heavy tax.
payers.—North American.
. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT has finally
came out for Dill. Now let Foust an
nounce himself. Dill or Mason; which?
SOMETHING FOR THE COLORED
VOTERS.
At this particular juncture, when the
Democracy are doing everything in thei r
power to weaken the faith of the colored
vote in the Republican party, and when
great parade is made of the fact that some
leaders among that people have left the
'party which gave them freedom and the
ballot and have joined the ranks of their
natural and inveterate enemy, we desire to
call the attention of the malcontents and
those they presume to lead to the follow
ing resolution, adopted by the !Democratic
State Convention of 1862, of which body
Hon. J. Simpson Africa, th 6 Democratic
candidatefor Secretary of internal kfairs,
was a member, an officer and member of
the committee on resolutions which framed
the platform. If, after the digestion of
this bit of Democratic history, the colored
voters of Pennsylvania can give their sup
port to the Democratic ticket, we cannot
imagine what argument would be strong
enough to prevent them:
Resolved' 9. That this is a Government of
WHITE MEN, and was established exclusively
for the WHITE RACE ; that the NEGRO
RACE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO AND OUGHT
NOT TO BE ADMITTED TO POLITICAL or
social equality with the white race, but that
it is our dute to treat them with kindness and
consideration, as an INFERIOR and DEPEND
ENT race ; that the right of the several States
to determine the position and duties of the
race is a soverign right, and the pledges of
the Constitution require us as loyal citizens
not to interfere therewith.—llarrisbnrg Tele
graph.
TUE Democratic Congressional Confer
ence for this district is in session at Mif.
flintown, and at the time we go to press,
(Thursday, 8 A. 3f.,) no candidate has
been nominated. On the thirty-eighth
ballot the vote stood, Stenger 9, Magee 9.
Hon John M. Bailey, had three votes up
to the thirty-seventh ballot when his name
was withdrawn.
REV. DOYLE ACCOMMODATED.
Rev. Doyle, one of Speer's candidates
for the Legislature, having expressed a de
sire to meet the Republicans in a joint
public discussion of the financial system or
policy of the Government, J. G. Isenberg,
esq.. as will be seen by the following let
ter, has concluded to accommodate that
gentleman, and if Mr. Doyle will now "face
the music" he will have his desire gratified:
HUNTINGDON, PA., Sept. 17, 1878
Rev. M. P. DOYLE.—Dear Sir :—Your re
!witted public challenge to discuss the present
financial system or policy of the U. S. Gov
ernment, as involved and discussed by you, in
its bearings on the coming election, is hereby
formally accepted. If my hitherto verbal and
now published acceptance of your challenge
is accepted by you, I will, at once, arrange
the necessary and proper preliminaries of the
discussion with you, and have the same as set
tled between us, published, informing the
voters of the county of the times and places,
when and where the same will be so discuss
ed. Yours truly,
J. G. ISENBERG,
Chairman Republican County Com.
REV. DOYLE never more sincerely spoke
the honest sentiments of his heart than
when he stood up in the Greenback con
vention and said, ".,Ind to look to the Dem
ocratic party for salvation, 1 never thought
of that in my life. No good thing comes
out of—no, not Nazareth, but THAT OTH
ER PLACE." These were the sentiments
imbibed by him during the treasonable and
hellish career of the Democratic party, and
how much nobler it would have been to
have stood up to them bravely and man
fully after having expressed them But in
order to secure the votes of Democrats he
explains and denies, he cringes, and stoops,
and cowers from his own bold words. Was
ever manhood so debased ! He not only
insulted Democracy, but turns now and
insults honesty and decency by declaring
that what he said had "no importance or
meaning" and was used "as a substitute for
a sacred name and the finishing of a sent
ence." How flimsy and transparent ! He
has followed one false step with another
He attempted to regain his lost footing and
failed 1 He has sunk into the lowest depths
of political degredation ! Look at him,
Democrats ! Look at him, Nationals ! Look
at him ! Look at him
CHAIRMAN SPEER is playing a deep
game. He yearns to get into the United
States Senate. It will be remembered
that several years ago Senator Wallace
slapped Speer's face in a Democratic con
vention because of his salary grabbing.
Wallace would not allow Speer to be made
president of the convention—but after en
forcing his repentance he has suffered him
to come forward again as chairman of the
Democratic Central Commiittee. Thus
recuperated Speer now aims to become the
equal of the castigator by reaching the
United States Senate, and to do this he is
making more effort, by trading and bargain
ing to elect a Democratic Legislature, than
he is to elect any of the Democratic candi
dates on the State ticket. It is a game
of cut-throat throughout among the Demo
crats. Speer is eminently selfish, grasping
and sinfully ambitious. He wants to
avenge the humiliation Wallace put upon
him, by reaching a place by his side in the
Senate. It's a pretty game, but it can't
win
THERE is still some dissatisfaction about
Foust and Doyle's pledge. Like true
Kearneyites, they ought to swear.
WE have the authority of reliable and
truthful Democrats for the statement that
Mr. B. R. Foust has declared since his
nomination by the Nationals that he is as
good a Democrat as ever he was, and that
if elected to the Legislature he expects to
vote for a Democrat for United States Sen
ator, because there will be no chance for
the election of a greenbacker. Have you
said this, Mr. Foust, or anything of sim
ilar purport ? If you confess that you did,
you will of course be believed, for you will
be corroborated by men of undoubted ve
racity. But don't deny it, or we may
bring the witnesses by whom your words
can be proved. A good Democrat seems
to make the best kind of a Greenback can
didate, and a Greenback ticket is the very
thing for the Democratic party. It is time
now for Republican greenbackers to inter.
rogate Foust.
COL. ISENBERG is a sharp, shrewd busi
ness man, and in every way qualified to
handle the funds of the county.
THE Monitor seems to be in great trib
ulation in regari to the manner in which
we run the JOURNAL, and to read its
squibs one would be led to think that we
have an editorial corps equal in number to
the London Times. According to that
paper we have an editor for every depart
ment of the JOURNAL. It matters little
what Mr. Fleming may say about the con
duct of our paper, but when he says that
the JOURNAL has been "throwing dirt" at
anybody he asserts that which cannot be
substantiated. We have done no such
thing, and we defy him to make his asser
tions good by producing any editorial mat
ter from our columns. We do not hold
ourselves responsible for the sayings of our
correspondents. He is the last man in the
world who should talk about "throwing
dirt."
DISTRICT ATTORNEY JACKSON'S ad
dress to the jury usually is, "Gentlemen,
I have tried to do my duty." What we
want hereafter is a District Attorney who
knows how to do it.
IF you want a man in the Legislature
who uses expressions to which he attaches
"no importance or meaning," send Rev.
Doyle. He would make one of the most
flexible statesmen that ever graced the
halls at Harrisburg. If, in an unguarded
moment, be should make any remarks that
were too pointed and truthful, he could
easily avoid any unpleasant consequences
by saying that he did so "without attach
ing any importance or meaning" to them,
"save as a substitute." He couldn't be con
victed of any inconsistency. Oh ! no, most
ingenious SUBSTITUTE DOYLE !
A. B. MILLER, our candidate for Direc•
tor of the Poor, is a successful farmer,
and a more competent man for the position
cannot be found in the county. He has
had large experience, which will serve
him well when he is called to discharge
the duties incumbent upon a Director of
the Poor.
THE yellow Paver, since our • last issue,
has been raging with unabated fury in the
stricken South, and many hundreds of new
made graves mark the work of the destroy
er. In New Orleans, since the disease
first made its appearance, 13,639 persons
have died. In Memphis the death rate
has been equally large in prep rtion to
the population, while Grenada, and the
lesser towns along the track of the pesti
lence have all furnished their full quoto
of victims. As fir North as Gallipelis,
Ohio, several deaths have occurred, but
owing to the pure climate and the prompt
enforcement of strict sanitary measures the
disease did not assume the shape of an
epidemic in the latter place. In some of
the Southern towns the fever has assumed
a milder type, and it is hoped that the
worst has been passed. So mote it be.
THE election of Mr. Williamson to the
office of Prothonotary is desired by every
person who prefers an able and competent
officer to one who will be a mere figure
head in that position.
COLONEL MCCLURE, of the Philadel
phia Times, says that the National move
ment will take many voters from the Re
publicans in the northern tier of counties
in this State. Of course, and so it will be
in the rural districts generally. This
accounts for the steady coaching of the
greenback movement by Democratic sup
port. But when election day comes round
the Democratic greenbackers will go it
blind fur Dill and the whole Democratic
machine—leaving simple minded Republi
cans to fly the greenback machine as a tail
t) the Democratic, kite.— Star.
THE Democrats of Massachusetts assem
bled at Worcester, on Tuesday last, for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for Gov
ernor. The communists of that party, who
are the friends of Gen. Butler, took pos
session of the hall, turned out all anti-But
ler delegates, and nominated that gentle
man by acclamation. The respectable por
tion of the party will call another conven•
tion and nominate some honest Democrat
—if such can be foand—for Governor.
SOME person takes up an entire colu . mn
of Speer's organ No. 2 of this week, to
tell what he knows about National Banks,
and after you have waded through the im
mense array of figures you are forced to
the conclusion that the writer knows noth
ing about the subject he undertakes to ex
plain. It is a mess of nonsensical twaddle.
THE office of Auditor is one of the most
responsible in the county, and one which
should be filled by men of good scholarly
attainments. In the person of Messrs.
Davis and Brown we have just such men.
They will audit the accounts of the coun
ty in a careful manner and to the satisfac
tion of the tax payers.
THE Democrats of Centre county made
the following nominations on Tuesday last :
Congress, A. G. Curtin, who received 38
votes to 33 against him ; senate, C. L. Al
exander; assembly, J. P. Gephart and W.
A. Murray ; sheriff, John Spangler ; pro
thonotary, J. C. Harper ; recorder, W.
A.. Tobias; register, W. E. Burchfield.
FO3 the office of Commissioner you
have W. H. Benson and Samuel P. Smith,
two bard-fisted farmers, who will guard
your interest as closely as if they were
their own, and w ho will sea that no un
necessary expenses are entailed upon the
county.
THE Nationals claim to be so good, and
pure, and innocent that they have been
called "the angelic host." True, there are
some good angels among them, like Foust
and Doyle, but too many of them came
from—"no, not Nazareth, but that other
place." They are fallen angels.
THE St. Cloud Hotel, Arch street,
above 7th, Philadelphia, takes the lead, not
only as a first-class hotel, but in the reduc
don of rates. Its terms are now $2 50 per
day, but little more than half the price
charged by some of the other hotels of the
same class.
AND now Speer's "Mud Slinger" is cross
because the Messrs. Fishers did not em
ploy every laboring man in the town du
ring the panic. What an idea 1
POLITICAL CHOW-CHOW.
—Republicans, whoop 'er up.
—No Republican should change his residence
until after the election.
—lf you are in favor of paying Rebel War
claims, vote the Democratic ticket.
—Meek, of tho Watchman, lifts McClure's scalp
locks in last week's issue of his paper.
—The Monitor thinks that we don't write our
editorials; we think that Mr. Fleming does write
some of those which appear in organ No. 1.
—As soon as the Republican party resolved
anew to cut loose from all evil influences and pun
ish corruption, Ben. Butler left it.—Norriatoica
Herald.
—The nomination of Senator Fisher for Con
gress is well received everywhere in the six coun
ties comprising this Congressional district.—Perry
F.-evnan.
—Every Rebel and Communistic sheet from
ocean to ocean howled itself hoarse over the Maine
election. Where's Jeff. Davis and Misthor Dinnis
Kearney ?
Servile sheet" is good from such a sheet as
the Monitor. Mr. Fleming should cut loose from
his master before he undertakes to charge any
one with servility.
—lt grates harshly on the sensitive ear of oar
neighbor of the Monitor to hear a hurrah for
Fisher, but he will have to educate himself to
these sounds, for they will occur frequently be
tween now and November. 'Rah for Fisher !
—Frank W. Hughes, the man who said, a few
years ago, that it "would take a wheelbarrow full
of Greenbacks to purchase a bushel of potatoes,"
is the leader of that party to-day, and is booked
for a speech in this place at Speer's side-show on
the 21st inst.
—Last week both of Speer's organs brought out
the same roaster to crow over the Maine election .
When it is considered that the Democrats lost
20,000 over last year's vote, and the Republicans
gained 3,000, we can't see where the crow comes
in for organ No. 1.
—The Monitor copies an editorial from that
"able Democratic paper," the Philadelphia Rec
ord, teeming with lies against Senator Fisher, and
says that we "should copy it." Thank you, the
JOURNAL is not engaged in publishing Democratic
falsehoods ; we will leave that for Mr. Speer's
organs.
—The ungentlemanly flings of the Monitor at
the management of this paper do not disturb us
in the least, and we can assure Mr. Fleming that
nothing he can say will induce us to lower the
standard of the JOURNAL to the level of his sheet.
We propose to conduot this campaign in an hon
orable way, and will leave Mr. Speer's organs to
belch forth their Billingsgate against every person
who will not submit to wear Mr. Speer's collar.
The Stepping Stone to Health.
The acquisition of vital energy is the step
ping stone to health. When the system lacks
vitality, the various organs flag in their duty,
become chronicity irregular, and disease is
eventually instituted. To prevent this unhap
py state of things, the debilitated system
should he built up by the use of that inimita
ble tonic llostettei's Stomach Hitters which
invigorates the digestive organs, and insures
the thorough conversion of food into blood of
a nourishing quality, from whence every
muscle, nerve and fiber acquire unwonted
supplies of vigor, and the whole system expe
riences the beneficial effect. Appetite returns,
the system is refreshed by healthful slumber,
the nerves grow strong and calm, the despon
dency begotten of chronic indigestion and an
uncertain state of health disappears, and that
sallow appearance of the skin peculiar to
habitual invalids, and persons deficient in
vital energy, is replaced by a more becoming
tinge. [sep.6lm.
YOU CAN BE HAPPY if you will stop
all your extravagant and wrong notions in
doctoring yourself and families with expensive
doctors or humbug cure-alls, that do harm
always, and use only nature's simple remedies
fur all your ailments—you will be wise, well
dnd happy, and save great expense. The
oreatest remedy for this, the great, wise and
good will tell you, is Hop Bitters—believe it.
See "Proverbs" in another column.
sep2o-2t.
E. F. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron
Gives tone to the stomach, improves the
appetite and assists digestion, excites the
bowels to healthy action, expelling all the
foul humors that contaminate the blood,
corrupt the secretions and offend the breath.
It excites the liver to a healthy action and
strengthens the nerves, imparting that glow
to life that proceeds alone from perfect health.
Thousands :n all walks of life, testify :to the
virtues of this excellent medicine in correcting
the derangement of the digestive organs. Get
the genuine. Sold only in one dollar bottles.
Ask for E. F. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron,
and take no other.
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cure for the disease. It has been prescribed
daily for many years in the practice of eminent
physicians with unparalleled success. Symp
toms are loss of appetite, wind and rising of
food, dryness in mouth, headache, dizziness,
sleeplessness and low spirits. Get the genuine.
Not sold in bulk, only one dollar bottles.
Do you want something to strengthen you ?
Do you want a good appetite? Do you want
to get rid of nervousness ? Do you want
energy, sleep well, or be cured of dyspepsia,
kidney or liver disease ? Try E. F. Kunkel' a
Bitter Wine of Iron. Every bottle guarranteed
to do as recommended. Depot and office, 259
North Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Get
the genuine. Sold by all druggists. Ask for
E. F. Kunkel's and take no other. All I ask
is a trial of this valuable medicine. One
bottle will convince you. Get six bottles for
five dollars, one dollar for one.
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Tape Worm, Pin, Seat and Stomach Worms
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Syrup. Sold only in one dollar bottles.
Used for children or grown persons. It never
fails. Or send for circular to Dr. Kunkel, 259
North Ninth Street, Philadelphia Pa. Advice
by mail free. Send three cent stamp for return
of letter. [sep.6-1 m.
New To—Day.
REPUBLICAN
Mass Meeting!
There will be a Masa Meeting at the Court House,
or in the Court House Yard, at Huntingdon, on
TUESDAY EVENING, the 24th inst.
The meeting will be addressed by
HON. 11. W. PALMER,
GEN. W. H. McCARTNEY,
PRIVATE DALZELL.
OTHER MEETINGS.
There will be public speaking at the following
times and places, to wit :
Mapleton, Monday, September 23d, in the evening.
Calvin, Tuesday, September, 24th, "
Cassvi Ile, Wednesday, September 25th,"
Hawn's S. 11., Thursday, Sept., 26th, "
Mill Creek, Friday, September 27th, " If
Knode's S. 11., Saturday, Sept., 28th, "
J. G. ISENBERG,
Chairman.
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Owing to the continued depression of business
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hoping by so doing to meet the approbation of
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cuisine will be in charge of competent and experi
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