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LANCASTER CITY, A'A.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1872
GRANT AND WILSON
presidential Electors.
AT LAIWE.
Adolph E. Boris, John 3.1. Thompson, W. D. Porten.
DISTRICTS.
Joseph A Bonham,. Jahn Passmore,
Marcus A. Davis, J. C. Colegrove,
O. Morrison Coates, Jesse Merrill,
Henry Bumm, henry I)riudy,
Theo. M. Wilson, Robert Bell,
John X. Broomall, Joseph M. Thompson,
Frsheis Shroder, Isaac Frazer,
Mark 11. Richards, Geo. W. Andrews,
Edward 11. Green, He try Lloyd,
D. K. Shoemaker, John J. clilleHple,
Dental R. Miller, dames Patterson,
Leander M. Milton, John W. Wallace,
The adore Strong, Chas. C. Boyd.
OUR PL
The Republican party of the united States.
Iliembled in National Convention in the city of
rhiladelphia, on the sth and Uth days of June.
1572, again declares its faith. appeals to its his
tory, and announces its position upou the ques
tions before the country :
1. During eleven years of supremacy it has ac
cepted with grand courage the solemn duties et
the time, It suppressed a gigantic rebellion, entail
(voided tour millions of sitie , cs, lliscreetl the tepee
otizenship of all.and est atilt-died universal eunritge
Exhibiting tutparalleied maguantutity, it, ennuiuuly
punished na Mad fur puottcal offenses, end warmly
welcomed all
wti proved loy a!' by obeying, tin
laws and dealing justly ottli their iwigLhorti. Ii
has steadily tlec,•ea.ied, with a brut hand, the re-
SUltaut disordeie 01 a tear, it Initiated a
wise and Miniane policy t.eva. , l tit t liultJt,s. Th.
Pacific Railroad end silo; .it• vast i' 'n i pro-d.s ha vi
been generously itio‘d and successfulty conducted,
the public lauds Ireety gtve., to actual eettlers,
tiu
m,ltration protected and eCo;111,;(.(1, and a Intl lie
kaowledgment oft he uaturii,lze,l citizen's rights se
oared from littropctio pove.:s. A uniforni natlena
currency has been provide-I, recntiailoti frownee
down, the national ere di: eii a. cot tinder the :ova
extraordinary burdens, and net: bends negetiateo
at lower rates. 'I
he recites have been careful,:
collected and honestly applied anima! ;arm
reductions of the rates of taxation, the public dela
has been reduced during Genera! Cfraut's
Ce at the rate of a hundred millioite a year ; great
tluancial crises have been avoebel, and i,cace tut'
plenty prevail throughout taint. Menacing for
eign didlculties have heed is , „cefully and non°, itbly
composed, and the liono,•a.i I power of the itteloi
kept in high respect throughout the world. Teo
glorious record of the past is the party's best pledg,
for the future. We believe that the people will 1M
trust the Governmeut to any parts or einultinatiot
.of men composed clued) , of those who have resisted
every step of this bent:Metal peelress.
Y. Complete liberty and exact equality iii the
enjoyment of all civil, poiitical and t üb' c rignits
should be established alit effecticilly m untunicd
hroughout the Union, by efficient a , d 67 eopriate
State and Federal legisintom. Me her the last
nor its administration 'should admit 01 any Illscrlm
respect of citizens hy reasue of race,
creed, color, or previous condition of servitede.
11. The recent amead melds the National Con
*Motion should be cordially sustaltied because they
are right, not inertly tolerated becacae they ar c
law, and should be carried out according to their
spirit by appropriate legtsie TlOll, that eu(oreemen'
of which can safely be entrusted only to the party
that secured those amendments.
4. The national goiter:intent should sCek to main
tain honorable pea to with. all nations, protecting it,
Citizens everywhere, and sympathizing with all
people who grit* , for greater I.iiti:Ny.
0. Any cyst ty tf the cn under which
the flUbOrditiate oosidoris of the I toverntnent are
considered rewards for mere piety zeal is teintllN
demoralizing ; and we therefote a reform tit
the system by lasss yyhich Shall titan i.-11 the evils id
patronage, and make honesty, etncieney and fideli
ty the essential qualiticattons for palate positions,
without practically erecting a life tenure of alike.
6. We are opposed to further grants of the pub
lic lands to corporate - tits and iinnionotles, and de
mand that the national Contain be set apart for free
homes for the people.
T. The annual revenue, after paving: current ex
penditures, pensions and the interest tic the public
debt, should furnish a we:Mend e balance for the re
duction of the principal ; 11,51.1 the revenue, except
lgo much as may be derived front a tax upon totem
s() and liquors, be raised by duties upon import a
ttons, the duties of which should be so adjusted as
to aid in securing remunerative waves to labor, and
promote the industry, growth and paomerity of the
Wnole Country.
We hold In undying honor the soldiers and
sailors whose tutor saved the Union. Their pen
/lions are a sae.: .1 debt of the cation ; and Mr
widows and orphans of tho.s, who died for thei•
teUlltr: AM entitled to the care of a generous am'
Went people. We toyer such additional legisla
will extend thy bounty of the goveriamew
to al our conifers and Milers who were honorabt‘
discharged, and who, in the time of duty, becanit
disabled, without regard to the length of service oi
the cause of such discharge.
9. The doctrine of tlreat Britain and other Euro
peon Powers.concerni nfr allegiance-"once a subjee
always a subject"—having at last through the of
forte of the Republican oarty, been abandoned
and the American idea of the ledivelital's right t(
transfer allegiance having been accepted by Eu
ropean nations, It Is the /17Ity of our government t/
guard with jealous care the rtgids of adopted citi
gene against the assumption of urination/eel claimr
by their former governments. And we urge con
tinual careful encouragement and protection 01
voluntary immigration.
10. The franking privilege might to be abolished.
and the way prepared fur a speedy It:dm:him in the
rates of postage.
11. Among the questions which press for atten
tion is that which concerns the relations of capita'
and labor, and the Republican party recognizes the
duty of so shaping legislation as to secure full pro
tection and the amplest field frr capital. and far
labor, the creator of Capital, the largest oppor
tunities and a lust share of met lial pronts of these
two great servant, of cwilization.
19. We hold that Conirre , =.l and the President
have only fnitllisd an fttive duty In thei
measures for the suppressil uof v,olent and trea
sonable organizations in certair lately rebellious
regions, and for the protection of the ballot box
and therefore they are entitled to the thanks of the
nation.
13. We denounce repoillatien of the pohne debt
In any form or disguise us a national crime. We
witness with pride the reduction of the principal n
tlle debt and of the rates of interest upon the bal
ance, and confidently expect that oar excellent na
Mould currency will be perfected by a speedy re
sumption of specie payment.
14. The Republican party Is mindful of its onli
rations to the loyal women of America for the',
pole devotion to the cause of freedom. Their ad
mission to wider fields of usefulnesa is viewed will
satisfaction, and the honest demands of any cia , e
ofeltizens for additional rights should be treated
with respectful consideration.
16. We heartily approve the action of Congreer
In extending amnesty to those lately in rel - dhoti
and rejoice In the growth of peace and fraternal
feeling throughout the land.
16. The Republican party prorw.e to respect the
rights reserved by the people to themselves m
carefully as the powers delegated by •lient to the
state and to the Federal Government. it disap
proves of the resort to unconstitutional
for the purpose of removing evils, be triimlerettee
with rights not surrendered by the people to either
the State or National Government.
17. It is the duty of the General Government ti
adopt such measures as may tend to eneourage
and restore American commerce and
18. We believe that the modest patriotism, tit
earnest pnrpose, the sound judgment, the practice'
Windom, the incorruptible integrity and the illus
trious services of Ulysses S. Grant have commend
ed him to the hearts of the American people, and
With him at our head we *tart to-day upon a new
march to victory.
THEIR PLATFORM.
I. All the political rights and franchises which
;mye been acquired through our late bloody con
vulsion should and must be guaranteed, maintain
ed, and respected, evermore.
11. All the political rights and franchises which
have been lost through that convulsion should and
must be promptly restored and re-established, so
that there shall be henceforth no proscribed class,
and no disfranchised caste within the limits of our
Union, whose long estranged people shall reunite
antffaterolze upon the broad baele of Universal
amnesty with Impartial Suffrage.
111. That, subject to our solemn constitutional
obligation to maintain the equal rights of all citi
zens, our policy should aim at local self-govern
ment, and not at centralization; that the civil
authority should be supreme over the military;
that the writ of habeas corpus should be jealously
upheld as the safeguard of personal freedom ; that
the individual citizen should enjoy the largest
liberty consistent with public order; and that
there should be no Federal subversion of the
internal polity of his several States and munici
palities, but that each shall be left free to enforce
the rights and promote the well-being of its
inhabitants by such means as the judgment of its
Own people shall prescribe.
IV. There shall be a real anti not merely a simi-
Isted Reform in the Civil Service of the Republic ;
to which end it is indispenalble twat the chief
dispenser of its vast °Metal patronage shall be
shielded from the main temptation to use his power
selfishly by a rule Inexorably forbidding and pre
eloilit4 his re-election.
V. That the raising of Revenue, whether by
biota' or otherwise, shall be recognized and treated
She People's Immediate business, to be shaped
and directed by them through their Representatives
in Congress, whose action thereon the President
Must neither overrule by his veto, attempt to dic
tate, nor presume to punish, by bestowing odlee
only on those who agree with him, or withdrawing
*row it those who do not.
VI That the Public Lands must be sacredly
reserved for occupation and acquisition by cultiva
te", sod not recklessly squandered on the pro
jectors of railroads for which our people hive no
present need, and the premature construction of
Mich is annually plunging us deeper and
deeper into abysses of foreign debt.
VII. That the achievement of these grand pur
of universal benlacence is exifreted and
r i trat at the hands of all who approve them,
Irrespective of past affiliations.
VIII. That the public faith must at all hazards
Si maintained, and the national Credit preserved.
IR That the patriotic devotedness and estimable
Ilervians of our fellow citizens who, as soldiers and
ssllsn, upheld the flag and maintained the unity
of the Hapublic shall ever be gratefully remembered
mid biniarably rimultnd.
AT FO RM.
rEN!s.
Four more work!ng days, mul then
e end. The great liattle of I1;72 w ill
have been fouglit and won. We con
thleutly expect that our next number
will record another triumph of llepub
licanism. If all our friend,4 exercise
their privilege of voting, there can be
no doubt of the result.
From trst to last, Luther Abraham
has been for Grant. We do not con
skier him faultless, nor his administra
tion perfect. But in peace as in war,
ho has been a success. The results of
his ten years' work speak for tom
selves. We know the tree by its fruits.
In a Republican success we have the
guaranty of stability and progress.
The party has been tried as none of its
predecessors were, and its record has
been a series of victories on the side of
right.
What is offered 113 in exchange for
this certainty P A political weather
hock for President, alai at his back the
men who triel to destroy the nation,
and falling in that are now attempting
t ) grasp power under a mask so thin
Cult all can see through it.
The question to be settled on Tues
diy is simply this—Shall this nation
b governed by its friends and defend
ers, or by its enemies and would-be
assassins? We have no doubt of the
a iswer, and leave the matter with our
twitters, only urging upon each and all
the duty of voting right.
TWO PLITIORNS.
In the opposite column aie two plat
forms, the Republican and the Mon
grel—the latter being Mr. Greeley's
own version of the "principles" of the
hybrid concern. It is worth while to
contrast then►. The one clinches its
declaration of great principles by ex
pressing Its determination to enforce
them; the other pretends to hold sim
ilar doctrines, but Is careful by subse
quent provisions to make them of no
effect. The one grasps the grand results
of the war; the other lets them slip
from its hold. The one declares the
unity of the nation; the other disguises
the heresy of States' Rights under the
mask of "loyal self-gvvern went." The
one recognizes the growing sentiment
in favor of enfranchising woman ; the
other ignores it. The one demands
protection for home industry ; the
other dodges the question, but prom
i-les the Free-traders "no Executive
interference." If there were no other
argument on either side but these two
platforms, their contrast would be
sufficient for a Republican victory.
Flnish the Work.
It Is to be hoped that, during the
few days which yet retnain , before the
electim, oar frirds every here will
be governed in - theiracthin by the
enemy's view of the situation rather
than their own. For ourselves, we
thoroughly believe that the people,
notwithstanding the quietude which
prevails, are taking vigilant care of
their interests, and that the verdict of
the October States will be still more
emphatically repeated on the fifth of
November. Still, however, the coali
tionists profess themselves sanguine of
success, affirming that, in a number of
S'tates which have heretofore been
counted as certain for Grant, the pros
pects of Greeley are constantly bright
ening. Whether this be true or false
is not the question. The point of in
terest to Republicans is that the Con
federate managers are everywhere
active and alert, and that they mean
to keep up the fight to the bitter end,
relying largely for success on their be
. 44 that Republicans consider the fight
to he over, and that therefore the vic
tory can he snatched from them una
wares. But the fight IS not over, and
the necessity for persevering, untiring
effort is as great as at any previous
stage of the campaign. For it should
not be forgotten that the oltject is not
Amply the re-election of President
Grant, but also the final disbandment
of the opposition.
Giving it Up.
It is quite evident that the Pitts
burgh Post has not only concluded
that not Greeley but Grant is to be the
President of the United States for the
next four years to come, but also that
large numbers of the Democracy of
Pennsylvania, in Allegheny county
and out of it, have definitively made
up their minds to assist in making the
predestined defeat of the Confederate
candidate decisive and annihilating.
This, unquestionably, is the true cause
of the reprehensible charges which it
continues to make with regard to those
members of its party who propose to
vote their honest preferences and opin
ions, instead of suffering themselves to
be governed by a despotism as anti-
Democratic as the Post tries to make
it absolute.
Turn Out.
We wish to impress upon our Re
publican friends not to absent them
selves from the polls on Tuesday next,
under the impression that the Repub
licans will carry the State without
their assistance. We have no doubt
that we shall carry the State by a very
large majority if our friends will do
their full duty; but there must be a
full vote polled. Should a general dis
position prevail not to go to the elec
tion, under the impression quoted, it
might result disastrously. Let every
Republican make up his mind to go
and• vote, and see that his neighbor
does likewise. If our friends will do
this, victory will he assured.
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"The Humanitarian Side."
It having been persistently ttsFerted
in Washington despatches that the
President had, in view of certain re
ports of outrages committed by the
Indians, determined upon a change in
his policy of dealing with the red
men, Mr. (leo. 11. Stuart, Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
Board of Indian Coinniissioners, ad
dressed a note on the sial;ject to the
President, to which he received the
following reply:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington,
Oct. 26, IS72—George 11. Stuart, Esq
My Dear Sir: Your favor of the 21th
instant, saying that a change in the
Indian policy of the administration is
reported to be contemplated, is just re
ceived. Such a thing has not been
thought of. If the pa sent policy toward
the Indiana can be improved in any way,
I will always be ready to receive sugges
tions on the subject. But. if any change
is made it must be on the side ot' the
civilization and Christianization of the
Indian. I do not believe our Creator
ever placed different races of men on
this earth with the view of having the
stronger exert a!1 his energies in ex
! terminating the weaker. If any chance
takes place in the Indian policy of the
government while I hold my present
otliee, it shall be on the humanita: ian
side of the question.
Very truly yours,
The friends of Christian civilization.
whatever their partisan preferences
may be, will rejoice at the enunciation
of these noble sentiments by the Chiet
Executive of the nation. The policy
inaugurated by this atiministrtien in
dealing with the Indian! has met the
approbation of the good in. it of all
parties, who will be cheertd with this
manly expression of the determina
tion of the President that if any
change Is made it must be on the bide
of the civilization and Christianiza
tion of the Indian--that he does not
believe our Creator placed different
races of men on this earth with the
view of having the stronger exert all
his energies in , exterminating the
weaker, and that If any change takes
place in the policy of the government
while he holds his present office, it
shall be upon the humanitarian bide
of the question.
Noble sentiments these to come from
the great warrior of the nation.
Worthy utterances from him who
closed the greatest civil war of modern
times with the declaration, "Let us
have peace," and whose entire foreign
and domestic policy has since been one
of pence and good will.
Tho Sunday
The war in Chleag(
the observance of the
law still goes on furl
strange feature of the
i r t
Chits —a red-)
journ ng the
-Out riliico
quirin the saloons to
Sabba h. It not only
but de lands its rigid
says, i answer to the
half of the beer garde
is as much the natio
the Irish as beer is of the Germans,
and if it must be drank it should be
taken quietly at home, and not as the
result of an open traffic on the Christian
Sabbath. If the whisky bar is to be
closed, eo should the beer liar. The
temperance people and the advocates
of a quiet, orderly Sabbath seem to
be of the same mind, for they are
holding mass meetings all over the
city, pledging their support to Mayor
Aledill in his determination to enforce
the law. The churches and ministe►s
are fully aroused. The advocates of
Sunday liquor traffic, on the other
hand, are holding great meetings, and
resolving, by all that is wordy, to
struggle to the death for the mainte
nance of what they call their "rights."
As a specimen of the "literature" de
veloped by the war take the follow
ing, which appear as flaming head
lines over the report in the Times:
"In Battle Array—The Legions of
Vice and Virtue in Full Fighting
Trim—An Uproarious Demonstra
tion of Guzzlers at Turner. Hall—As
Disreputable a Mob of Brawlers as ever
Broke the City's Peace—l ullawmatory
Harangues, and a Series of Seditious
Resolutions—A Grand Gathering of
Temperance Workers at Unity Church
—A Similar Successful Assemblage in
the South division—Lesser Items from
the Whisky War—The Sinkers in
Council," etc.
Vote for Congressmen.
Below we give the total official vote
for Congressmen in the several districts
In this State. The official majority in
the State Is 46,752, which is erroneously
Het down by some of the papers at 50,-
776. In the sixth and twenty-thiri
districts there were two Democratic
candidates, and taking the plurality
in those districts would give the latter
figures. The same method of counting
applied to Governor, ‘soul , l make
Hartranft's majority in this county
9,710 Instead of 4,476, which was really
his actual majority of all the votes
cast, 4,710 being his plurality :
Leiatticts. Repts!)pcarkv. .nixrats.
8846 1023
1;253 9128
15429 101580
13801
14743 19040
Vi . 13946 16174
VII 14011 8819
VIII 7183 19854
IX 14501 8596
X 14419 11049
XI 10500 111870
XII 11551 16811
XIII 13074 12241
XIV 17646 111488
XV 13582 1158153
XVI 14883 13061
XVII 11442 12011
XVIII 17041 14678
XIX 1774 Y 18936
xx 98704 18731
XXI 13970 13989
'
XXII 17948 15933
XXIII* 17131 11380
XXII/ 14195 13109
BM
Republican meJorlty .... 40753
`Two Doisioeratle candidates.
411101. The South.
It I:- L ned by the New York
papers, ot 4 he basis of actual inviti
gatiun, ti the increase in the
MEI
CM
pre
tine
DOI
ever
the i
(ittati
PH r!
IRO
dem
plem
ing
presl 'he fact that the
indus. .tes are gradu
ally beingsr•. .tblished upon a firm and
solid basis. chat this is the case is
further statistics of the
last ce , 11 departments
of ind
en( en
for in
OUt of
velope
1110TP
to l',-
S CHANT
!WIWI
Of th
valile
South
1860, to 1,03n,219 In 1870. Facts such
as these are -urely a sufficient answer
to the best' I partisan cry of Republi
can oppress on and robbery. Indeed,
the moreansible and farseeing Jour
nals of tht section are beginning to
resent sum -- ' what warmly the foolish
palaver of the Greeleyites concerning
the suffering and poverty of their peo
ple. Tl,lo l v'icke;burg Times, moreover,
deciares,it to be a noticeable fact that
y i.
there is reater amount of prosperity
in local!' es where there are plenty of
Northe
. /Lpeople, and where political
and other, opinions are tolerated, than
in any .21tier places, and says that.
generally speaking, "there is no cause
of complrint except by croakers and
repiners. All of which is respect
fully ree#nmended to the careful con.
sideratioLot_those singular "reco.n
-ciliationistB" who continue to Insist
that they policy of . the Republican
party ha' spread ruin and desolation
throughip that quarter.
level wi fa other parts in point of popu
lation aid prosperity, these papers
affirm tlcil in consequence of the Gov
ernor's neglect of his duties, and the
failure of the State authorities to en
force the law, those promising regions
have become notorious as places where
murder is a common thing and crimes
of every description go unpunished ;
and that, as a result of this unenviable
reputation, intending immigrantsshun
that partiof the State as they would a
pestilenc l e. It is intimated that the
honest citizens of that quarter, with
out respirt of politics, will almost to a
man voo against the unfaithful ser
vant whose scheming and self-seeking
course has brought such dishonor and
evil upon his State. Yet this is the
person Whiim law-abiding Democrats
throughout the country are asked to
elevate to the second highest place in
the nation.
Take it for all in all there never has
been a Stato election more fruitful in
good results, achieved at such serious
hazards, as the October election in In
diana has been. Among the best of
these are:
1. We have elected our entire State
ticket, with the possible exception of the
candidate fur Governor, who is defeated,
if at all, by the most unblushing frauds,
which it will be the duty of the Legisla
ture to rebuke by unseating Mr. Hen
dricks, if the certificate is over awarded
to him.
2. We have gained four Congressmen,
viz. : Williams and Orth, Members•at•
large : Hunter in the Sixth District, and
Cason in the Fourth.
3. We have defeated Dan Voorhees in
particular, and saved American politics
from the disgrace of fostering one of
the worst cases of political prostitution
ever known. And this has been ac
complished in the face of a Democratic
majority of 1,425 two years ago.
4. We have made a most sweeping
triumph in the Legislature, overturning
the Democratic thajority of eight, and
replacing it with a Republican majority
of at least. fifteen on joint ballot..
5. We have thereby secured the re
election of Oliver P. Morton to the United
States Senate, one of the ablest and also
one of the best abused statesmen in the
country.
6. We have also by the same triumph
secured a fair redistricting of the State
for future Congressional elections, and
prevent►d the foisting of a debt of $20,-
000.0u0 up"n the State by the holders of
the Wabash canal bonds.
We ;.• We. ye, iu addition to these and
various nor benefits, convinced the
country, in spite of the lies of the Greeley
press ri , that the West is not fooled
by the llusory promises of Cincinnati
and Bit timore, but on the contrary
stands as firm as ever for liberty and
right. In other words, that it will go
for Grant as heartily as it did four years
ago.
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A paper of grat!infiutqwe in the
li , rman communities of the South
wust, the Texas retie Pre.r, deals
vory frankly with Mr. Sernitor Schurz.
Somebody having argued, it would
seem, that his compatriots should be
proud of him, and therefore take Mr.
Senitrz as their. political ,"guide, the
Freie Pre.t:sediscourses:as.follows:
the di trtrrent
,r during the
I from twenty
rer the whole
is, In almost
it Is stated,
trger and the
,han for many
is also an un
tdiness to pay
"Proud of Schurz ? No, that we are
not. In our eyes Schurz is a professional
politician—nothing more. What has
been his career ? Does he know the
school of trial rthrough'!'which most
adopted citizens hero have to pass ? No.
Living in comfortable circumstances, he
could quietly sit down and study the
laws of the land and the7lauguage of its
inhabitants. Free from care for daily
bread, he could labor for himself. Tie did
so in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Mis
souri. With cool sagacity he took ad
vantage of all favorable circumstances
to work
_upward until he succeeded.
Should we be at all proud of him because
he possesses talents or because he is a
United States Senator ?
seludes a large
gricultural
im
ry; a gratify
ly of growing
. "We have nothing to - do with the man,
hut, with the politician, Curl Schurz, and
before him we cannot fall down and wor
ship. We are too Republican in spirit
thu to believe in authority."
answer'
-to the question what
Schurz has done for the Germans, the
Freie Presse:says .1 hat, when he first
went to Missouri, Germans tilltd near
ly all the town and county offices, and
they :flll,7.them;:no longer. "For the
elevation of the German element, it is
verily not enough to elaborate and de
liver speeches."
Asa:politician Schurz owes'w hatever
he is on hay :bl'en . :to the Republican
party. It sent: him amba-sailor to
Spain,7where; he I ,did,:not display a
trace of the diplomatic faculty; it se
cured for him it general's commission,
though about inilitary matters he
knows no more than a crow knows
about Sunday ; it elected him to the
Senate of the nation because:he seemed
to he the most radical of the radicals.
This, rays the Fresse, was; more than
a sufficient reward fochis services,and
he was still ander:obligations to our
party.
But, according to the I',Tir Presse,
Schurz has a peculiar way of express
ing his thanks. The first instalment
of his gratitude he paid by Nelping to
place Frank Blair in the United States
Senate. The second instalment he
paid by flinging violent accusations
and invectives against Grant and his
administration, bemuse he could not
always have his own way. At present
igaged in trying to overthrow
sy to which he owes all that he
is the third instalment of the
's debt.
according to the same authori
,res consistencyps'as remark
ids gratitude. Thus, in his rc
;echesblie has fla,tly contracted
be foimerlisard or wrot e As
sagivice reformer, he preaches
41 which are glaringly incon
with his own well-known prac
::onnection with the patronage
.overnment. About the traffic
, with the French he had no
thing to say until he saw an opportu
nity of using the affair as a means of
attaining an object. The Republican
party ho used to prosper his own ca
re r, but having taken up the notion
that it could no longer nourish his
boundless ambition, he thrust it away.
"Schurz's admirers may think all this
very tine and 'smart,' "says the Presse;
"we cannot help seeing therein all the
symptoms which indicate absence of
political principle." "No, we are not
proud of Schurz."
wn that seven
wing industries;
Tiod from 1860
the anti-war
R; only three
my !idling (pff,
f farms iti the
from 704,867 in
This is the latest way in which the
Teibune illustrates its conception of the
duties and obligations of impartial
journalism. Referring to the recent
abstraction from the Court House of
York county, in this State, of a num
ber of vouchers and other documents,
to prevent them from being used in
evidence against certain county offi
cials whom it was proposed to indict
for malfeasance, that paper deliber
ately attempts to create the impression
that the theft was the work of Repub
licans, and that the corrupt officials in
whose interest the crime was com
mitted were members of the same
party; whereas the facts of the case
are, that the local government of York
county has for years been completely
under the control of the Democracy ;
that the criminals whom it was sought
to bring to justice were Democrats;
and that the theft of the documents
was made at the instigation of and per
petrated by members of that organi
zation. That the honest people of the
county have been baffled in their at
tempt to punish the rogues who have
plundered them is owing to the ras
cality cf the Tribune's new friends; a
fact of which that paper was fully
aware when it printed the misleading
paragraph in question. And yet it
'printed it.
A singular mistake has occurred in
the printing of the act to provide for
the Constitutional Convention. In the
General Laws, which are issued in ad
vance of the Pamphlet Laws, the day
named for the asssetnbling of the con
vention is "the third Tuesday of No
vember," but the original bill names
"the second Tuesday of November,"
and this is the date recited in the pro
clamation of the Governor. The error
in the printing of the act as it appears
in the General Laws, has led news
paper editors astray, and caused it to
be generally believed that the conven
tion would assemble on the 19th
proximo, whereas it will meet on
the 12th.
SUNICRIBE for Father Abraham,
Not Prowl of tic!mr7.
Honest Organ !
The Convention.
OUR CAMPAIGN NOTES.
All the crows have ..;ono South. There
WaR no market for their "meat" in this
State.
As the horso disease is spreading, so
rapidly, particular cam should h. taken
of the asinine bipeds who edit 'Abend
journals.
Peter Cooper hhs addressed a letter to
the Citizens' A ssoeiatisn, of New York,
warmly commending President Grant's
administration.
The Warren Pa.. Ledger says the
"Democrats are their own worst ene
mies," because some uf them don't want
to vote for Greeley.
"Abstention" is the successor of
"fraud" in the Democratic vocabulary.
It was "abstention' , that laid them out
in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
One or the Confederate candidates in
Missouri is Charles Stiph. In medical
student slant-, he will be a first-class po
litical "still" after the rith prox.
The Tribune has information to the
effect that the Liberals of Ohio "are
alert." That's what General Meade
said of the rebels after Gettysburg.
"The last ditch is still open to us, and
we can make it a bloody chasm," re
marks the Richmond Enquirer. Are
you going to follow Georgia's example?
The Cincinnati Enquirer, by innuen
do, advises its rebel friends in the South
to witliold their custom from the business
nun of New York who advocate the re
eleci ion of Gen. Grant.
The Lafayette Courier says : "I. D.
Defroes, who has been the head of the
Liberal movement in Indiana, goes back
on the sage of Chappa qua. He has turned
his attention to a patent for propelling
camel boats.''
Only 4108 votes were east for Colonel
Wilson. Democratic candidate for Con
gress in the Wheeling, W. Va., district,
as far In - heard from on Thursday. He
had no opposition, but the people evi
dently looked upon the election as a
farce.
The L uisvitle Cow-ler-Journal has
this : "A Grant organ says : 'Let us have
stable government.' By all means. But
then, 4011 know, we don't want jackasses
kept in Ms government stable.” There
is no dann,er of any of the Greelcyites
being quartered there, Mr.
Tlw Joueual is eng,ag,ed in
discountin,‘, coming political discomfi
ture in k-titocAy. It says : "In our own
Stith. ibuic is dangt r th.at. this same rep
rehom-inle negligence will materially cnt
down the majority that ought to be given
to the Greeley and Brown electoral
ticket."
Tho Chiea; : to Maii , ;:i:‘s : "Henry Clay
was the Legit Pc, , siil qit, save, 'tertian-,
one, we ever had." This is the ifail'a
view of it, and of course it has a right to
its opinion ; but there ere those who be
lieve Gen. Scott's administration was
equally successful, as also that of. Daniel
Pratt, peanut merchant.
Cone rlsstnan D. C. Giddi ig is eliated
with having made a speech, at 'Cosset:,
Texas, the following threat : That if
they (meaning the Democrats) could and
did not get shut of 'Radical rule, there
were posts, oak limbs, &c., and enough
to do it—pointing to the limbs above.
This statement was uproariously cheered
by the Greeleyites.
The straight out Democracy of Illinois
4,
Itate tfle case in this day : Greeley s nds
'no meke show of being elected Pre ent,
in November. than he does of beco big
Emperor of Prance. This must be ap
parent to every thinking and reasonable
Democrat from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. It is such a palpable truth that
we do not think it worth while to argue
the point further.
In view of the dying condition of
Greeleyisth, the Louisville Commercial
has invented a balm composed of one
part "triumph in the air," two parts
"bloody chasm," one part "reconcilia
tion," ninety-six parts "confidence," the
whole to be dissolved in the "tidal wave,"
to he well shaken before taken. Our
opinion is that the case of Greeleyism is
hopeless ; salt can not save it.
Mr. Greeley's paper now mentions
boastfully, and as a triumph of right
over wrong, that New York State gave
Seymour 10,000 majority in 1868, and
Hoffman 33,0116 in 1870. Do any of Mr.
Greeley's supporters or subscribers re
member what he said of these majorities
at the time ? Was there anything about
"fraud," "villainous, stupendous fraud,"
mentioned cn those occasions','
The Boston Post says : "Georgia has
a hale and hearty ciCzen who has been
struck by thirty-two minie balls, one
mortar shell, one shrapnel, one three
inch conical, struck by lightning, bitten
by a rattlesnake and chased by a mad
dog." Alas, poor fellow I After passing
through all these tribulations, he finally
met au ignominious fate—he choked to
death on a mess of crow pottage.
At the November election the Repre
sentatives in the Illinois Legislature will
be chosen by the new system of cumula
tive voting ; that is, the voter is entitled
to one vote for each Representative to
which the municipal division in which
he lives is entitled, or au aggregate vote
equaling the whole number of Represen
tatives. These votes the elector may
give to one candidate or divide to suit his
own notion.
In 1812, the "Soreleaded" Republi
cans chose Dewitt Clinton, of New York,
as a candidate for President, to defeat
James Madison, the regular nominee.
Sixty years afterward, the same thing is
attempted again—the "Sore-headed" Re
publicans nominate another New Yorker
(H. G.) to defeat Ulysses S. Grant, the
regular candidate. Clinton was extin
guished by the popular vote—Greeley
will be.
The New York Tribune has the fol
lowing : "Commend us to a Pennsyl
vania ring for the neatness and dispatch
with which any thieving jab is executed.
Such an organisation in York, Penn
sylvania, stole the county voucherti whlch
might implicate them." The fact that
York county is strongly Democratic, and
has been controlled by that party for
years, is not taken into account by Mr.
Greeley's young man.' Don't gore your
own ox.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says : WP
of the Keystone, State had such poor luck
with our only President (James Bu
chanan), and cnly Vice President (George
M. Pallas), that we are modest about
presenting other candidates. But we
have same vanity in believing that Abra
ham Lincoln was a great-grandson of
Pennsylvania, of 112rks county at that.
And wo take more pride in the fact that
General Ulysses S. Grant is the son of
two native Pennsylvanians—Jesse R.
Grant, of Westmoreland, and Hannah
Simpson, of Montgomery county. So,
if not a son, our President is certainly a
grandson of Pennsylvania, and is entitled
to all the benefits of that relation. A
rousing majority for Grant and Wilson
will be honorable alike to the Old Key
stone and to her descendant. Let Grant
and Wilson have our full loyal vote.
A calculation made by the Harrisburg
Pch`i•io(, tlo Central Democratic organ,
shows that in forty counties of the State
the vote fell off 3 . 2,01 t) from IStiS. In the
remaining twenty t:ix it was increased
over that of From this fact our
contemporary ar,.;ae9 that Greeley can
carry the State in November, that is, if
the full Democratic vote can he secured
for him. It forqets that it was Greeley
that kept these Democrats from voting
for Mr. Ilackalew.
The candor which we always aim to
practice does nut permit us to say that,
as things now look, Mr. Greeley's
chances aro better than those of tieneral
Grant, or even equal to Grant's. We
have, therefore, suitably discriminating
the meaning of words, forborne to speak
of probabilities in our heading, trying to
be truthful and exact by selecting the
titter term, possibilities. It is still pos
sible that Mr. Greeley may be elected,
though not probable.—N. World.
The last new political party has just
come to light, and it has been launched
in Massachusetts, of course, Miss A. H.
C. Phelps is the Captain, and the candi
dates are John C. Fremont, Mr Presi
dent, and John G. Whittler for Vice
President. The main idea of the organi
zation is "Woman's Homestead Land
and Labor Reform." There is really
more sense in this movement than in the
Greeley sham. But no man who parts
his hair in the middle can be elected
President of the United States.
As one evidence of the spirit of Georgia
Greeley ism, Republicans forward a copy
of the law reorganizing, the militia, which
Governor Smith has been carrying out
(luring the past summer. This provides
briefly for mustering in such companies
as may offer, but, r( quires the Governor
to first arm those which reptestnt the
militia organization in existence on
January Ist, l bl. As all such organi
zations went into the rebel :.ervico as they
stood, this Ares( at, law is but re equipping
Georgia's 1111.1 hist:Owe:A ibr the Con
federate army.
According to the "Liberal" Confeder
ate journals the I )etemi. racy are a venal
set, ready to Sell 11U 1119UIVii to the high
est bidder, v. Iwther L 1 publican or Lib
eral. Th.?, Republican victories so far
this year are accounted tbr by the asser
tion that the D;m:•erats sold themselves
out at so nineh a head. The Liberals are
virtuous anti noni nrchasable ; with the
Democrats it \Vas m•ly a question of
price. We hepe the Democrats appreci
ate the value set (;n their principks by
1111 it Liberal allies.
Doe of the funniest incidents of the
canvass is reported from Chicago. Gov
ernor Koerner was announced in that
city for a speech iu German. Among
his hearers was a ward Greeley club, not
a single member of which understood
a word of that noble lauguaee. After
listening two hours and a half without
much cclitleatiun, their president called
out to the Governor to "talk English."
The rupiest was net heeded, and the ag
grieved freemen have got even with the
unobliging Gustave by holding an indig
nation meeting and solemnly resolving
to "scratch" him.
The Lafayetto Journal thinks there is
great danger that Indiana may be car
ried for Greeley through the apathy and
over-contidence of Republicans, "not be
cause the Democrats are in a majority in
the State, but because Republicans are
careless and will stay away from the
polls. Two U blic.cn sta at-home.
votes in each couicipy would ce to gkv ,
the State to Greeley. how c ily it may
happen that two Pepublicans in a county
may say to themselves that their vote
will not make much difference—that the
State is safe for Grant any way, and stay
at home !" Rypublicans of Pennsylvania,
this applies to you as well as to those of
Indiana.
General Joseph Law, candidate for
the Vice Presidency ou the Breckiuridge
ticket in 1800, has written a letter in
favor of Mr. Greeley. "The re-election
of Grant," ho says, "would prove a
calamity to the country," for various
reasons which he has neither time nor
space to give. "On the other hand, the
election of Greeley would do more to re
store to the States their essential rights,
to bring about a good feeling," etc, etc.
Greeley's adhesion to the secession or
States' rights doctrines is the first and
principal point of sympathy between the
secessionists and States' rights men of
whom Lane was the rabid leader and ex
ponent in 1860.
"A retreat in good order," "position
where the reserves may be brought up,"
"steady the column and push sternly
ahead," "make of this reverse an incen
tive to harder work," "a great and
serious danger to free institutions," " in
a manner it implies the failure of uni
versal suffrage," "the Liberal cause is by
no means desperate," Greeley will only de
cline as the sun and moon decline, "the old
Democratic guard more zealous than
ever," "a Bull Run defeat of the Liberal
militia by the Grantite regulars to be re
trieved by future training and organiza
tion," "thousands of Democrats did not
vote at the State elections," "chorus of
war bugles," Zte., are the tunes that op
position journalists are now whistling in
the Pennsylvania burying ground, as the
twilight of October gathers fast toward
the dark night of November.
The New York Commercial Adver
tiser prints a letter from that veteran
publicist, Thurlow Weed, in which he
tells what he knows about Horace Gree
ley's secession, war and diplomatic record.
'The evidence upon which Mr. Greeley
is shown to have been largely responsible
for the rebellion, and its terrible waste
of life and treasure, has been drawn from
the editorial columns of the Tribune. It
is conclusive. Mr. Weed proves, by
Greeley's own utterances, that the Lib
eral candidate for the Presidency exerted
a powerful influence in aid of secession—
that he precipitated the disaster of Bull
Run—that he repeatedly encouraged the
enemy—that, iu short, Greeley's record
during the gloomiest years of our national
history was a record of cowardice and
dishonesty. Mr. Weed's letter gives the
facts, and they cannot be controverted.
The Milwaukee News has bit, at the
eleventh hour, upon a brilliant plan of
reconciling its Democratic brethren to
their Greeley diet. It conjures them
after this fashion : "Let us vote and labor
for Horace Greeley as if Andrew Jack
son or Stephen A. Douglas was our can
didate, and we cannot be defeated."
This sort of philosophy is similar to that
which buoyed up Mr. Richard Swiveller
through so many hardships and pOra
tions. The way in which that genial
but dissolute philosopher was wont to
convert a forlorn mutton bone and a two
penny mug of beer by the stern logic of
hypothesis into a half dozen courses of
fish, flesh and fowl, and so many of wine
from warm Oporto and the blue Moselle,
has elicited the admiration of all readers
since Mr. Swiveller was first introduced
to the public. And it requires precisely
the same kind of philosophy—only, per
haps, more of it—to convert the Greeley
fowl into byttothecal Douglas and Jack
son, so Sear to the Democratic palate.