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WEDNESDAY, AUG, 26. 1888
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET I
FOR xDracsroxoNm 2
HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORE
FOR vicru . RESIDENT
GEN. PRANR P. BLAIR, Jr.,
OF MISSOURI,
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette county.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL:
6en.WELLINGTON 11. ENT, of Columbia co
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF TIIE CITY
AND COtfa TY OF LANCASTER.
In pursuance of authority granted to the un
deral •ned by action of the County Committee,
at its recent me tine of August 15th, the Dele.
gate Elections ordered to be held on SATUR
DAY, sEPPEMBER Ith, are hereby postponed
until SATURDAY, the 19th day of SEPTEM
BEE, and the Democratic County Convention,
ordered to as4emlde on WEDNESDAY, SEP
TEMBER 9th, is postponed until WEDNES
DAY, the '2 d day of SEPTEMBER, ISIS, when
It will mew at 11 o'clock, A. M., at Fulton Hall,
in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of
nominating a ticket to be supported nt the
ensuing October election, composed of the fol
lowing officers:
A Member of Congress.
Four Members of Douse of IR:present nt Ives.
Associate Judge.
District Attorney.
One County Commissioner.
Two Directors of the Poor,
Two Prison inspectors.
One Auditor.
Ttlo township committees are reituested to
give early notice in their resew:id ee districts
of the time and place of meeting for the elec
ticr of delegates.
order of the Democratic County Com
mittee. R. R. TSHUDY,
B, J. MeGRANN, See.y. Chairman.
Circulate Political Truth
The campaign draws to a close. The
work which is to be done must be done
quickly. In no way can so much good
be effected as by the systematic circula
tion of sound And reliable Democratic
newspapers. The INTELLutEticEn is
unsurpassed by nay journal in the
State. Spread it among all who will
read it. THE WEEK LY INTELLIO ENCER
will be furnished to clubs of jive or more
until after the Presidential rleclron FOR
THIRTY CENTS.
No further reduction in price will ho
made. Then forward at once the names
of such persons as you desire to have
the paper sent to.
The cash must accompany the order.
Postponement of the County Convention.
As will be Been by an order of the
Chairman of the County Committee.
the Democratic County Convention has
been postponed until Wednesday, the
23d day of September, and the Delegate
Elections will be held on Saturday,
SeptCmber 19th. This will give but a
short interval between the settling of
the county ticket and the day of the
State Election. Still there is no reason
why this should in any way interfere
with a vigorous prosecution of the cam
paign. The work of organization, and
the discussion of the issues will go on,
and the gallant Democracy of Lancaster
county will be fully prepared to do their
whole duty on Tuesday, the 13th day
of October. To that end let every energy
be directed, and the result will be all
that could be expected or desired.
Ilon. S. S. Cox In Lancaster
Hon. S. S. Cox will address the people
of Lancaster at Fulton Hall on Friday
evening, beptember Wth. Mr. Cox is
one of the most eloquent speakers in the
country. Of course there will be a full
turn out of the Democracy and the
Conservative men of the city and county
on that occasion.
The Dine for ActLoi Has Come
Democrats, the time for active work
has come. But a few weeks remain in
which to perfect arrangements for the
all important St ate election which takes
places on "licastiay, the Thirteenth day
of OVober.
Each township and election distric t
ought to have already established, and
in active operation, au efficient working
club. If there is a single district where
such absolutely necessary organization
is not completed, let it be attended to
immediately. The work assigned to
these organizations must be completed
without delay. Upon them will depend,
in a great measure, the result of the
coming State election, the vital impor
tance of which cannot be over estima
ted.
The quiet work of a campaign is all
important; but the times also demand
a full and free discussion of the great
issues now before the people. Public
meetings should he held at every avail
able point. We have nothing to lose,
but every thing to gain, by free discus
sion in the present campaign. Then
let arrangements he speedily made for
public meetings at every point where
they can be successfully convened.
Secure your speakers before fixing the
day fur Your meeting. Let them lix the
time for you as may suit their other en
gagements.
Have your meetings indoors when it
I possible; but, if no room large enough
can be obtained, then go to a grove and
have plenty of seats comfortably ar
ranged for the audience.
Have a covered stand erected, not
boarded up high in front, but closed
behind, so as to protect the speaker's
voice and enable him to be beard.
Consume as little time as possible in
preliminary arrangements. Getprornpt.
ly to work at the hour appointed.
Be sure to invite your Republican
friends and neighbors to go with you to
the meeting. Every sensible speaker
will be glad to see as many of them as
possible, and no one who knows his
business, will say anything calculated
to wound their feelings. Urge them to
come out and hear the issues of the cam
paign freely discussed.
Remember that the best interest of
the nation demand untiring energy and
sleepless vigilence on your part. The
work to be done is all important--the
time in which it must be done is short.
Every man has a deep personal Interest
in the result of the coming elections;
and each Democrat should labor as if
He 'elt that he. hirmel, were be,
On whose mole arm hung victory.
Exchange of Prisoners
The Radical press is assailing the re.
port ofßobert Ould very bitterly. Will
they be good enough to remember that
Mr. Ould calls prominent Union Gen
erals to testify to the truth of every
statement he makes. Until these Gen
erals deny the statement of Mr. Ould
the Radicals may fume as much as they
please, but it will stand uncontradicted
that Grant was responsible to a great
extent for the horrorsof Aodersonvllle.
Statesmanship.
At the present junctunk the one
thing needful in the inauggement of
our public affairs is Sta*mnaldp.—zt
The truth of this assertion' gannet be
doubted by any 'one, who his disPas
sionatelyeonsidered the history of the
past three years, and the present con •
dition of the Government. The mili
tary skill that can best set a squadron
in the field, or direct the movements of
an army will now avail us nothing.—
The stubborn determination which
prompts a general to fight out a cam
paign upon iteertain line, •is now of no
value to the' people. Nor can we derive
any advantage from the election of a
candidate for the Presidency, who an
nounces that he will have no policy, but
will in all things tamely submit to the
caprice of the leaders of that miserable
faction which has well nigh-ruined the
country.
When the War of the Rebellion
closed, the people of the South unre
servedly accepted the situation. Gen.
Grant himself has testified to the ex
cellent spirit that prevailed among
them. They renounced secession,
abolished slavery, repudiated the rebel
debts, and guarantied the civil rights
of the negro. Had Congress frankly
accepted their manly tender of mutual
confidence, the wounds of the Rebel
lion would have rapidly healed, and the
whole Country have entered upon a
new career of prosperity and glory.
But Congress refused to trust them, and
resolved to lodge the political power of
their section in the hands of the negro
race. Congress subverted their State
governments, set over them a military
despotism without example.in the his
tory of any free people, disfranchised
their most intelligent citizens, and
organized among them conventions and
legislatures, which have shown as little
capacity for self•government as might
be expected from assemblages of mul
-1 keys. No wonder that the temper of
the Southern people has undergone a
change since the end of the war. De
gradation and misery will beget dis
content even among slaves. But hu
miliation and suffering have not driven
the whites of the South to resistance.
They merely struggle to protect them
selves from the violence of their brutal
oppressors, and appeal to the North for
Mercy.
The persecution of the South has
blighted the prosperity and consumed
the resources of the whole country.
Our commerce is driven from the
ocean, enterprise is prostrate, trade
languishes and labor suffers. This giant
young Republic, enthroned over a con
tinent, blessed with such resources as
Provideace has not vouchsafed to any
other country, and inhabited by almost
countless millions of the proudest race
on earth, actually staggers and sinks
under its burthens. Its resources are
drained to secure the bondage of the
South. The proceeds of such taxation
as never before oppressed any people
have been for three years mainly ap
propriated to this purpose. More than
One Thousand Millions have been
expended, chiefly to this end. The
cash promises to pay of our Government,
propped by every contrivance to give
them credit, are worth less than seventy
(Tuts on the dollar among our people.
The bonds of the United States, paying
sixper cent. interest in gold, are worth
but 7:2 in the markets of the world,
while the bonds of Great Britain, pay•
ing but three per cent. command 94 in
the same markets: That is, the world
so completely distrusts us, that it would
rather lend to England at 21 per cent.
than to us at 6. And effete Austria,
hybrid Brazil and barbarous Turkey
can borrow money at four per cent.,
which is refused to us at six .f
In fact, the Credit of our Country is
bleeding to death. Our Treasury can
not bear, nor could any Treasury on
earth endure au annual waste of Three
Hundred Millions of Dollars. We can
not afford to maintain Armies of Occu
pation in time of peace. We cannot
afford to keep up gigantic Navies with
out any commerce to protect. We can
not aftbrd to support three millions of
negroes at the expense of the Govern
ment, so that they may vote the Radical
ticket. We cannot afford to pay the
expenses of Negro Conventions and
Elections at the South. We cannot af
ford to keep a Revolutionary Congress
in Perpetual Session. We cannot afford
to pay the Civil officers of Government
such salaries as enable them to respond
to Radical Electioneering Assessments.
We must put a prompt and decisivestop
to such abuses, or the Credit of the
Country cannot live. qt,
To accomplish this desirable end, we
shall require the highest order of
Statesmanship. We shall require a
Chief Magistrate who will probe the
rank abuses of our Government to the
very core, and then sternly apply can.
tery and the knife We shall require an
Executive who will have a most decided
policy, and fearlessly pursue it. The
Country needs a policy that will bind
the Southern people to the Union with
hooks of affection, and not with fetters
of steel. It needs a policy that will
make their State governments self-sus
taining, by permitting the people to
construct them for themselves. It
needs a policy that will teach Congress
men that they are the servants and not
the masters of the People; and that
they are not commissioned to plunder
the Treasury, and squander the con
tents upon revolutionary schemes to
perpetuate the power of a faction. The
People need this sort of Statesmanship,
and by the grace of Providence, THEY
will. IrAVII IT!
The People Are Thinking
The overthrow of the Radicals at the
coining Presidential election is regarded
as a pressing pu bile necessity by thought
ful men of all classes. The merchant
in the cities is convinced that trade must
continue.to be dull and uncertain, so
long as jen States of the Union are sub
jected to military rule, or made the vic
tims of an attempt to establish negro
supremacy by forceof Federal authority.
The manufacturer sees that the best
market for his products must continue
closed, so long as the industry of the
South is fettered and all its energies
crippled, as they now are b!the policy
which Um Radicals in Congress are
pursuing. The laboring men of the
North have learned that their• interests
demand, that the people of the South be
left free to manage their domestic affairs
in their own way, without the inter
ference of Radical politicians, the
intervention of costly armies, and the
expensive Freedmen's Bureau. Every
taxpayer knows that his burthens have
been vastly increased by the leaders of
the Republican party, for the sole pur
pose of enabling that reckless organiza
tion to maintain its hold upon power.
The bondholders begin to see that four
more years of such rule as we have had
will lead us far toward national bank
ruptcy.
There is no class in the North which
has not a direct personal and pecuniary
interest in bringing about a complete
change of administration. Intelligent
men see that ; the masses recognize it ;
all, except Radical politicians, and such
as are blinded by prejudice and passion,
admit it. That is the reason why the
nomination of Grant elicited no enthu
siasm, the reason why the Radicals have
thus far failed to arouse the masses of
their party. The judgment of the peo
ple condemns the corruption and ex
travagance of Congress. The good sense
of the Northern masses repudiates the
ridiculous reconstruction scheme of the
Radicals.
The men who do the voting are re.
fleeting seriously upon the responsibili
ty which rests upon them. Every man
feels that his own interests and the best
interests of the nation for all coming
time are involved in the result of the
pending campaign. That feeling it is
C A Z .: " INT.EI.I I -.IGENCER , WRIT)NESDA:Y, AUGUST 26, 1868.
which gives an air of such great serl-:
pusnesuto trie present: struggle. The .
people are:thinking.- With a detiumi
nation to vote as sound judgment shall
dictate, the masses are pondering over
the live political issues of the day. They
can not be misled by stale party cries,
or controlled by empty- appeals to pas
sion and prejudice. The American
people will vote at the coming State and
Presidential elections with a deliberate
purpose to right the wrongs they have
endured, to restore the rule of the Con
stitution, to re-unite all `the States in
bonds of fraternal affection, and to
establish a true and lasting peace be-,
tween the two sections of our common
country. They have accepted Seymour
and Blair as the representatives of cor
rect political principles, and intend to
elect them.
No Policy
The People should carefully consider
the effect of Gen. Grant's declaration
that, if elected President of the United
States, he will have No Policy, for it is
full of significance. It deprives him of
any advantage he might claim on the
score of patriotism, virtue or capacity.
The existence of these qualities in a
President cannot profit the Country,
unless he is dvady to exert them for its
benefit. And he can only exert them
by the adoption of some positive policy,
which will impress his views upon the
administration of public affairs. This
will more clearly appear from propound
ing a few questions to the Radical Can
didate for the Presidency, and append
ing his own answer. Thus,
Will you enforce Retrenchment and
Economy in the Public Expenditures?
I shall have no policy.
Will you oppose any attempt by Con
gress to establish Negro Equality in the
North ? I shall have no policy.
Will you insist upon payment of the
principalof Government bonds in coin ?
I shall have no policy.
Will you favor the taxation of Gov
ernment bonds ? I shallhavenopolicy,
The adoption of this attitude by Gen.
Grant converts the platform of his party
into a mockery and sham. The antece
dents of the party itself prove the Chi
cago Resolutions a fraud ; and upon this
point, the No Policy declaration of its
Candidate makes assurance doubly sure.
The Platform of a party proclaims its
Policy/, and how can this policy be car
ried intoeffect, if its Candidate will have
no policy? Who is to enforce and exe
cute the Chicago Resolutions, but the
Candidate of the Convention?
members of Congress are not
bound by the platform of their party.
Each one of them makes a platform for
himself, such as best accords with his
own views, or those of his constituents.
The speech of -the late Thaddeus Ste
vens upon the bond question illustrates
the truth of this assertion. Radical
Congressmen are about equally divided
upon the questions of paying Govern
ment bonds in greenbacks, and taxing
them. Many Radical Congressmen are
committed in favor of extending Negro
Suffrage over the North by Act of Con
gress. If, then, the People are to have
no better guaranty for the fulfilment of
the Chicago Platform than the bill of a
Radical Congress, they have a right to
assume that the Platform was made to
be broken, and was expressly designed
to cheat the Country.
The No Policy declaration of General
Grant is in effect an announcement
that, if he is elected, the revolutionary
rule of the Radical leaders of Congress
shall continue through his administra•
tiou. It extremely simplifies the Issue
of the campaign and puts it thus. Shall
the Democratic platform and candi
dates prevail, or shall the Country be
governed four• years more outside of the
Constitution, at the arbitrary will of
the Radical faction iu Congress? The
real contest is not between Seymour
and Grant, but between the former on
the one side, and Sumner, Chandler,
Butler, Bingham & Co., on the other.
The Country "pays its money and will
take its choice."
Taxation of Government Bonds
The Democratic Platform advocates
the taxation of Government Bonds. The
Radicals insist thatsuch taxation would
amount to partial repudiation. Which
side is right?
The language of the bonds themselves
stipulates for no exemption from taxa
tion. The Acts of Congress creating the
bonds provide for no such exemption.
There is, therefore, no mprcss contract
against taxation ; nor is there an im
plied oue. It cannot be fairly argued
that the Governmeu t is under an implied
' pledge not to tax its bonds because it
„has never done so heretofore. If this
were true, Government would be under
an implied pledge not to impose any
new taxes. Any man who purchases
Property, or embarks in business, not
at the time taxed, might with equal jus
tice claim that Government is under an
implied pledge never to tax his property
or business.
The extent of exemption from taxa
' tion which Government bonds have
hitherto enjoyed is this. The Courts
have decided that U. S. bonds are not
taxable for State and local purposes,
because State and Local Taxation might
become so severe as to destroy the mar
ket for Government securities, and
leave the United States unable to borrow
money. But the Courts have never
decided that the Government might not
expressly subject its bonds to State and
local taxation. Nor have they eyer
decided that the U. S. Government
could not tax its own obligations. Such
a decision would deny the Government
an essential attribute of sovereignty.
There has never been any satisfactory
reason urged against the taxation of
Government bonds. These bonds en
joy in a peculiar manner the protection
extended by Government to the proper
ty of its citizens. Their very existence
depends upon the preservation of the
Government. Then, why should they
not contribute to the support of the
Government? Why should they not
share with all other property and busi
ness, the burthens of the Government?
The fact that they are privileged from
State and local taxation furnishes the
strongest reason for subjecting them to
Federal taxation. The soundestrale for
the imposition of taxes is to levy upon
the descriptions of property best able to
bear them, and least burthened with
other charges.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania for
many years charged and collected a tax
upon the bonds of the State. The
House of Representatives of the present
Congress voted by a large majority to
tax the bonds of the United States. This
was done,under a controlling convic
tion that tiEe sentiments of their con
stituents deaT t ; the measure. And
the majority o people ucquestion
ab!y demand it n w. They are unwil
ling to permit,ewo Thousand Millions
,
of the money of the Country to entirely
escape taxati(:) , when all other property
is overloaded with public burthen.—
They
insist that these bonds should pay 1
their proportion of the expenses of the
Government on which they depend for
security. And unless we are greatly
mistaken, they will emphatically ex
press this opinion at the Polls.
JOE BROWN, the first secession Gov
ernor of Georgia and founder of the
Andersonville prison, who figured at
the Chicago Convention, has just spo
ken at a mixed Radical Meeting in
Atlanta.
"He said the Negro would not sur
render the right of suffrage without
bloodshed."
Rather strong language this from a
recognized champion of the Party that
denounces Reyolution. But it dont
frighten anybody. The People of the
United States will decide at the BA_LLOT
BOX whether the Negro shall exercise
the right of suffrage, and if they decide
against him, Sambo must submit, with
or without b l oodshed.
• -`, Geary onitevene. ;
_.:4l_ t,
On the 14th of lEttou#, 18f)iti.Goyarno*
„ , .. ~ ~_ . ,
Geary, ” addrgpsed th e peeve ofgetun - ..
sylvan% upoin the *eath of Thaddeni
Stevens." In the messaii, issued bi,..
him he said: - . , • - :
, ,
" The people o Pennsylvania owe' to the
enlarged statesmanship of Thaddeus Ste
vens the initiation of a system of public
improvements which has since developed
the vast resources of the State, and render
ed its prosperity a subject of wonder and
admiration. To his wisdom and liberality
we are indebted for our present magnifi
cent system of tree schooliedeeation, bY
which the children of the pooe-sire'enstbled
to reach a degree of cultivation beyond
which the wealthiest and -meet -favored of
other lands' cannot go. As a member of the
convention which revised and amended the
State Constitution—as a representative in
the, lower branch of the Legislatore—and
a
as . Canal Commissioner, the late Thad
dens Stevens displayed the same great
! abilities which dhstingalushed him as a jurist
in the highest courts, and as a leader in the
councils of the nation."
Now justice both to the living andthe
dead, require that the erroneous state
ments contained in the above paragraph
shall be corrected. While It is right
that no word of unnecessarily harsh
criticism should be uttered when the
grave has closed over the remains of - a
public character, it can not be claimed
as proper to accredit to any one that
praise which belonged of right to others.
Governor Geary is known to be an ig
norant man. Had he been conversant
with the history of his native State, he
would never have made the blunders
he did in the message to which we
refer.
The truth is, the system of internal
improvements, which led the way to the
creation of the net work of canals and
railroads which now traverse this State
in every direction, had not only been
inaugurated, but was far advanced be
fore Thaddeus Stevens ever made his
appearance in public life. It was actively
begun in 1827, and it was not until 1834
that Mr. Stevens first made his appear
ance in the Legislature as a member
from Adams county, a district which
was utterly opposed to the system.
In this opposition Mr. Stevens repre
sented his constituents consistently,
until the inauguration of his celebrated
" tape worm" railroad, the ruins of
which are still to be traced among the
hills about Gettysburg. Much money
belonging to the State was expended on
this more than useless scheme. It was
kept running during Ritner's adminis
tration, but was abandoned as utterly
impracticable and valueless after the
inauguration of Governor Porter. Every
dollar expended upon it was as com
pletely lost to the people of the State as
if it had been sunk in the sea. Robert
Morris, Yardley, White, Darlington,
Clarke, Holgate, Sergeant, Rush and
others had expended their own means,
and millions on the part of the State,
in judiciously planned internal improve
ment before Thaddeus Stevens was
heard of in the councils of Pennsylvania.
So much for Stevens' " initiation of our
system of public improvements."
Governor Geary also attributes to
Thaddeus Stevens the authorship of the
Common School System of Pennsylva
nia. This is as great a fiction as that
we have noticed. Gov. Wolf, a native
of Pennsylvania, and one of the wisest
and most laborious governors the State
ever had, was the real father of our
Common School System. He was
elected in 1329, and no sooner was he
inducted into 'Alice than he at once set
to work with all the energies of a well
ripened intellect to perfect a system of
public education, as provided for by the
State Constitution. In his inaugural
address in December 1829, he strongly
urged it upon the Legislature. During
the session which followed someconsid
erable progress was made. On the 2d
of April, 1831, more than two years be
fore Thaddeus Stevens was first elected
to the Legislature, Gov. Wolf had the
pleasure of signing the School Fund
law. In all his messages to the
Legislature in 1830, 1831, 1832 and
1833 the measure was urged for
ward toward completion with all his
energy. In 1834 the fund had been in
creased to $140.503.73, and it was voted
to increase it to two millions. True it
is that Thaddeus Stevens spoke in favor
of liberal appropriations, but so did a
large majority of his colleagues. He is
deserving of equal credit with them,
I but he was not even a member of the
committee which reported the bill, and
he framed not a line of it. Let Mr.
Stevens have all the cre lit, to which he
was entitled, but let not others be rob
bed of the mede of just praise which of
right belongs to them.
There are men still living to whom
can be ascribed a large share of the
honor which the ignorance of Gover-
I nor Geary would thus heap upon the
head of Mr. Stevens. A member of the
, Committee which formed the school
law of 1833-4 was Chief Justice Thomp-
I son , who was also at the same time on
the ' Committee of Internal Improve
ments. In both these capacities he
ably served the State. Let justice be
I done to the living and the dead, and
let not even Governor Geary dare to
falsify the facts of history for political
I effect. It was a stupid and blundering
act which we have felt it to be our duty
to expose.
The District of Columbia
Congress has established Negro Gov
ernment in the District of Columbia.
Negroes are eligible to office, and ne
roes serve as policemen and jurors
there.
Most of our citizens desire, some time
or other, to visit the seat of Govern
ment. Many of them are called there
by public business. When there, they
will be exposed, as at other places, to
accident or difficulty. And accident or
difficulty may bring them into Court.
In Court they will be tried by negro
jurors, and perhaps by negro judges.
Does this suit the taste of Pennsylva
nians? They have excluded the negr,
from the jury box in their own State
and have nevi authorized their Repre_
sentatives to admit him to the jury box
in the Federal Capitol. Yet every
Radical member of Congress from Penn
sylvania voted for absolute and univer
sal Negro Equality in the District of
Columbia. This is the entertainment
the servants have prepared for their
masters !
Cot. John P. Linton
Col. John P. Linton has been nomi
nated as the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Pith district, composed
of Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon and
Mifflin counties. He was a gallant sol
dier, is an able man, was our candidate
for Surveyor General three years ago,
has served two years in the Legislature
since, and we sincerely hope he may be
elected, as we believe he will be.
Gen. McClellan Coming
The announcement that General Mc-
Clellan is coming home, will be hailed
with pleasure by thousand of his ad
miring fellow-citizens. It is announced
that the hero of Antietam will return
on the 20th of September next,'and will
take an active part in the campaign for
Seymour and Blair. The soldiers will
turn out en masse to greet their favorite
general, when his feet shall again press
our shores.
ONE Johnson, who is a candidate for
the office of Attorney-General on the
Radical State ticket in Missouri, made
a speech in Saline the other night, in
which he is repotted to have said :
General Grant, backed by the army and
supported by the whole Radical party,
would prevent, with the bayonet, the inau
guration of a Democratic administration at
Washington, even if -it were elected by the
people • - and also that the Radical State
government at Jefferson City would resist
and put down in the same way any at
tempt to , inaugurate the Democratic party
into power in the State of Missouri.
The papers which are circulating for
geries, and are telling their readers what
Wade Hampton did not say in South
Carolina, would do well to inform their
readers what prominent " peaCen men
of the Grant stripe dt) say in Missouri,
k•rruption of the Republican rally In
tlennsylvania—)The Mace of,rano . ,
dies Senator to be oidfrliOt~~
..Harrisburg State'ooltl s 11;3vell'-
kiown Republican newspaper,'. and,
'e bat it says in regard to the corruption.
';which'-exists in the Repuidicart - party
ofniiim4lvania must be . accepted as
true._ We would, therefore, call the at- I
tention of all to the following remarka
ble article,- which appeared in Wednes
days issue of that Journal :
Whither. aresWe D Iftivs foss Fouttesd
; .
ElOweverinitch we maybe inclined as an
organ of Republicanism, to conceal the im !
Perfections which show themselves in ours,
as they do in all political organizations, the
great mass of the people cannot be deceived
that while one class of Republicans are
sinderely devoting themselves to the fair
advocacy of their principles, there is an=
other class who are utterly indifferent to
anything likeprinciple—who do not regard
our organization as worthy of considera
tion, beyond the means which it affords to
gratify their ambition, and who are as ready
to strike at our candidates when it snits
their interests, as they are to fight our
avowed enemies. Taken altogether, we, as
a party, have the largest and the dirtiest
loads to carry that were ever strapped on
the back of any political organization. It
is our duty to defend and uphold the na
tional credit; to secure the interest on the
national debt: to advocate the rigid collec
tion of the national taxation; enforce laws
enacted to punish traitors, and ensure the
rights of all men who fought to save
the country from destruction. The burdens
of the war aro the Issues which the Repub
lican party must sustain. Hence it is that
we have a terrible load to carry, and in or
der that we may succeed at the polls, we
should have the energy, the integrity, and
the disinterested efforts of all men profess
ing to be Republicans. We should have
sacrifices of all personal preferences, a com
promise of all personal differences, and, a
union upon our principles. This, we are
sorry to say, we have not. Clique rule in
the Republican party is as tyranical and as
unrelenting in its hate, as ever traitors hated
the Republican principle. There is more
corruption to-day, to attain favor in the
gift of the Republican party, than disgraced
the war to obtain contracts by which frauds
on the Government were perpetrated. It
is our duty to tell our friends these things.
It well becomes a Republican organ to
warn the masses of the party against the
woe which threatens us, and unless those
masses promptly open their eyes and their
ears to the actions and proceedings of themis
erable men who are plotting our disgrace, we
will be defeated .in October and utterly
ruined in this State in November. We de
clare it boldly and without the fear of suc
cessful contradiction (however much we
may be abused for the declaration) that
while one set of men in the Republican or
ganization are deliberately arranging to
buy the election of United States Senator,
another is at work secretly to defeat the elec
tion of a Republican, so that in the event of
Grant's election the patronage belonging to
this State may be monopolized by a certain
clique of our organization. In regard to the
purchase of this election there is no attempt
made at concealment. Those who propose to
do so, declare they have had a precedent on the
subject, that they know how it was purchased
heretofore, what it cost to do so, AND now
LITTLE THE PEOPLE SEEM TO CARE ABOUT
SUCH CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC MEN.—
We do not hesitate to say that the
Republican party cannot exist and
have such talk publicly made in refer
ence to its leaders. It must be rebuked
in some public manner, or the mass of men
who are &nest will not remain attached to
our organization. The Republican organs
of the State must do this talking. It is
better to win victory while denouncing the
evils which we know to exist in our midst,
than deplore defeat by secretly attributing
it to the bad men we were afraid openly to
denounce.
It is well known that the Radical
Legislative ticket of this county was set
up with direct reference to the Sena
torial question. The men who have
been nominated by "the ring" are
pledged in advance to vote just as Simon
Cameron may dictate. For so doing
they may or may not receive money.
That will depend upon the character of
the bargain they made , with those who
set them up, ran them through, and
who own them. It may be part of the
bargain that the profits are to go into
the pockets of those who worked the
wires and manipulated the votes. We
are not informed as to the precise terms
of the contract, but we do know that
the votes of the four members of the
House from Lancaster county will be
perfectly under the control of Cameron,
if the settled Republican candidates are
elected. They are pledged to vote for
either Simon's son-in-law, Wayne Mc-
Veigh, or for L. W. Hall, of Blair
county.: One or the other will
be put forward by Cameron as
his candidate, if the Republicans
have a majority in the Legisla
ture, and the length to which he will
go to carry his point was shown when
he deliberately and openly bought votes
enough to control the Republicen cau
cus and to secure his own election to the
United States Senate. He is determin-
I ed to have no rival in the control of the
patronage of the State, in case Grant
should be elected, and there is doubt
less some truth in the intimation of the
State Guard, that Cameron would de
feat any Republican candidate for Sen
ator except one of his own selection.
Cameron is not to have the field all
to himself, however. It is currently
reported that Wm. H. Kemble, late
State Treasurer, has declared that he
will buy a seat in the United States
Senate if the Republicans have a* ma
jority in the next Legislature; that he
knows how much it cost Cameron ; that
he has the money to foot the bills ; and
that he will bid higher than Cameron
for the votes of Radical members. It
is to Kemble that the .State Guard re
fers, when it says " one set of men in
the Republican organization are delib
erately preparing to buy the election of
United States Senator." Kemble and
his friends intend to go openly into the
market, prepared to bid against Came
ron, and we may expect to witness a
scene even .nore disgraceful than that
which transpired when Cameron bought
the seat he now disgraces.
There can be no contradiction of the
interpretation we have given to the
article copied from the State Guard.—
Every knowing Republican politician
in the State is cognizant of the dis
graceful facts, and they cannot truth
fully deny a single one of them. It is
public talk among them here in Lan
caster, at Harrisburg, and elsewhere
throughout the State.
Such a revelation of corruption ought
to be sufficient to rouse a perfect storm
of virtuous indignation from one end of
Pennsylvania to the other. How long
is our once proud commonwealth to be
thus degraded in the eyes of the world?
How much longer is our Legislatures
to be the theatre of open bribery? Are
we to see the office of United States
Senator openly Bold to the highest bid
der at each recurring election ? It is
for the voters to say. Sure it is, if
the Radicals have a majority in the
next Legislature, that the disgrace
ful scenes of two years ago will be
re-enacted. The State is gerrymander
ed so that, even with a large Demo
cratic majority on the popular vote, the
Radicals may control the Legislature,
unless an especial effort is made to de.
feat the corrupt men who have been
forced upon the Republican party as
candidates in the different Legislative
districts. The people have the matter I
in their hands. They can apply the
remedy at the ballot box. Let every
honest man in the State determine to
do his part to cleanse the legislative
halls of Pennsylvania. God knows
they need a thorough purification,
The Florida Election
The Radicals having secured the pas
sage of a law depriving the people of
Florida of the right to vote for Presi
dent, and authorizing the Legislature,
which was chosen nearly a year ago, to
cast the electoral vote of the State, do
not seem certain that they.have secured
it for Grant even yet. A special tele
gram to the State Guard says :
A number of prominent Republican
members of the Legislature of Florida are
said to be anxious for the reassembling of
that body in extra session for the purpose
of repealing the law relating to the election
of Presidential electors, as they
. fear from
past experience that some of its members
may be corrupted, and cast their votes for
Seymour and Blair.
Is not that a beautiful specimen of
the system of reconstruction which
Grant has promised to keep up ? Who
but a fanatic, a fool or a politician who
expects office can . consistently support
a party which resorts to such means
to perpetuate its rule. It is no . won-
Oer there is a perfect lack of enthusi
asm for Grant, '
elegro CoantliMen of WatilithalOn
( In Lancaster.
Thi• presence of Certain - negro me*"
bera'of tlia; ciWtouncus of :Washing
,orta at tWuntOd'of ThaddetiaSteverus,
wee ,a noticeable feature of :t4e affair.
It seen" however; that a report had
gone abroad to the effect that thesesable
officials were not treated with any great
courtesy during their stay in our midst.
This, one of the negro Councilmen
em
phatically - denies for himself and his
fellow negro -rulers. ',We , Publiith his
letter in"fullits it appeirs in the . Wash
ington National Intelligencer
"WastruriaTori, Aug. 20, 1868.
"CoL Jonah D. Hoover:
"SDI: My attention has just been
directed to an article in the ExpresB of last
evening,: wherein, statements are made
relative to my treatment in Lancaster,
which are specifically and generally false.
"On the arrival of the train at Lancaster
a committee received the remalnanf the
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens and the parties ac
companying them, and after escorting the
remains to the late residence' of the de
ceased, the committee then conducted the
representatives of the City Councils, and
others accompanying them, directly to
Cooper's Hotel, on East King street, where
they were hospitably reoeived, and every
comfort that a hotel affords was accorded.
"Individually I saw no difference in
treatment or attention shown me from that
shown any other gentleman in the company
in the journey thither, the sojourn there, or
on our return home. I saw no disrespect
whatever shown any member of the com
pany, nor heard of any. I was at no time
at Michael's Hotel; - I may have passed it,
but on the opposite aide of the street. The
wash-room, bar-room, dining-room, recep
tion room, and bed-room,(No. 14,) at
Cooper's Hotel, were as free to me as to any
other of the representatives of the City
Councils who went to Lancaster, and I felt
and acted with the same freedom as I would
in similar rooms in my own house.
"In the city, I might add, I experienced
nothing that generous hospitality, urbane
attention, enlightened civilization, and the
Christian refinement of the age do not com
mand for every being possessing the title
deed of manhood,
" I am led to make this statement inorder
that the city of Lancaster may have what
credit is really due to it. Respectfully
yours, Jour; F. COOK.
"P. S.—What I have said concerning my
self I can affirm of the treatment accorded
Mr. Stewart, who is individualized in the
article in question.
We hope the above letter will calm
the nerves of such fanatics as appear to
have been excited by representations
that the Radicals of Lancaster county
showed a disposition to "go back on
the Digger." And such of our Radical
friends, aspirants for Congress included,
as seemed to imagine that their,chances
would be damaged by rumors to the ef
fect that they showed a disposition not
to put the visiting negroes on a perfect
equality with themselves, can compose
their tempers to a condition of the most
serene tranquility. The negro council
men were here, they were well received
by the Radicals of Lancaster, they
slept peacefully at Cooper's Hotel,
where no apparitions of bloody-minded
Ku-Kluxers disturbed their dreams.
To use the exact language of negro
councilman John F. Cook, "Thc wash
room, bar-room, dining-room, recep
tion-room and bed-roonz (No. 14,) at
Cooper's Hotel were as free to MC (negro
councilman Cook) as to any other of the
representatives of the City Councils who
went to Lancaster."
We hope the letter of negro council
man Cook will settle the question as to
whether the leaders of the Republican
arty in Lancaster are fully prepared to
ccept the doctrine of negro equality in
lilts length and breadth. If the afore
aid negro councilman Cook does not
E they showed every disposition to do
so. If he speaks truly, he and his fellow
negro members were received and
treated precisely as if they had been
white. No distinction was made in
bed, bar, board or social intercourse.
This was as it should have been. We
like to see men act up to their political
belief. If a party professes to be in
favor of negro equality, as the Republi
can ,party unquestionably does, those
who vote with it should act on all occa
sions in accordance with their creed.
That the leaders of the party in Lan
caster did so at the funeral of Thaddeus
Stevens, Mr. Negro Councilman Cook
testifies. Of course we believe every
statement contained in his letter. No
one in Lancaster will dare to deny it.
Trying to Gull the Irish
On Wednesday the N. Y. Tribune
printed what pretended to be a speech
alleged to have been delivered by Frank
Blair before a Fenian organization in
1856, in which the gallant General is
represented as insulting his own friends,
the Irish Americans. Unfortunately
for the effect of this falsehood there was
no such thing as a Fenian organization
in existence in 1856. The smaller fry of
Radical papers have amended the lie of
the Tribune, and altered the date of this
pretended speech to 1866. The Express
did that in its last issue. This is a
specimen of the truthfulness of Radi
cal newspapers. Not daring to discuss
the great living issues now before the
people, they are forced to resort to a
publication of the most bare-faced lies.
Their attempt to influence Irishmen by
the publication of such gross falsehoods,
will only be spurned with appropriate
scorn by that brave and intelligent race.
They had better confine their efforts to
the negroes. They may still gull some
of them, though late developments
show that even the Africans are getting
Very sick of the foul party which has
almost ruined the country. This last
prop will be knocked from under Radi
calism in November, and the Southern
States will be carried against Grant by
negro votes. We would like to see the
Irishmen who would be stupid enough
to vote for the Know Nothing Colfax
under such circumstances.
A Republican Candidate out for Sey—
John Eichelberger, Esq , the Radi
cal nominee for County Surveyor of
York county, not only declines to run
on that ticket, but comes out openly in
denunciation of the foul party and de
clares his intention to vote and work
for Seymour and Blair. This is an evi
dence of the way the tide is running in
Pennsylvania. Look out for thunder
in October, and for still louder peals in
November.
West Virginia Certain for Seymour.
The New York World publishes the
following special despatches:
WASHINGTON, August 19 .— Chief Justice
Chase returned here last evening from his
official visit tlio West Virginia. He ex
presses his opinion that the Conservatives
are largely in the ascendancy in that State
and will control the Presidential ticket.
There can be no doubt about the cor
rectness of the above. Everything
foreshadows the complote overthrow of
Radicalism in West Virginia at the
coming election.
lion. William A. Wallace
Hon. Wm. A. Wallace has again been
unanimously renominated for a third
term in the State Senate by the counties
composing the twenty-third district.
Mr. Wallace's great abilities fully en
title him to this distinguished mark of
confidence. He has been recognized as
the most talented member of the Penn
sylvania Senate for several years past.
, Love for the Soldiers.
Out of six soldiers who were candi-
dates for office on the Radical ticket in
this county, but a single one received a
nomination. That is a specimen of the
love which the leaders of the party
have for the soldiers. They are slaught
ered without mercy when their claims
come into conflict with the wishes of
the political managers.
The Navy
Some facts, that are startling enough
in themselves, become more so by com
parison with others. In the third year
of Peace, according to Commissioner
Wells, our Navycost $25,775,500. In the
first year of the War, when the whole
Southern coast was blockaded, the Navy
cost less than $20,000,000. If Peace costs
more thati War, we can scarcely afford
to my with Grant, " Let us have peace."
The Negroes at_lllujildeus Stereos,
TheNoir York Trihune4ubllshed the
.
following among its pedal despatcheit
-relating to the funeral otthe late Thad
dens Stevens: "-•
In death" the statesmerr and, philanthro
pist carried out the great principle of his
life, and tolerated no distinctions of race or
color. So much can hardly be said of the
committee which had charge of the ar
rangements. Your dispatches have already
noted the fact that a guard of colored offi
cers of the Butler Zonaves accompanied the
remains from Washington. When those
who had charge of the obsequies in that
city informed the Lancaster Committee of
the . programme,- dispatches were sent in
effect that arrangements here would admit
no such display. The message came back,
from Washington that it was too late to
change the order of proceedings, and that
the colored guard would deliver the re
mains at Lancaster,- and that the com
mittee in charge .there could. treat
them (the colored men) as they pleased.
Lancaster county, with its six thous
and Republican majority, permitted the
colored zonaves to go back. on the plea that
they had fulfilled their mission and that
there was no further need for them. - Some'
persons say that this was done as a conces
sion to the Democrats of Lancaster. How
' ever that may be, the subject has created
considerable talk here among all classes,
and the action of the Committee of Arrange
ments is commented on in no gentle terms.
They make it a question of dollars and cents.
One or two of the gentlemen on the Corn•
mittee2aspire to fill Mr. Stevens ,place in
Congress. The Old Commoner'sgrave was
the last place:in the world at which to ex
hibit a prejudice or a feeling of this kind on
any pretext. Colored men were in the pro
cession to-day, but they were...self-invited.
It was at the suggestion of one of Mr. Ste
vens's warmest friends that the Zouaves
came from Washington. At whose sugges
tion they, the representatives of a race which
bears toward Mr. Stevens an immeasurable
love, went back before the grave closed on
him for ever, may be told at another time.
We have no doubt the correspondent
of the N. Y. Tribune is correct in his
statement of facts as given above. That
numbers of decent Republicans were
thoroughly disgusted at the sight which
was presented in this city on the arrival
of'the remains of Mr. Stevens, we know.
It looked as if a programme had been
carefully arranged to force an open re
cognition of negro equality, on au occa
sion when to protest against it, was
difficult if not impossible. Men of all
parties bad attended the different meet
ings which were held in this city, to
pay a last tribute of respect to the re
mains of a man, who, whatever his
faults, was acknowledged to have been
a distinguished citizen of Lancaster.
For the time all were prepared to lay
aside partisan differences, and to join
in the funeral obsequies. This feeling
was, however, changed to deep disgust
when 'the place of honor was given to
armed negro soldiers, and when, in the
sight of all observers, theßadical Coun
cilmen of Washington, some being ne
groes and others whites, with their
negro clerk, filed through the street,,
arm and arm. Then were heard mur
mers of indignation as well as expres
sions of natural disgust from men of
both political parties. The people of
Lancaster were not prepared for this
open disregard of all distinction be
tween the two races. The Republicans
had heard Thaddeus Stevens advocate
such equality, but it was then only a
thing of words. They were not pre
pared to witness this open exhibition of
it in all its offensiveness.
We do not know who induced the ue•
gro officers of the Butler Zouaves to take
their departure from our midst before
the funeral ; but we do know that many
Republicans were annoyed, disgusted
and indignant at the prominence which
was accorded to the negro organizations
which appeared in the funeral proces
sion. No better evidence of that can
possibly be adduced, than the fact that
not fifty white citizens of all the crowd
who were in the city joined in the pro
cession. Strangers from abroad, such
bodies as the Invincibles, and the Union
Leagueof Philadelphia, and some of the
fire companies and other organized
societies of Lancaster, together with the
negroes in line, made up the compara
tively small cortege which accompanied
the remains to the last resting place,
which the deceased himself had select
ed, because no distinction was there
made between negroes and whites.
That the Radical leaders of the Re
publican party are in favor of entire
equality between the two races, that the
direct tendencies of their teachings is to
break down all distinctions, whether
political or social, we have constantly
maintained. Thousands of honest
Republicans have heretofore doubted.
They have refused to be convinced,
even while asserting their hostility to
anything of the kind. No one in
Lancaster can doubt hereafter. The
evidences of their own senses must con—
vince them. Ocular demonstration is
uucontrovertable. They have had an
opportunity of seeing for themselves.
If they are prepared to continue to act
with a political organization which
bases its very existence on negro equality
of course they are at liberty to do so.
A Radical Candidate for Congress
The negro Bradley, who was lately
ousted from the Georgia Legislature,
was for two years a convict at Sing Sing
prison, has been twice a prisoner in Fort
Pulaski, and once confined in the Savan
nah calaboose. With such a record he
would seem to be a very fit candidate to
run for Congress on the Radical ticket,
and we are not surprised to see that he
has so announced. himself. His letter
reads as follows :
To the Voters of the _First Congressional Dis
Met :
Your most humbleservant and friend has
been requested, and under the circum
stances do accept, his chance for nomination
and his better chance to receive his friends'
votes, to make him the Representative in
Congress of the United States alter the 4th
of march, 1869.
A. ALPEOItA BRADLEY
If you want this blackamoor and
others like him to make your laws, vote
for Grant. He's running on that line,
you know.
Who Will be Congressman ?
The State Guard announces in ono
paragraph that the empty-headed ped
agogue, Wickersham, has been present
ed as a candidate for Congress by that
wonderfully influential and widely
known newspaper, the Elizabethtown
Trumpet, which is published semi
occasionally. In the next paragraph
it announces that 0. J. Dickey, Esq.,
has been settled. That is a specimen
of ignorance in regard to the political
situation in his old home of which. the
Junior Forney ought to be ashamed.—
Nobody has been settled yet, and the
chances are that a very lively fight will
ensue before the matter ends. We
would respectfully suggest that the
Radicals elect the corpse of Old Thad,
which they nominated with such won
derful unanimity almost a week after
his death. An effigy of the old man
would make about as useful a member
as some of the nobodies who have been
named, and, as the party is about to
give . up the ghost, it would be very
properly represented by a corpse.
Prof. Wickersham
Prof. Wickersham, who draws a large
salary as State Superintendent, proposes
to erect a monument to the memory of
Thaddeus Stevens with money begged
from the school children of the State.—
This demagogue is so ignorant of the
history of Pennsylvania as to profess to
believe that Thaddeus Stevens was the
founder of our Common School System,
when everybody, ought to know that
Gov. Geo. Wolf Is entitled to that honor.
The truth is that Wickersham wants to
be senttofill Mr. Stevens' place in Con
gress, a position for which he has not a
single qualification, and ho is trying to
make political capital for himself out
of the death of the "Old Commoner."
THE Negro Zouaves who disappeared
so mysteriously afteraccompanying the
remains of Thaddeus Stevens to his
residence are said to have gone back to
Washington in a big fit of disgust.—
They talk hard about certain Republi
cans of Lancaster. Who was it 'that
gave offense to these African warriors ?
The question is one of moment just
now.
Hotel Klecegenatlori and Amalgamation.
The so-called South Carolina Negro
Legislature have passed the following
"Law, 7, 61 ayes to 19 nays:
A bill to prevent discrimination betweenper-
SOns, by those carrying on business under
license, on account of race, color, or pre-
Moue condition.
Be it enacted, by the Senate - and House of
Representatives of the State of South Caro
lina, now met and sitting in General As
sembly, and by the authority of the same.
SECTION L That from and after the pas
sage of this bill it shall not be lawful for
any party or parties, engaged in any busi
ness, calling or pursuit, for the carrying on
of which a license or charter is required by
law Municipal, State, Federal Orotherwise,
disdlrainateloetweon persons, on account
of race, color, or previous condition, who
shall make lawful application for the bene
fit of such business, calling or pursuit.
SEC. 2. Any party so discriminating shall
be considered as having violated this act,
and upon conviction shall be punished by
a fine of not less than $l,OOO, or imprison
ment for not leer than twelve months. -
SEC. 3. No act of incorporation shall be
conferred upon any organization the rules
and regulations of which contain features
not compatible with the provisions of this
act.
Sc.S 4. All acts, or parts of acts, incon
sistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
A negro named Johnssn, demanding
the bill, said,—
"I notice a publication in the daily paper
concerning Nickerson's Hotel. They seem
to be exceedingly frightened about colored
gentlemen stopping there to board. Per
haps on some future day I shall come here
to Columbia, and there may not be any pri
vate house, and being a gentleman, may
call at Nickerson's Hotel. If I do so, I
don't want to be refused. I want the right
and privilege of going into that house no
matter who its kept by, and haring myself
cared for, as welt as any other guest of the
house. And so I want to go Into a workshop
or any other place of business."
This is what Radicalism means, North
as well as South, slde-by.side and bed
by-bed "equality,"—not that all Radi
cals now mean this, but it is what all
are coming to if Gen. Grant is elected
President.
OEOROE LEE (NEorto).
Now I was not one of those who accom
panied the excursion to Greenville, a short
time ago, but I understand that on arriving
there the members had no place to go for a
lodging. To meet just suet% an emergency
as this, I am anxious that this bill shall
pass, so that those having hotels shall be
made to pay the penalty if they deny the
accommodations which we demand. And
to this end I appeal to every Republican on
the floor to pledge himself to do equal and
exact justice to all. That is the essence of
this bill. It is all we went ; it is that which
is secured to us by the Constitution of the
State and the Reconstruction acts of Con
gress, and it is what we must have.
" What we MUST have," and will
have, of course, is Northern Whites to
cooperate with the Southern Negroes
iu making Grant President, as their
common servant and servant-man,—as
he must be, if thus elected.
Ti. B. ELLIOTT (NE011.0).
I hope that every man on this door who
claims to be a Republican will vote for this
bill. I will not insult the dignity of the
House by appealing to race, or asking a
man to vole for it because he is either white
or black ; but I ask simply on the ground
that the measure is right and proper, and in
accord with the principles involved in the
whole scheme of reconstruction.
Of course, it is in accordance with all
the Reconstruction Acts of Congress—
nay, in a lower, rather than a higher
keynote—for these acts put the negro
above the white man, by disfranchising
thousandsand tens of thousandsof white
men while enfranchising all the negroes;
whereas, this S. C. act only puts the
negro on an equality with the white
man—in bed, board, table, shop, &c.
Negro Suffrage In Pennsylranla
Tom. Marshall, of Pittsburg, one of
the most prominent Republican orators
in the State, said in a speech at Bedford
the other day:
"The Negroes should have the right to vote
in the Northern States, and I will come into
this Congressional district and help elect Mr.
Cessna to Congress on this issue."
That is what the Chicago platform
means, and the doctrine will be enforced
by Congress so surely as Grant is elected.
This same exponent of the creed of
the Republican party said in the same
speech :
"The negro that blacks my boots is asfully
entitled to suffrage US any Democrat in the
land."
Let it be distinctly understood and
constantly remembered that a vote for
Grant is a vote to support such senti
ments.
Partisan Legislation
The Radicals in Congress legislate al
most exclusively for partisan purpose.
The Tenure of Office Bill is a specimen
of that kind of law making. Its bad
effects are daily seen. The Washing
ton correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
says:
The failure of the Senate to act promptly
upon nominations has materially retarded
the execution of the government business
in many parts of the country, and has ad
ded much to the embarassment ol the Presi
dent in providing for the collection of the
public revenues and of guarding the
national interests abroad. Many important
offices have been left vacant, among-which
are the missions to liquador and Venezuela,
the Collector of Customs and Naval Officer
at New Orleans. Numerous vacancies ex
ist in the Internal Revenue Bureau, and a
great number of important Post Offices are
unfilled; among these aro the Post Offices
at Milledgeville and Augusta, Georgia, and
Fredericksburg, Virginia. The removal of
the incumbent from the first was asked for
because he was convicted of embezzling
money order funds with which ho abscond
ed. A removal was called Inc from the
second because the Postmaster had been
indicted for perjury, and the incumbent of
the third was removed for good and suffi
cient cause.
How long is the General Government
to be run as a mere machine for creat
ing offices and filling them with Radi
cal incumbents?
The Bloody Ku Klux Klan
Under the above heading Radical pa
pers are still publishing an exaggerated
accouul-of___thu_ \ killing of a white store
keeper and his negro clerk, at Franklin,
TeUnessee. Some of them go so far as
to suppress the following paragraph,
which was incorporated in the tele
graphic report:
"The murder of Blerfield at Franklin, on
Saturday night, was not prompted by po
litical considerations. About a month ago
a little white girl, named Ezell, was out
raged by a negro, who was shortly after
taken from the Jail and hanged. Two days
afterward the girl's brother was shot dead
by a lot of negroes, and it is now proved
that Bierfield instigated the latter murder.
There is no doubt that Ezell's friends killed
Siertield by way of retaliation."
The Radical newspapers manufac
ture political outrages out of such occur
rences, and every deed of violence which
takes place in the South is at once pa
raded as the work of that mythical
concern, the Ku Klux Klan.
The Montana Election
Last year Montana elected James M.
Cavanaugh, Democrat, to Congress by
a majority of I,IOS. This year the
Democratic majority in the Territory is
about 2,500—a clear Democratic gain of
about 1,400 in a single year. This mark
ed and emphatic change Is attributed
almost wholly to the fact that many Re
publicans, becoming !disgusted with the
excesses of their party leaders, had for
saken that organization and given their
votes and influence to the cause of the
Democracy.
In Union County
In Union county the Democracy have
nominated the following ticket:
Congress—Hon. Isaac Slenker. [Subject
to decision of Conferees.]
Assembly—A. D. Hill.
Prothonotary—Charles Awrand.
Commissioner—J. Eyer.
Surveyor—J. A. Gundy.
Auditor—Adam Young.,
Dauphin County Democratic Noinina-
The Democracy of Dauphin county have
put in nomination the following excellent
ticket :
Congress—den. Joseph F. Knipe. [Sub
ject to the Decision of the Congressional
Conference.]
Assembly—Dr. Geo. Roily, Daniel Leff
ler.
District Attorney—Benj. L. Forster.
County Commissioner—Geo. Shoop.
Directors of the Poor—Henry M. Bru
baker, Henry Zimmerman. )
Surveyor—Leander S. Ferree.
Auditor—Wm. Hoffman.
Supposed Losio orEliiiiiy-seven American
Seamen.
About the Ist of November, 1867, Mr.
Dabney, United States consul at Fayal,
Azores island, wrote to the Department of
State that there was a large number of
American seamen on these islands,iprinci
pally deserters from whaling vessels, and
that, in order to get them home, he bad
chartered the Portugues brig Evarista to
bring them to this country. He shipped on
board of that brig eighty-seven seamen for
the port of Boston. The brig has not since
been heard from, and it Is supposed that she,
With all on board has been lost.
Expenses of Oar State . Government.
Their Increase 'Under Badleal Rule
Comparative Expenditures of the list
Democratic and the last Radical
Legislatures.
The Economy of Sleeker, the Democrat,
vs. the Extravagance of ** artranh,
the Badteal, as Auditor General.
LOON AT THE FIGIIRES!
We have compiled, from the Executive
Documents of the State, the fullowing ta
ble, to which we ask the close attention of
the reader:
Japenses of the Zegisfalure per annum during the
nine years preceding the accession of the Re-
Yea pub/icans to power
r.
1852'
1859
1811
1858
1559.
1,231,274 40
Expenses of the Legislature per annum during Me
nine years of Republican ascendency:
IYear:
8.7,24 (15 mnt..
1801-- 319,600 Si
1802 184,314 07
1863 183,55 62
18'4 Z/1 81 0 5
71
1885 280,689 26
18611 272,977 25
1867 321,
1883. 350,000 451
CO
*Estimated.
i•:zcesa of Radical expenses
Thus, it will be seen, the figures show
that during the nine years of Radical rule,
the making of our State laws, has cost the
people upwards of ONE MILLION, ONE
HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS more than it did during the
nine years preceding the accession of Radi
calism to power, or at an average of about
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS per annum more
than under Democratic rule. The expenses
of the last Legislature also show that the
tendency is to increase instead of diminish.
Compare the cost of the last Radical Legis
lature with that of the last one in which the
Democrats had a majority in both Houses,
and we have the following exhibit :
The reader must not commit the error
of supposing that the above tables show
the sums of all the appropriations for each
year. These figures cover only the cost per
head of the members, clerks and attaches of
each Legislature. The appropriations n.ado
by them for other purposes, amount to many
millions, and are not here taken into the
account at all. In order to make the mat •
ter clearer, let the above sums be divided
by 133, the whole number of Senators and
Representatives, and the cost of each mem—
ber, to the State, will bo ascertained. Thus, a
member of the Democratic Legislature of
1858, with his proportion of the incidental
expenses added to his salary, cost the State
$1,1...313, whilst a member of the Radical Leg•
Jointure of 1888, with his proportion of the
incidental expenses added to his salary,
cost $2,831! With the difference between
gold and greenbacks added to the cost of
the Democrat, it would bring it up to only
$1,825, or $BOl3 less than that of the Radical,
showing that 133 members of the Radical
Legislature coat p 107,108 more per annum
than 133 members of the Democratic Legis
lature, even upon an equalization of the
currency of 1868 with that of 1858.
So much for the expense of the Legisla
ture. Now, lot us take n peep into the or
counts of the Auditor General's office. We
find the expenses of conducting that depart•
ment as follows
Year,
During these three years, Isaac Sleeker.
Democrat, was Auditor General, and whilst
ho was in office moro labor was required In
the department than over before, or since,
owing to the pressure of business growing
out of military affairs. Now look at the ex
penses of the next three years
is 66.
Gen. J. F. Llartratift was elected Auditor
General in 1865, and during his administra
tion 01 that office the expenses thereof have
increased $18,327.26, or $6,109.08 per annum.
He is now the Radical candidate for re
election.
The public now have the figures as proof
of the extravagance of Radical legislators
and officials. We shall expose the reckless
abusesappropriations i oa
other
f depar t ment s
rt Legislature, nen t
o fth and s
Slate
government, in due time. Lot the above
suffice to show the cost of the services of our
legislators and Auditor General.—Patriot
and Union.
Grant As a Soldier
A general who should use up and put hors
de combat ono thousand of his own regi
ments in the act of overcoming and destroy -
Mg one regiment of the ensmy would not
be thought eminent in his profession. That,
we trust, is a proposition which every man
who will vote for Grant can unite with us
in affirming. It must be deemed a safe
statement. Now between such generalship,
and the generalship which conquers an
equal or a superior force, there aro num
berless gradations of merit. That too, we
hope, nobody will dispute, being also a
perfectly safe statement.
Now we make no charges, we apply no
epithets, but we simply lay before our
readers again the figures which will enable
every man in the country each for himself
to judge, Just what rank between these
maxima and minima of prowess, Just what
merit between these extreines of skilful and
unskilful generalship, deserves to bo appor
tioned to Gon. Grant.
Grant, on assuming command, May 4,
I.BG-1, had of effective men besides the re
serve, when he crossed the Rapidan, 12.5,000.
Lee, at the same date, had an effeckive
force of 52,000.
Grant's reinforcements up to the battle of
Cold Harbor, June 3, were 07,000.
Lee's reinforcements up to the same date
wore 18,000.
Grant's total force, Including reinforce
ments, was 222,000.
Leo's total force, including reinforce
ments, was 70,000.
, Returns to their respective Governments
showed that when both armies had reached
the James,
Juno 10, the number of Grant's
army that had been put hors dc combat was
117,000.
Up to the samo date, the number of Leo's
men who had been put hors de combat was
10,000.
Grant had more than three men for every
one that Lee had ; 222,000 to 70,000.
Grant lost more than six men for every
one that Lee lost; 117,000 to 19,000.
Grant lost as many men as all Lee had
and 12,000 over half as many more besides ;
117,000 to 70,000.
Grant, having in the first instance more
than twice as many men as Leo (125,000 to
52,000), yet had to be reinforced by more
men than all Lee ever had ; 97,000 to 70,000.
These figures are derived from the most
authentic sources. Their accuracy is also
gun ftinteed to us by a Republican general,
whose veracity or whose capacity General
Grant will be precisely the last man on this
planet to impeach. On his impeachment
of them, indeed, we should endeavor to
substantiate their truth. But It is not sut
ficient that they are loosely questioned by
Radical journals, or more pretentiously
challenged by Grant's man Stanton's man
Dana. In reply to the Sun, we have simply,
with all possible respect, to reaffirm their
authentic, origin and accuracy.—N. Y.
World.
Stevens• Baptism
The Freeman's Journal (Romer. Catholic
paper) emphatically denies (and promi
nence is given to the denial) that baptism
was ever administered to Thaddeus Stevens,
by Sisters of Charity, us heretofore stated.
' There is a mixed up story in the :Tri
bune's and other papers' correspondence,
that is evidently distorted, about a Sister of
Charity having baptized him Just before be
died. Our correspondent has it that the
Sister of Charity kept hold of the old lecher's
hand for some twenty minutes. That is
false on the face of It, as the Sisters of Char
ity are carefully trained in the strict rules
of Catholic purity. Ono correspondent has
it that the Sister, having ascertained that
ho bad never been baptized,asked him leave
to baptize him ten minutes before he died—
and that his answer was he had ' no ()We
thane l' Baptism, to adults, is not,given on
the ground of no objections,' but on their
' asking' of the Catholic Church for faith'
to lead them to . life eternal,' and professing
their desire to be baptized."
In regard to another statement, to the
effect, that the Sisters of Charity took part
with the Protestants, in the funeral rites,
the Journal says
" This is another mistake. No well-in
structed Catholic ought to be scandalized at
so stupid a mis-statement. No Catholic can
join in the religions rites of non• Catholic—
s Protestant or Pagan. Whatever
apologies laymen may sometimes make for
bodily presence at a funeral where there
are nn-Catholic religious performances on
the ground that they in no wise join in those
exercises—it would be a grave matter for
any one wearing the external dross of a re
ligion to stand and seem to participate in
such. We have great confidence in the
good instruction and quicknes of preception
of the good Sisters of Charity, and we have
no trust at all in the daily papers or their
correspondente. Therefore we take it that
the whole story of Thad. Stevens' baptism
is a myth. It seems that the Catholic cler
gy did not claim his body for the rites of
Catholic, sepulture, as they would have
done bad he died In the communion of the
eburch.
"We sympathize with the Sisters of
Charity, whose good name bas been so
cruelly abused in some of the daily papere.l
The Rinderpeet.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 24.—The cattle
plague continues to spread among the dai
ries which supply the city with milk. Forty
four cows have died since Saturday, and
thirteen others are reported moribund to
day. Dr. Clendenin, the City Health Offi
cer, yesterday made a post-mortem exam
ination of one of the victims, and noted the
condition of every organ.
Hon. James B. Campbell is on the way to
Washington with a memorial from the per
ple of Charleston to the President, expron
inglapprehensiona for the peace of thfolty.
Amount.
.$103,334 05
97,952 15
12 All 67
- 127,492 67
.. 191,011 69
... 172,452 15
... 175,503 24
2,211,744 14
1,234/74 40
1,120,960 74
$ OW 00
. 17!,!32.15
Amount.
Sl' IJI 01
. 11 101
. 10 , 001 IJ