<JI)r Centre Prmocrat.
SHUGERT & FORSTER, Editors.
VOL. "J.
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Tonus 51.50 per Annum,ln Advance.
S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*.
Thursday Morning, July 15, 1880.
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WINKIKI.D SCOTT HANCOCK, of Pi'iniH.vlvaniii.
roll VICE PRESIDENT,
W ILLIAM 11. ENGLISH, of Indiana.
RLKCTORS-AT-L A R< IK.
R. Etniiict Moiirtghiwi, Willium 11. I'layftlrd,
ELECTORS.
Hint. r>i*t.
1. John Slevin, 15. George A. Post,
2. Kdwin A. Pro, I'i A. M. Benton,
:i. John M. Campbell, IT. *l. P. Linton,
4. Oillefl D-allof, 18. John S. MtUer,
a. John N. MofTet, 19. J. 0. Sax ton,
Edwin Waldon, 20. C. M. liower,
7. Nathan C. Jam en, *2l. I. A. J. Huuhnnnn,
8. George Filbert, 22. Christopher Mugee,
JitmeH (1. McSparin, 2-t. Robert M. Ollwon,
ID. Alfred J. Martin, 24. Thomas Bradford,
11. Adam Gerringer, 2". Harry W. Wilson,
12. Frank Turner, 28. Samuel Griffith,
13. P. J. Birmingham, 27. J. Rohm Thompson,
it. 11. K. Davis,
Democratic State Ticket,
FoR SUPREME JUDOE,
tIKORGK A. JKNKS, of Jefferson County.
FOR AI.'MTOR GENERAL,
ROBERT P. DECIIKRT, of Philadelphia.
ON the wave without a bauner!
The Republican party —its mainstays,
('onkling, Cameron, Logau, Shernmn
and others, enveloped in ice. And
the bloody shirt won't unfurl.
THE Hon. I. D. McJunkin has car
ried off the Republican Congressional
nomination in the twenty-sixth Con
gressional district, which has caused
considerable dissatisfaction in his
party. We are sorry that our friend
Dix. is cut off with one term. But
such is life.
OLD FATHEU CLAPP makes a fierce
demand in his stalwart organ, the
Washington Republican, for the im
mediate removal of all Democrats
holding positions in any of the de
partments of the government at Wash
ington. We re-echo the demand. Turn
them out without a moment's delay.
It will furnish an excellent precedent
to follow after the 4th of March next,
and the Democratic heads of depart
ments under Hancock, will not be slow
to profit by it.
UNCLE JACOB ZEIGLER, of the But
ler Herald, has received the Demo
cratic nomination for the Senate. This
is a merited tribute to an old and
faithful servant of the Democratic
j party. Ilis eiectiou will secure to the
41st district a faithful representative
of their interests, and to the Common
wealth an experienced and enlightened
Senator. Let the Zeigler boom be
hearty and thorough.
DEFINING his position ! The radi
cals sought to commit Gen. Grant to
Garfield when they recently called out
a speech from the "old commander,"
at Kansas City. Here is what they got:
"I have, indeed, belonged to one of
the great political parties of the
i country, because, on the whole, I be
: lieve it much nearer right than the
other. [Applause.] But 1 claim to
have as much good feeling and friend
ship for the party opposed to me as for
the party which has heretofore confer
red honors upon me."
Very satisfactory! very ! When
. taken in connection with his expressed
belief in the election of Geu. Hancock,
it is especially interesting.
THE Republicans in Pennsylvania
I are in rather a bad way, if the cor
respondents of the New York Times
are to be believed. These veracious
[chroniclers inform the public that
Gen. Hancock has "no special popu
larity" in Pennsylvania, not even in
Montgomery county "where he was
born." The New York World re
marks that "this is a curious state
ment to be made of the State in which
the battle of Gettysburg was fought.
And if this statement is well founded
it is scarcely less curious to be told by
the same chroniclers that in spite of
the indifference of Pennsylvania to
the most illustrious living soldier of
the war, the Republican canvass is in
such a critical condition that "it may
he doubted whether any time should
be lost" by the Republican managers ;
and to find that the only thing to be
"aid of the Republican Chairman of
the State Committee, Mr. Cessna, is
that "it is to be hoped he may be pre
paring for the active business of the
"campaign t"
"EQUAL AND KXAOT JUSTICE TO ALT, MEN, Of WHATEVER STATIC OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLlTlCAL."—Jefferson,
The Situation.
The National tickets o*' the two
great parties have now been before
the people a sufficient length of time
to enable us to calmly and dispassion
ately look over the field and note the
salient features of the situation. There
is no disguising the fact that the Chi
cago nominations fell still-born upon
the masses of the Republican party.
While the selection of either Blaine
or Grant would have aroused the
most unexampled enthusiasm in every
portion of the country, the nomina
tion of General Garfield was received
only in mild astonishment,and in some
influential quarters with unqualified
and open disgust. The rank and file
of the party were not familiar with
either his name or his deeds, while the
leaders of Republican sentiment knew
entirely too much of both. The nom
ination was the outcome of passion,
and was made without a thought as
to the strength or fitness of the man
whom accident enveloped in the man
tle of leadership. The determined
men who planted the banner of the
old Commander above their heads
withstood the shock of battle with
Spartan heroism, and when the final
break came they were found as solid
and compact as when they smilingly
received the first fusilade of the ene
my. They did not contribute to the
mistake, and they now show little or
no disposition to come to the rescue of
the men who perpetrated this hideous
blunder upon their party. The im
perious senior Senator from New York
sulks in his tent as lie perfects his
arrangements for extensive travel in
foreign lands, which will cover the
summer and extend far into the au
tumn months. Carpenter is suddenly
overwhelmed in the meshes of a large
ly augmented law practice, which ut
terly precludes him from even pausing
for a moment to endorse his candidate.
Our own Don, brokeu in health and
spirit, reflects in elegant leisure over
the ingratitude of political parties as
he proudly waves aside the gift bear
ing Greeks who come to him from the
fountain of power to tempt him from
his retirement. Forney's trenchant,
glittering blade flashes in the sunlight
as he kindles the patriotic fires of 1866
upon the hearthstones of the grateful
people of his native State and city.
Pearson fleshes his maiden sword as
a champion of the Democracy, and
summons in ringing sentences the
brave soldiery of the Republic to the
standard of Hancock. The lines
of the opposition are sadly broken
and there are yawning spaces here
and there which tell either of actual
desertion or defiant insubordination.
The tried and trusted Captains who
were wont to lead these serried legions
to victory are not visible, and the
symbol of authority is wielded by
those who were unknown in the re
cent battles of our hereditary foe. It
is a relief to turn from the confused
and straggling columns of Republi
canism to gaze upon the matchless
proportions of the army of constitu
tional liberty. Never in the history
of the great Democratic party has it
presented so striking and brilliant a
picture as it does to-day. From the
Lakes to the Gulf, from the Kennebec
to the Columbia it is the same. Unit
ed, enthusiastic and confident, the
Democratic hts are marching, with
the resistless sweep of an Alpine aval
anche, to au assured and splendid vic
tory in November. The ingenuity,
craft and cunning of the enemy are
alike impotent to arrest or check this
onward movement. Blundering organs
have sought in vain for some flaw in
the armor of our candidates, and have
neither spared truth or exaggeration
in their endeavor to mix some kind of
mud that would stick. Forges! inter
views, bald and awkward inventions,
fictitious letters and wholesale lies
have all met the same fate; General
Hancock is as invincible now'as he
was terrible at Gettysburg, and every
attempt to sully his fair fame but re
acts upon his calumniators. Finding
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, .JULY 15, 1880.
it impossible to make any use of the
ensanguined shirt, the outrage mil!
out of order, and the forged Confeder
ate archives powerless for harm to the
hero of two wars, the average organ is
unarmed at the very first onset. The
ghost of Mrs. Surratt is invoked in
vain, and while one portion of the
Republican press is appealing to the
religious prejudices of our Catholic
fellow citizens as they falsely charge
the responsibility of the murder of
that unfortunate woman upon Gener
al Hancock, another portion grave
ly challenges Protestant prejudice by
fabricating a congratulatory dispatch
from a distinguished Catholic prelate
to Hancock, in which he speaks of the
General as a son of the "Church."
This imbecility has naturally had the
very opposite effect from that intend
ed and the situation of the organs is
pitiable indeed. Their la a t fiasco is
even more ludicrous than the first.
They have discovered that Geu. Han
cock actually believed that Samuel .T.
Tilden was elected President in 1876,
and so informed General Sherman.
We hope they will be able to demon
strate the truth of this last and most
serious indictment. It is an opinion
which three-fourths of the people of
this country will not combat. Alto
gether the situation is most favorable
to Democratic success. The people
are in earnest, and just so sure as
comes seed-time and harvest Wiufield
Scott Hancock will be the next Presi
dent of the United States, and that to
by an unprecedented majority of both
the popular vote and electoral college.
THE biographers of Garfield seem
to linger with peculiar pleasure upon
his childhood, and detail his struggles
with stubborn mules in boyhood with
i much pathos. No doubt he was a
pretty child us well as a sprightly boy,
and the darling of His mother. TTut it
is the manhood of the Presidential can
didate we have to do with now—the
integrity and honesty of the public
man—the representative of a great
political party that claims attention.
The charges against him in this char
acter cannot be slurred over. They
are serious and damagiug, and show a
reckless disregard of principle and
common decency in olficial conduct.
They are the emanation of his own
political friends. The Credit Mobi
lier and De Golyer bribes were the
subjects of report by his colleagues
and political friends in Congress, and
of his own (.Congressional District. If
untrue, surely he can make the false
hoods apparent beyond doubt. Until
he does so, the records of Congress
prove him unfit to be trusted with the
administration of the aftairs of this
great government. Mr. Garfield's
record being admitted all right as a
youthful mule driver, let the attention
of his friends now be given to the
more weighty matters above alluded
to, in which they might ask credit for
the back pay salary grab on account
of extreme poverty, or un unconquer
able spirit of avarice implanted within
him, for which he should not be held
responsible.
CHAIRMAN RANKIN, of the Repub
lican County Committee, must be seri
ously ulariued when he is compelled
to resort to heroic measures to keep
his party line intact. As if stricken
with a foreboding of coining evil, he
rushed to the front with the decidedly
novel expedient of securing the written
pledges of Republican soldiers to the
support of Garfield. We are afraid
he has thrown himself into the breach
too late to remedy the mischief. The
Hancock leaven has been working
while he slept. At best, it's but a
shabby compliment to the manhood of
Republican soldiers that their written
bond must be put on record to prevent
their strayiug into strange pastures.
THE pibroch of Cameron will not
be heard this year, summoning the
clansmen of Lochiel from their moun
tain fastnesses to do battle for the
young chieftain. As far as can be
ascertained Don's health will not per l
mit him to occupy an exposed posi
tion during the cannonading of the
Hancock batteries.
G:irfield Accepts.
It would have been infinitely better
for General Garfield had lie deprived
himself of the satisfaction of writing
a formal letter of acceptance. It is
perhaps the weakest and roost am
biguous paper of the kind ever sub
mitted to the American people. Mr.
Garfield is a most consummate mas
ter of the Euglish language, and his
failure to distinctly outline his posi
tion will be rightly attributed to a
desire to offend none of the clashing
factions in his own party. The letter
is unworthy of the man, and while
his meaning is rendered obscure by
the verbose manner in which he en
deavors to convey it, enough is glean
ed 4o show that he has sunk every
consideration of manhood and has de
liberately given the lie to his own
spoken words and acts while a mem
ber of Congress. lie exalts sectional
ism to a conspicuous place in the can
vass, although he said in the House
on December 14,1878, "The man who
attempts to get up a political excite
ment in this country on the old sec
tioual issues will find himself without
a party and without support." That
these words will prove prophetic Mr.
Garfield will discover in the earlv
days of November. The remainder
of the lottor stamps the author as a
of the first water. His
shuffling on the tariff is pitiable
and will excite no other feeling than
that of disgust. The man who voted
to reduce the duty on pig iron from
89 to £6.30, and tried to retain the duty
on te* and coffee, cannot now, under
the pressure of a political exigency,
his record of years without
bringlbfc down upon his head the con
tetspflyiff all honest men. His plea
for rp£cmd improvements is the ouly
emphatic declaration contained iu the
entire letter, and is in keeping with
his record. He has consistently voted
for all the extravagant harbor and
river bills for the passage of which
Republicans have heretofore tried to
hold Democrats responsible. His empty
platitudes on Chinese immigration and
the separation of Church and State will
offend no one, because, with rare dex
terity, he manages to get on both sides
of these questions at the same time.
The letter is very long and wc will
take occasion to refer to it in the
future. It is a great disappointment
to friends und foes alike, and certainly
does no credit to General Garfield and
gives no indication of his fitness for
the high civil trust for which he has
been named.
•'HANCOCK is described US being a very
weak man, intellectually, and without
any of the qualities of the statesman."
Relief on tc He publican.
Who describes Hancock "as being
a very weak man, intellectually?" A
weak man, "intellectually," never
could have gained the promiueuce and
distinction that Hancock did in the
war, or sustained himself as nobly in
the difficult positions in which it was
the habit of his superiors to place him.
In almost every trying emergency iu
which the grand old Army of the Po
tomac fouud itself in its wonderful
cureer of four years, the fine powers
of his aetive mind, his sound judg
ment and rare discretion were required
by the commanding general for special
purposes, and he never failed to justify
to the utmost the confidence thus re
posed in him. Everybody knows the
story of Gettysburg: how Meade se
lected Hancock to represent him ou
the field, alter the fall of Reynolds,
and assume command of the troops
then present. It was a day fraught
with mighty couscqueiices for weal or
for woe to the country, aud a "very
weak man, intellectually," was uot
usually the sort of a man detailed for
an important and responsible duty on
an occasion of that kind. How well
the responsibilities of that momentous
hour were met, history tells and the
country knows. We can only couclude
therefore that the man who describes
Hancock "as a very weak man, intel
lectually," must be either a fool or a
kuave.
THE Republican newspapers are
much concerned about the record that
General Hancock made for himself in
Louisiana, but studiously refrain from
laying it before their readers. It is a
grand record of which any patriot
might well bo proud. Read: " The
great principle* of American liberty
are still the lawful inheritance of this
people and ever should be. The rifflit
of trial by jury, the habea* corpus, the
liberty of the press, the freedom of
speech, the natural rights of persons
arid the rights of property must be pre
served." Will any stalwart dare to
assert that the sentiments here ex
pressed do not embrace the entire
theory upon which free government
"of the people, by the people and for
the people," is founded ? Will any
stalwart dare to assert that the liber
ties of the people will be endangered
by the election of a man to the Presi
dency of the United States who boldly
proclaimed them aud made them the
guiding star of his rule in the South ?
It is a record the Democratic party is
perfectly willing the people shall un
derstand. It is better than a record
of Credit Mobilier stocks and De Gol
yer contracts, and so the country will
decide.
IT was never suggested to either
Generals Scott, Taylor or Grant that
it would be indelicate for them to re
tain their rank iu the array while
standing before their fellow citizens
as candidates for the Presidency. Rut
the Republican press, with great unan
imity, demands the resignation of Gen.
Hancock. We are authorized to state
that the Democratic candidate for
President contemplates tendering his
resignation, and it will be forwarded
to the War Department iu good time.
It is to take effect at midnight on the
3d of March, 1881. In the meautime
we bog leave to call the attention of
our Radical brethren to the fact that
DeGolyer's attorney is at present a
member of Congress and U. S. Senator
elect from Ohio. But then Garfield's
simplicity and his ignorance of all
such things as business aud delicacy
are a sufficient excuse for his over
looking such little matters. He is too
unsophisticated for any use.
ONE of the most widely known and
influential protectionist organs in the
country remarked, a few days ago,
that a tax on tea and coffee was one
of the favorite hobbies of free traders.
Ref'creuce to the Congressional Globe,
Part I, 42d Congress, page 82, dis
closes the fact that on the 13th day of
March, 1871, the following hill passed
the House of Representatives:
" Re it enacted, That from and after
the pARHHffe of this act tea and coffee
shall be placed on the free list and no
further import duties shall be collected
on the same."
On the passage of this bill James
A. Garfield, in common with all the
rest of the pronounced free traders on
the tloor of the House, voted "No."
Ivelley, Killinger, Buyne and Errett,
please take notice.
SAMUEI. J. TM.DEN has forwarded
his check for one hundred thousand
dollars to Hon. W. 11. Baruum, mem
ber of the Democratic National Ex
ecutive Committee from Connecticut,
with the request that the money be
used to further the election of General
Hancock. There is no sulking in the
tent business about the sage of Gram
mercy Park. He is enthusiastically
for the hero of Gettysburg aud Demo
cratic success generally, and as an
earnest of his unquestioned sincerity
he has made this princely donation in
aid of the party he loves so well.
Let us hear from Grant, Sherman and
Blaine. How much do they want to
see Garfield elected ?
THE prospects now are that the
Republicans of Maine will this year
be left out in the cold. Heretofore
the Greenbackers and Democrats have
run separate State tickets, which
together have numbered a large vote
over the Republicans. This year they
make a clear combination on one
ticket, and expect to carry the Gov
ernor, the electoral ticket, and the
Legislature which will eleot a Senator
of the United States.
TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Advance.
IIAMOCK-EMIMSJI.
Tin* Candidates Formally Notified of
Their Noiuinatioii.
NEW YORK, July 13.—The committee
appointed by the Cincinnati convention
to inform its candidates of their nomi
nation Iheld a meeting in the New
York Hotel at noon to-day, ex-Senator
John i\ Stockton, of New Jersey, in
the chair. The sub-committee, compos
ed of Mr Stockton, John \V. Daniel, of
Virginia; General I). M. Debose, of
Georgia; ex-Governor Saulsbury, of
Delaware ; It. M. Speer, of Pennsylva
nia; George Hoadiy, of Ohio; and
Augustus Schoonniaker, of New York,
reported drafts of letters to General
Hancock and Mr. Fnglish, which were
adopted and signed by all the members
of the committee of the convention.
The letter to General Hancock is as
follows :
To GENERAL HANOOCK : Sir.—The Na
tional Convention of the Democratic
party, which assembled at Cincinnati on
the 22d ot last month, unanimously
nominated you as their candidate for
President of the United States. We
have been directed to inform you of
your nomination for this exalted trust
and request your acceptance. In ac
cordance with the uniform custom of
the Democratic party, the convention
have announced their views upon the
important issues which are before the
county, in a series of resolutions, to
which we invite your attention. These
resolution embody the general princi
ples upon which the Democratic party
demand that the government shall be
conducted, and they also emphatically
condemn the maladministration of the
party in power, its crimes against the
Constitution, and especially against the
right of the people to choose and in
stall their President, which have wrought
so much injury and dishonor to our
country. That which chiefly inspired
your nomination was the fact that you
had conspicuously recognized and ex
emplified the yearning of the American
people for a reconciliation and brother
hood under the shield of the Constitu
tion with all its jealous care and guar
antees for the rights of persons and of
States.
Your nomination was not made alone,
because in the midst of arms you illus
trated the high qualities of a soldier,
but because when the war had ended
and when in recognition of your
courage and fidelity you were placed in
command of a portion of the Union
undergoing a process of restoration,
and while you were thus clothed with
absolute power you used it not to sub
vert but to sustain the civil laws and
rights they were established to protect.
Your fidelity to those principles mani
fested in important trusts heretofore
confided to your care, gives proof that
they will control your administration
of the National government and assures
the country, that the constitution, with
its wise distribution of power and re
gard for the boundaries of State and
Federal authority, will not suffer in
your hands; that you will maintain
the subordination of military to civil
power, and will accomplish the purifi
cation ot public service, and, especially,
that the government which we love will
be free from reproach or the stain of
sectional agitation, or malice in any
shape or form.
Rejoicing in commou with the masses
of the American |>eople upon this
bright promise for the future of our
country, we wish also to express to you
personally the assurance of the general
esteem and confidence which have sum
moned you to this high duty and will
aid you in its performance. Your fel
low citizens,
JOHN W. .STEVENSON,
President of the Convention.
NICHOLAS M. BEI.L, Secretary.
HANCOCK'S SVEECU.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee : I appreciate the honor con
ferred upon me by the Democratic Na
tional Convention, lately assembled in
Cincinnati, and thank you for your
courtesy in making that honor known
to me. As soon as the importance of the
matter permits I will prepare and send
you a formal acceptance of my nomina
tion for the office of President of the
United States.
A letter similar in character was
also presented to Hon. Win. H. Eng
lish, who replied at some length in a
speech accepting the uoniiuatiou. The
letter of the committee, und the speech
of Mr. English, will appear* in next
week's DEMOC RAT.
THE Bellefonte Morning Newt* has
developed iuto a stalwart Garfield or
gan. Its mask of neutrality was but
carelessly worn at best, and now the
pretense is entirely thrown aside and it
appears iu its true colors. The atmos
phere of the Republican office is not
conducive to the good health and hap
piness of independence in any shape.
We expect to see this conversion of
the Newt hailed by the Garfield press
of the country as an indication of the
collapse of "the Hancock " boom."
Stranger things have happened.
AT the meeting of the Democratic
National Committee, held in New
York, ou Tuesday, Hon. William H-
Rarnum, of Connecticut, was unani
mously elected Chairman, and Fred
erick O. Prince, of Massachusetts, Sec
retary.
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