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A Rending Room. ft,!18,80 RI ?ert" ATRS. E. J. PERRIGO, ...._L , , ' TEACHER OF VIAND AND (MOAN. Lesson. given In Thorough Bast and Harmony. euldratiOn of the voice a specialty. Locatod at A. Siosll'a Mark St. Reference; liotmes Damage. Towanda, Pa., March 4, lUO. . ,k, -- JOHN. W. CODDING, ATTOUNRY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA: PA: Office over Kirby's:Dreg Store THOMAS E. MYER ATTORNEY-AT-L/OW, TOWA.7iDA, PA Office-with Patrick and Foyle. 5ep.25,79 DECK k OVERTON ATTOI6NZYS-AT TOWANDA, A,. D•A,OrznTog, I) ODNEY A. 11 ERCI7R, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA, Sellettor of Patents. Particular attention patd t,, ntislneSB In the Orphans Court and to the settlt nt,lit of estates, ' °Mee In 3antanyes Block • May 1, '7lO. OVERTON & SANDERgON,,, A TI9nNEY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. E. OvEnron. 3n. S DUN F. SANDERSON TIT IL JESSUP, 1T • • ATTORNEY AND CORNSELLOR-AT-LAW, AJONTItOSE, PA. all , lgf. Jessup having resumed the pActlceof the law In Nortnet4 Pennsylvania, Wlli, attend to any legal businesskritrilltea lonian In Bradford county. l'cr,ens whdllng tol consult him, can call On H. Streeter, Eari.,JTowanda, Pa., when au appointment Can he male., . . t RE>.IIII7,,STREETER , . . 1 ~ ATTORNEYd Ik .ND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, TOWA NBA, PA. • k . Feb 27, '79 I,..TOWNER, M. P., ID,PMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND STIRoEON '04., Residence 311(1 (Mee Just North of Dr. Car blit s, on.gain 'Street, Atheits, Pa. JnnXc sm. 1 -1 4 L. L HILLIS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, P. E. F. GOF‘F, ATTOR .ti EY-AT-LAW, wrA.Lustso. ra.i Agency forlhe hale and ynurchase of all kinds 0 , Securities and fur makin g luans on Real Estate All bn%lness will receive careful and prom' , aqefitinit. (June 4, 1879. AAT 11. TIIOMPSON, ATTORNEY y • P.T LAW, WY ALIISING,, PA. Will attend to all business Mitt ustod to tits care In Bradford, Sullivan and Wyoming !countleic, Office with Esq. Porp4. (n0v19.44. yintA'm:E. BULL, Nun Eton. I:!.:GlNEtalltiG, SURVEYING /iND DRAYTINO. oilier with G. F. MA,OII. oi , er Patch Si TineS Main street, Towanda. 1 a. 4:15.130. , Ti IL ANGLE, D. D. S. OPERATIVE AND MECHANICAL DENTIST State Street,lnecorLd floor of Dr. Prart'a apr 3 79. T -1 I,SBREE & SON, ATT . { EYS-AT-LAW, TOWAN OA, PA. N. C. V.:LS11111;11 TPLIERSON, T. A TTORN ET-A T-LAW, T YW AN DA. pA. D '1 Att'y T,rvul.•Co JOHN W..),11X, ATTORNSY-AVLAW AND IL S. COMIVISSIONRR TI)WA.Ni)A. PA. Ottlice—Norl . htlide Public igttare MIEN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TOWA NDA, PENN'A Office—South side Poplar street, opposite Ward Reuse. J ( Nov, 13, 13:9. , 4 D kviEs cAMNoCHAN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. 80Irri SIPE qF W 1) [SOUSE. Dec 2.3-7k,' TOWANDA. PA DREW .Wll3, , AT7OItIfST-AT•LAW Oniee—Means' Block. Mrdn.st.. over J. L. Kent',, sten., Towanda. May be cons& ted 4 n lierroah. . [ATM 12, '76.1 . AV J. YOUNG, , T • '1 ATTitItNLV-A1"-LAW, TOWAND A, ,PO.. ware—second door seitath of the First Nist!omal flank ?fain St.. up stairs. tkr.rOleriNV-AT-LAW V . 11V. 1 .1 4 11.1A, PA. Office over ityto!l* a Store. A pril 12, . D- 1, S. M. WOOPBURN, ' L4,,r e t z •-•010co at mitteirce, mrri!t,•ir—tst of n. a, May I, 16” I)• WT B. KELLY, DEN TI trice over M. E. Rusunfteld's, Towanda, Pa. - •th Inserted n i th:ld. Sliver, Rubber, and Al. unt oi um Nue. Teeth extracted witbout van. • ICI. 34-7:. • • ,D, I'AYNE, M. D., , 4. ; • AN AND St7llollo'N. On", 3lontanyo,' Store. tiMve hours from 10 to ff. A. M.. nod from 2to 4 P.ll. ' prclal tittentiott given to DI,KA,SVS j DISEASES 4 .and OP !I F 1 NT. TIIE EAR ,w.. R N , CLVNTYSVFEILINTIVCDS , ? Inec , lay tact Saturday of each mouth, over Terrier tttioreo,4Drug store, Towanda, Pal! . , Ts.w.i!ol.x; faufic, IS7S. • 1 S. la' SS EL L'S C, -'-' II GENF:RM.. 1 N , 6ATRANC4. AGEN 'l - .y.5.-Tot I, ‘' TOWANDA, NATIOL BANK', TOWANDA, PA ('a PIT .".1. All) :31" I:1'1.1_7:i FUND... T!:%. Rank uders III) vius) facilities for the tram!• o! a gelterai . Aanl4ng busitiC4B4, JuS. POWELL, President )111S. 1 . 1. I'EET, T ttiC 11 En Or PIANO 1611 61C, 1.".1M S.--. 10 per term. Yi:o , l4lenro Third street, Ist ward.) ' id:4,Jan. I. t . TOlr-a GET 1OU!t, JOB PRINTING 1).- I ne ht the REPORTER OFTICS. Onkolite the Court - liourr, Towanda. Colored work a speelidtly .GOODRICH & HITCHCOCK. Publishers: VOLUM Ma. DORMAITL, • 325 East Water St., Elmira, N.Y. Ist Floor DRY GOODS 24 Floor MILLINERY,: ad Floor CARPETS' 4th Floor CLOAKS k SHAWLS Upper Boors accessible by elevator. s air A visit of Inspection 1, respectfully solicited E DWARD WILLIAMS, • • Place of beetneas, a few doors north of Poet•Oicit Plumbing, Gas Pitting, Repairing PumpS of all kinds, and all kinds of Gearing promptly attended to. All wanting. work in his ►tna should glee Alm a ea/ . Dec. 4. IWO. NATHAN TIDD, Deafer in - PITTSTON, WILKES-BARRE " AND LOYAL SOCK COAL. Lowest prices for cash. Office and yard foot of Me-street. Towanda. duly 15, 1880. INSURANCE! Brau. M. HECK TIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT Pone but reliable companies represented ME Towanda, Nov: 13, 1879. HENitY MERCUE ANTITItAbITE AND CORNER PARK ♦Np Rivsu STBSZTS,TOIVAIitaa, Coal screened, and delivered to any part'ot the Borough. ALL OLIDEILS MUNT HE ACCOMPANIED DE IDE CAMS. H. MERCVIt, Towanda, Dec. 1, 1879 JAMES McCABE (novll-76 CORNER MAIN & BRIDGE-STS Headquarters FOR CHOICE GROCERIES. GOODS SOLD AT THE LOWEST LIVING RATES Towanda, April 29, 1880-y1 THE OLD MARBLE YARD STILL IN OPERATION. The underslaned having purchased the MAR BLE YARD of the late GEORGE. McCA RE, de siresto inform the public that haclog employed experienced men. he is prepared to do all kinds of work in the line of MONUMENTS, • • HEAD STONES, • MANTLES and • SHELVES, • in the very best manner and at lowest rates. Persons desiring anything In the Marble line are invited to call and examine wor, and save agents' COlllll/1"i011. JAMES McCABE. Toiranda. Pa., Nos. IS. 1878. ' I L. V.t.su (fob. '7B Jan. 1, 1875 NEAT— 31EARKErre E. D. ITUNDELL, Would respectfully at , flounce that he is continuing the Afsrket business at the old stand of Mulloct k Ruudell, and will at all ttmes keep a full supply of FRESH • o • '11 1 ,111111011114C 4 N0e ; II& • O STERS. Constantlron hand. Country dealers supplied at city rates. FRESH & SALT MEATS, GARDEN VEGETABLES, FRUITS, &c. W Ali Goods delivered Free of Charge. , E. D. BENDEL"... Towanda, Pa.. Nor. 27.1879. MEAT MARKET! MYER & DEVOE Located In BEIDLEIKAN'S BLOCK, MUG* STREET, Beep on band, FRESH AND . SALT MEATS, DRIED BEEF, FISH", POULTRY, GARDEN VEGETABLES AND BERRIES IN - THEIR tSEASON, kc. All goods delivered free of charge. . - MYER.* DRVOE: Towanda, Pa., Mai 2a, 1879. IV L. B. POWELL, PIANOS, ORGANS tt . MUSICAL 3125.000 66,000 N. N; BETTS, Cashier I IS WYOININC-AVE., SCRANTON A HI I. 1874 lint hailing completed the • arrangement to son my MUSIC IttEßtitil to Mr. WALTER CHER. It Will hereafter be condireted in my own name. E; J. m p. 11:„. WItITTENNORIL O. J. POWELL and F. L. brAMEO WM remain with me se beretotem. L. B. 'POWELL. glusintss 04* PRACTICAL PLUMBER & GAB FITTER C. S. RUSSELL, Agent, TOWANDA, ,PA„ POLICIES Issued on , tbe most reasonable terms Losses adJusted and Paid bare DEALER IN MILLIVAF ANTIMACITE • 2 Has removed to naking It his CASH PAID FOIL BUTTER, EGGS, &c. JAMES McCABE MERCHANDISE. CHANGE OF NAME. Scrnton, Pa., July 15,1610. THE DWELLER. IN THE LAND OF The linnet In the rocky dells, The moor-Irk In the air, The bee among the bather bells, That, bide any lady fair : The wild deer broatee above her breast; The wild birds ' irsisit their brood; But they her NOM; of loilz caressed, • Have left her solitude I wean. that when the grave's dark wall Did her Bret fortn.retain They thought their hearts could ne'er recall The light of Joy again. They thaugbt the tide of grief would Bow Unchecked through future pears; But where Is ail their anguish ncw, And where are all their tears Well, let thein tight for boners breath, Or ples.sure's shade pursue— , The dweller In the land of death is changed and careless to. And, If their eyes should watch and weep Tiff Sorrow's source were dry, She would not, In her trang II sleep, - P Return a single sash I Blow, west -wind, ny the lotelvtiound, And murtimr, Summer streams— There is no peed of other sound To soothe - my tall's, dreams. —Emily Brunie, SCHURZ IN INDIANA. The Great PresidentialiCampaign Grandly Op,enid. The issues Between the Two Payne" Defined—Why Every Reflecting Eitisen Nbould Vote the Republican Ticket. INDIANAPOLIS, July 20.—lion. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, addressed an immer.se assemblage of Republican, i at the Wi g wam to-night. The principnl portionf of his . speech were as follows: TIIE Tlvo *TIES AND; TIJEIR-CANDI: We have, to deal with two parties and their candidates—thee Republi can party, with James A. Galeld 'at its head, and the Democratic party, with •General Hancock. I do not deem it necessary to discuss the pg sibility of the victory of the Green back party and their nominees, for the simple reason that their chances of success are not perceptible to the ordinary eye, and that their-organi zation may be looked upon as a mere tender to the Democracy. Now I. desire you'to put before your minds with impartial candor the question whether the Democratic candidate and the party behind him can be best depended upon to. preserve 'that which is good in the present condi tion of things, and develop it in the direction of improvement. I wish" to state the question mildly, for I am not partisan enough—indeed, my or thodoxy in that respect has now and then been questioned—to deal in wholesale and indiscriminate denun ciation of our. opponents. Ido not mean 'to incite yourprejudices and inflame yourpassions, but to discuss facts, and to draw from them legiti mate conclusions. I do not want the party to whicli' I belong.' to depend for success upon the,ffailihgs of iti . ,opponents, and I am therefore not ]inclined to exaggerate 'the latter. While adhering-to oneiparty I desire 'the other to be as good as possible, so as to compel my own to do its best. In this respect,. therefore, I sincerely declare that,L,wish well to the Democratic party. I once par ticipated in an attempt, .which -at tempt miscarried, to Move , it up to the progressive requirements of the times. The contending political par ties-4n a republic should he such in point. , of mental arid moral constitu-: tiori and capability_ that the Govern went may be intrusted to either with out - serious apprehension for the safety of the public interest. I hope it will be so some day, and I wish it were so now. A BRIEF RETROSPECT. 1 Looking back to the year' .1864, the fourth year of the civil w‘ar,'?then the Southern Confederacy was near the- total exhaustion of its resources, we find the Democratic party in Na tional Convention solemnly declaring that the war was a failure and must be abandoned. A few months after ward the triumph of • our arms was decided, the Confederacy collapsed. the restoration of our Union was as sum], and the Democracy was -forced to acknowledge that the war had been a success. The Democracy had proclaimed its despair of the Repub lic just at the time when. the triumph of the Republic was ripe. It became evident •to every one that. had. the 'Democratic policy been then adopted, the war would have indeed become a failure and. the Union have gone to wreck and ruin. f_ When slavery breathed its last and its abolition had become an evident, logieal necessity, requiring nothing more than the form of law, the Dem ocratic party declared that the aboli tion of slavery would be the ruin: of the country, and must by all means be averted. Who is there to dehy now that the abolition of slavery wits an absolute necessity, and has turned' out a blessing? The Demo crats are compelled to admit it them selves. When as measures of settlement the thirteenth, fourteenth and tit •teenth amentiments,were passed, the Democratic party declared them void and entitled to no respect, and almost immediately afterward found itself compelled to admit that for the peace of the country, and ad a basis for fu ture development, these Constitu tional amendments had to be main tained. Coming down to more recent his tory, when the Republicans in Con gress had passed the Resumption Act in 1875, and the fruit of - the res toration of specie payments was al most ripe to be plucked,, the Demo cratic party in its National 'Conven tion of 1871 thought it a smart thing to declare that the very act passed for bringing specie payments was an impediment in its way and must be repealed. • And who is there to deny now that had the act been repealed' under the pressure of all the inflation elements in the country the confusion of our financial policy necessarily en suing would have prolonged the evils of an irredeemable paper eurrekey ITOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY,- FA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1880. DEATH. DATES under which we were then suffering? I need not accumulate further exam ples to show how incapable the Dem ociatie party proved itself to under stand and appreciate not only the immediate requirements of the times, but facts that had been virtually ac complished, and bow its greatest efforts were . directed to the end of obstrneting things that had become inevitable, and which it afterward foUnd itself compelled to admit as good. And now in this year of 1880, when the war issues are fairly behind us ; when by its conciliatory spirit and its strict observance of constitutional principles the Government has re moved all the elements of diskord between the two Sections which it was in its own poirer to remove ; when, aided by a wise and successful financial policy, general prosperity is again blessing- the land, and when the people look above all things for enlightened practical statesmanship that well understands the questions it has to deal with to foster and de velop that prosperity; now the Dem ocratict pa y knows nothing better to do than t o set aide all its states, of kn i ivn and 'Settled ppinions, political experience and training, and to nominate for the Presidency a Major General of the regular army, a professional soldier, who has never been anything ; else but that, and who from the very nature and necessities of his profession has- always stood aloof from the management of politi cal questions. ' A SOLDIER AS A PRESIDENT. The question is whether that de serving General-would be the kind of a President ; the country needs—a. President whO can be depended Upon Successfully to solve the problems' of statesmanship which are now before uszt to preserve the good things al l ready-done and improve upon thein To lead:_ _battalion's of . ;! brave men' againsta fortified posiAon or to win a campaign - by a dashing manoeuvre is one thing; to regulate the finances of the country in such away that the blessings of a sound currency may' be, permanently secured. to us; to develop our commercial opportuni ties.; to organize the civil service in such a manner 'that it piny 'conduct the,public business upon sound busti ness principles, is another ; and, in the latter case the brave'spirit and ability which storms hostile*batteris and lays lciw invading hosts does not appear in the first line of importance. When such difficult civic duties are to be performed we shall, as reasona ble men, inquire whether the brilliant captain, who appears sd- gloribus at the head of his columns, is also famil iar with the complex; interests which in official station he 'would ,have to ' serve • whether his knowledge, train ing, experience and mental habits fit him clearly to distinguish on the po litical field good from evil, not' only in the ab'stract, but in the confusing multiplicity and variety of forms in which things, appear in reality ; whether he shall be sufficiently equipped to -penetrate, restrain and baffle the wiles of political intrigue and the conflicts of faction among the friends, which 'always surimind the chief magistrate of a great com monwealth; whether he hill, show himself. fitted to move on that • field of civil action and kluty, where forces are , handled and directed not by a mere rule of 'command and obedi ence, but by finding the just measure of - firmness and moderation in the pursuit of great • objects and resist ance to evil influences. I cannbt impress it too strongly-on your minds that there can be no greater differ ence than that . between the handling of troops in a Campaign and the handling of the political forces of a great people and the handling of,the political affairs of a great govern ment. Moreover, it must not be forgotten that this Government is no longer the simple madhinery it was in the early days of the Republic. The bucolic age of America is over.. The interests the Government, has to deal with are bo longer those:of a small number of agricultural communities, with here and there a commercial town. They. are the interests of near ly fifty millions of people spread over an immense -surface * with occupa tions, pursuits and industries of end less - Variety and 'great magnitude ; largbeities with elements of popula tion scarcely known here in the early days, and all these producing aspira tions and interests so pushing, pow erful and complicated in their nature and so constantly tiPpealing to the Government rightfully or wrongfully, that.the.requirements of. statesman ship 'demanded. in this 'age .are far different from those which spfficed a- century ago. - It, is. believed by many that it is an easy task to per form the duties of the President -of the .United States—that the only thing he has to do is to form a pro gramme of policy which he desires to carry and call good and experienced men into his Cabinet to attend -tothe detail's of the business, without med dling himself with its intricate Com .piications. The experience I have gathered, from personal observation, not only - aa a member of the legisla tive body, Inn also, of the Cabinet, has convinced me that this is a great mistake. HANCOCK'S UNFITNESS. Now put, for the sake of argument, in that itiOst trying position General Hancock or any man trained exclu sively in- the walks of army life, of which he is so conspicuous an orna ment—l mean a man not endowed with that intuitive genius which I have spoken. of, and which even his most ardent friends,as I understand, do not claim for General Hancock. What has there been, in the school of his past life to fit him for it? As a boy he was accepted by the Govern ment as a cadet at, West. Point, and that was his college and university. I have high respea for that military school. Every branch of military science is taught there, 1 haie no doubt, with knowledge, skill and suc cess. The principles of military honor and the great law of command and obedience are inculcated as the guiding star of, the future life of the student. The affairs of ordinary hu- ' RIOA4DLEI3B OP DNMOIATION FROM ANY WASTER. man existence outside of the . military profession, and the problems it 1 has to' deal with, are treated as matters of only secondary moment. Our military school at West Point hes given us many glorious soldiers who have adottied the history of the country; but it has never been pre tended that it was meant to be, or was, a 13'60°1 of statesmanship. That 'school absolved, the young man en tered into , the regular army service. Of all lases of , our society it may beliaid that our regu;ar army is the most exclusive, the , most widely sep arated from the ordinary business life of the people in point of sympii thy, duty and habit. If we have au apart class among us,. a class *hose contact with the-cares and endeavors and business and objects of the life of, the masses is only occasional and unsympathetic; a class that in its ideas and aims is separated from the multitude, it is \the otilecrii of the . regular army. 'this is not meant to discredit in any sense the character of our service or of the officers in it ; it' is the almost unavoidable peculi lirity of their training and, situation, for which they are in no way respon sible. Their duties. may be arduous; but, except in places, of highest com mand in active warfare, they areies tremelyesimple, specific and narrew ; and it is a common experience that the mental horizon of men is apt to become limited by the sphere of their duties. I' have heard it.said a hun dred tithes;' by men Who had spent the -best part of their lives in the reg,- ular army, and then were thrown upoti their own resources to make a living in ordinary pursuits, that their army life had unfitted' them for the every=day tasks of- society. They found- themselves,in a multitude of cases, utterly bewidered by the com petition they bad to run with those who had been trained in civil pur suits. flow is it possible to assume that men who have' spent the best part of their lives, who have grown old 'lin that exclusive atmosphere, should. show . particular fitness for the most comblex and confusing of all duties; the highest civil office in the land ? The picture I have drawn is one which eVery man of experience in political affairs will recognize as.ap plicable to every novice in polities placed in the Presidential chair. even under ordinary and favorable cireoin- stances. But what is likely to hap pen to such a man elevated to the Presidency - with such a motley host upon his back as the Democratic party is to-day ? That party as , now constituted is indeed. a • wonderful mixture of de merits. I shall certainly .noti, question the convictions and the. motives of the that and patriotic men that are in it who mean to do the best they can for , the country with the means they have ; but it is not unjust to them to say that Many 'of them are undoubtedly pot without their misgivings as to the latter, and are held where they are by life-long associations, by the traditions of cir cles'and constituencies within which they move - and from which they have derived their positicin and power ; and .also by the 'opinions grown from long struggles against . what they considered and what in some cases may have been abuses on the. other side ; men of good intentions; lobor .ing under the disadvantage of seeing their aspirations and endeavors kieinrned in and Wiled by followers' and by circumstances - which they • cannot 'control. There is the South ern element, of which shall certain ly not be .inclined to deny that a marked improvement has taken' place in the temper awl-aspirations of many of its leading men, who have cast the old ambitions of the war period behind them and are now with a patriotic spirit endeavoring to serve the g ountry, and to whom, therefore,,our esteem is due. It is also true that they begin to be sup ported by a.class of orderly and well meaning citizens; but it is no less true that they find themselves ham pered and clogged by noisy factions in theirconstituencies, who, whether they are a majority or not, endeavor, and, I regret to say, in bony instan ces successfully, to impress their temper upon the character of South ern politics; still smarting tinder the defeats of ;he .. anethe losses which those defeats had brought up on them; some of them with a sullen feeling that those defeattt were an in sult as well as a wrong to them, for which. in some. way, they must have satisfaction,; with a vague desire to retrieve of the old condition of things something they i do not know exactly what; and withal insisting that'some thing is due to them as Southern men in politics, as well as in society, and in their worldly possessions as compared with the rest of mankind ; 'rather reckless of the rights of oth ers ; with financial ideas destitute of a due regard for the good faith of the country, inclined to fly to any money system which they vaguely think can be manipulated so as to make them rich again by legerde main ; deeming it due to them that large appropriations should be made for their - particular benefit for all imaginable purposes, good, bad and indifferent, merely, to pour money into that section of the country ; with scarcely any tradi-ions in gov ernment., except such as existed in their states before the war, and the reactionary desires and attempts of the party immediately after it ; With appetites sharpened by long exclu sion from power and the sweets of office, and greedy to make the most of that if they can obtain it. There is the Northern Democracy, also with men of statesman-like in stincts in it and excellent intentions, but behind them a large number of restless and ambitious politicians who, for twenty years, have been boxing the compass to find some principle or policy, to avail -them selves of some passion, or some pre judice by which they - might win an election and regain the possession of power.. -Such an element, however, will be found, more pr less, repre sented in allparties. _Dot .the De inocracy has had the misfortune of exercising a remarkable power of at- TILE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Vaction for the adventurous, and even thedangerous, elements 'of our population ; and its attempts to re gain power,,by ail sorts of devices, and the advocacy of all sorts of prin ciples and policies has gathered un der its banner 'so many divergent .tendencieS - and ' incongrnens - ele ments, held together by the 'only-de sire. to regain the sroils of govern ment, that when the party comes into power nobody can tell which el ement will be uppermost in strength and-determine the current of its pol icy. That 'will be the situation and such the problem - which the soldier, to whom political science and manage men so far have been a healed .book, wilt have to solve,: What will he do tcrsatisfy the baril-money men with out driving the Greenbackers away? What will he,do to keep. the Green backers in the party without betray. ing the principles of the hard-money men ? llow will he satisfy the South ern element, that claims to have been robbed by an auti-slayery war, and is entitled to restitution in some shape, and at the same time keep the management of :the Government within the bounds.:of economy am . propitiate- the Northern tax=payer? Flow will . he content the Southern men" in the distribution of offices., who will claim that they have fur nished the majority of votes'aud are therefore entitled to the lion's share? And bow will he keep the Northern Democracy in good '.spirits and in working order by a distribution of the patronage which will Appease the hunger of twenty years? These are some of the probletas which the un sophisticated - soldier • President, whose whole sphere of mental activi-_ ty hag so far been confined to the handling of troops on the field of battle, and to the narrow horizon of duty which army life in tines of peace comprises, will have to solve. And these problems he will have to solve, not.iu the quiet of the ,closet, surrounded by a few. able Counsel lors in peaceful consultation, but quickly, under the bewildering pros= sure of not a Lumina], but thousands of eager politicians, who fill "the ear with a.babel of sound and with a pandemonium or conflicting ambi tions. This is a task that woutd tax a man of phenomenal genius to the utmost of his capacity ; but What will become of one who is unaided by the least experience of political life, and has nothing but his inner conscious , ness to measure the, value 'of his ar guments and. pretenses which are . . dinned into his ears, and the . . 4arae ter of the interests that besiege him with their urgency for immediate ac tion ? V FIAT WILL FOLLOW' A DEMOCRATIC reIORY. Let us see now what, in view of all this, we have a right to expect from a Democratic victory. Is it .the maintenance of .our public faith'! While there are prominent opponents or repudiation in the Democratic party, it is.a notorious fact that all the elements hostile to the Constitu tional discharge of our national obli gations have also gathered undc;r the same banner. Nearly all, if not all the States that lut‘T repudiated or speak of repudiating their owd debts are Democratic States, with' 'heavy liemocratie: majorities, furnishing Democratic electoral votes and Con- Oessinen. Who will tell met that it is certain they, will be more conscien- Lions with regard 'to the national de ht .than they showed . themselves with regard to their own ?_ Have we a right to expect a sound financial policy 7. While there are many good sound money wen in the Democratic party, it is equally well known that the Democratic party' has irresistibly attracted to its fold .d .vety larg3 ma jority of the Greenbackers, inflation. ists and fiat-money men. It has, in deed, in its national platforms of late declared for sound money ;_ but in 1k476, while it pronounced, for re-. stimption it demanded at the same time the repeal of the resumption law. t ask what would have become of resumption bad the resumption laW been repealed ? But while thus" speaking of sound money in their na tional platforms is it not equally true in a large number of the States the. most prominent inflationists are. put forward for the highest honors lowed.by the masses of their party? So General Ewing is Ohio, so Gen eral Butler in Massachusetts, .so Mr. Landers in Indiana; while in Maine Democrati.:and Greenbackers fuse . in m cordial embrace, and while in any of the Western and most of the Southern States the Democrats most en masse represent_ unsound finneist ideas.. Is it not true, that to the very last resumption was op- posed in Congress by Democratic Congressmen ? Why, when General Hancock was nominated the attrac tion for the Greenbackers seemed to be so strong that the venerable Pe ter Cooper and General Sam Carey of Ohio were the first to pay to him their devotion 'and. wish him success. • lIANC4.)CK'S' GOOD INTENTION& Now substitute for the civil-ser vice system • the Democratic reform, making a clean sweep according to the old. spoils system, and what will you have? Hundreds of- thou sands of politicians, great and small, but all hungry, rushing fol. seventy or eighty thousand. ,places, backed and pressed by - every 'Democratic Congressman and every Democratic Committee in the land. This impetu ous rush l must be satistied as rapidly as possible, for, they want, to make the best of their • time, and in this case, as well as others, timels money. 'lt,is useless to disguise it, the mass es of office-seekers, starved for twenty years, will not be turned back as long as there is a mouthful on the table. • Seventy. =or eighty thousand officers, selected at random from that multitude of ravenous applicants, will be put into places held now mostly by : men- of -tried capacity' and experience. They mast be taken :at random, for it ie imiiossible to fill so large 'a number of places in so short a time as the furious demand,,Will permit, in any other way Need . .l . tell Shy sensible, man What the'effeet . uport - tbe'conduct of public .blisluess . . 4`l ,-..:. .---.. kI ' tl , -' I , ••• i - : . f . ,' . will be? It will be the disorganiza tion of the whole administrative ma chinery of the GovernMent at one fell blow; it will be the sudden sub stitution of raw bands for skilled , and tried public servants; the substitu tiOn of the eager desire to make out of public affairs as much as can be made in the shortest possible•time, for fkilicial training experience and sense of responsibility. It will be a removal for some time at least of those carefully•devised guards which are now placed over the public money audits use• ' it will in one word be the sudden distribution of so Many thousand places of trust, responsi bility and power, now well filled, in the true sense of the word, as spoils among the hosts of the victorious party. I am willing to. assume that Gen. Hancock entertains the .. best possibleintentions, and that he may form for .himself a plan of action intended to obviate these difficulties and dis asters, He may possibly tell you so, and mean what he rays. Yet it is not obvious . that, having no experi euce whatever in political life, he will be completely at the - mercy of wind and waves, and that there will be a power of wind .in the Democratic victors clamoring for the spoils atrong enough to upset the ingenuity of the firmest and most skilled politi cian in his party ? NO, let nobody indulge in any delusion about it: a Democratic victory 'means that the victors will take the spoils at once, and this means•the complete destruc tion for a time of the whole adminis trative machinery of the Government, with all its checks and guards, and the people will have to foot the'bills ' for the carnival. This will be a re form of the taxpayers service to make the! ears of the taxpayers tingle. • I am certainly not one of those who would assert that the Republi can party has been without fault. I have been one of its most unsparing critics, 'And have been unsparingly criticised myself by thoroughgoing partisans in return. I shall always claim, for-trip-elf freedom of opinion 1 , and speech in that respect. The Re publican party has undoubtedly made a great many mistakes. I will not go b ack to the_; , period of recon- I struetion and an absolved Southern policy, because that • lies `-'far behind us, and is not an issue in this campaign. Its Constitutional results have be come settlements, accepted by both sides—in profession at least—and the- policy of force after the re-adrthis sion of , the late rebel States has under this Administration yielded to a scrupilloua rule of- constitutional'. principles. Neither *Quid: I deny that, with regard to the question of the public debt at one . time and to the currency question :or a more ex tended period; there was in the lie publican party an antagonism of opinions, a contest of conflicting ends. We have had RepubliChn ad vocates of the payment of the public debt in greenbacks ; we have had Republican inflationists ; and. the dis eu,siens inside of the Republican party were fur some time heated •and bitter. Thus for a season the party seemed to stumble along with an un certain gait, but it has always had an unerrins'" instinct which in the end made it turn right side up; and then it kept right side up. When in 18ff9 the Republican majority in Congress declared for the payment of the pub lic debt, principal and interest, in 'coin, there was the end, once and for ever, of the repudiation movement, open and disguised, in the Ilepuldi-. can party. When in 1,875 the Re publican majority in •Congress pass ed the resumption act; there was the end, once and forever, of the unre ileemable paper-money '