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,k,
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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,
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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.
•
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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,
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id:4,Jan. I.
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.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.
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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
•
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'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
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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 '<business in
the Republican party. .
OCR FINANCIAL POLICY AND PROS-
PERITY
It may be sai I that our financial
policy has not wholly originated our
prosperity. Tare, but it has most
powerfully aided it by giving us that
confidence which is impoSsible with
out stable money values and a sound
currency system. And what prudent
maw would now risk these great re
sults by turning ,over our financial
policy to the hands of a party which,
as I have shown, is the refuge of all
destructive elements threatening new
uncertainty and confusion 7 Indeed,,
not only in the traditions and good`'
sense of the Itepubliean party do
you find the best security there is at',
present for the sanctity of our'
national faith as well as a successful'
management of the financial policy ;
you find equal security in the known
opinions and principles of its candi
date,,James A. Garfield. His convic
tions on these subjects havenot
their first and bestiproclama
tion in the platform of his party or i
in his letter of acceptance. : His
record of nearly twenty years of,
Congressional service is not a blank
on the great questions of the times,
like that of his opponent. There is
not a phase of the question of our
national obligations; there is not a
point of financial policy, frOni the : ,
first day that the subject was consid-
ered in Congress since he became a',
member of that body to the preSent
hour. that he has nut discussed. with
'an ability and strength, a lecidity.ofd
argument, amptitude of knowledge
and firmness of, conviction, placing ? !
him in the first rank of the defenders
of sound principles:. If-you want - to 1
study the .reasons why the public
faith should be inviolably maintain-,
ed, why an irredeemable paper cur--
rency is, and always hai been, a curse I
to, all the economic interests. of this
arid all other countries, why eonfl
dence.can be restored and maintain-
why business can obtain a healthy
developinent, why foreign commerce
can be most profitably conducted
only with a Money system of stable
Anti intrinsic value, you will find in
the. sp.velies of James A. Garfield
tipo;th i. this subject the_ most instruc
tive and convincing information. You.
will find there opinions not suddenly
made up is order to suit an Opportu
nity and the necessities Of a candi
date in an eleetion, but the convic
tions of a life-time, carefully matured:
by conscientious relic:stroll and large
inquiry, and Maintained - witb4yziwer
fill 'reason •befoti - tUey 'hid Uvulae
111.00 per Annum In Advance..
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generally popular. You find there
teacher, statesman and a leader in a
great.movement, with principles so
firmly grounded in his mind as well
as his conscience, that be would up
hold them even. wart they pcit sup
ported by a powerful party at his
back. There is double assurance,
therefore, in the traditions and acts
of the party and• in the character of
the leader at its bead.
As to the civil service, I have
stated to you what in my opinion its
condition is to-day, and that opinion
accords, I think, with that of every
fair-minded observer.' As to what
it will become in case of a Reputili
cai victory; I shall not predict the
millenium, neither from the knowl
edge I have of the obstacles. in the
way of a permanent' reform on sound
principles, nor from the party plat
form, nor from the , fait utterance of
the candidate. One thing„however,
may be taken for certain: the ad
ministrative machinery of the Gov.
ernment will not be suddenly taken
to pieces and disorganized, to be re
composed of raw material. In so far
as it has shown itself honest and
'efficient, it will be preserved in its
integrity and efficiency, and twin the
good foundation laid therd is no
reason for assurance that it mill be
- developed to - greater±perfection. The
business interests of the country, the
taxpayers generally, whose first de
sire it must be to see the public busi
ness of the Government administered
in an honest and intelligent way,
will, therefore, have no reiason to
fear sudden and fitfuitrevufsions in
the organization of th administra
tive machinery, as the distribution of
the spoils amoug, the victors after
Democratic success would inevitably
he..
THEACITIZENS 9 MICE.
And now' I appeal to
.the consecra
tive:citizens of. the Republic, t'o you
who desire the public faith sacredly
maintained, where-will you go? gall
iyou, in view of the pCesent circum
stances conscientiously go to the
Democratic pyty ? You will, indeed;
there not a few men who
t itik
as you do ; but with thew 1 , 1 will
tind closely allied in party interest
01 those elements to whom our na-
tional obligations are the football
,C)f
momentary advantage. You sill find
on that side every State' that has,re-
pudiated or speaks of repudiating its
public debt ; you will 144.1 there all
those who decried the public creditor .
as . the .
.public enemy ;: and whom to
loyal tradition and impulse attaches
to the national liOnor. You will find
there a party, inside of which- the
public faith has still to fight a battle
with its, enemies,' without any . eer-
tainty of its issue. Is that your
place? Or mill you go to the Repub-
liean side, where the loyal mainten-
ante of our public faith has become
a fundamental primfiple, universally
adhered L 6 :with unswerving fidelity
in spite of the gusts of adverse pub
lic sentiment in. former days? And
you who desire to preserve the fruits
of the success gained in the abolition
of the curse of an irredeemable paper
money and the re-establishment of
specie payments, where will you-go?
Will you go to the Democratic party,
where again you will find some who
think as you. do, and yet with them
as a powerful and; perhaps, the most
numerous compotent'part of the or
ganization, wielding commanding in
fluence in a great many of the States
subject to its control, the great.naass
of the inflationists i and fiat money
men who were, gathered under 'the
Democratic banner' by a seemingly
irresistible power of attraction, and.
furnished many of the acknowledged
leaders of that .organizatjon, and
who even now, when the prosperity
of the country has been so magnifi
cently aided by a sound. financial'
,policy, would be ready to subvert it
all and throw the - country back, into
wild confusion of the fiat money
madness? Will you, ..busineas men,
farmers, manufacturers, merchants of
the country, find the safety of your'
interests there ? Wilt you help a
party to power, inside :of which, be=
tweet' its component -elements; the
battle of a sound money system and
an irredeemable paper currency' is
still pending, and will you trust the
earnings-of thel-poor as well as the
fortunes of the wealthy to‘the-iincer
tainties; of its issue ? Or will you r go
to the Republican side, where great
victories for the cause of good money
have been achieved ; where sound
sense and patriotisin .have won every
fight so, far decided, and where we
may with certainty look for the shuic
sound sense and patriotism to. Solve
the problems not . yet disposed of?
And you who desire the administra
tive business of the'Oovernment per- -
formed in a business-like way -- by
honest and capable public servants,.
where will you g 0..? Will you go to
' the Democratic party; which has no
other 'reform idea than an eager de
sire .to take the whole administrative
machinery of the Government, sud
denly to pieces, and to fill it as rapidly
as - possible with' politicians demand
ing 'office as spoils? Or will yOugo.„,
the Republican side, where you have
the assurance of a civil service which,
in spite of short comings, and
takes, has already on the whole.'
proved itself capable to transact
your business honestly and efficient.
4.y, and where you find all of those
elenlents that are faithfully and ener
getically working tor a More thor.
°nab and permanent reforM
THE PRESIDENCY AS A PRIZE.
Is the Presidency like :a presenta
tion sword, or a gift horse, or' a do=
nation of money, cat a countr) house,
given to a victorious soldier_to plitise
him? If so,
then simple justice
Would compel us to look for the most
rneritous of our' soldiers and reward
them in the order of their merit ;
and, brave and skilful as General
Hancock has been, there are others
who have claims of a still higher or
der: Then General Grant having al.
ready 'been President s —we - should re
ward General Sherman and Lieuten
ant General Sheridan first befete we 1
come to the Major General nomina
ted by the Democratic party. Car
ts.iialy, let us be grateful ; :but let us
',not degrade the highest and moat re
sponsible trust of the, Republic to the
! level of a mere gift of gintitude.
Met militar,y heroes be lifted up to
.
the Itigitest rank in the service which :_=.
belongsto-the:soldier.' ~ L et them - be .• •
rewarded with the esteem of, their: - .
countrymen; and, if - need be, let -
Wealth and ;miry be showere,d -upon , 1:
them to brighten that life which they. .
were, :ready...to . sacrifice for 1 their • .
dotiritry. —- . ,-, . • , .
But let it _tiever. •. be forgotten that
the.P.teildencY fait trtuit.ttua 18.40
to no Man ; .that 4 •notiody has ever ..
'earned-it:asktbiziglelOtigm - g to him;
and AA it- ehOttld • not - 'be bestowed
liut for services - rendered in the way . .
Of patriotic
_and .enfightettedstates-
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!unship-. - -- , - -,. :: t
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But, above'' all
..thitigs,._tlie Presi
dencl should'never be pointed Out as •
the a tainable goal - of ambition to
the p efeasionsl solider. r•Leertaiuly .
i t
done mean- .to depreciate the high- •
eharaCter of the -regular.army. 'But
I cannot .refrain from 'saying that in _
a Republic - like ours -great care :!
should ; be taken not to demoralize it
by- ins tilling ., political ambition into
the minds of its . officers. The army • •
is there to - obey the 'orders or the t
civil poWer under the law.as it stands,- i
without looking-;to the. right or •the
left. And it will be' an evil day for • .
this RepublielWhen we: inspire the .
Generals of army' with the am- ,
hition to secure . the highest power by; .
_ g
paving their way to it with political
pronunciamentos. I will not impute
to General Hancock any:such design.
He may hive - meant ever so well:
whets, be issued General Order No.
40, which is now helditp . by a polit i ...
cal party , as his principal title to the
.Presidency. But you once establaSh
such a, precedent,l and whd knows
how long it -will ,be before you hear
other general-orders : issued. for pur 7 ,
poses somewhat similar to those for . -
which they are now issued in Mexico? • "
lam for the subordination -of the .
Military to the eivil,rr. And,
therefore, lam for Mak Congress
man Garfield President, and for let-.
tine General Hancock, remain where
he is, a General,• - always ready to
draw the soldiers, sword at the law
ful command of. the Civil [lower. •
What have we on the other band in _
the Republican candidate: His youth
was that of a poor boy. He lived
by hisdaily labor. He rime up frOm i
that estate gradually by his own- ef
fort, taking with him, the (experience..
of poverty and hard work anti a.liv
ing sympathy with the :poor and -
hard working man. Ile cultivated -
his mind by diligent - study, anti tie
stored it with useful knowledge.
From a learner he became a teacher.
When the Republic called her sons -
to her defense he joined the army
and achieved distinction in active •
s t erv;ice as one of, the brave. on* the -
battle -field. .He- wai:called into the
great council of the nation, and has
sat there• kir nearly twenty years.
No great question was discussed
without his contributing the store of
his ki p **edge to the fund of infor---
mationnecessary -for wise decision:
1 - fis's*ches have ranked not only
among the most eloquent, but among
the most, instructive and useful.-
Scarcely asingle. great measure - of
legislation .i was passed during that .
long period without the imprint of,
his mind. Neiman in. Congress has
devoted more thorough inquiry to a -
larger number t.f important subjects
and furnicdtzupon them opinions more
'matured and valuable. Ile was not
es g reat a soldier as his competitor
for the Presidency, but be has. made
himself, and is universally recogniz
led as, what a President ought to be, -
a statesman. -•:- He - understands • all .
1 phases of life, from the lowest to the
highest, for he has 'lived. through
them, lie understands the great
pr;dde-ms of i polities, for: he -has stu-
ditd them and actively : particip attd
in . their diScussions and solution..
Few 'lll'll in this country would enter ,
. the Presidential (Alice with . its great .
1. duties and responsibilities better
even or as well equipped with know'.
edge and experience. He . need only
be true to his re,ord in order to be-.-.
I come a •wiK, isle and successful
Piesident. If the people elect him •
-it will be' only because his services
rendered. in the past are just of -that
nature which will give assurance. of -
his ability to rhuder greater service
in the future. The country ._ wants . a
statesman of ability, knowledge, ex
.:-
4 -
1 perience and principle at the head of
1 affairs. His conduct. as a legislator
gives ample guarantee of great prom
ise
in all these things: -i • .
' The Democracy may. in the course
of time gain, 'the confidence of . the
people ; but that . should be - only
when the repudiationists and the ad
.vocates -of unsound money have
ceased to be fn its ranks so powerfUl
and influential an element as-serious
1y .to threaten the, great economical
intereSta of the .eountry; when by
eifergete and successful action •in -
protc.otingthe rights of the voter,
Whether white or black, whether Re
publican or Democratic, in all parts
of the country, and. by the suppres..
sion of fraud at. the ballot-box
through a healthy and iriesistible
power of public opinion within itself,
'it will have won the 'right. to appear
-in its platforms as the protector of
tbe - freedom and :purity of elections,
and when it will , find it no longer
necessary to discard the Ablest of its
statesmen and. to- put a general of
the army, who has never been -any
thing Id a -soldier,. in -nomination
for the Presidency., to make for itself
i l a certificate of loyalty to the settle
i meats of the great t coritlict of - the
1 past.. -_ , . ! . ,
. ,
And for . all these reasons, 14 my
opinion, the interests of the Republic
demand the -election of .James A.
.Garfield to. the Presidency of - the
United States. - , .
Tice Doo DAYS.—The caniaular or dog.
days commenced on Wednesday, July"
and,will end ou Saturday, August
21st—a period of six weeks. \The' . rising
and setting oil Skins," or the Dogstar,
with the arm, hits been universally regard-
cil as the cause of the excessive heat and . 1
! consequent caliimities that prevail at this
particular seasim. The ancients put great_t.
faith in this ; legend, regarding the period
of greatest heat in summer so named, be -
tUnse. in the latitude of the Mediterranean
I this i periodi nearly corresponds with. that
in wilieh the [log -star rose at the same
time with the sun. To this conjunction
all antiquity, and all the later followers
of juiliCial astrology, ascribed a malig
nant influence.
The popular nature of the " dog days,"
no doubt, grow up in the pra4tice of mag
istrates of -all towns in England and
France, as far back as we have any rec
ords on the subject, decreeing that in this
period'of estr me h e at all dogs be muz• .
zled or confined. The canine blood is
singularly affected by hiat. The !romans
mrere very, superstitious' in. their regula
tions on, this subject, as • were also tho
English, and Frencb. The ,verity of the
Itortraw superstition is brought home to
US' by an antique garnet gem, represent-.
ing the hie of a tongue boiling dog,sur
rounded by_ solar rays._ And who does
not recall this juvenile inspiration,. 'the
"effect thatbathing in - tiny Buren' duriqg'
. the dog days: is sure to cover the body
witAboilst Jo many of the German set
tlenients of Petuutylvr Ws this , continuos,
to brio Ming atitl3.