ji ontrost ptmotrat. A. J. GERRITSON, • • - - Editor. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1888 FOR GOVERNOR: MESTER CLYMER, OF REEKS COUNTY• FOR CONGRESS: CHARLES DENISON, OF LUZEBNE COUNTY GET OUT THE VOTERS. Our friends should remember that all the labor of an election canvass is of little use, if the full party vote is not polled in each town. Is there a complete organi- Latin in every township and in every school district, to get out the voters?— If not, many votes will be lost from indif ference or inability to go to the polls. Let the Democrats fully complete their or ganizations, at once, and see that every voter who is for the Union and the white man, is supplied with conveyance, if need be, to bring him to election. Do not de lay this work ; and do not allow a single vote to be lost. Congress, Charles Denison, The disunion advocates of negro equal ity have no hopes of defeating Mr. Deni son by fair means ; but every manner of fraud and corruption will be used to take votes from him and give them to James Archbald. One means which will be again tried, is the circulation of Demo cratic ballots with the name of Archbald substituted for Denison. Let voters be careful, and take tickets from none whose politics are doubtful ; and always be sure that the County ticket is headed : CONGRESS, CHARLEt3 DENISON, as printed at the head of the local col umn. Mr. Denison has for a third time been unanimously made the choice of the people, and the people should not only see that he is elected by an immense ma jority, but that he is not cheated out of a single vote. Beware of Frauds. Remember that the Radicals are pre paring a partial and fraudulent list of al leged deserters, with a view to prevent such as are Democrats, from voting ; while those who are for negro equality are to be 1-ft, off the list or allowed to vote. Remember also that the act of Con gress, upon which this whole fraud is based, has been fully argued before several county courts, and in every case declared unconstitutional, null and void. It has been carried before the Supreme Court, and after a full argument, been set aside, and the question fully settled that no de serter can now be deprived of his vote. An election officer, therefore who rejects such votes, deliberately commits a crime for which he will be punished by fine and costs, also by damages and costs in civil suit. The only way in which it was ever pos sible to deprive a deserter of his vote, was to try him by Court Martial, and sen tence him to disfranchisement; bat as the war is now over, court-martials abolished, and deserters pardoned by general amnes ty, they cannot now or hereafter be in any way called to account or punished for desertion, civil courts having no jurisdic tion of such cases. Deserters, or those called deserters, therefore, now come before an election board with the same legal rights and priv ileges as other citizens. ri"General Grant refused to attend a radical Soldier Convention recently called at Pittsburgh, designed to oppose the President. The radicals feel bad 'about it, but can't help themselves, except by for ging some new story about Grant being a radical, when he really endorses John son. Mr"We have not room to-day for a report of the great Soldiers' Convention at Cleveland, which endorsed the Presi dent. Irishmen Remember ! Irishmen remember, that in voting for John W. Geary, you vote for a man who took an oath to ostracise you and yours ; pledged himself to be your enemy, to pre vent you from voting, holding office, or enjoying any of the rights of American citizens;.that, you vote for a party that burnt your churches, murdered your countrymen and robbed your houses; that you vote fora party that today, in the State of Missouri imprison your cler gymen for preaching; your Sisters of Charity for teaching; and would, did they have the power,,drive you from your homes and work, and give your places to the negroes, who, they say are your equals in every respect. Remember these things when you go to the polls.--Seranfon Reg ister. Vote for. Clymer' and Denison. Forney calls mad. Stevens " A Vil. lain at Heart !" In 1838, John W. Forney, then editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer, painted Thad Stevens in the following colors : " Thaddeus Stevens, and we are glad to say it, is not a Pennsylvanian. His own history proves that he came hither a stranger to her people, and has continued at all times consistently adverse to her in terests. He has been, since his unfortun ate presence in the Legislature, Pennsyl vania's evil genius, and if she has degen erated at all—and the three past years of her life prove that she has—he planned the misfortune. We will not repeat here his utter destitution of reputation—for his career is one of that kind which could only have been run by a villain at heart." Forney is advertised to speak at Mont rose on the 24th, in behalf of the party that Thad Stevens manages; so we may safely conclude that Forney, for the sake of office, has, like Thad, become " a vil lain at heart;" for he now endorses all of Thad's villainies. The "Civil Rights" Bill. The Civil Rights Bill makes the negro the eqnal of the white man before the law. No State can ever make a distinc tion between them. It. destroys State laws, and fines a judge who decides according thereto. The negro is made a citizen whether he is fit or unfit; the intelligent foreigner must wait five years. Perfect equality between the races is created by it. The negro may marry the white woman. No State can prevent. it. They can force themselves by it into our company in the hotels, in the cars, in the lecture room, and in the public assem blies. The power exercised in it can allow the negro to vote, to sit as jurors, and to hold office contrary to the will of the people of the State. And under cover of this bill, the " Loyal Leaguere," in this county have admitted a negro to the Bar as a lawyer, in viola tion of the laws of this State ; and under the same excuse can force the negro to the jury-box and ballot-box. Vote for Clymer and Denison, who are opposed to this negro equality doctrine. Radical Sentiments. Parson Brownlow while in Philadelphia, recently made a speech at the " Loyal League" house which was loudly applaud ed by the radicals. We make an extract, in which, desiring another war, he said : "I want you to divide your army into three portions. Let the first and largest come armed with weapons and do the Trilling 1"..t the oeetosirtl ovum vir id" live torches and do the burning. Let the third come with surveyor's lines and re mark out and re-settle the country. These are my sentiments." szr Voters should remember that Den ison represents the People in Congress; while Archbald, if elected, would repre sent railroads and corporations. Vote accordingly. Warning to Election Officers. The Bellefonte (Centre county) Watch man of Sept. 7th records the conviction of two members of the Election Board of Snowshoe township, in that county, for illegally refusing the vote of an alleged deserter at the election in October, 1865. Thus, while Governor Curtin and the gang of Snickerevillains who surround him at Harrisburg are sending out lists of al leged deserters, and instructing their friends on the various Election Boards throughout the State not to permit these persons to vote, the Court of Curtin's own County, presided over by a Republi can Jude, convicts two election officers for refusing to receive the vote of an al leged deserter. In his anxiety to secure a seat in the Senate of the United States, Curtin is urging the Republican election officers everywhere to commit an offence for which they will be tried, convicted and punished. The Election Proclamation. The Fulton Democrat, in noticing the fact that the Sheriff of that county, in obedience to orders from Harrisburg, has inserted the unconstitutional Deser- ter Law in his election proclamation, says: "This he has done not out of the slight est shade of beliet that the law is of any effect, but simply out of obedience to or ders. We have already said all that was necessary for us to say about this law. We shall treat it as the Supreme Court require us and all law abiding men to treat it—as a nullity and dead letter. And we have only to say that the elec tion officer who rejects a • vote under the sham pretext of this law, will be treated as a violator of the most sacred rights of the citizen. Let any Abolition Judge or Inspector just try the experiment, and our word for it he will find' law suits en ough on his hands before a week there after to satisfy him for one year at least." gar° Henry Ward Beecher's letter to General Halpine having created some dis affection in his congregation, he has writ ten another, justifying the first. liZr'Benjamin F. Batler, a delegate from Massachusetts to the late Radical Convention in Philadelphia, said that "as a matter of self-protection, the negro must have a vote." This is Geary's platform. Vote for Clymer. The Difference 1. Hon. Charles Denison is a conserva tive ; Mr. Archibald, the candidate of the opposition is a confirmed Radical. 2. Mr. Denison has a thorough knowl edge of the law, and is a statesman of acknowledged ability. Mr. Archibald is neither, having devoted his whole life to the coal business. 3. Mr. Denison is a friend to the toiling millions—Mr. Archibald of railroad com panies and other corporations. 4. Mr. Denison desires the elevation of the white race, Mr. Archibald the black. 5. Mr. Denison stands upon the plat form of the National Union Convention —Mr. Archibald upon the platform of tha Negro-Douglass-Brownlow Convention. 6. Mr. Denison is a National man ; Mr. Archibald a sectional man. 7. Mr. Denison would admit all the States to their just representation in Con gress, and restore peace and tranquility throughout the length and breadth of the country. Mr. Archibald would exclude ten States from their Plat participation in the affairs of government unless they would agree to admit the ignorant and degraded negro to the right of suffrage, and keep up the agitation until the moun tains and valleys of Pennsylvania are drenched in fraternal blood. 8. Mr. Denison in his whole action will look to the Constitution as his polar star. Mr. Archibald would follow the lead of such men as Thad. Stevens, the dead duck John W. Forney and others. 9. Mr. Denison if re-elected, (of which there is no doubt,) will sustain President Johnson in every reasonable effort to re store the government to the proud and exalted position it occupied six years ago. Mr. Archibald would use every effort to embarrass him and fan the embers of sec tional strife. 10. Mr. Denison will use his influence to procure the passage of laws which will compel all classes to pay their just pro portion of the burdens of government. Mr. Archibald would do his utmost to inflict the largest portion of the burdens upon the farmer, the laborer, the miner and the mechanic. We say Mr. Denison will do as we have stated, because we have his record to prove it. We say too that Mr. Archibald would pursue the opposite course, because be is a member of a party whose political principles would lead him in that direc tion. Under such circumstances, we ask every friend of good government in the District if there is any chance for hesita tation as to which candidate they ought to vote 7—Scranton Register. Hiester Clymer. Our honored townsman, the eloquent and unwavering leader of the Pennsylva nia Democracy, returned home yesterday, after a thorough and laborious, but high ly encouraging canvass of the Western and Northern counties of the State.— Notwithstanding the arduous antis,. ho so wwingiy assumed, and has so ably fulfilled up to this date, he is in excellent health and spirits, and brings the most cheering reports from the districts he has visited. He has been everywhere receiv ed with the most unbounded enthusiasm, and the masses who turned out to hear his masterly expositions of the truth as embodied in the Constitution, have ex ceeded in numbers any gatherings of the people since the memorable days of Jack son and his Democratic successors. Mr. Clymer leaves to-day on his way to the Wyoming Valley, where be has seve ral engagements for the coming week, and goes thence to complete his list of appointments for the residue of the cam paign. May victory crown his noble battle for the right.—Reading Gazette, 151 h. Geary For Negro Equality. Douglass, a negro, was a delegate to to the Northern branch of the late Rad ical Convention in Philadelphia. Ran dolph, a negro occupied a seat in the Southern wing. The former was received with every demonstration of regard and affection at the League House—the latter took part in all the deliberations at Na tional Hall. Gen. Geary was a compan ion and delegate with Douglass, and oc cupied a seat on the platform in the same body graced by the presence of Randolph. Negro equality was thus practically en dorsed by the disunion candidate for Gov ernor. Vote for Clymer. Q W'' Calvin L. Robinson, a delegate from Florida to the late Radical Conven tion in Philadelphia, said that '• they must have negro suffrage to give them a con trolling influence at the elections." This is Geary's doctrine. Vote for Clymer. rgff - Who represensts the Radical par ty P Thad. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, a man who says that negroes are the equals of foreigners, and is in favor of the blacks enjoying all political rights equal with the white man.—Huntington Globe, (Republi can.) Vote for Clymer. Pr As parties now stand (with ten States asking for recognition), the Demo crats and conservative Republicans are the Union men, the Union party—the Republicans, as an organization, are the Disunionists. We simply stand now where we stood daring the war—for the Union—with a National Union organiza tion.—Huntington Globe, (Republiean.)— Vote for Clymer. "Parson Browniow, a delegate from Tennessee to the late Radical Convention in Philadelphia, said: "I am an advocate of negro equality and impartial suffrage. If I have atter death either to go to bell or to Heaven, I shall prefer to go with loyal negroes to HELL than with white traitors to Heaven I" This was applaud ed to the echo, and not a Geary organ in the State has condmned the shameful ut terance. Vote for Clymer. CV"' Henry W. Shaw, Esq., of Pough keepsie, popularly known as "Josh Bill ings," as will be seen by advertisement in another column is to favor our citizens with one of his inimitable lecturers. The subject, " Putty and Varnish," is to say the least a novel one, and we have no doubt from his reputation as a lecturers that it will be treated in a manner worthy the subject and the man. From the many complimentary notices from the press we subjoin the following extract from the Troy Whig, Troy : "A new star has appeared in the firma ment, Billings is in the lecture field,•— " Josh Billings." He bas come to town, carpet bag and lecture in band. He is the very Yaukeeest of all Yankees. Artemus Ward is more of a droll: Josh Billings is a wise, quaint and very queer humorist. He will find "sermons in stones, and good in everything." His " wisdom" is packed into a small compass, and his sayings is As full of pith as au egg is full of meat. He turns over the flat stones in our daily walks, and out creep and crawl a host of proverbs and wise sayings like nameless bugs which have long been buried under neath, all glistening with humor and ex uding merry laughter. We have not one too many humorists in this working age of ours, but we are well satisfied that J. Billings, Esq., is "one of em." He lec tures at Rand's Hall this evening on " Putty and Varnish," knowing, no doubt from careful personal observation, what effort is made by people to putty things up, and afterwards varnish them over, he feels competent to describe the process, and quite equal to moralizing on the re sult." TIIE DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH IN IDAHO.- The latest election returns from Idaho Territory, show that Holbrook, (Dem.,) is elected Delegate to Congress by over 800 majority. The Legislature stands as follows: Council, 7 Democrats, 3 Radi cals ; House 17 Democrats, 3 Radicals. The Radical Pyramid. Fifty dollars bounty to the two year white soldiers. One hundred dollars bounty to the three year white soldiers. Three hundred dollars bounty to the negro soldiers. Four thousand dollars extra pay to themselves. The negro soldier gets from three to six times as much bounty as the white soldier, and the members of Congress from forty to eighty times as much. The motto of the Radical Congress is the ne gro before the white soldier, and them selves before the negro. And yet with this record before you they have the effrontery to ask you to vote to keep them in power. How many soldiers, and bow many Democrats will be found to vote against Hon. Charles Denison for Congress— whose every vote was in favor of increas ing tha poy anti bounty of the white sol diers instead of his own. Or - The Democracy of Allegheny co. have nominated for Congress, General J. Bowman Sweitzer, a gallant soldier, to oppose J. K. Moorehead. The General will be supported also by the whole con servative party of the county. Q 9 — Charles E. Moss ' a delegate from Missouri to the late Radical Convention in Philadelphia, advocated the conferring of the "right of suffrage upon all without regard to race or color." This is written on Geary's banner. Vote for Clymer. —Every division and general officer of the Ts entieth Corps, to which Geary's division was attached, is opposed to John W. Geary ! —Massachusetts-Red River Banks calls Gen. Grant a " time-server." Well, he didn't serve the rebels with supplies up the Red River, anyhow. —The New York German Republicans have gone over in a body to the support of the National Union Convention. This action was brought about a few days ago in mass meeting. —The Perry Democrat says that at the close of the Disunion meeting at New Bloomfield, on court week, Geary called for " three cheers for Congress !" Of course this was because Congress gave three hundred dollars to the darkies for one year's service, and one hundred dol lars to the white soldiers for three years' hardship. Gen. Grant's Father. The endorsement by the father of Gen. Grant of the policy of President Johnson is cheering to the friends of Constitution al Liberty. General Gr.int bad spent the day previous to the one on which the President. arrived with his parents. The next morning Mr. Grant went with the committees to receive Mr. Johnson, and when he was introduced to the President on the boat, he took the occasion—a very appropriate one—to endorse his restora tion policy. There can be no doubt that General Grant spoke through the father. far The success of the Cleveland Sol diers and Sailors' Convention has filled the Radicals with terror. In order to break the force of the heavy blow it is giving their demoralized party, they are falsely endeavoring to make it appear that "it was not much of a demonstration after all. "The Radicals at Indianapolis boast that they cleared out the Irish on the night of their murderous assault on the Presidential party. rifThe Radicals have been talking awful big about their gains in Vermont, when the fact is that the gains are most ly on the other side. " The Radicals profess great love for the defenderB of the Republic, yet when Gen. Grant and Admiral Farragut visited Philadelphia they grossly insulted these heroes by refusing to extend to them the hospitalities of the city ; but the neat week gave a hearty welcome to Fred Douglass, a negro who has always been a disunionist, and a reviler of the govern ment. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19.—The elec tion in Montana Territory on the 4th inst. is reported to have resulted in a Democratic victory by a majority of 2,000. Ver The Radical journals are making themselves merry over a statement of an alleged conversation which General Grant is said to have had with a Radical newspaper correspondent, in relation to politics, in which he speaks against Hies ter Clymer. Of course the story is false, and de signed to cover up the radical hagrin at the repulse Grant gave them at Cincin nati, when ho refused to receive a dem onstration, except in company with the President. A' We notice that the Juniata Re publican, published at Mifflintown, Pa., has taken down Geary's name from its mast head. Another indication of a change in public sentiment. rff - The Northampton County Jour nal, hitherto a Radical paper, has aban doned the " torch and turpentine" party, and supports Mester Clymer arid the Restoration policy of which he is the rep resentative. .far The editor of the Shirlevsburg Herald, in removing the name of General Geary from the head of his columns, de clares he is now fully convinced that ne gro equality and negro suffrage are the grand objects of the Radicals, and that ho cannot and will not disgrace himself and his paper by giving countenance to the movement. —Tho National Republican Committee at its recent meeting in New York, adopted a plat form of full negro citizen ship. Will they longer deny that they are now for negro suffrage. —J. A. J. Buchanan, one of the most prominent lawyers of Greene county, and for several years the leading Ri-publican orator of that county, is now laboring; earnestly for Clymer and the reconstruc tion policy of the President. REM Ell BER ! —That .lames Archbald has arisen to opulence off the labor of the working man, and yet the Disunionists have the impudence to ask the votes of those who earn a livelihood by the labor of their hands, upon the ground that he is the " working man's friend." Work ingmen I rebuke such a