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FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1869.
UNION .REPUBLICAN TICKET.
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• FOR CIONEiM011:
JOHN W. GEARY.
JUDGE OF ST PREME COIIRT:
HEIM Y T. WILLIAMS.
COUNTY.
ASSOCIATE =DOE 'DISTRICT COURT.
JOHN M. lI.DiS2A.TRICS.
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ASSISTANT LAW J U DGE, COMMON MIAS.
FRED'S.. H. COLLIER.
Stars SERATR.—THOMAi HOWLED.
-...II.SOISonar—HLLES S. HIMIFHREYO.
A_LEXANDEN. SLILLAS, •
JOSEPH WALTON.
JANES TAYLOR,
D. N. WHITE,
JOHN H. KERB. •
Roxeirr HUGH 8. FLEMDTG.
TazAsoRBR - 10S. F. DENNIsTON.
CLERK or Comma—JOSEPH BROWNS..
REcor,oga—EHOMAR H. HUNTER.
ComoustuoNEß--AIAUNCEY B. BOSTWICH. •
Rsomrsi—JOSEPH H. RELY.
CLERK Oarmase , COVET- ALEX. HILANIIB.
DIEZCTOR or Poor.—ABDIEL McCLI373.
Wa Pam% on the inside oyes of
this , morning's GeznsTz—Becond. Page:
Poetry, Penney/vaniai Ohio and Miicella
;mous .Iterns. Third and Sixth pages:
Vornmereiai, Finanef44 Commercial, and
Biter Hem. Markets by Telegraph, Im
ports by Railroad. Sepenth page: Gen
,eral Selection of interesting Beading
Matter.
PETnniatum at Antwerp, 55if.
U. B. BONDS at Frankfort, 88i
'GOLD closed in New York yesterday
• at 185-I@lBsk.
MR. Asa. Pecsen was nominated; by
reason of his supposed strength in the
anthracite districts: It is jcist there:that
he will be beaten, if
,nowhare else.
Om clever and prosperous" friends of
Ike Miners' Journal, for forty-four years
a weekly newspaper and now one of the
- most influential in the Commonwealth,
_send us the Brat
,number of their new
'daily issue. We shall see this excellent
journal oftener now. 1
TICE Philadelphia Press, is requested to
state that Mr. Justice Grier, of thelErnited
States anpreme Court, "is at present en
joying good health, and has no intention .
of resigning his positipn.'l . - This is - an
authoritative contradiction of an assertion
Which was first wade in a journal of this
Aity, that journal also since 'nominating
Ills successor: • •
. -
Bnics the opposition in Pennsylvania
.
and New York refuse to abide by the
;Legislative ratifications which the two
'States have given to the XVth .4ticle, it
is very likely that they will force an issue
:on that point In Ohio, which is sure
to elect-a" Republican Legislature next
month; and with good Democratic an
thority for _cancelling- the: last winter's
rejection of the Article • ' -; • •
Tag latest Tennessee rumor is that the
new Legislature recently elected has the
:legal title to that authority, under the
State constitution, as soon as chosen, and
that the : . - preceding body Is permanently
dissolved: This precludes the hope of
any ratification , of. the 2pltlx Article by
the latter. The rebel assembly which
meets next month will, most certainly,
reject it. And . so Tenuessee is lost ,
EtorrrEari States have ratified the new
amendment to the Constitution. Among
them, we include New York, which has
filed no certificate. Five other States
are reasonably certain to adopt it.
.For
the other five, we must look to Virginia,
ItUsel@sippi, Texas; to Indiana and Ne
braska, which are not yet counted; and
tam our chances in Ohio, Maryland, Or.
egon aud California, the last of which
ivoted,two days since.
OUR accurate report of Senator MOB
votv's great speech last night is fri:im the
phonographic pen of our friend and fel.
low•citizen, ' Gxonos W. Drruninoa,
Esq., who as few equals in the art of
repOrting, although regarding it as merely
an accomplishment, being too extensively
and piofitaOgy = engaged in mercantile
btisiness to enter' journalism as a profes.
'don in which he Would at once secure
romlnent place. - •
NEW Yong has been counted for the
XVtli Article, but the State Department
has no notice of the ratification; which
her Legislature has made, elude Gtivernor
'Roffman, a model Democrat, ftS,4l4 Wm
self of. the Legithitivo omission to
sect his certificateif the act lb
be made;
sad absolutely declines now to do it, he
and
his filendipledttilig themselves,
the ln
eirentittlierr_ — t 6is majority. in
aneato.
the next Legisliture4 to repeal thiAtify"-
ing.xesolution.. •This- nullifying decision
,f Hoffman Presents a fair example cif
Democritic regard for the popular will,
and for any legal authority which stance
in the way of their partisan interests.
Tan meeting of Republicans held at
City Hall, last night; to ratify the nomina
tions made by the recent State and County
Conventions, was an old fashioned out
pouring of the masses, and such a gath•
ering as must inspire renewed confidenne
in the patriotism and devotion to princi
if
pie of a people so famous for contributi l
overwhelming majorities whenever e
issue is made and the opportunity p -
seated in favor of Freedom, Justice d
Progression. Old Allegheny, the bans r
eitinfity. l : of the 'United Stites, ente
earnestly - and enthusiastically into a
canvass which must result in a fresh lopal
and State triumph for the Republican
party, in . October; and her patriotic citi-_
zens promise to do their full duty towards
helping on the eleetion of the gallant
GEARY and the scholarly Wiimesis to
the highest offices within the Common
wealth. .
SENATOR MORTON, OF INDIANA.
This learned and distinguished gentle
man delivered a speech last evening at
City Rail, on the occasion of the opening
of the Republican campaign in Allegheny
county, a full and perfect phonographic
report of which appears in to-day's pa.
per. We bespeak far the able, concise
and argumentative address a careful pe
rusal .and study, for it is worthy the
clear -brain and sound reasoning faculties
of the-eminent orator, statesman and pa
triot: •
Political Items.
PACERR handed over to the Democratic
State Committee ,_ a first installment of
$160,000 for campaign , purposes, last
week. He will have to raise his stake sev
eral times:within the next six weeks to be
elected.
Tim Deniocratic press throughout the
State Is urging the election of a Demo
cratic Legislature on the ground of reform
and retrenchment in the expenses of the
State government. But the record of that
party, in the last Legislature, and par
ticularly on the question of increasing the
salaries of the members to $1,500 is
against all economy intheadministration
of State affairs. On motion to increase
the compensation of members t 0,51,500 a
session, the record stands thus: Of the
sixty-two Republican members of the
House, twelve, less than one-fifth; voted
aye. Of the thirty-eight Democratic
members, sixteen, almost one-half, voted
aye.
The Scranton .Republiean' says : "A
good many 'people who are opposed to
monopolies will be asked to vote for Asa
Vacker for Govern6r. This wealthy gen
tleman is not only President of .the Le
:high Valley - monopoly, but he is a Di
rector of the Jersey Central- and Morris
and Essex, and thus directly interested in
thp dominant interests of the Lackawanna
Valley. Any body who votes for him in
~the hope of striking a blow at overshad
owing corporate interests will commit a
grievous error. • If there is a man in
Pennsylvania who more than an
other embodies the idea that the
interests of consolidated capital are
opposer: to those of the general pub
lic and of the laboring classes, that mania
Asa Packer. • With him installed at Har
risburg, the railroad company would have
everything us own way."
Frauds Upon Registration.
The New Yoik Citizen (Dem.) speak
ing of the system of "repeating" by
which Hoffman was elected Governor
last Fall, says:
"Repeating can be carried on even
where there is no false registry, or, to
state it more accurately, Illegal ballots
can thus be deposited in place of legal
ones. Toward the close of election day
it will be found that a large number of
persons who are duly registered have not
voted. The names of these are copied
off the list and passed 'out to the repeat
ers, who then assume a new individuality,
and vote In the character of the missing
citizens. If the true parties turn up after
ward they are denied the right of suffrage,
license their names have been fraudu
lently usurped- but this exposure rarely
occurs.
for political offences
ied by the Emperor Na
m) occasion of the hand
ry, of the birth of Hapole
-1 received with great ap
:.
'aris journals. The course
r, it is asserted, is the
hich a Government acts
g enough to fear nothing
aries, and which has just
polarity by entering into
onions relations with the
ention is called to the fact
of amnesty, as far as it
and, political offences, is
by all the ministers. That
it is alleged, proves that
irdeliberated in Council.
' therefore considered as a
of the line of conduct the
ds to pursue. This act of
tended, is the compliment
nnmentary on the Imperial
to Benatus Consultum, and
liberal laws will be libel,
e l
Tun AIINE
recently pro d
poles 111, on
redth anniv
on I, has bee
proval by the
of the Empe
manner in 1
weich is stro 1
from its itdvei
revived its - -p
new and her
cotintry. — At
that the dedre
applies to prey
countersigned
circumstance,
the measure
The amnesty i
manifestation
Ministry intent
grace it is con
and the best co
message and ti
is a pledgelha,
ally applied..
,
Tux water a pply of New York city,
great as it is .t present, will in a short
time be large!. increased. The Croton
Aqueduct Bo: .d having, by accurate hy.
drographic sur . eys, sliscovered that arti
ficial lakes con d, for comparatively small
sums, be constructed in a continuous line
forty miles north of Croton Lake, re,
solved to add to the resources of the pres
ent reservoir
rt l
,- A tract of ground ,at
Boyd's Corns , In Putnam county, was,
therefore, pur !lased, and a - stone dam,
700 feet In br adth and 64 feet in 'depth,
Is in course of construction. This dam,
23 miles no of Croton Lake in a direct
line,..will for a lake 7,500 feet long, at
an elevation o 600 feet above mean tide.
The lake h:- an area_of 1,804 acres, or
2,087 square miles, .= and. will contain
8,869,206,807 : . Os of 'Water. This is
to form a Ski : efeseryoir. Croton Lake,
the pmamit se • - °reapply, is four miles
long,l4ne.el ,•th of • • a mile wide and, at
giZiorat! , M WO CPtr94l4 71 1 4 1 00 430
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•PITTSBURGIV GAZETTE': ti ' FEIDAY,rBEr EM PER • 3;. - 1869..
*(tcintinnlid icc4m - ,,FRIA. rage.)
GOld and silver are the standard of
Values. It, is truli that the standard of
value in property is in greenbacks, meas
ured by gold. If you issue more green-
backs, they will depreciate just in pro
portion as you increase the quantity of
them. W hat is the effect of that ?
Does it make any body any better off?
On the contrary it deranges all solid,
regular business, and especially does it.
Injure the laboring man. It injures him
worse than it injures the merchant, and
I will tell you how. As you increase the
quantity of currency you stimulate
speculation. Do we not all . know that as
you create the quantity of currency, just •
as we did during the war, when we had
to do it, that you thereby stininiate spec
ulation. Men buy up personal property
to speculate •upon. They buy up tiro
visions, breadstuffs. They will buy up
hardware and merchandise . of all kinds
and hoard it up In ware houses for bigger ,
prices. That is what we call speculation.
Bat so far as labor is concerned, you
cannot hoard that in ware ihouses;_ you
cannot lay that by like merchandise,
for bigger price.: The demand for
labor is in the present. Labor is worth
only the price that It will bring to-day.
Inflation does not increase the price of
labor, therefore provisions and all that
the poor man has to buy may go up under
the influence of speculation before labor
has advanced one per cent. I Therefore
avoid spyinlation, and to avoid specula
tion we must have no expansion of an
inconvertible currency. I said a mo
ment ago that by increa sing our incon
vertible currency you do not increase
the amount of money. If your ,money
was convertible, thereby increasing
the amount of it, it would still be ,
equal to coin, you would in
crease the amount of money. But,
on the contrary, when you increase
the amount of paper currency, it depre
matesjast in proportion to its expansion.
Of all the robberies of the laboring man
there is nobs equal to that inflicted by
the expansion of an inconvertible cur
rency. Let us rather make good that
whloh are have; let Us have a sober pros
perous business, rather than a feverish
speculative business, that would result
from the expansion of an inconvertible
currency, finally to reknit in a crash
and ruin.
I now come to another resolution in
the platform/ The next resolution is
that the movement for the amelioration
of the laboring man meets with the hearty
-approval of the Democratic party.
That is just as cheap as dirt. They re
solve that they are in favor of all the
proposed movements for the ameliora
tion of the laboring man. They cannot
name one that they are in favor of. Let
me say that the Republican party is the
friend of the laboring man. It is the
friend of free labor. The elevation of
• labor is the cardinal principle of the Re
publican party. It was a part always of
the slavery question. The Democratic
party were in favor of slavery. In
what is the essential idea of slavery?
It is that capital 'should 'own labor, and
any party that is in favor of slavery is In
favor of the idea that capital should own
labor. The Republican party has ele
vated labor. It has done more forthe
dignity of labor than all other parties
that haveutone before. It is co-operative
with the slaboring man. It is in favor
of all that can be done for his
elevation. Why, my friends, what party
was it that gave the Government land to
the actual settler? That was done by at
Republican Congress. The Democratic
party had been in power forty years
and never thought of such a thing.
The Republican party one year ago
provided f?r eight • hours as a
day's labor in all the Government
workshops. The Democratic party
never thought of that. I can say, in gen
eral terms, of whatever can be done to
elevate labor, to make it profitable, to
make the laboring man comfortable or
rich, will be done by the Republican
party. All that has been done, has been
done by the Republican party. [Cheers.]
My, friends, the next resolution is
against reconstruction as adopted by
Congress. I shall not discuss that. The
resolution complaids that the rebels
were not allowed representation in Con
gress. You have heard that over and
over again. It reminds me of Beecher's
dog Noble, 'that continued working at
the hole the squirrel went in three years
before. Tho Democratic party will never
get done working at these old holes. It
does not know that the , squirrel passed
in and escaped out the other side years
ago. •
•I will come to the last one, and that is •
as to the internal revenne.system which'
it declares to be grossly unjust. It does
not say one word about tariff. Over here'
in Ohio,
the Democracy say the tariff is
grosslyiniquitons, bat they do not say
anything about that here, because Penn
sylvania is too deeply interested in mau
-1 tractures. • But in Ohio„and through the
Western States they declare uniformly
against the • tariff. Let us review
the question of taxation.. We' havia two
systems of revenue. We have internal
revenue and the tariff. Ido not say that
these systems are perfect. You never
get them so. They never will be so.
Btit,-I say that they are as nearly perfect
as we have been able to get them. The
question is sometimes asked why Con
gress does not collect revenue in the
same way that they do in the State
of Pennsylvania, by • levying a tax
ation on the real estate of the
country? Why does not the ' nation
collect Rs- revenue in the same way?
Becense 'Solna say that would not be
fair. There are . two or three reasons for
it. In the first place a tax upon land is
called a direct tax. By, the Constitu
tion of the United States . a tax upon
real estate is in the nature of a direct
tax, and tie Constitution of the United
States says that direct taxes shall be ap
•portioned in the several States according
to their population. Suppose the United
States wanted to raise one hundred mil.,
lions by direct taxes; they would have to
apportion it among the several States,
not according to their population, but ac- :
cording to their l property. That would
be very hard on the neerStatea, for they
havemore population than property, and
such a tax would be very unjust. That
clause was long since pnt in the
tution, and therefore we shall never
Consu
-1 raise revenue by direct taxation. What
is our plan?
We have the Internal Revenue ,tax
and the Tariff. First, as to the Internal
Revenue tax. What is the theory of it? .
So far as we can the Revenue tax is
placed upon luxuries, to the relief of
the middle and lower classes. Isay that
it makes the burden fall as far as possi
ble upon luxuries and upon wealth
and capital, to the relief of labor , and
of the middle classes. We 'cannot •do
that'altogether; we come as near to . it as
possible. In the first place the greater
part of the Revenue tax is collected from
whisky and tobacco. Then we tax in
comes. > Every man who has an inoome
over one thousand dollars has to pay a
tax upon the oXCOBII over that amount.
7
If it is over live thousand dollars
b on °
e
pays 'a still
to
pe
the amount. lite who has less than
one thousand dollars pays nothing.
Then we have a tax in theway of stamps:
I need not•eXplain that 'to you. " That
falls uhlefly -open profitable' buelnedel.
Then we have a tax upber niikantartllral
and that la fat
,placed, as ,to relieve all
'small zpenaraeturere. New, yr** -belteye
thetinssanzebis the sevesue 11.11ftet ,
mach better eolleotect-thes Watt
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,pense With the tax upon manufacturer
and perhaps upon incomes. But upon
that point I give no personal opinion.
But we think we shall be able to relieve
all taxes except upon whisky and tobacco
by the honest and faithful collection of
the revenue. Y repeat that the general
idea that prevdils in the levying of that
taxis to make me burden to fall upon
luxuries and upon capital and wealth,
to the relief of labor and the middle
classes.
I, suppose that I need not de
fend the Tariff here, where you
are so deeply interested in it. But
what is the general idea of it? it is the
same thing, to make the burden fall
upon luxuriei, to the relief of labor and
the middle classes. We cannot do that
altogether. We have to tax some articles
of necessity, because we cannot collect
sufficient revenue from luxuries.
We have to tax tea and coffee and sugar.
If we Intend to pay our debts honestly,
we must do t with money, and it can
be done only, by taxation, and we must
get enough to meet our wants. What
we are trying to do is to redue our
wants to the lowest possible sum, so a r a
to collect as little tax as possible.
In regard to the Tariff, it is heaviest
upon luxuries, upon silks, wines and
those things properly called luxuries,
and 'such as do not belong to the necessa
ries of life. But we have to tax manu
factures, and heavily, too. Here comes
the complaint that we adjust this tariff
so as to protect American manu
factures, and so we do not by
the tariff so high as to prevent the
importation of any foreign manufac
tured article. We only tax them sufficient
to make, a healthy competition, and no
body can complain of that, except upon
the basis of objection to the establish
ment of manufactures in this country.
No, they take no exception to the tariff,
but they take exception to the Internal,
revenue. But I have spoken of that, and
I have shown that it is based upon the
principle of relieving the laboring
classes and making the tax fall utoa
capital, where it is not a burden. Now
I have done, so far as taxation is con-
corned.
There are some other points to talk to
you about very briefly. One question
was:asked me by the Poet, which I had
nearly forgotten. I have spoken of the
inflation of the currency by the farther
issue of greenbacks, and say that we
have enough currency to conduct the
business of the country fairly and do
hot want any more; instead of wanting
more, we want to make good what we
have.
The Post asks whether I did not say
that the Government had the right to is
sue greenbacks in the redemption of the
Five-Twenty bonds? I Bay that I did. I
convinced ; . many people of it. But
I took that view of the question, that the
Government has the right to use the ex
isting greenbacks for the redemption of
the Five-twenties. I show this distinc
tion broadly. While I think that the Gov
ernment had the right to use the old
greenbacks, I distinctly denied that the
Government had the right now, after
these bonds were sold, long years after
wards—that the Government had a right
to issue greenbacks that were irredeem
able and inconvertible, and require the
bondholders to take them in payment of
their debts. That is the positron I take.
That is not really the aim,
because the
Democratic party does not desire or pre
tend tb desire to pay the National debt
with the old greenbacks. How do they'
get the old ones? only by taxation. But
they propose to pay the debt With new
greenbacks which shall cost nothing but
the printing and the paper. I take the
ground against that,as I take it to-night,
and as I have ever done. I say that to
pay the National debt in that way would
be simply repudiation.
Now I ask the editor of the Post to tell
his readers, whether the Democratic
party has ever proposed to pay the debt
in the old greenbacks. I say that they
have not. That their proposition is simply
to pay the National debt in new green
backs, to be issued long after the bonds
were sold, that are Inconvertible, and
that will depreciate as fast as they are
Issued. This is simply repudiation,
and
the only favor the greenbacks have
ever met with from the Democratic party
is simply to use them as the, means of
repudiation.
I have spoken to you as to
the responslblility of the Democratic
party. I have told you what they have
done and what their crimes have been.
Now I will speak of what the Republi
can party has done. In the
first place the Republican party
has abolished slavery. That is the great
est thing done by any party. In the next
place the Republican party has preserv
ed the Union of these States. But for
the Republican party the Union would
have been dissolved and th e rebellion
would have been a success. Therefore,
I say that the party is entitled to
the eternal gratitude of this people.
It has proved a greater saviour
than. any party has heretofore
or any party will hereafter, be-
Cause no party will ever have such an
t
opportunity.
It has destroy d slavery;
it has preserved the Union it is now
Marching in a course of p Kress and
prosperity that our forela hers never
even imagined , If there is anybody
here to -night that is not sa tis fied with
that party, and think we are not reform
ing fast enough , I tell them have pa.
tietice. I tell them the Repuhlican party
is the great reform party of I the nation.
But the Republican party • does
one thing at a time. I We do
not try everything' fat once. We
take up one thing at S time and
we do that well; then take up another
thing and do that right; andll tell all re
formers that their home is in the Repub
lican party., If their reform is a
greatnne, the Republican party will take
it rip in time and put it through. But,
if they attempt to oilvidelhe Republican
perty, they will defeat every reform
,they propose, for there is no redemption
for the Democratic party. IThat party
nee got , to die and will die. The old
Federal party could not be reformed and
it had to give way. The old Whig party
could not be reformed, and it had to
give way. "And. the Democratic party,
that has sinned, more than all these par
ties put together, cannot be reformed,
and it has got to die. Then II say to all
reformers—l do not care what your re
form is, if yon hope to melte! it a success
stand by the Republican party, and when
thelime comes we will weigh the merits
of your reform, and if it is a good one
we will carry it to a success. If it is not,
we will throw it to one side. If you sue-
Oeed in putting your power in the Demo
cratic p arty , all chance of your re
form , lost for this generation.
The executive • power of this party
has been in our hands since March
fourth of this year - , and what has
been done since then? Yon
know that the Executive 1 Department
was under Delnoortdfc indium 'under
i i
Johnson's administration, a d now what
has been aceomplished el co the new
organization game into pow r? Accord
ing to the increased con non of reve
nue taq the internal and external,
since the fourth of March up to the
fourtp of August last, as compared with
witn„ the amount Collected to the
fourth of March, Dia,one ‘ year be.'
forei:,there will be 1113,-. therein* of:fifty
adlllone a year, wittithe eatne,tatetlOn;
that will make two hundred millions
"increased collection Awing Glitir - - .;
mirdatrllit, jiiiVitity,' in - ;
.honeinir 11,1oUletwhL ‘.-Tki ~ot
..
clerks and useless employe's - have been
discharged, and the Government is
thereby carried on with the least force it
can be carried on. There is retrench
ment in every form. We shall avoid an
Indian war. General Grant's policy in
regard to the Indians will succeed.
It is already a triumph. We will have
no general Indian war. There are some
roving tribes that have not been pacified,
bat we shall have a general pacification
of the Indians, because we are going to
treat them kindly and honestly. We
shall save millions in that direction.
We shall save twenty millions a year by
mere economy. That will be eighty
millions in four years, so that we shall
I gain two bnndred and eighty millions
during I Grant's administration by hon
est administration and retrenchment.
Two hundred and eighty millions
of dollars are worth more than
two hundred and eighty millions of
Democratic promises and platforms.
This administration is redeeming every
promi it has ever made to the people.
We in te nd to have honesty in the ad
ministration of the Government. If there
are dishonest men in our own'ranks, we
will not cover them np. We will not
conceal them, but we will take them by
the throat and thrust them out as fast as
we can. That is the only way to make
an honest party. That is by punishing
the rascals in their own ranks. That is
what the Republican party tries to do.
Bute o far as:this party is concerned if they
find a rascal in their own ranks they at
tempt to cover him np and conceal him.
Now there are rascals in every society
and organization of men. Whenever a
church tries to conceal its rascals then
that church becomes corrupt. But if a
church tries them, and, if guilty, kicks
them out, then the church preserves its
purity. And so it is in politics. Why,
my friends, there are more prayers in
this directioii than there ever was.
The Republican • party is doing
more for this people • than any
party ever did. With all its faults,
and with all the bad men that may be in
it, it has done more for labor and pro
gress than any political organization
that this country has ever had. When
ever it beomes corrupt we will lay it
aside and take np a new one. But do
not take np that old, • worn oat, ef
fete, rotten, Democratic organization.
You never can make anything out of
that. As I said before you never can
reform it. Then, my friends, let me say
in conclusion, stand by that party that
preserved the Union! Stand by that
party that abolished slavery! Stand by
that party that would make , impartial
suffrage and equal rights throughout
this great nation! Stand by that party
that will give'yon a sound finance and a
solid currency! Stand by that party that
would pay the national debt, that would
preserve the rational honor! Let me
say to yon,, stand by the men
who stood by yoti during the war. Stand
by Governor Geary and all of your can
didates, who have stood fast by you.
Stand fast by your soldiers; stand fast
by the men who perilled their lives for
the country, when we could only pro
active this nation by blood. Pennsylva
nia gave her thousands of men who laid
down their lives to preserve their coati
try. Let their survivors be remembered
in your gratitude. Set them not aside
i for those men who cried peace and staid
I at home.
lam told that the' Democratic candi
date for Governor is a man by the name
of Packer, and that he is a millionaire,
and that he never let this Government
have one dollar out of his millions to
help to preserve it. I was told farther,
Ido not know how true it is, that he
went to Europe while the contest was ra
ging, and I suppose he expected when he
came balk to be on which ever side was
successful. Is that true? If it -is not
I do not want to say it. Now
the Democratic party pretends to
be in favor of the laboring man; they
have proven that. by taking a millionaire
for their candidate. Now he may be a
very good man, bat I say if he is a mil
lionaire, and had the means during the
war of rendering the greatest service to
this Government and did not do so, he
is not the man you want for Governor.
Many of you went out and fought
in the army. - I have no doubt
you have lost friends, fathers,
brothers and sons. Others of yon could
not go, but you gave money, although
yon were told that the bonds were not
wort ...the paper they were printed upon,
Yet these men run the risk of loaning
their money to their country, and they
thereby served their country, but the
man that would neither go himself, nor
would not loan his money to the gov
ernment, such a man has no claims upon
this people. And where you have a
good man,before you, Governor Geary,
who is a tried and true patriot, you
ought not to be at a loss to decide how
yon should vote. Now, bear in
mind that this contest is not local to
Pennsylvania. That if yon allow the Re
publican party to go down in this State,
we shall feel the force of it in Indiana. It
will come upon us with crashing power..
If we are beaten in Ohio, we
shall feel that. In other words,
the great coming Presidential elec.
lion is to be determined by .the
results of the elections in Pennsylvania
and Ohio. Therefore, my Mends, stand
by true men. Do your duty, your whole
duty and nothing but your dnty, and all,
will be well.
I thank yon kindly for your respect
ful attention.
At the conclusion of the gentleman's
remarks he was greeted with three
times three cheers, which were given
with a hearty will.
_.
ornun SPEECHES.
Loud calls were made for Hon. John
Covode, who was introduced by the
Chairman and made a short and
Pungent speech, which was
tened to with marked . attention.
He furnished a hopeful view of
he situation in Pennsylvania, which
now looks bright and hopeful. The
people are awake and see that it would
be ruinous to put the reigns of the gov
ernment in me hands of ' those--who
would destroy the Government. He
contrasted the records of the two teindi
dates for gubernatorial honors—the one
a gallant hero and noble leader on the
field of battle, while the other
fled to Europe to watch' &dm
abroad the shape affairs were taking.
He referred in galling words to Pack
er's little unpleasantness with the tax
gatherers in Mellott Chunk, where he
paid a tax of 1132,500 as a compromise
on his income and then fled to. the Mer
chants' Hotel, Philadelphia, to escape
'odious Minims' and where he only paid
; an income on 116,100 on all worldly effects
save two gold watches,• for Which $2 extra
were paid. The sudden falling off in
weaithWas hard to be aceonnted‘or. If
Allegheny county does her duty, the
State is safe, for Philadelphia is safe be
yond a donbt. The speaker concluded
with an earnest exhortation to all pres
ent to do their full share of work in the
campaip..as the cause was national as
well as of the State.
Able and patriotic speec hes were also
made in response to calls from the, au
dienceby Messrs. Thomas Howard, De
Kam P. -C. Shannon,B. P. Lucas,
. A.
Ist i
. BrOwn and T. M. Marshall. ~
' AltOgether considered, the meeting
mai worthy °Ur county. and immred
:well for the euniXes of the party , HI
—.Prollotiti Granvhasjolned his Molly
'at ! ' '
POLITICAL.
Wisconsin Republican State Convention
—Outline oldie Platform Adepten.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh linens.)
CHICAGO, September 2.—The Republi
can State Convention, of Wisconsin, yes
terday made the following nominations:
For Governor, Lucius Fairchild, the
present imcumbent. ' On the fifth ballot,
Lieutenant• Governor L. C. Pound; Sec
retary of State, E. A. Spencer; State
Treasurer, Henry Barth.
A series of resolutions were passed
which declare,
First—The inalienable right of all men
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness.
Second—As enunciated In that wise
provision known as the Fifteenth Amend
ment, no discrimination at the ballot box
founded on property, birthplace, creed
or color.
Third—Liberty of speech and of the
press is the best guarantee for the secu
rity of republican institutions.
Fourth—Free schools and the diffusion
'of education among all classes of the peo
ple.
Fifth—The just subordination of State
and local authorities and interests to the
authorities and interests of the nation.
Sixth—Prompt acquiesence in the de
cisions of tie people at the ballot box.
Seventh—The maintenance, inviolate,
of the national faith, as pledged to its ,
creditors.
Eighth—Such adjustment of the burden
of taxation by revision and modification,
from time to time, of the tariff and other
revenue laws, as will cause them to fall
equitably upon all classes of the people.
Ninth—Retrenchment and economy in
the administration of the National Gov
ernment.
Tenth—The administration meets with
their cordial endorsement. •
Republican Convention in Cincinnati.
Crxcinivem, 0., September 2.—The
Republican County Convention was held
to-day. Four candidates for State
Senate and for House were nom
inated. For the Senate the nom
inees are: Judge C. D. Coffin,
Judge J. B. Warren,, Henry Brockman
and Henry Mack. For the House the
nominees are : D. T. Wright. John M.
Ampt, E. Cart, Williams Judge, W. Y.
Gohlson,.H. C. Borden, John M. Coch
ran, W. S. Berman,
L. H. Bond, A. E..
Chamberlain, John*E. Maylor.
Candidates for slx county offices were
nominated. ,
Judge Hoidley was Chfirman of the
Convention. Republicans coneider the
tickets strong.
The following resolution was passed:
Reaolved, That the candidates for the
legislature nominated by this conven
tion are hereby instructed to procure the
passage of a law reducing the compensa
tion of our county officers, so that the
salaries of those officers shall not
exceed the following sums : County
Treasurer, $74000; County Auditor,
$6,000: Sheriff, $7,000: Clerk of the Court,
$5,000; Probate Judge, 0,000: County Re
corder, I)3,soo—and that all emoluments
and fees in excess of such be paid into-
the County Treasury for the benefit'of the
tax-payers Of the county, and that each
candidate for the Legislature nominated
to-day be required to pledge himself to
procure the passage of such law.
NEW ORLEANS, September 2.—Cotton
dull, sales of 192 bales middling at 32c;
receipts 15 bales. Oats 61Q62c. ; Bran
$l. Hay 124,50. Bacon lower, shoulders
1634 c. clear rib 1934 c; clear sldes 19c.
Whisky dull at $1,25©1,2734. '
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