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FRIDAY, OCT. 8, 1889.
'UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
FOR GOVERNOR:
JOHN WI. GEARY.
JUDGE OF St PRENIE,OOtrnt:
HENRY 14 , ". WA LIAM&
ASSOCIATE JUDGE DISTRICT COURT.
JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK.
IeSSISTANT JUDGE. COMMON PLEAS. t ,
FREDERICK H. COLLIER.
COCTITIC.
STATE SzsArr.—TIMIAS HOWARD.
Ellumrair—MlLEß S. HUMPHREYS,
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
JOSEPH WALTON,
JAMES TAYLOR.
• DAVID N. WHITE,
JOHN H. KERR.
Sasarrr HUGH B. nalance.
Tazastrsza—JOß. V. DENNISTON.
Cis= 07 COIIETS—JOSEPH BROWSE.
Bscoßoza--THOHAS H. HUNTER.
COmmlessosint—lHAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK.
ItioxsTr.R—JOSEPH H. GRAY.
Mass ORPRArrs, Comm—ALEX. HILANDS.
DIBECTOB or PooI—ABDIEL McCLUB3.
MV PAL.
• MAYOR OF ALLEGIISNY,
ALEXANDIR , P. CALLOW
DIRECTOR OF POOR.
COL. 0F.0130E GERST
W'HEADQII ARTERS UNION
BEFIT BLICAV EXECU TIT E COMMIIT
IM3
To the Union Republican Voters and
Vigilance Conunitkees of Allegheny
Conunty.
But three working day a remain before the elec
, Mon. Every Republican should devote those
days to active, diligent work.
The Local Vigilance Committees should meet
nietly until. electron day, and thoroughly ex•
amine and canvass their lists. 11 the names of any
legal votereare not on the retistration list„they
should nevertheless be brought to the polls, and
on making the profs by ate lavit, provided for
by the registry law, they will be allowed to vote.
In every e lectron district there shcnld be SPE
CIAL COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO SURE OFF the
names of those who have voted, and In that man
ner you can ascertain who has not, up to three
\o'clock, voted. AFTER THAT BOUM BEND OUT
or all such and have them brougnt In. HAVE
:CHALLENGERS APPOINTED In every elm citron die
tea, of good, reliable Repubi cans, who are well
Acquainted with the citizens of the district. 'See
that the tickets ace correct and properly distrib
uted.
Hearin mind that, under the new Registry law.
the polls in city and county must be opened be
tween the hours of six and seven o'clock in the
morning, and closed at 1 o'clock in the evening.
Thiswid .give 'an opportAlly to many of the
working and business men to vote before going
to their labors.
In another column of this paper you , will find
the address of the Naturalization Committee,
setting forth what constitute the requisite qual
ifications of voters, and containing other in
formation, to which your careful attention is
invited.
It is to be hoped that every measure will be
&dented, by the earnest Ilepubllcans and the
Vigilance Committees of this county, to bring
out on Tuesday next iiIIIILL REPUBLICAN VOTE,
and thus secure a ere's, Republican victory.
By order of the 'Executive Committee.
W. S. PITSVIANCZ, Chairman,
WALTER B. ISEcCITNE.
COL. GEO. F. ]URBAN,
APB PRINT on the inside pages of
ihis morning's GezErrs—Becond Page:
General News, State lums. Third and
' Sixth pages: .Ffnancica,_ Commercial,
Markets, Imports, River News. &ninth
page : j'ennaykania' Legislature, For
eign News and Rumors, Brief 'News
Items, etc.
• •••.•
Pa7noratrm. at Antwerp, 571 f. •
1 GOLD closed is Nevi York yesterday
at, 1311@131i.
A coNrurrE list of all the nominations
to date, of either party; for the next Leg
islature, may be found on an inside page.
It will be 'useful for reference.
JUSTICE OSIER, now at Washington,
deciareethat he has "no intention what
ever 91 resigning," not even to oblige
the impatient friends who were waiting
for his official shoes.
Wz are requested to state that the Re
publi can State and County tickets are now
ready for distribution among our Repub.
lican friends throughout the county, at
Headquarters, No. 1.16 Fifth avenue.
"The ticket printed this morning in the
olizzrrz is the fall Republican one, and
is correct in every particular as to style
of Oleo and names of candidates.
H.orwrzo Eisvuoun, the "white man's
candidate" of list year, freely acknowl
_ edges that he preferred Mr. Chase "as a
more available candidate." He says that
Hendricks or Hancock would have been
acquiesced in, "or even Pendleton, with
whom he differed on the financial ques
tion," but Mr. Chase, the original Abo•
litionisto teemed to him "the best and
etfOngot candfdate he could select."
Anti thcit our bitter negrophobists of .the
oppogitilth would have shouted themselves
il49WBe for ibe equality of all men.
A fifilnaffi from Pittsburgh to the
lil 8t lvdror me:
*o l4 sittrit 2 tforg,:drd43setrealt
Packer's election by from ten to fifteen
tkonsand majority. Senator Scott is
openly for the Democratic State Ticket.
If the fabricators of this and the like eonld
be registered here, or could vote on forged
papers of naturalization, we could all
understand how the oppokition would tri
limit, by dint of sheer, deliberate false•
hood.
THE pirate . •ship Hornet will be detain
ed by our Government, unless legally re
leased by the Judgment of our Admiralty
Courts. And of that there is no prob
ability. The Secretary of State declares
the case to be clearly one of piracy. This
is constructive, of course, the ship having
as yet made no captures. As the judg
ment of the Supreme Court will be taken
on the questions involved, there will be
ample time before - a decision for the Cu
ban sympathizers to fit out a second Hor
net—if they have the stomach for so much
enterprise.
The administration deserves the hearty
thanks of the country for the effective
promptitude with which our foreign pol•
icy has thus been freed from the mbar•
rassing complications whi h recently
seemed to menace us.
VOTE FOR THE MONUMENT.
Where shall the Soldiers' Monument of
Allegheny county be located ? Tickets
will be provided at the polls on Tuesday,
for every citizen to express his own pref
erence.
DON'T RISK THE REGRET.
Republican reader, one word ! If iou
neglect to vote next Tuesday, and should
learn, the next day, that your party had
been defeated simply because a few thou
sand Republicans had stayed at home,
can you not anticipate the regrcts that you
would feel? Be sure to cast your own vote,
and you will then have, in any event,
the comfort of reflecting that you had
done your whole duty.
THEY MADE li—WE IN ILL PAY IT.
The debt of Pennsylvania wasmainly
entailed upon the people under Demo
cratic rule. Under successive Republi
can administrations, and notwithstanding
the specialiburdens laid on the Treasury
by the war, this debt has been greatly r'l
duced. If the political power shall re
main where it now is, that debt will be
certainly extinguished in the course of
comparatively a few years. All consid
erations of prudence demand the reten
tion of the Republican asaendency. •
MAKE YOUR CHOICE
On next Tuesday, Pennsylvania. will
'have to decide, so far as any one State
can, whether the itatiottat'Debt shall be
honestly paid. True, the Dem - ucrats are
not pressing this issue in the bold and
defiant manner they did last year, but
they have recanted none of their doctrines,
and mean to put them in practice when
ever they find the power in their hands.
In full sympathy with the . Rebellion
while it lasted, they do not intend, if they
can help it, to aid in paying the debt con
tracted for its suppression. All citizens
who believe in dealing fairly with the
public creditors, and so maintaining the
national faith pledged to them, should
make it a matter of duty to ,go to the
polls and vote for the Republican candi
dates.
ALL IS AT STAKE.
The. Republicans of Pennsylvania have
laid on them the duty of electing a
Governor, a Supreme Judge, and Major
ities in the two branches of the General
Assembly. To the performance of this
duty they are prompted by party consid
erations as well as inducements of a higher
and more general character. We have
already dwelt upon the latter. Let us
point to the former; The Republicans
must carry the State this year, or run
serious risks of remaining out of power
for several years to come. Thrown into
the minority they will find imposing
obstacles'across the path back to a ma
jority.
It is, well that these lower reasons con
spire with the higher ones, in requiring
the Republicans to stand by their flag in
the contest soon to.be decided.
THE BENCH AND THE PEOPLE
Upon the choice of a Supreme Judge,
at the coming election, will depend the
political complexion of the highest judi
cial tribunal. As a matter of necessity,
political queltions, as well as other ques
tions, go np We Supreme Court for decis
ion. The people are the ultimate source
of authority and their voice can only be
heard on the bench'tbrough the ballot-box.
The election of .Judge Williams, who is
confessedly of the purest personal charac
ter, of uncommon natural endowments,
of the moat accurate professional training,
wide experience, and commands the
confidence both of the members of the
bar and of the people, will secure the
Judiciary in the interests of those ele
meniary principles of order, stability, pro
gress, liberty and equality, which are
essential tc; the prosperity of the Com .
monwealth.
THE PERIL OF HOME INDUSTRY.
Minty of the manufacturing Interests of
the country, and specially of this county,
were never in greater peril, from a pros
pective modification of the impost duties on
competing foreign wares than at the pres
ent time. defeat of the Republicans of
this State, on the 12th bit., will be taken
everywhere as denoting a change.of opin
ion as to the policy of Protection; and a
vigorous push will be made accordingly.
The advocates of Free Trade are already
GIl GAZETTE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1869
PITTSBIJ
.' They are vigilant, untiring and
I . ed. Knowing what success im
them, they intend to win it.
adapting means to ends so far as
l g upon popular sentiment is con
they are leaving no effort untried: -
'rkmen of Pennsylvania ought
omprehend the menace, and an
by a Republican triumph here
1 steady the lines throughout the
movm
determi
plies fo
Wise in
operatic
cerned,
The w
fully to
swer it
that eh
Republii
THE WORK BE UNDONE t
SHAL
The rade of the great' Eastern cities
with th • interior affords an unerring cri
terion f the general prosperity. New
York d Philadelphia journals • all de
clare, i respective of politics, that the
Fall tra e has opened with a brisk begin-
ning an bright prospects. This is a con
vincing proof that the community at
large h:.s begun to feel that substantial ,
prosperity which is the natural fruit of
Republican rule, and which, if the people
will it, shall continue to swell until at
last no unhappy trace of a Democratic
rebellion shall remain to paralyze the on
ward march of the Republic in material
and political developm6t.
A. vote for the opposition ticket, or a
vote withheld from the great party which
has achieved so much, will be a vote to
undo all the work which, during eight
years past, bas been consecrated with our
vast resources and with a river of our
best blood. •
THE REBEL'S FRIEND.
Mr. Packer's record-while in Congress
shows that his, sympathies ran with the
men who were then plotting for the re
bellion. On the divisions, upon the pre
liminary questions by means of which
the prejudices of the Southern people
were aroused to fever heat, his votes were
cast with the engineers for revolt. 'Nor
have any indications been given by his
conduct since that his ideas and purposes
have undergone a change. It is fair to
infer that he is now a reactionist; that is,
that his influence will, be steadily given
towards restoring as nearly as possible,
should favoring circumstances arise, the
old status of affairs. There are much
'stronger reasons why thin class of men
should be kept out of positions of power
in the Northern States, than why men
who actually participated in the rebellion
should be continued under, elsabilities in
the Southern States. Magnanimity to a
beaten foe is often productive of salutary
consequences, while the elevation of men
who played a subordinate and deceitful
part, like Mr. Packer, has never failed of
mischievous results.
A. full vote will be an absolute Republi
can success in our own State and in Ohio.
The opposition have not the remotest
hope of a triumph in tither State, except
it be culpably surrendered to them by
our stay-at-home Republicans. Our ad
eau are all one way in this matter.
The opposition hope is sure of disappoint
ment. There are not five hundred voters,
in either State, who have heretofore ha
bitually voted for Rbpublican nomina
tions, who would not vote the same
next Tuesday, if they once reach the
polls. There are not five hundred citi
zens in either who propose to stay at
home because of dissatisfaction with the
State nominations.
The apathy upon which our opponents
count and upon which we• ourselves, at
an earlier period of the canvass, based
our only apprehensions, has almost whol
ly disappeared. The conviction has at
last become universal that the same
old Democracy of the rebellion are
once more meaning business, and
that there is peril from this venom so long
as the.,least wriggle remains in the tail.
The friends of the Union as it is, in these
States, have now concluded that it is best
to finish the job by stamping out all that
is left of the party of secession, rebellion
and repudiation.
Pennsylvania and Ohio will both choose
Republican Legislatures, with at least
nine thousand majority for GEARY, and
nearly double that for HAYES. For anY . -
thing over these majorities, we shall have
to thank a full vote in every precinct from
the Delaware; river to the Indiana line.
Shall we not have it ?
SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE'S
- MONEY. •
The Packer comndttee are advertising
freely in all the papers except the Gi
zkrrz. They are spendihg more money
for printers' ink in this county than even
during the canvass 9f 'OB. Their opulent
candidate has evidently taken his open
purse by the bottom, and turned it inside
out at Pittsburgh as well as IA Philadel
phis. He can well afford it, and can get his
money all back again byclapping another
screw upon his coal.miness and railway
hands, and putting two shillings more on
the price.of each ton of coal.
But this is tio , reason why the commit.
tee should waste his money It advertis
ing such stuff as they do. For example,
they meet the charge that he sympathized
with Vallandigham and Breckenridge,
by quoting his offer to continue the wages
of any railway hands who should-volun
teer for the Union, paying them out of the
railway treasury, and not out of his own
pocket. Again, they do not
his
the
statement that he has dodged personal
taxes since 1867, bat point to the large
sums Which• he had paid previously.
These advertisements would be worth
something If they would explain why
thew large payments were -so siddenly
The late lamented Astemus Ward was
NEXT TUESDAY,
a patriot of the Packer type, for he did
not hesitate to pledge, for the cause of
his country, the hist drop of blood of his
wife's relations and the last dollar of their
money. No phlebotomy, no contribu•
tions on his own account! Asa Packer
did not offer his own life, or give the life
of a dearly loved son for an imperilled
Republic, as did Joirs, W. Gemtv. Nor,
although possessing Countless millions of
personal wealth, could he put his hand In
his own pocket, so long as he could dip into
the handy strong•boz of a railway corpo
ration. If he had been a little less free
with his stcckholders' cash, and_ a little
more liberal with his own, the people
would now be better inclined to trust
him ins place of such peculiar tempts.
tions as that of Governor of this Com
monwealth.
His Committee in Western Pennsylva
nia have evidently taken a hint , from his
personal tactics, if we may judge from
the lavish way in which they are spend
ing cash that does not come out of their
own pockets. We charge them nothing
for thus publishing the substance of their
advertisements, since all such exhibits can
have no other effect than to make votes for
Governor GEARY.
SLANDER REFUTED.
FREEPORT, October 5, 1869.
MESSRS. EDITORS: Permit me through
your paper to answer a communication
in the Pittsburgh Post, of September 29.
A correspondent, signing himself "Lac
rymose," edifies the readers of that sheet
with on account of Governor Gary's re
ception in this place. About the politi
cal part of it, I. care nothing, although it
is a misrepresentation throughout; but he
throws a fling at one of our best citi
zens and a minister of the Gospel, that
I cannot pass it unnoticed. Among
other things he says: "His 'Excellency'
was escorted :into town by a 'reverend
gentleman' who would allow none but
the faithful to touch the hem of his gar
ment, and I could not help thinking and
remarking 'the eternal fitness of things,'
for the one was driven from his pulpit for
preaching anything but the 'Gospel of
Peace,' while the other is about to be de
posed from the chair of State as an un
worthy public servant.' Alas! Poor
Yorick's tempora inutantur."
The reverend gentleman referred to
has been pastor of the 0. S. Presbyterian
Church here for' twenty years, and was
not "driven from the pulpit for preaching
anything but the gospel of peace," as al
leged; but resigned of his own free
to seek another field of labor in the far
west.
_lt was never charged against him,
by any member of his congregation, that
his preaching was political or heretical.
As an evidence of the esteem in which he
is held, the largest church in our village'
would not comfortably seat tide audience,
composed not only of his former charge,
but of members of every evangelical
church, who turned out to hear him
preach his farewell sermon last Sabbath.
And now, in cloncusion, let me say, if
Lacrymose had one-half the talent, edu
cation or Christian virtues of the "rever
end gentleman" referred to, he could
employ his time much better than in
butchering the "King's English," muti
lating latin or writing "slanderouslibels"
on a man the latchet of whose shoes he is
not worthy to unloose. VERITAS.
A GREAT MISTAKE.
MESSRS EDITORS-I see by your paper
of September 'l9, 1869, that you have my
name on the list as one of the Vigilance
Committee for Isaiah Dickey, for the
Borough of Elizabeth. This is a great
mistake. I never used, or authorized any
person to use, my name for such a pur
pose. lam a temperate man and a tem
perance man, and if I live until next
Tuesday, I shall cut my vote for Geary,
Williams, Chauncey Bostwick, and the
whole Republican ticket.
Yours, F. S. TOWER.
Elizabeth, Oct. 5, '69.
—A few days since some of the Demo
cratic papers of Wisconsin charged that
certain monies belonging to the Treas
ury, from the Insurance Fund, had been
embezzled by one of the officers in
charge. It has since transpired that
E. A. Spencer, Republican candidate for
Secretary of State, was referred to, and
that he did remove a certain amount
from the Treasury—not, however, with
the intention, as he asserts, of em
bezzling it, and he has since returned
the money. In view of these facts, the
Republican State Central Committee
requested him 3o withdraw his name as
a candidate, which he did at once. The
name of Mr. Spencer's successor on the
ticket has not been ilamed.
—Rev. Dr. Pylance, of . Chicago, has
been appointed by Bishop Mcltwilit°
came to take evidence in Illinois as to
the useages of the church in reference to
qurpliced choirs and processional sing.
ing, for which Mr. Tate is to be tried in
Ohio. Dr. ?glance took the testimony of
live or six. clergymen on Monday *filch
It is understood, le favorable to thslaw•
fulness of the practices, of which Blahoo
T►lcllvaine, however, disapproves. It is
found that these customs of processional
singing and surpliced choirs obtained in
many dioceses of the church.
—The Minnesota , State Temperance
Convention met at St. Paul, Wednesday,
and nominated Rev. Daniel Cobb for
Governor; J. H. Stevens for Lieutenant
Governor; E. O. Hamilton for Chief Jus
tice;, E. J. Thompson for Secretary of
State; J. H. Davidson for Attorney Gen
eral; C. C. Connell for Auditor, and
Henry Russell for Treasurer. The can•
didates for Lieut. Governor and Chief
Justice•are Democrats. the rest are Re
publicani.
—The Tennessee Legislature proceeded
to business yesterday, but nothing of
importance was transacted. The ,mes
sage of Gov. Senter will not be delivered
till. Monday. The Democrats charge
that the cause of this delay is his desire
to prevent the defeat of the Fifteenth
Amendment before the October election,
they believing that the defeat would aid
Pendleton and Parker. The rejection of
the Amendment seems to be a foregone
conclusion. 4
—The Directors of the E. H. & N. R.
R. today closed a contract;withlienry B.
Hanson, of New York, and others, ,to
finish'the road hetwaen Madisonville and
Eforokitutville. and leasing the road to
said Hanson tot a period of , seven years
from the let of January, 1870. It is tin.
derstood that Mr. Hanson Is backed by
,the Pennsylvania Central Railroad influ
ence, and that: he will complete the
"Evansville and road within one
year.
TO THE VOTERS OF ALLE-
GIENY COUNTI.
After almost a year's cessation from
political strife, the citizens of Pennsyl
vania are again involved in a great con-
test. Divided as heretofore Into two great
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parties—Republican and - Democratic—
there is yet; no question before them of
principle or of policy; for all such were
fully discussed and emphatically passed
upon by the voters of the State in the
triumphant election of the Grant and Col
fax electors last year. The propriety and
justice of the Fifteenth Amendment, so
much inveighed against by the Democ
racy of the present day, and the impro
prieties and shortcomings of the Johnson
administration, with which they were
only too glad, in their great desire for
place and profit, to affiliate are of the
past ; settled by the verdict of the people
of the whole country in November last,
and to their entire and great satisfaction.
No new issues have arisen or could since
then arise, and in the canvass of this year
the voters of _Pennsylvania are called
upon only to reaffirm or disaffirm a
former verdict.
The Republicans of Allegheny county
are not and have not been unwilling to
open the old questions anew. On the
contrary, they have invited and challeng
ed the Democratic party to a free and
mil discussion before the people of every
point of difference between the two
parties, in the full faith and confident
belief that the inevitable repetition of
the vote of 1868 might in a measure tend
to impress upon it the fact that there are
questions which have been finally de
cid ed upon, and principles which, though
good enough in their day, the progress of
the country has now made obsolete; but
to day the canvass in this county, now
almost at an end, presents the strange
spectacle of a party in power, and there
fore necessarily to be assailed, willing to
accord to its opponents not only an inves
tigation of its conduct since it has been
in, but also a Lew trial, of those princi
ples upon which the voters of the nation
decided it should come into power,
and yet refused such by its op
ponents, who have not dared to
call a single public meeting or in
vite a single speaker in support of what
ever of principle or policy the Demo
cratic party may profess to entertain, or
in assail of the principles of Republican
ism, as it may chance to understand
them. It has contented itself with an
invitation (in print) to the people to for
get its record for eight years; it has
asked not to be reminded that its ruling '
branch in the Southern States, with a
not inactive sympathy from its Northern
brethren, rebelled against the authorities
of the land, and, striking at the life of
the nation, necessitated the loss of life,
so much to be deplored by all, and tne
creation of the great debt under which
it now says the country is groaning, and
presuming that the people of the county
are as short of memory as it could desire
for everything which it has done during
a four years' war, and since, it invokes
the criticism of the voters upon financial
matters pertaining to this State alone and
its domestic machinery during the three
years of Governor Geary'-a administra
tion (on figures and statements with a
more commendable kindness_ than accu
racy, furnished them by its Chairman for
Western PennsylVania.)
It is not worth while, nor have we here
the space, to pass upon the statements of
the Democratic Committee relative to the
(household) economy of Republican
Legislatures and Governors as compared
with that of similar Democratic officials.
It is sufficient to say that the comparison
made of Democratic expenditures in 1860,
before the civil war, and of Republican
expenditures in 1863, after it ahows that
the latter is not quite double the former,
and yet when the tax-payers of the State
reflect that in 1868 a new Gubernatorial
mansion, belonging for all time to came to
the Commonwealth, was built, and that
the increased development of the re
sources of Pennsylvania since 1860 has
necessarily quadrupled the business of
Governors and Legislatures, it cannot but
be their candid conclusion that either the
party in power in 1868 was economical, or
the party in power in 1360 extravagant, es
pecially, too, when the. thinking men of
the -community take into consideration
the fact that in 1868, or to-day, there was
and is hardly a single item of-expense to
either the private individual or the State
the cost of which is not more than double
that of the same article in 1860.
In a measure rising to the dignity of
what is proper in an address directed to
the voters of Western Pennsylvania, and
reluctantly leaving for the time being
the housewifery of the Capitol and Gu
bernatorial mansion, the Chairm an of
the Democratic Committee alleges as ex
travagance on the part of the Republican
party that a State debt of 520,000,000,
bearing five per cent. interest only, was,
under a Republican administration, re
deemed and paid by a new issue, in 1866-
7, of certificates of indebtedness to the
amount of 523,000,000, bearing six per
cent. interest.
All ofwhich is true, but disingenuous,
in this:, that he is either ignorant of or
wilfully , failed to state the fact that the
indebtedness of 520,000,000, most ()IR in
curred long before the war, when there
was no premium on gold, and all of it be
fore the passage of the legal tender act,
was overdue, and with its accrued inter
est amounted to about 523,000.000 at the
time of its redemption bythe Republican
authorities of Pennsylvania, and that the
redemption effected by them converted
the debt into one payable, Principal and
interest, in currency, at six per cent. in
terest per annum, instead of', 'as the old
debt (under the ecisions of the United
States Supreme Court, then known to
the State authorities,) was a debt at five
per cent. interest, payable, principal a fi
nd
interest, in gold. At the time of this re
demption gold was worth 51.40 in curren
cy, and it would have required from the
State of Pennsylvania 532,200,000 in legal
tenders to have paid the indebtedness of
523,000,000, which .the Republican ad
ministration of Governor Geary, by pru
dence and forethought. has funded into
bonds or certificates of indebtedness of
523,000,000, bearing only the - ordinary
and legal rate of six per cent. interest,
thereby saving to , the State and the tax
payers the sum of at least 19,000,000. And
yet for all this, the Democratic party, in
its ignorance of either figures, values and
facts, has chosen to assail as extravagant
and corral's the administration of a Gov
emor whose three years' executive ca
reer can challenge, - lbr economy, honesty
and ability, the closest scrutiny of his
political enemies as safely and as proudly
as his four years' military experience
has already, before the people of Penn-
sytvania, braved the scrutiny and over
come the calumnies of the same detrac
tors whom he now has to meet—not as
he has met more open 'enemies, in the
field, but on safer ground of their own
choosing, in print.
The exercise of the pardoning power
on the part of Governor Geary seems
strangely to affect the Democratic mind.
and - tor theßrst time in the history of
the State and its Governors, has alleged
excess in that direction received Demo
cratic disapproval. It has been unneces
sarily bestowed, however. in the present
case, as an examination of the records
Wkil show that Governor Geary has par
doned & leas proportion of convicted
criminals than any of his predecessors
for years past; not in. all amounting to
fifteen per cent. of the applications made
before him, which in themselves alto-._
gether do not equal one-tenth of the
criminals convicted throughout the State.
Less, then, Than one per cent. of the con
victs of this State, we confidently assert,
during Governor Geary's administration
received these much talked of Execte
tive clemency.
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Unable,wieh all the disingenuous state
ments, and all the distorted fignies of
which we have referred, to make out
anything which might even tend toile
ceive intelligent voters, and apparently
not much relying upon them, the amis.
ble and accomplished spokesman of the
Democracy, taking up the old and well
worn weapons of his party, unweildy
and unhandy though they be for him,
has chosen to assail the private and per
sonsl character of Governor Geary 'in
terms and language which, while Judi
eating in the manner of their use the
novice in that peculiar style of phraseol
ogy usually denominated . billingsgate,
yet strongly point to a high and success
ful graduation in that school of the fine
arts, if the study and the praytice are
but continued.
The Republican party cannot afford
either to reply to such a style of argu
ment, or to retort on its opponents in a
'similar vein. It has nothing particular
to say of Asa Packer, except that he has
no record but that of his great accumu
lated wealth and an absence of a corre
sponding income tax. In the Legislature
of the State, and a member of the Con
gress of the United States for two terms,
a few scattering answers to roll-call, a
few uncertain Totes, are all that make up
his public record and attest the fact that
he has ever been in public life. Nor has
it anything to say more or less particular
of Cyrus L. Pershing, the associate on
the Democratic ticket of Mr, Packer.
With due observance of the proprieties
of politics the Damocratic State Conven
tion was careful that the head of their
I ticket should not be in any wise obscured
by the second name upon it, and accord
ingly nominated as their choice for Su
preme Judge a candidate whose name as
a lawyer was until then hardly known
beyond the limits of his own county.
Both Mr. Packer and Mr. Pershing
may be blameless and irreproachable in
private life and character, and the fair
presumption is that they are; but their
adherents in ,this county have as yet not
given the people, either through - the
press or through their speakers, one sin
gle argument in favor of transferring
them from their privacy which they both
presumably adorn, to a publicity which
only men of known character, force and
talent can or should till.
Asking that no portion of its past, re
cord be forgotten by tne people, but re
ferring to it with pride, the Rephblicail
party, pointing to the State Administra
tion of Gov. Geary, which in less than
three years has reduced the State indebt
ness over t 5,000,000, and saved the tax
payers over 64,200,000 of the taxation on
real estate (doing away with taxation on
every foot of ground in the State), pre
sents as their candidate for Governor
John W. Geary, and for SuoremeJudge,
Henry W. Williams, in full-confidence
and hope that the voters of the State will,
by their triumphant election on Tuesday
next, ratify and reaffirm the principles
upon which the Grant administration
was last fall elected, and approve the ad
ministration of a faithful and honest
President. who in the first Idx months of
his official life, has, by economy and in.
tegrity, reduced the national debt . ove
$56,000,000.
Governor Geary's history for twenty
years past is well known to all. Occupy
ing in that time many places, civil and
military, of high responsibility and trust,
his conduct has met, as it has merited,-
the fall and unqualified approval of all
the people.-
It is hardly necessary to allude to
Judge Williams, the associate of Gov
ernor Geary on the Republican ticket.
His judicial career of sixteen years on
the bench of the District Court of this
county, and one year on the bench of the
•Supreme Court, constitute the record of
his fitness for the position for which he
has been nominated.- A young man
when he received at your hands, seven- _
teen years ago, his first nomination for
the District todrt. the Democracy of the
county thought enough of him to name
as his competitor the Nestor of the bar,
the late Judge Shaler, and when ten
years later be came before the people for {
a re-election, the unanimous vote Which
they accorded him evidenced the high
opinion which his opponents must have
entertained of his abilities and integrity
as a Judge.
The contest this year is one of special
moment to the people of Penney
Apart from the usual importance of the
Republicsns retaining the Governorship,
there is at this time a special important
in thesition in this, that the Legisla
ture of I po B7l will have the duty of appor
tioning and dividing Ihe State into Con
gressional and Legislative districts. This
duty occurs once every tenjears, and
the Governor to be elected will have
either to veto or approve such apportion-
ment. A majority of the counties of
this State are Democratic, and it la only
by extreme exertion on the part of the
Republican party that they can hope to
maintain the supremacy in the State Leg
islature. Should we fail in this this fall
and a Democratic Governor also be elect
ed, an unfair apportionment might be I
made, which would give to the Demo- i
cratic party two•thirds of the Congress
men of the State for years to come, as
well as such a majority of the Legisla-_
ture as would insure to that party both
United States Senators within tone years.
And the Supreme judge to be elected
will determine whatever of political as- ;
pact the Supreme Bench shall have for
fifteen years to come.
Allegheny county has made for herself
a record in past contests as the litanner
Republican county of the land. Since ;
the formation of the grand Republican i
party she has cast no uncertain vote. The
election of Tuesday next will go far to
determine the question of ' whether this
country shall again pass under Democrat
ic rule. Let the voice of the Republicans
of Alleghetly county, so potential here
toforejn'determining the result in Penn
sylvania, and so throughout the Union, ;
be again raised in affirmation of those
principles upon which our great party is
founded, and which for thirteen years
past by the banner county have been so
triumphantly ausOined.
By,order of.theUnion Republican Ex- •
ecutive Committee. • 1
W. S. PURVIANCE, •
WALTER S. MCCUNE,
COL. GEO. F. MORGAN,
TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF
ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
The Republican County Executive
CoMmittee respectfully submit the tol
lowing suggestions relative to the elec
tion on Tuesday next, and earnestly in- j
vite the attention of our friends through
out the county to them: • '
1. Bee that the polls are opened in
, every district at the earliest hour named
by law and that they are kept open until
the latest hour. The polls may be opened
between six and seven o'clock in the
morning and must be closed at seven in
the evening. If full Boards are not pres
ent ateight o'clock SaX. l see that the va
cancies are tilled and the polls opened at
nine o'clock A.
2. Poll the Republican vete as erg s as
'possible in every district, keeping an
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