ADDRESS
ABEL TUB,RELL
Delivered before the Tilden Reform Club,
of Montrose. and Bridgewater, Oche..
ber 2184 1876, and published in corn-
PlianCe with a Resolution adopted by
the Club, questing its publication in
the MONT'ROSE DEMOCRAT and .Nett.!
York World.
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FELLOW CITIZENS:-4 Aloi not stand
before you, entirely in the atitude of a
partisan ; and I di) noteaddress you as the
exclusive members of a single party,but ae
members of, our commoo, country, and as
citizens of the United States, having - an
unselfish and earnest desire for, the ad. .
vancement of the true interests and well
being of-the people composing this great
nation.. The subject I have chosen, is
one that deeply concerns you. It in
volves your nationallionor arid prosperity
as a nation. It-.affeCts-your •pecnniary
interests in every = point of - View. , To the
intelligent and thinking voter there is
butone controlling and parambunt ince to
be decided in this election and that is ad
ministrative reform. The tax payer, be
he capitalistanerchant,thinuftipturer,hard
working farmer, or industrious inechapie,
sill give his influence and cast his Vote
for that one of the two great parties which
he thinks most likely to bring us oack
to that honest and economical
_adminis
tration of national affairs ;which every
citizen has the right to demand and ex
pect. -
For sixteen years the RepubliCan party
has shaped the policy ind managed the
finances of the country, aud while it
boasts so loudly of it achievinente, it must
. also bear the blame and the pilium of its
failures and misfortunei.
What then is the recordlof this party,
and how much of the honorable part of
that record belongs to the Republican
party of to-day, which is now asking
another four years' lease of pnwer at. the.
hands of the people ? We may • divide
its history into two periods,—the first,-
beginningin 1860 with the
. election of ;
Lincoln and extended down to 4869
and the accession of Grarit. In that
period of eight years were accomplished I
and completed all those great unilertak
ings for which t'ne Republican party Was
org . aniz9d, and all those changes which
the new condition of things succeeding
the war and the peace imposed upon it.
When the amendrrients to the Constitu
tieftn were adopted, the states reennitruct
ed, and the rights of the negro guaran
teed, there seemed to be nothing left for
this great party to ac except to disband.
Its best men and its statesmen advised .
it; they said its usefulness was eulled
and.declared, that any party not bound
together by a principle, was dangerous
to the welfare of the country. Then
the bad and unscrupulous men •of the
party. like the great horde of sutlers
and 'plunderers who always follow in the
wake of
~ great •and succeEie fat armies,
13eized the favorable' opportunity, unit
tiLder the prestige of a great,,party name
and the overshadowing reputation of
miltary genius, fell upon the spoils of of
fice, and began an era of fraud, jobbery,
peculation, bribery, and official money
making, unparalleled in the history of
the country. This is the & , cond period•of
the Republican party, and it is o ;the
record of this period that it is arraiined
before the country. The, Republican
parts of this , period, is .no more the're
publican party of the eightiyeari before,
than that was the old Whig party of
years ago. The Lincolns, the Sewarsis,
the Chases, 'the • Greeleys, the Surnfiers,
and the Adamses, are either dead,or have
been thrust aside the Chandlers, the
Mortons, the .Logans, the Belknap?, the
BabeOcks,. the Shepherds, arid the like
'political turkey-buzzards of this carrion
period.
What single political principle; has
bound theme together for the last eight
Tears as compared with the former:per
iod, except the one of "addition, divisz -
Sm and silence,l) which was not a. mere
übterfuge and false pretext for a con.:
tinuanee of riotous rule ? Is the_ ques
tion of specie payments one ? 'Then
why have they not given tie specie pay=.
ments ? They have had unlimited and
unimpeded power for eight years' and
have done nothing except, to fix a. date
to coine in an administration not their
own, and that even without any system
of preparation. They voted down all hard
money resolutions in convention, and so
are committed to nothing, except to.spe
ci payments on Januazy Ist, 1879, pro
vided it should then happen to come
about of itself or be brought about by
democratio-,administration. The attempt
to put this forward as an issue in the
canvass is a failure, because it has alw3ys
bein one of,-the cardinal principles of
the democracy,while the republican party
created the "greenback," and never knew
anything else. The fixing of ir date was
only intended by them to tide the party
over the election,; otherwise - they would
have fixed it in their own administration,
and not left their successors to make the
preparations and take the hondr. They,
increased the volume of the currency by
sueeessiveinfkitions of paper money un
the country cried out with alarm, and
then in view of an approaching election,
fixed a remote day to. redeem, and.with
out making any preparation 'to show
their good faith. They offered w shadow
to the people for : thetubstince . and then
in face of such a :record, , and
„cedents, they claim: - lhat they favor hard
money, and that, the dernOorate do not,
and thus try`to raise an issue. But there
18 no issue for their claim,- and their pa
- Win was a false pretence, and they
abandoned it early in the campaign:,
Then they put' forward civil service re
form. -But, what is their record here ?
The idea was first-put forth by President
Grant in a Message to Congress,andthey
have advocated it in platform and prom
ises ever since. They have never given
us any real reform; but by their attempts
audlailures in 'a civil service commis
sion some years since,' they . have shown
either their inefficiency or want of sincer
ity, 'and 'did 'hothing more - than make
themselves ridiculous. What, then, are
their promises of civil service reform
worth in view of this persistent record
of , promises, and failures, followed' by a
wilful and.direct evasion and violatiOn of
the first law of Congress passed through
the influence of a democratic HoUse to
reform the civil service by , forbidding the
levying of 'assessments for put
poses ? The democratic patty by : this
law has struck the first effectual bhiw in
the civil service= question, and exposed
another ot.the false:pretence - it - of the re
pUblican party.
Arid where now is that great !ging
bear,. .the school queStion ?. Given place
to that ireater "bug-beat," the "bloody"
8114.0 And why ? Because they are
sincere in neither, and naturally choose
that "hue•-bear" which they' could make
moat effectual in the canvass. There
CAll be.no issue without opposition, and
as the democrats' did not oppose it, the
proposed constitutional amendment gli
ded quietly through the House. Not so
in the republican Senate ; here it "hung
fire," and nearly hung the party too, and
exposed another one of their false pre
tences and desperate tricks ; and since the
Senate discussion they have retired this
"feigned issue, " from the canvass.
, Whatever, ten, may be the preference
of individual voters on the questions of
local or centralized powers, which will
always behe universal dividinglifies of
parties un der onr form of government,
there is but one' paramount and control
li,ng issue in this campaign which the
democratic party presents to the country,
and that is the question of adminiqtr«-
fare reform.. To the charge of astound
ing and unparalleled corruption, 'the re
ptiblican party pleads by "confession and
avoidance." They edmit the wrong,—
.they admit ther*ceessity of a remedy.
Let us then address ourselves to the ques
tion, which of the , two parties is more
likely - to give us a remedy, -
We may accept it as - a cardinal princi
ple that no party is competent to do this
work, which makes- a dishonest compro n
mice, and° that every compromise with
fraud is necessarily dishonest. Wheh
Bristow, Cox, and Jewell, undertook the
work - of administrative reform, they, lost
their official heads. It. was not then the
polioy of the republican: party. Mr.
BristoW rallying about: hi ni his followers
in, the republican . party and raising the
standard of reform at Cincinnati, asked
the nomination at the bands of his par
ty. A. platform was adopted,--Grantism
was lauded,—corruption was ignored.—
Reform,'and Bristow, himself. as its em
bodiment were taeated with contempt,
Ind a man under charges of bribery,
which when opportunity offered,he failed
to disprove,*came within a few ballots of
a nomination. 'What; then did the Bris
tow reforthers, who hope so much, do ?
Did they insist on putting down the bad
men of their party and obtaining the
mastery, as honest men must .do. or re
fuse to have assficiatian with th'etn ? No!
They immedjiately entered into a corrupt
bargain with the Mortons, and the Cam
erons, and the worst men. Of the party to
defeat Men better even than their allies,
and having thus combined together with
the very men that they went there to de.; -
' feat, ou thd:' basis of a division of the
spoils, they come before the country with
iii inconsistent record, a cbrrupt bargain
and &dishonest compromise, and ask the
people to intrust this great business of
administrative reform, for another four
years to them, the very same party and
the ve , y same men who have brought all
these evils,about,because they have placed
an untried but honest man at the bow
fora figurehead. From the moment that
the refOrmers in the Republican party al
lied themselves with men ' who had
brought the necessity of reform about,
they 'incapacitated themselves and their
party, from effecting any true reform, and
left but one party to whom this business
ccuild be intrusted,, and that is the Dem
ocratic party, `andi those who choose to
unite with them oh this all-important is
, sue.
How then do they meet this issue ?
Having confessed to the cbarge,they , seek
to avoid the natural and logical result,by
appealing- to the passions engendered of
civil strife, Although eleven years have
elapsed since the South acknowledged it
self conquered, it seems still to rise up in
the visions of our Republican friends in
forms ten thousand times more horrid
than ever startled the greatest coward of
the Mirth in times of war. Their t own
reconstruction policy by which no state
could be re-admitted to the Union until
it. had adopted a constitution in accord•-'
mice with their notions, and 'chosen gov
ernments and officials approved by them,
We are now• told, are all a failure. The
system of iron-clad oaths and bills to re ,
move disabilities, by which no man south
of Mason and Dixon's line was to exer
cise the right of citizenship, which the
genius of their statesmanship has de
creed must be univeitsal, has beep so
loosely executed by their own administra•
Lions that they afford no guarAnteea.—
The amendments to the Constitution
which nobody is - disposed to gainsay are
to pass for : naught. Even "rebel" debts
barred bv amendment to that instrument
(for which Democrats hate always been
the conspicuous defenderOare to be paid,
THE DEMOCRAT, NOV: 1, 1876_
they, tell us, without even hinting at a\
possible motive, when- their own motive
for saying so is manikst in their desper
ate straits and extravagant . asiertious.—
And finally having 81X years'ago organ
izEd a commission for paying claims Of
*Union men whose property was taken
during the war, and having. theniftives
paid $4,000,000 of theui. out of $19,000,
000, of which bills for the payment of
$500,000 were passed by the late Repub
lican Congress, „.they now tell us that
these are all claims of "rebels." and that
the Democratic party will pay them all.
although a Democratic' House ha passed
bills lor the payment pf . only $72 ; 0,0a and
reported , Awer than any preceeding
House. It'; , ;inatters not that they ac
t the justice: or. soine.of these
chums by passing them and by organizing.
a commission to exatnine - them and that
the .kre berclai a' Ave re'prese tiled by' their.
invitation sit years .agd; it matters not_
that the, proposition from any body, of
men to add'to' the burdens'of a common
debt by increasing it. without purpose
and without motive is . absurd in : itself, if
the Stigma "rebel" ; and the , facile use,
of • falsehood 'can be .thUde to divert the
public mind irom their own lapses and
'short-comings. _is the old orj of
"Step ! thief !" most vociferousty raised.
by - the' thief hiiiiselt. •. .
Then they 'as'i•the people to look_upon
the. South—"the solid. -South''---made
.‘‘solid" by their own • misgovernment.--
They deprecate. sectional parties, forget
ting all, : the •A'hile, that the Democratic
party is the only national party, and that
they never have been anything else them
selves' than sectional. They point to
"SOutherii Outrages," forgetting that the
'outrages" t have always occurred in states
under their own special. domination- and
that the outrages chased as soon as the
states passed froni their control, 'as the
quiet and order of Arkansas, Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia to-day, War Wit
ness, while the only states in which they
even claim outrages- now to exist are
those of .South Carolina and Louisiana.
upon which the Republican heel.of•Cor
cuption and wro*stillrests.- And final- .
ly, having robbed the-white man of the
South; - -they.organized the Freedman 13U
.reau and Savings Bank, .and -robbed the
poor.negro, - and when he, too, folloWing
the instincts of human nature turns up
on them and makes common cause with
his old master, -we are told he is "intimi
dated ;" that the troops must be called
out, and that. the state governments
which are in their own .hands in South
Carolina and Louisiana are weak and in
efficient. The logic of admitted facts,
compared with their own statem4nts,show
themselves to be the .authorsof all the
wrongs of which they complain... •
Having thus examined seine of the
methods by which the Republican- party
seeks to warp the judgment which the
people will pass upon
.itaacts'on the .sev
.enth'sif 310VOnber, let. .• us - now see what
was the doctrine of the party in its pris
tine vigor,- before the- spoils of office and
the luxury of Omer had corrupted its
manhood and driven its statesmen' from
its ranks. In the Chicago Convention of
1860, the Committee on Resolutions, of
which our lamented townsman, the late
Judge Jessup, was chairman,reported the
following : •
Resolved,'6, "That the people justly
view with alarm the reckless extravagance
which pervades every department of the
Federal Government; that a- return to
rigid economy - and 'accountability is in
dispensable to arrest the systematic plun
der of the public treasury by favored par
tisaup, while the recent‘startling develop
ments of frauds and -corruptions at the
Federal Metropolis, show that an entire
change of administration is imperatively
demanded." -
'phis resolution was adopted, and after
sixteen years of servitude, the. Democrat=
is party hurls it back with tea-fold force
aid meaning.
From the World, various other sources,
public official documents, and my own
recollection, I glean the following sum
mary of a portion of the frauds,stealings,
embezzlements, pechlations, defalcations,
malfeasance, misfeasance, misdemeanors,
etc., that have been enacted during the
control of the Republican party;that is
asking for a montinuance of power to do
evil to the people, and financial good to
corrupt office-holdeis. As Hayes endors=
es the Grant administration, I ask, are
these planks in the platform On whicb be
is running for the office of President ?
The New York custom house frauds.
.llsurpation in Louisiana, •
The Credit Mobilier iniquity.
The Freedman's 'Savings Bank swin
dle'.
The• Navy Yard frauds.
The Secret Service swindle.
The Black Friday operations.
The Post Office straw bids.
The Emma Mine affair.
The Belknap Poetradership.
The "Boss" Shepherd affair.
The Safe Robbery conspiracy.,
" The Indian Ring robberies.
The San Domingo job.
The Venezuelean conspiracy.
The Soldiers' Gravestones' Inddings.
The Back Pay extortion. , •
The Bitheock revelations.
The Bristow and' Jewell renlovals.
The irregularities in the Navy Depart
men t.
The removal of Yaryan and Platt-, of
Washington. •
The retnivai of
..Henderson and Dyer,
of Missouri. ,
The Pension franda.
The, Sanborn contricele. '
The bankruptcy of the government fi
nancial agents. , .
The various frauds hy petty Vertl•
meat ageuts on the Treasuty :_gODepart-
ment.
The 155 Army Paymasters, who were
defaulters.;'and whose aggrAgate swind
lines amount to $768,000.
The extravagant expenditures of gov
ernment. . ,
A larger number of officers than the
public hilliness requires, and higher sala
ries paid than the _service is entitled or
the ability should command.
The. $5,600,000 stealings under the
name of defalcationg, and lost to the gov-
ernment since, 1869. -
Ateneral waste of the public monies
and other sources of national wealth.
The $65,000,000 cash. subsidies'in loan
of public credit to rlroad corporations ;
a siim.sufficient., 'have paid_ the expen
des- ol general resumption of specie pay
ments six yeara
The squandering,of the public domain
by giving to railroad quid•other corpora
tions and - monopolies, nearly 200,000,000
of acres of public lands. ,
Is it reasonable to suppose that the en-.
actors of
_these robberies, would assume
the disgraCe, without' Awing in the
gain? •
Since the close_of the war the Repilb
bean party adrninietrations have collect
ed in taxes-from ,the people about $4,500,-
000,000., „With this money they have-re
duced the- national debt only about $700,-
000,000- from its original or highest
amount: This leaves $;800;009,000 that
have been expended fur other purposes—
a vast amouritexceeding by $800,030,-
060 the original amount of the 'national
debt. Out -of this, of course, it was
proper to pace all necessary,judicious and
legitimate expenses, bat the expenditures
have been characterized by general ex
travagance and waste.
Of the honest men Of the Republican
party, I alk,what will you do ? Will you
endorse these wrongs by voting for
-Hayes ? Or 'will you free' yoorselves
this thraldom, and show to . yOur fel
;low men, that your country is dearer to.
-you,.than mere party ties ? The times
imperatively demand that, all good citi
zens. without distinction of party, unite
in this patriotic effort to establisn public
virtue and "goud government. I ask no
man to shoulder hie musket to defend his
country from the ravages 'of political
.wrong doers ; but: I do ask every man,
competent, to do it with the peaceful
weapon of the ballot. .
It' the Republican party ot- the present
day have any principles ,
_ the most proin
inent appear to: be ; slander of private
character ; deceit ; and any thing than
will fool the people into the error of giv
ing them another lease of power; and re
viving the war issues that were long
since settled. By the latter they do all in
their power to keep alive the strive and
hatred engendered by the war, to contin
ue the array of the
_North against, the
South,. until they produce another war.—
Who then are disloyal ? Who then are
rebels ? .Are they not. these fomenters ,of
sectional strife and petit treason?
Perhaps the office holders of the Grant
administration are beyond enumeration ;
but I have seen them estimated at from
80,000 to 100,000., Add to these their
relatives and friends, which make a large
rorce of men, women and children, to
.thiow their influence in favor of elect
ing a* republican president. These men
have contributed their money, and the
office holders have paid assessments on
their salaries, and a vast , amount of mon
ey has been raised to expend in , this cam
paign. -They first thought the surest way
to retain their positions would be to run
Grant for a. third term. They sounded
public opinion, and found this too.bitter
a pill for the honest men of their party,
and so they concl9ded to sugar-coatit, by
n ating Hayes and Wheeler. The
Co )n that nominated them placed
a p the pfaiform, highly approv
ing -o - Grant administration and
these candidates in their letters of accep
tance endorse the platform. Thus Hayes
and Wheeler, are fairly and squarely be
fore the people, as the lineal descent can
didates of the Grant administration. By
the election of these candidates, the cor
rupt- office ,holders of the Republican par
ty hope to retain office, with a few chang
es of their positions, another four years.
They have expended their time and mon
ey, and are still doing so, to effect their
election ; and it: elected, they cannot
shake off these corrupt men. _ The pout
ice! machine will continue- to run as be
fore, lubricated by fraud and corruption.
The corrupt men of the' Republican par-
ty, have selected Hayes, as their King
Bee, of the Republican Ilive,'and if he
rebel or , betray them, they will sting him
- to death I
In the person Of Samuel J..tilden,you
have a.candidate for the Presidency, ev
ery way worthy of your - support ;- a
statesman of the - first dela, and eminent
ly - qualified for the position. He is a
praetical reformer, as shown by his acts,
since be has been Governor of the State
of New York. He is a man that will do
the people honor, as the chief ruler, and
in point of statesmanship, place this na
tion in the front rank , among the nations
of the world.
In a speech , at Germantown Forney
said :
"I found in addressing a meeting in
my native city of
.Laneaster last night,
that there was a deep, earnest thought
pervading the people themselve,s."
He forgot to say that his native city is
pervaded with a-delep, earnest _wonder
why the *publican' - states central corn r
inittee allows :a man to stump the state
for them who -is, charged•-witif having' a
$25,000 bribe in his'pooket.—;Lisn;6astet
Inielligencer.
Vote for_ joseo6:j)o*oll.foi,,CO4roi;
Business bards.
L S. - POTTER; DENTIST,. SHES
• to inform the people of. Montrose and Vicinity,
that he is ermanently located; in tbe 'second story of E
P. Stamp ' mew building; opposite Cooper's Bank.
kinds of Dental Work done in the best manner. -
N. 8.--Nitrone Oxide, Laughing Gass, given for the
painless extraction of teeth.
. Montrose, April.sth,lB76.—tf
BACON, WILL IIEREAFTER
• furnish the citizens of Montrose and Vicinity,
with lirst;class Bread, Bascuit, Rolls Piet, Cakes and
Cookies, Tarts, &c.. &c ., &c. Parties and Weddings
supplied, and quality guaranteed. slll"Dining Rooms
np stairs, where Geo. Canis will be fount* ready toe t.
le o the cravings of the inner man.
Montrose, May 8d.1876.
CENTENNIAL BARBER SHOP!
• Call and sec your old citizen and barber—over H.
J.:Webb's store, where you can , get shaving and:bair
cutting done in the most approved manner and on short
notice. ' ' __ . .Enos . L. B. WILLIAMS.
Montrose, Sept. 6,11376mG.
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Alllands of_machinery made, or furnished to or
der. Repairing promptly attended to. •
SHULTZ.
New Milford, May 27.1616.-4 y„,
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M. A. CROSSMON, ATTORNEY
- at Law. Office over the First Nation
Bank, Montrose,Pa; • • W. A. CROSIMON.
Montrose. April 19; 18711.—tt.
SWILT MAR & CO.; FIRST NA
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Dry Goods, Clotiilng,Millinery Goode, Boma t Shoes
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Aug. 280.876.-ti . -.
Banking, &c.
BANKING HOUSE
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MONTROSE, PA.
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL
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DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EX-
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UNITED STATES .& OTHER BONDS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
COUPONS AND CITY AN-DCOUNTY
BANK CHECKS CASHED. AS
USUAL. '
OCEAN STEAMER PASSAGE TICK
ETS TO AND FROM EUROPE.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL
TIME DEPOSITS, AS ' - PER AGREE
MENT WHEN THE DEPOS
IT. IS MADE.
In the future, as in the past, we:shall.endeai
or to transact all money business to the satis
faction of our patrons and coriesponderits.
WM. H. COOPEU & CO., .
; • Montrose, March 10 !75.--tf. Bankers.
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CULTURAL WORKS,
Having been reorganised under the firm, name, and
.t style of Susquehanna County Agricultural
Workis, limited,
R.JRWETT, Prea ; W.H.COOPER, Treas,,
D. SAYRE,. Secretary. '
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Are now prepared to furnish, on abort notice,
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*tattonarg . 6 inc
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, TURBINE
WATER WHEELS.,
And do all kinds of mill and job work promptly and
satisfactorily; at low rates. We manalitcture and have
on hand a tame assortment of
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