BUTLER CITIZEN.
JOHN H. 4 W. C. NE6LEY. PROP'RS.
Entered at the Postoffice at Butler as
second-classs matter.
fiepublioan National Ticket,
FOR PRESIDENT, 1880,
GEN. JAMES A. GARFIELD,
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FOR VICE PRESIDENT. 1880,
HON. CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
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Republican State Nominations.
FOR JUDGE BUPREME COURT,
Hon. Henry Green,
OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
Hon. John A. Lemon,
OF BLAIB COUNTY.
Republican Gonnty Nominations.
Congress.
J. D. MOJ UNION, BaQ-. of Butler County.
Senate.
JOHN M. GREER, ESQ., of Butler borough.
(Subject to the District Conference )
Assembly.
WILLIAM P. BRAHAM. of Mercer township.
SYLVEBTEB D. BELL, of MiUoretowu borough.
District Attorney.
A. M. CUNNINGHAM, ESQ., of Butler borough.
.Associate Judge.
ABRAHAM MoCANDLESS, of Butler township.
County Snrveyor.
NATHAN M. BLATOR. of Butler borough.
ATTENTION is directed to the articles
from papers in other counties of this
Congressional district sustaining the
nomination of Mr. McJunkin.
"J. J. P.," writing to the Bradford
Era from Millerstown, very success
fully contradicts "J. 1.," of Mercer, in
the same paper, on some of the mate
rial facts attending the Mercer Confer
ence.
THE Eagle, of last week, puts words
into the month of Senator Roberts, at
Mercer, that never were spoken by him
and that ar6 false. It's attempt at wit
is dealing in an article it does not pos
sess, and amuses itself only.
As THERE was quite a demand last
week for the Proceedings of the Mer
cer Congressional Conference, we re
publish them on our first page this
week. Their accuracy and correctness
has not been called in question from
any quarter.
WE do not see how the Crawford
Journal reconciles it with truth, when
it says "The first evening (at Mercer)
passed without any organization being
perfected." It must know that an or
ganization of conferees appearing there
was effected on the first evening, the
designated time.
To* THE Mercer Dispatch and the
Meadville Journal and Republican
we make the proposition, that if they
publish the proceedings of the Mercer
Conlerence as found in this paper we
will publish their accounts of the same,
each party at liberty to make any com
ments as to the same.
THX Butler Eagle, apparently ed
ited by a son of Mr. Tbomas Robinson,
but really by himself, is the only pa
per in Bntler county, outside of the
Democratic papers, that is opposing
the election of Mr. McJunkin to Con
gress. Reason: Robinson was de
feated by him for the nomination.
A WKITEB from Petrolia to the Ti
tus ville Morning Herald, of the 15th
inst., puts the late contest for the Con
gressional nomination in this county as
follows: "Dick ran in Crawford and
Robinson, as his tail, in Butler; both
head and tail got chopped off be«nti
fully, and they are making a terrible
stench."
"FBOM their decision I never take
an appeal." Thus said Thomas Rob
inson in the Eagle of May 19th last,
in speaking of the then coming Repub
lican primary election. How has it
been since ? lie has been taking 'an
appeal' from the decision of the pri
mary ever since his defeat at the same.
Consistant and honorable fellow that!
ROBINSON, the bolter, is still trying
to make more trouble in the Republi
can party of this county. Six defeats
of him by the party at the primaries',
since his celebrated vote at Harrisburg
on the repeal of the "tonnage tax" law,
do not appear to let him know that the
people do not further desire bis services
as a legislator. How many will it take
to satisfy him of that fact ?
ME. BENJAMIN NIBLOCK, formerly
of tbis place and well known to many
of our citizens, died at Youngstown,
Ohio, on the 10th inst., of cancer in
the stomach and aged about 10 years.
He was a man of great energy and bad
much to do with the inception of the
Sbenango and Allegheny Railroad
that passes through the Northern end
of tbis county, and also in the organ
ization of the Mercer Mining and
Manufacturing Company connected
therewith.
THE CAMPBELLS OF *CONOORD.
According to the return made by
the census enumerator of Concord
township, this county, our citizens
there of the name of Campbell num
ber one hundred and nineteen. Of
these, thirty-four are voters and all, we
believe, voting the Republican ticket.
There are also many of that name in
Washington, Pairview and Parker
townships, making it the most exten
sive name no doubt in this county.
These people are also among the very
,best of the citizens of the county.
CONGRESS IN THIS DISTRICT.
i Mr. McJunkin's Nomination at Mer
cer Regular—The Causes that
led to it Fully and Fairly Sta
ted and an Answer to the
Same Challenged.
Last week we contented ourselves in
giving the proceedings of the Congres
sional Conferees, called to meet at Mer
cer at 7 o'clock, on the evening of July
6th. We propose now to defend and
justify tie action of the Conference then
and there organized, and that resulted
in the nomination of Mr. McJunkin of
this county. This we do from the fact
that some papers in the district are ap
parently suppressing from their readers
some important facts that they should
give, and that ought to be known. For
instance, we take the account given in
the Mercer Dispatch of the 9th inst.,
which we will here say is pretty fair
and correct in some of its statements,
but wholly incorrect in others and
withholding important parts. From it
alone we can base our statement justi
fying the action taken and the nomina
tion made. We quote from it as follows:
"Shortly after the hour of seven o'-
clock, Messrs. Miller and McJunkin,
with their conferees, held an informal
meeting to determine the possibility of
securing an amicable adjustment of the
difficulties, and after a free interchange
of opinion, separated with the under
standing that they (Messrs. Miller and
McJunkin) should call upon Messrs.
Dick and Roberts, and if they could get
the consent of both to submit their cas
es to the conferees of Miller and McJun
kin, then the said conferees should meet
at room No. 11 and organize the con
ference, and thereupon hear and deter
mine the rights of the Crawford county
candidates to a voice in the future ac
tion of the conference."
Now, in the first place, it was just
about the hour of 1 o'clock when Mr
Miller, with his conferees, appeared in
the room that he and Mr. McJunkin
had agreed upon, to wit: room No. 11
of the hotel at which all parties had gen
erally stopped. The Dispatch states
that it was an "informal meeting," and
so we believe Mr. McJunkin was con
strained by Mr. Miller to so treat it for
the time, but not to be treated in so
"informal" a manner as Mr. Miller af
terwards did, and in which he made
his great mistake, as we will show.
The Dispatch then says that "after a
free interchange of opinion they (Mil
ler and McJunkin conferees) separated,
with the understanding they (Miller
and McJunkin) would call upon Dick
and Roberts, get their consent to sub
mit their cases to their conferees, and
then their conferees to meet again at
room No. 11 and organize the Confer
ence" Now, this statement, while
making important admissions, is yet
quite wide of the real facts as they oc
curred. The fact is, that after a talk of
about an hour and a half, in which Mr.
Miller's demand was the immediate
admission of the Dick conferees from
Crawford county as the conferees of
that county and to compose a part and
parcel of that meeting before organiz
ing it, and which demand was resisted
by the Butler conferees as a dishonor
able violation of the agreement under
which all the Crawford and other par
ties had assembled there, and a pre
judging of the Crawford case in advance,
without evidence, that then did Mr.
Miller say, in about these words, "that
he wished to have a consultation with
his conferees," and thereupon rose and
asked them to retire with him, which
they did. In answer to a question of
the Butler conferees, as to "how long
they would probably be absent," his
exact answer was, "we will return
shortly." And this is the manner Mr
Miller and his conferees "separated"
from the Butler conferees, who he had
agreed to meet and did, thus far, meet
with. Neither he or his conferees ever
did return to that room. Although he
said they were retiring for "consulta
tion," and would return, yet they never
did return. We are particular in stat
ing this, as upon this fact is based the
action subsequently taken by the But
ler conferees towards organizing the
Conference had. As to the statement
that he (Miller) "separated" from the
Butler conferees for the purpose of
a further calling upon the Dick and
Roberts parties of Crawford, it is not
correct, but is disproved by his own
language and all the facts. The posi
tion of both Dick and Roberts was well
understood—had been told a hundred
times by both during the previous af
ternoon—had been asserted by Mr..
Miller himself over and over again be
fore his own and the Butler conferees
in their meeting, and to the effect that
Dick refused and Senator Roberts as
sented to the Mercer and Butler con
ferees hearing and disposing of their
case, as to which should be admitted
in the Conference.
The Butler conferees finding them
selves thus "separated" from by the
Mercer conferees, and this done contra
ry to the agreement made between their
candidates, the question then arose with
them as to their rights and proper ac
tion. On due consideration they re
solved that their county should not be
treated in that manner ; that they were
the peers of the Mercer conferees ; that
an agreement upon a Conference could
not be broken up in that style, for what
ever purpose; that where two had
made an agreement it was an old max
im that said it took two to break it;
that therefore the action of the Mercer
conferees did not destroy the rights of
the Butler conferees, but did forfeit or
waive the rights of Mercer county in
that meeting. By Mercer withdrawing
as they did, it will be clear to every
disinterested mind, they waived their
rights then and there and left the But
ler conferees in possession of the place
of meeting. But, to make their posi
tion still more strong and clear, the
fKJpt H»U*xr : Mullec, P«. t 3wl» 2t» TSSO.
Butler conferees sent a note, the same
evening, and while vet remaining in
the same room, and as speedily as th« i y
could prepare it, to Mr. Miller, asking
him to return, and that they wore re
maining there for the purpose of com
; pleting an organization for the nomina
tion of a candidate for Congress. This
letter the Dispatch does not give in its
account—no doubt unintentionally on
the part of its gentlemanly editor. Mr.
Miller made no reply to that letter.
After waiting a reasonable time on him
to return with his conferees, and find
ing he would not, then the Butler con
ferees, as the next proper step, address
ed a note to Messrs. Dick and Roberts,
inviting them to come and make known
their claims to an admission. Had the
Butler conferees not a right to do so ?
Crawford was the only other county
and was in serious trouble and dispute.
Mercer had abandoued the meeting
agreed upon. But that did not blot out
the meeting, or send the rights of But
ler into thin air. So their step in calling
the Crawford parties for a hearing was
right and proper. The Dick party re
fused to appear. The Roberts party
respected the invitation and he with
his conferees.—three gentlemen in every
sense—did appear and laid their cre
dentials, papers and proofs before the
meeting, which were duly examined,
and no one appearing to dispute or op
pose them, they were recognized as the
conferees from Crawford county. The
Dispatch is greatly in error when it
says Dick had not this notice. The
Conference then organized, as stated
in the official published proceedings.
And, be it noted, all this occurred on
the same evening, commencing at the
hour agreed upon and in the place
agreed upon with Mr. Miller, and con
tinuing to the end of the organization.
It is error and injustice to say that the
Butler conferees had any meeting with
the conferees of Senator Roberts pre
vious to the o»e above stated. They
met with them in the only manner con
sistent with the rights of themselves
and all there present at Mercer, and all
of whom came there out of respect to
the notice from Messrs. Miller and Mc-
Junkin. Dick and Roberts and their
conferees coming on that notice and
appearing there, how then could either
of them, at that time, deny the right of
Messrs. Miller and McJunkin to notify
them to come? It was too late for that.
The fact was they respected said notice
and were there present, thus admitting
the action of the Mercer and Butler
candidates to have been the proper ar,d
right course. They did not go to Mer
cer to stand around and look at one an
other. All went there for the business
of nominating a candidate for Congress
in the 20th district. Organization of a
Conference was the first thing nocessa*
ry for that purpose, and the one organ
ized by the Butler and Crawford confer
ees was the only one organized. It em
braced more than half of the district,
as appeared by the vote of the prima
ries. And no other Conference being
then and there organized, how could
there be an adjournment of any other
one ? That is a misnomer. No-body
car. adjourn properly without being
first organized. And hence those un
organized conferees that agreed to meet
at Greenville on August 5, did so on
their own account only and bind only
themselves and no others. They (Mil
ler and Dick) well knew of the organ
ization effected, and effected at the
proper time too, and they were unable
to effect any other organization, or at
least did not. All that go to Green
ville therefore are simply bolters. A
nomination for Congress has been made
and is binding upon every county and
Republican in the district, for the rea
sons above given. If they are not
sound or sufficient, the way out of the
difficulty and danger will not be for a
part to agree among themselves to go
to Greenville or elsewhere aud make a
second nomination. That will but com
plicate the situation, and if done, upon !
those who do it ought and will rest the
responsibility for the consequences.
And to the facts above stated we
challenge any successful contradiction, '
THE NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS.
The Independent Press, of Frank- j
lin, Venango couuty, of the 15th inst.,
an able and influential Republican pa- j
per, thus speaks of the nomination of!
David McJunkin, Esq., for Congress
in this district, at the Mercer Confer
ence :
"Mr. McJunkin formerly practiced
law in Franklin aud represented Ve- ;
nango three terms in the State Legis- !
lature. He is a man of ability aud !
character, who would be sure to make
a valuable member of Congress. It is
to be regretted that so unpleasant a
I row should have occurred in the dis
trict, the consequence of which can
not now be foreseen, but we trust a
peaceful decision will be reached and
perfect harmony restored."
There was no particular or unpleas
ant occurrence at Mercer in making
the nomination of Mr. McJunkin. He
was regularly and fairly nominated by
the only conference there organized,
and his nomination is therefore binding
upon every county and Republican in
the district. If some did not partici
pate in the conference, that was their
fault, and not that of those conferees
who went there for business aud not
for play. No other conference being or
ganized there was no power in any
part of the conferees to make an ad
journment. An adjournment of any
body of any kind implies organiza
tion first, and can only be made after
an organization, and this is the first
instance of the kind to the contrary
that ever we recollect of. Who and
what was adjourned? Certain unor
ganized parts or parties can disperse
themselves to meet at anothor time
and piece, but that is not an adjourn
ment of a body previously agreed upon.
They are simply bolters or disorgan
izes. And therefore it follows as a
logical consequence that any second
nomination made for this district at
Greenville, on August 5, will be made
iu this irregular and disorganized man
ner, aud upon those who make such
second nomination must rest all of the
responsibility for any disaster that
may follow. We sincerely hope that
wiser counsels will prevail before any
such step is taken.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
The following, bearing upon the Re
publican Congressional Conference at
Mercer, we find in some of the leading
Republican papers of this district. We
have only room to give extracts. The
account given by the Mercer Index of
the 14th, is the fairest and fullest of
any we have seen, and reflects credit
upon its editor, Mr. Braggins. We do
not agree with it in some of its conclu
sions and hope it may change the
same. But the following extract from
its account controls the whole question,
and is the judgment also of others
having similar experience iu political
matters. The Index says:
"It was a mistake iu not organizing
a conference of the Mercer aud Butler
conferees, thus putting the Crawford
claimants on a level, hearing the evi
dence and arguments, and deciding
which was in equity entitled to sit.
Their case was so evenly balanced
lhatcaudid and imnartial men, after ex
amining both sides are in doubt or di
vided, and neither should have had
the advantage which a preliminary rec
ognition would have given.
Mr. Dick, if conscious of his right,
made a mistake in not assenting to
such an adjustment."
The Butler conferees were willing to
act as above if it took six weeks. They
also proposed to admit both sets from j
Crawford county, with a full or a half
vote each, as Mercer might determine.
Failing in that offer, they had the
right to organize as they did, even
with a contestant, after pursuing the
course they did, as narrated in the pro
ceedings of the conference.
The Greenville, Mercer county, Ad
vance-Argus, also treats the question
fairly. Its editor, Mr. Brown, ii a gen
tleman always and wants nothing but
what is right. He cannot fail to see
however why the candidate of Mercer
did not get the nomination, and how a
smart chap put his foot'into it right at
the outstart of the conference at Mer
cer.
The Coqripautyille Courier, Craw
ford county, also treats the matter
fairly. What it says as to the mythical
nature of the pretender from this coun
ty, and his, Robinson's contest, and
his appearance at Mercer with three
ludividijalF as conferees, and the mer
ited treatment they received there, is
all true, and we may find space for it
in our next.
The Meadville Index of the 14th
inst., comes to us with an ab}e artjele
on the Congressional nomination as
follows:
THE MERCER CONFERENCE.
Quite a number of Republican par
tizans from the county attended the
Conference at Mercer last week. All
the afternoon of Tuesday and the even
ing of that day were spent in prepar
ing for battle. Our "special reporter
upon the spot" informs as that all ma
noeuvering, charging and counter
charging was of the most orderly, pa
eifio, yet resolute character.
The notice that had been given out
here, shortly before the Conference
met, to the effect that there would be a
set of Butler county conferees at the
Conference, contesting the seats of Mr.
McJunkin, vanished into the air. It is
said that the Dick men from Crawford
county had endeavored to have the
weight of McJunkin's conferees to
seats contested, so that the Mercer con
ferees would compose a sort of "Ilmu
JOINT COMMISSION," to pass upon the
contestants from both Crawford and
Butler county, when Mercer conferees i
would in ell probability Jet in the llobin»:
son-Dick delegates from Butler county, j
I and the Dick conferees from Crawford i
county ; but when the matter was sim- j
| mered down, no ground of contest!
| against McJunkin's conferees was!
found to exist, save a notice served by j
S Mr Robinson upon the chairman of the
Butler return judges' Convention,
some weeks after its adjournment, that
he, Mr. McJunkin's competitor at the
j primary election, desired a reassem
bling of the County Convention of
I judges to reconsider its late action.
Such a scheme failing in double
| seating the Butler representation in the
Conference, it is claimed by some that i
the Dick men desired the delay of a j
month for further manoeuvering in But- j
ler, hoping in that time to get up a '
| contest from Butler, so that Mercer |
| should become sole arbiter in theprem- J
| ises, admitting those who were in sym- ;
! pathy with Mr. Miller's plans, and j
then Crawford, the large county, j
would have been chained, as far as the
Conference could have bound her, to
the unfair and disreputable conduct
that characterizes the late convention
of return judges in Crawford county.
The Republioaus of this county and !
the entire district may thank Mr. Mc-
Junkin and his three conferees for their
integrity and firmness which alone '
saved them from the humility and j
party disaster that wonld have inevi
table followed in a recognition and en
dorsement of the partial, unfair, un- 1
warranted and unjustifiable ruling and '
conduct 6f the presiding officer of the !
late Republican convention in this 1
county. When Mercer refused to sit 1
down with Butler and pass upon the 1 1
credentials, rights and claims of the j 1
Crawford county conferees, it would !'
seem that nothing was left for Butler's | f
conferees but to give notice to both 1
parties from Crawford county claim. (
ing seats in tho Conference, which '
they did, and it is claimed by the
Roberts men that as nothing had been J
said or done by the Butler conferees to 1
indicate that any fear, favor or affec- 1
tion would be shown to either or any, I
that tho Dick men feared and shirked (
an investigation by an impartial tribu-
nal, while the Roberts conferees pre
sented their credentials, were ac- .
cepted, and took their seats in the i
Conference; whereupon the nomina
tion of Mr. McJunkin soon followed.
The Miller and Dick wing of the
district hiving m ide no organization,
postponed all action until the sth of
Augu t, and agreed to meet at Green
ville on that day at the Fell House.
It now remains to be seen whether
they will take the responsibility of
placing a second candidate iu the field,
or whether they will, in the interest of
the organization, and to secure har
mony and consequent success in No
vember, adopt and ratify the nomina
tion of Mr. McJunkiu, against whose
character, ability, or Republicanism, it
is admitted by all, that notLingcan in
truth be said.— Meadville Index, July
14.
MERCER'S MISTAKE.
"The duty of the conferees of Mer
cer and Butler was plain and could
not be honestly mistaken. They
should have organized the conference
composed of their number of six, for
thej r had been appointed by their re
spective counties in a manner unmis
takable. Once organized they should
have given notice to Mr. Dick and
Roberts, who their candidates, Mr.
McJunkin and Miller, had notified of
the time and place of meeting, to ap
pear and present their cases and claims
for a seat in the conference. That
done, both Dick and Roberts would
have been heard and, after hearing,
the six conferees from Butler and Mer
cer should have by a majority vote
decided \\ ho in their judgment should
be entitled to admittance, which would
have admitted one set and rejected the
other, and then nothing would have
remained for the conference so organ
ized but to place la nomination a can-,
didate by a majority of the nine con
ferees. The Mercer conferees made a
mistake when they insisted upon Mr.
Dick's conferees haviug any higher
seats in the conference than the Rob
erts conferees during the investiga
tion before tho Mercer and Butler eon
feiees, who were the legal triers of the
dispute between tlje two gyj of con
feree? that appeared from Crawford ;
and Butler was right in insisting that
each set from Crawford should come
before the Butler and Mercer conferees
upon equal footing, and present their
claims, when nothing would remain
for the six conferees from Butler and
Mercer to do but to decide upon the
merits of the claimants, and admit
those that in their judgment were best
entitled, uuder all the evidence, to
seats in the conference.
For the course we have pointed out,
and which was adopted by Butler,
there is precedent, but for ?.Jerper's
claim there Is uoue."— Titusville
Herald, Jnhj 15.
Other papers in the district are now
speaking out in favor of Mr. McJun
kin. The Petroleum World has chang
ed and now supports him. Before an
other week we believe it will be found
that a majority of the Republican and
independent pi-e&a of the district will
be found in his support.
GEN. GARFIELD ACCEPTS.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES HIS
METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION.
Qljio, July IS iieucral
Garlield has forwarded to Senator
Hoar the following lette- of acceptance
of the nomination tendered him by the
Republican National Convention:
MENTOR, July 10.— Dear Sir: On
pyening of the Stii of June last 1
had the honor to receive from you, in
presence of the committee of which you
were chairman, the official announce
ment that the Republican National
Convention, at Chicago, had that day
nominated me for their candidate for
President of Uie Utjit-d it ate-. I ac*
cept the nomination with gratitude for
the confidence it implies, and with
deep sense of the responsibilities it
imposes. I cordially endorse the prin
ciples set forth in the platform adopted
by the convention on nearly all the
subjects of whidi it treato. My r-pin
ions are on record among the published
proceedings of Congress. I venture,
however, to make special mention of
some of the principal topics which are
likely to become subjects of discussion,
without renewing the controversies
which have been settled during the
lu*t twenty yes: l * a"i<l with n > purpose
or wish to revive the passions of the
late war.
A SOUND PLATFviRM.
It should be said that while Itcpub
licans fully recognize and will streuu
| ously defend all the rights retained by
j the people and ail the rights reserved
I to the States, they reject the pernicious
! doctrine of State supremacy which so
i long crippled the functions of the Xa-
I tional Government and at one time
brought the Union very near to des
truction. They insist that the United
States i* a nation with ample power
of self preservation; that its constitu
tion and laws made in pursuance
thereof are the supreme law of the
land ; that the right of the nation to
determine the method by which its
own legislature shall be created cannot
be surrendered without abdicating
one of the fundamental powers of the
Government; that the National laws
relating to the election of representa
tives in Congress shall neither be
violated nor evaded ; that every elec
tor shall be permitted freely aud with
out intimidation to cast his lawful bal
lot at such election and have it hon
estly counted, and that the potency of
his vote shall not be destroyed by the
fraudulent vote of any other person.
The best thoughts and energies of our
people should be directed to those
great questions of national well being
in which all have a common interest.
Bueh efforts will soonest restore per,
feet peace to those who were lately in
arms against each other, for justice
and good-will will outlast passion;
but it is certain that the wounds of the
war cannot be completely healed and
the spirit of brotherhood cannot fully
pervade the whole country until every
citizen, rich or poor, white or black,
is secure in the free and equal enjoy
ment of every civil and political right
guaranteed by the Constitution and
the laws. Wherever the free and
equal enjoyment of this right is not as
sured discontent will prevail, immigra
tion will cease and the social and in
dustrial forces will continue to be dis
turbed by the migration of laborers
and diminution of prosperity. The
National Government should exercise
all its constitutional authority to put
an end to these evils, for all the peo
ple and all the States are members of
one body, and no member can suffer .
Without injury to all.
THE SOUTHERN TROUBLES.
The most serious evils which now
afflict the south, ariso from the fact
that there is not such freedom and to'-
eration of political opinion and action
that the minority party can exercise
an effective and wholesome restrain
! upon the party in power. Without!
j such restraint the party rule becomes ]
tyrannical and corrupt. The prosper- 1
ity which is made possible in the
South liy its great advantages of soil
and climate, will never be realized
until every voter can freely and safely
support any party he pleases.
POPULAR EDUCATION.
Next in importance to freedom and
justice is popular education, without
which neither justice nor freedom can
be permanently maintained. Its in
terests are entrusted to the States and
the voluntary action of the people.
Whatever help the nation can justly
afford should be generously given to
aid the States in supporting the com
mon schools, but it would be uujust to
our people and dangerous to our insti
tutions to apply any portion of the rev
enues of the nation or of the States to
the support of sectarian schools. The
separation of the Church and the State
in everything relating to taxation
should be absolute.
THE FINANCE 3.
On the subject of national finances
my views have been so frequently and
so fully expressed that little is needed
in the way of any additional statement.
The public debt is now go well se
, cured and the rate of annual interest
has hcen so reduced by refunding that
I rigid economy in expenditures, and the
, faithful application of our surplus rev*
[ enues to the payment of the prinolpal
of the debt, will gradually, hut cer
tainly, free tho people from its burdens
an<l close with honor the financial
chapter of the war, at tie same time
the Government can provide for all its
ordinary expenditures and discharge
its sacred obligations to the soldiers of
the Union and to widows and orphans
of those who fell. The resumption of
specie payments, which the Rppybli
can QQ courageously and success
, fully u; oompilshed, has removed from
the field of controversy many questions
that long and seriously disturbed the
credit of the Government and the busi
ness of the country. Our paper cour
rency is now as national as the
aud resumptioq UQt v»My made it
everywhere equal to coin, but it has
brought into use our stores of gold and
silver. The circulating medium is
more abundant than every before, and
we need only to maintain equality of
all our dollars to insure labof
capital, d measure p.f yahm irom the
use of which na one can suffer loss.
, The great prosperity which the coun
try Is now enjoying should not be en
dangered by any violent changes, .or
doubtful financial experiments. *
THE TARIFF.
In reference to our customs laws, a
policy should be pursued which will
bring revenues to the Treasury and
will enable the laborer antj capital em
ployed our great industries to com
pete fairly in our own markets with
the labor and capital of foreign producers.
We legislate for the people of the
United States, not for the whole world,
, and it is our glory that the American
laborer is more intelligent 3Ud Miter
paid thuu his foreign competitor. Our
couutry cannot be independent unless
its people, with their abundant natural
resources, posseses the requisite skill
at any time to clothe, arm and equip
themselves for and ia time of
ptaiie to produce all necessary imple
ments of labor. It was the manifest in
tention of the founders of the Govern
ment to provide for common defense,
not by standing armies alone, but by
raising among the people a greater
army of artisans whose
ar}<} should powerfully contribute
to the safety and glory of the nation.
CHEAP INTERNAL TRANSPORTATION.
Fortunately for the interests of
commerce there is no longer any form
idable opposition to appropriations fo,r
the improvement of our harbors and
great navigable rivers, provided that
the expenditures for that purpose are
strictly limited to works of national im
portance. The Mississippi river, with
its great tributaries, is of such vital
importance to so many millions of peo
ple that the safety of its navigation re
quires exceptional cuasideraiion. In
order to secure to the nation control of
all its waters, President Jefferson ne
gotiated the purchase of a vast terri
tory extending from the Gulf of Mex
ico to the Pacific ocean. The wisdom
of Congress should be invoked to de
vise some plan by which tho great
river shall cease to be a terror to those
who dwell upon its banks and by which
its shipping may safely carry the in
dustrial products of twenty-five mil
lions of people. The interests of agri
culture. which is the basis of all our
material prosperity and in which sev
en-twelfths or our population are en
gaged, as well as the interests of man
ufacture and commerce demand that
facilities for cheap transportation shall
be increased by the use of all our great
water courses.
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
Tho material interests of this coun
try, the traditions of settlement and
sentiment of our people, have led the
Government to offer the widest hospi
tality to emigrants who seek our
shores for new and happy. homes,
willing to share the burdens as well
as the benefits of our society and in
tending that their posterity shall bc<
ooine an undistinguishable part of our
population. The recent move of the
Chinese to our Pacific coast partakes
but little of the qualities of such an
emigration either in its purposes or its
result. It is too much like an importa
tion to be welcomed without restric
tion ; too much like an Invasion to be
looked upon without solicitude. We
cannot consent to allow any form of
servile labor to l>e introduced among
us uuder the guise of immigration.
Recognizing the gravity of this sub- \
ject, the present administration, as- 1
sisted by Congress, sent to China a
commission of distinguished citizens
for the purpose of spooring such a
modification of the existing treaty as
will prevent the evils likely to arise
from the situation. It is confidently ]
believed that these diplomatic uegoti- i
ations will be successful without the *
loss of commercial intercourse betwoen J
the two great powers, which promises i
a great increase of reciprocal trade and '
enlargement of our markets. Should [
these efforts fail it will be the duty of
Congress to mitigate the evils already
felt and prevent their increase by such
restrictions as, without violence or in- (
justice, will place upon a secure fount
dation the peace of our communities '
and the freedom and dignity of labor. <
THE CIVIL SERVICE. '
The appointment of citizens to the
WiOMIN< <>l >E, Atlantic City, X. J., nearly opposite the We«t Jersey and Atlantic
.-titiu ra will tind this House the ini>st convenient to stop at in the City,
as it I- * i:i>in a hort .ii>t mw of the ocean ; rooms larg.», airy and comfortable ; table excellent
and t' 'in* r--.ist.il!-!>:*-. I'ailies desiring to engage rooms before leaving home, should address J.
It. UuKcalf.-. proprietor, P. O. B. 42t>. '
*-«!»~C"ut this . and l.rnnf i, with y>u to avoid confusion at the depot jun23-lm
EBTA
H. Childs"& Co,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IX
BOOTS & SILOES,
133 Wcod Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Strictly first-class quality Goods at bottom prices. Send sample order.
SATISFACTION Ot AUANTEED.
Great Success of Low Prices,
AT
BOSH! 8 CO.,
Mammoth Trimming and Millinery Stores,
Kos. U2. fl4 aact ltd Market Street*
Corner of Liberty Street, PITTSBURGH, I>A.
, Elegant Silk Fringes, 4~>, .">O, Go, 7."> c, $1 to $2.30 Gents' Fine Unlaundried Shirts, our own make
per yard. 75c, sl, $1.12.
Elegant
11 inmed H*W, n, Cl. »L*A, *1.30, . _ up to >_o. Gauge Underwear, Muslin Underwearall prices.
I riiununl »< almng Hats, 50, O.i ai.d , ,>c. Handkerchiefs, large sizes, 10c. up.
sundowns 20e.,up : _ i Full Regular Half Hose, 18, 25, 37e.
Leghorn Hats .>O, <oc., *1 ; Fayal Hats, iheap. T i* >t> i r»
Fine Parasols, 20, 22, 24, 2i», 2X in., from 62 Jc SU I a J J ialbn i^ ap Hosc . 25 > s ', 50c
t0 j Children? and Infants Hose, Booties, Ac.
Lisle and Lace Top Gloves, 34. 4.">, ."0, t>o, 75c. a ' tr - Warner's Corsets.
Mohair Mits, 50, G2, 75c, *l, $1.25, $1.50, to for Flexible nip and Bray's Remova-
Kid Gloves, 2. 3, 4, 0 buttons, at all pnitM. ble Corsets, al! sizes and prices,
t oster Laced Gloves, o Q\\' 1 « In black.; Ribbons, all widths and colors, wholesale and
Lace * ich>is_ \ **>«», SOe, up t.) .;-2. i retail.
OItDEBS BY MAIL WILL HAVE PROMIT ATTENTION.
BARGAINSGOODS ! !
Uwns. Chintzes. Madras Ginghams. Toile de Alsace. Organdies. &c.»
Freshest and Newest Styles.
LACE BUNTINGS ! | Colored Dress Silks!
At less than market prices for l>est quality and At St>, 65, 75,90 c. 51 and up.
designs. Strictly All-wool Goods. Lttrge ßt line and best values ever
Plain and Fangy BuatingSi shown in this market.
Black and Uvio si perpard; 22 to 24 Having recently made an extra large purchase
" Inches wide. °f the best make of
DRESBGOODS, Pure Colored Drass Silks,
From 8 to 25c—b-irirains- ' coming into the port of New York, and at 1 ess prf
-2,, a yard, for!
Dress and Traveling Suits, best \ali.es e\er sold, samples of iliese goods before making her pur-
T AT?RF TTMFR T 4 WNR I chases. Our customers and friends, who daily
un LI uJJ JjJ.ii Ciij Jjartrno, visit our counters, attention is specially directed
Cl», 10 and 12'ic. to these goods. We also wish to add that these
Louies' Law 11 and White Suits. art- fine grain, lustrous goods, very different from
Misses' and Children's Suits. i-the usual heavy cord and "weighted" goods, which
wit<l!™- l lU>ICO Su,ls to close > :lt ' ls, Large lines Summer' Silks. 45 to COc and up.
worth Equal Bargains iu
Black Satin d'Lyon Jackets BLACK SILKS,
and Mantles, at about oue-hnlf price, to close the 50 cents to $4.
lot. Lines of Black Silks at sl, §1.25, Js.nu, 51.75 and
New Buttons and Fringes. ! BU|*rior values,
New Gloves and Laces. I Large line Brocades and Satins.
BOGGS _ &^UHL,
118 and 120 Federal Street, Allegheny-
N. B.—Large lines New I{ftir.bargs, Swiss and Nainsook Flouueings and Edgings, and "White
Goods daily opeain.j. Ne # Lace Mitts, Blacks and Colors. New Fans Hosiery and Neckwear.
various executive and judicial offices of
the Government is the most difficult of
all duties which the Constitution has
imposed upon the Executive, The con
vention wisely that Congress
shsll co-operate with the Executive
Department in placin? the civil service
on a better basis. Experience has
proved that, without frequent changes
of administration, no system of reform
can be made effective and permanent
without the aid of legislation. Ap
pointments to the military service are
so re«£ulsted by law and custom as to
it>ave but little ground of complaint. It
may not be wise to make similar reg
ulations by law for the civil service ;
but without invading the authority or
necessary discretion of the Executive,
Congress should devise ft method that
will determine the tenure of office and
greatly reduce the uncertainty which
makes that service so uncertain and
unsatisfactory, without depriving any
officer of his rights as a citizen, the
government should require him to dis
charge all his official duties with in
telligence, efficiency and faithfulness.
To select wisely from our vast popula
tion those who are best fitted, requires
an acquaintance far beyond tho range
of any one man. The executive should
therefore seek anil receive information
and assistance of those whose knowl
of communities in which duties arc to
be performed best qualify them to aid
in making the wisest choice.
IN CONCLUSION.
The doctrines announced by the
Chicago Convention are not temporary
devices of a party to carry an election.
They are deliberate convictions result
ing from a careful study of the spirit of
our institutions, the events of our his
tory and the best impulses of our peo
ple. In my judgment these principles
should control legislation and the ad
ministration ol the government In any
event they will guide my conduct until
experience points out a better way.
If elected, it will be my purpose to
enforce strict obedience to the Consti
tution and laws and to promote as
best I may the interests and honor of
the whole country, relying for sup
port upon the wisdom of Congress,
the intelligence and patriotism of the
people and the favor of God. With
great respect, I am, very truly yours,
J. G.UUIELT).
To Hon, George F. Hoar, chairman
of the committee.
IVo More Hard Times.
If you will stop spending bo muoli on fine
clothes, rich food and style, t>uy g'»od, healthy
food, cheai>era"id better clothing ; get more real
and substantial things of life every way, aud
especially stop the foolish habit of eiupfoviug
e*|>ensive, quaok doctors or using so much of
the vile humbug medicine that does you only
harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure
remedy, Hop Hitters; that cures always at a
trifling cost, and you will see good times and
have good health. — Ch ron icU.
Executors Xotloe.
Letters testamentary on the estate of John
Cooper, dee'd, late ol ConuoqueuesMng town
ship, Butler county, Pennsylvania, having
leen granted to the undersigued, all persons
knowing themselves indebted to siid est.itt
will please make payment and any having
claims against tho s.uue will present them duly
authenticated for paymcut.
ALEXANDER STEWAKT, Executor,
juu3o-0t Whitestown, Pa, '
WALL PAPER.
A.. MATTHIAS.
(Successor to W. P. MARSHALL,)
PCo. WQm STOUT.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Entirely New Stock ; Latest Stylos,- Artistic
Deitgns ; Most Approved Colors.
apl-i-Um
Is a compound of the virtues of sarsaparil
!a, stillingia, mandrake, yellow dock, with
the iodide of potash and iron, all powerful
blood-making, blood-cleansing, and life-sus
taining elements. It is the purest, safest,
and most effectual alterative medicine
known or available to the public. The sci
ences of medicine and chemistry have never
produced so valuable a remedy, uor one so
potent to cure all diseases resulting from
impure blood. It cures Scrofula ami
all scrofulous diseases, Erysipelas,
Rose, or St. Anthony's Fire, I'imples
and Face-grubs, Pustules, Blotches,
Boils, Tumors, Tetter, Humors,
Salt Rlieum, Scald-head, Ring-worm,
Ulcers, Sores, Rheumatism, Mercurial
Disease, Neuralgia, Female Weak
nesses and Irregularities, Jaundice,
Affections of the Liver, Dyspepsia,
Emaciation, and General Debility.
By its searching and cleansing qualities
it purges out the foul corruptions which
coutamiuate the blood aud cause derange
ment and decay. It stimulates and enlivens
the vital functions, promotes energy aud
strength, restores and preserves health, aud
infuses new life and vigor throughout the
whole system. No sufferer from any dis
ease which arises from impurity of the
blood need despair who will give Avtu'j
SARSA. ARII.LA a fair trial.
It is folly to experiment with the numer
ous low-priced mixtures, of cheap materials,
and without medicinal virtues, offered as
blood-purifiers, while disease becomes more
firmly seated. Avon's Sahsapahilla is a
mediciue of such concentrated curative
power, that it is by far the best, cheapest,
and most reliable blood-purifier known.
Physicians know its composition, and pre
scribe it. It has been widely used for forty
years, and has won the unqualified confi
dence of millions whom it has benefited.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,
Practical aud Analytical Chemists,
Lowell, Mass.
■OLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVXHTWBIBE.
J7ll_) r Ontfltt to agents of 3 dot. fast selling
F rt ' Hi articles, sent to every i<crson ans
wering this adv., and enclosing 4 S-ci. stamps to
nay mintage and packing. This is honest. We re
fer the public to Postmaster, orany business house
in this place. American Manuf'g Company.
Franklin City, Mass.
PEltfSlOltfS
Procured for all soldiers disabled in the V. S. ser
vice from any cause, also for heirs of deceased sol
diers. The slightest disability entitles to pension.
Pensions Increased. Bounty and new discharges
procured. Those who are In doubt as to whether
entitled to an\thing, should send two 3 cts. stamps
lor our ••circulars ot information." Address, with
stamps, Stoddart & Co.. Solicitors of Claims and
Patents, Room 8. St. Cloud Building, Washington,
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