Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-10-04


principes-as an ambitious aspirant, who was will
ing to make any sacrifice for the sake OF Office and
the exalted reputation which he had acquired only
through the toll and sacrifices of years, would have
been blasted in a moment and forever. Was this
the condition to which the men OF Dickinson de-
sired to reduce the candidate OF their partyI We
have better opinion Of them, than to believe So
Why, then, did they proceed as th0y have DONE
The answer is pain-they acted under the inilu
ence of wrong impressions. They started out with
the idea that the Tariff Of 1912 was Democratic
measure that protection" was deupcratlc prin-
ciple. And how came they to labor under such
strange deluson? Need any man ask the ques-
ton? Why, tens of thousands Of the honest de-
mocraoy of Pennsylvania are at this moment cher
ishng this same lallacy-and when they come to
be convinced that James X. Polk is opposed 10 the
doctrine Of protection" like the men of Dickinson,
they will desert him, because they have been led
to believe that protection" was a democratic doc
trine, ana they will regard Mr. Folks hostility to
protection an abandonment Of democratic prin-
ciples. This as one Of the bitter and blasting results
Of The deceptive ANIL Fraudulent course pursued by The
so called Democratic press Of his Commonwealth; it
Is one of the poisonous fruits of that system Of
SOPHISTRY and FALSEHOOD which, with
out solitary exception that we know Of, has been
resorted to by the travelling orators and township
drill sergeants and whippers-n of the party. In
stead Of honestly avowing the true and long cher
ished principles of the party, showing their superb
GRITTY over those of their opponents, and preparing
the minds Of the people to receive them as the gen
uine offspring of the Jeflersonlan creed,-LlhE
BASE THIEVES, these editors and orators have
thus far spent the campaign in stealing scions from
the Wing nursery and endeavoring to engrait them
on democratic stocks. Thus has false issue been
presented to the democracy, by the men in whom
they trusted, and whom the principle Of gratitude
for confidence generously bestowed should have
made honest and faithful to the trust. Time and
he dc
c course pursued by the presses, orators and lead
er5 Of the democratic party. We have admonished
them of the weakness of tLc.r policy, and the dam
gers of their course. We have condemned the
wickcdness Of the frauds they were practicing, and
invited them to return to the paths OF truth and So
berness. But our warnings aud our adnonitlOns
have been met by hot and proscriptiye denuncia-
tons; and men who have scarcely emerged from
the swad!ing clothes Of democracy, have presumed
TO talk learnedly to us of the errors and impolicy
of our position Everywhere else the party candi-
date has been honestly supported on party princi-
pies; and wherever this has been faithfully and IN
tegenlly done, the cause is prosperous But here.
in Pennsylvania, trhe the false issue made, and
Col. Polk held up to the people, AGAINST
TRUTH AND HISTORY, rs the champion Of
Protection andMe Erjen9 Of tie Tariff Of 1912, re-
actions already taxing place and will continue
unless Wing principles are speedily abandoned,
the shameful ialsehood so often and so deliberately
and genuine democratic doctrines once more EN-.
braced and earnestly propagated. The movement
in Dickinson township is, considered by itself, but
small aiair-and yet it will not be without effect.
II may be The parent Of many such morcmentS-and
the end may be more disastrous than we Imagine.
Wherever the people have been deceived IN re-
gard to the true sentiments of Gov. Polk, and the
true principles of The democratic party, we must
expect reaction the moment light dawns upon them
and the imposition is exposed. Such being the
danger to be apprehcnded, we again appeal to the
democracy of Pennsylvania, to the democracy OF
our county, to reject at once the false lights
of Whggery, that have been unscrupulously
held out to them, as lamps from the altar fire of de-
mocracy, and to return to the principles OF the ta-
TIERS which constitute at once the ark Of our polt
ical safety and the covenant Of our political peace.
In connection with this matter, and to show the
! light in which the Tariff Of 1912 is viewed by the
democracy OF other parts, we commend TO the at
tention Of our democratic readers the annexed
tracts from speeches recently delivered by the Hon.
| c. Z. Cambreleng, and Benjamin Wlgglns ESD. at
the great Democratic meeting in Castle Garden,
New York. Mr.. Cumbrcleng, speaking Of the Wing
Tariff Of 1912, said
Now we have revenue more than double that
which is necessary for the purposes Of Government
| This year the Tariff has Welded thirty five millions
eleven millions of which are surplus Suppose
the Tariff is not repealed, will not these eleven
millions be scattered among the States, TO corrupt
them, or ncte spirit of over-tradlng, such as cX-
listed in 1886 and the consequences of which have
been felt in 1887 and 1888? 1t must be so. The
same cause will always produce the same effect"
Mr. Virgins remarked;
"The question of the Tariff has been so fully
and so frequently discussed, that feel as if need
not occupy your time at present on that subject
| will simply remark, however, that | cannot con-
ceiyc why any man should want to pay two dollars
instead Of one. Under the Wing protective poll
cy, is not every man called upon to do this? Why
should we raise forty millions Of dollars, when
twenty millions will answer our purpose? To this
queston,no plain Democratic answer can be given"
These are sound Democratic iruthS which ought
to be spread among the people of PennsylyanL-
LET THE FACT BE EVERY WHERE
! KNOWN, THAT THE ELECTION OF J. t..
POLK WILL BE THE SIGNAL FOR THE
REPEAL OF THE WING TARIFF OF 1912,
md all will be we'll. Attempt to deceive the peo-
pie, and all will be lost.