Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-10-06

doth depose and say, that the above state
ment is true and correct to the best of his
knowledge.
HENRY MOTZ, j. P.
Frceburg, Sept. IS, 1860.
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henry d. Foster and the Tariff.
We recently published extracts from the
speeches of Henry D. Foster, while a
member of Congress from the Westmore.
land District, in favor of judicious tariff
securing reasonable protection to the great
interests of Pennsylvania. From the DO.
sition taken in these speeches, years ago,
Mr.. Foster has never deviated in the slight.
est degree. As representative in Con-
gress, as candidate before the people and
as an advocate of political principles on
the stump, he has ever maintained the
most undertaking consistency upon this
question. His record cannot be impeach-
ed, And yet we are surprised to see that
MIR. Mcclure the Chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee, and the confden-
tial friend of Mr., Curtin, had the effr ronte-
ry to declare, in speech recently deliver
ed III Philadelphia, that Mr.. Foster was
opposed to the Tariff and hostile to the
interests Of Pennsylvania Mr. Mcclure
as willy poll ician, and has the reputa.
ton of not being over scrupulous in what
he says or does, but he has not displayed
his usual sagacity in thus flying in the face
OF the record, to help the sinking cause of
Nr. Curtin. If Mr. Foster is not a friend
of Pennsylvania interests, there is not q
man in the Commonwealth whose fidelity
can be relied upon.
Mr.. Fosters record can be pointed to as
an evidence of his sincerity npon this ques.
ton, but where is Mr., Curtin's record p
He processes to be in favor of Tariff, and
We have no reason to doubt that he is;
but it must not be forgotten that he i, now
using the question as political hobby,
while he is associated with party which
has neither the power nor the disposition
to legislate for the interests of Pennsylva-
MIA. The people of this State should un-
derstand that if they ever succeed in pro,
curing Tariff favorable to their interests
it must be through combination of por-
tions of all parties. 1t cannot be effected
solely through a party so sectional and so
unpopular with the conservatives of the
country as the Republican party commit
ted to the doctrine of protection. 1t is
true that most Of tho Republicans at the
last session of Congress voted in favor of
the Morrill, Tariff bill, but it was with the
expectation that it could not pass, and with
the express object of accumulating ammu-
milton to be used in this Presidential CAM
paign. We have to point only to Il few
facts to show that the Republican party is
not tariff party. Their candidate for
Vice President, Mr.. Hamlin is notoriously
free'trader, representing ree-trade
State, and as a Senator from Maine voted
for the Tariff of 1916, an act for which
Mr., Dallas was denounced by the Opposi-
ton all over Pennsylvania. William G.. Bry-
ant, editor of the New York EUenins Posi-
and for forty years a consistent and per-
sistent advocate of free trade, has been
placed at the head of the Republican cleo,
toral ticket by the Republican Convention
of New York, which clearly shows that
hostility to the Tariff does not impair
mans standing with the Republican party
of New Y ork. Every well informed man
knows that the Republicans of the West.
ern States do not make the Tariff an issue,
for the reason that the party is divided as
the expediency of legislating in behalf
of the interests of Pennsylvania. These
are well established facts; and yet, pre-
uming that they are unknown to the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania, the Republican can
didate for Governor and his Chief Com
mitteeman aye engaged in the demagoguo
game of disappearing the position of
Mr., Foster and claiming for the Republi-
can party what it cannot and will not per-
form
The only way by which Pennsylvania
can ever obtain legislation for her peculiar
interests, is for her people to act unitedly
and exclusive of party. If she places her
interests entirely in the charge of one par.
ty, and that party the Republican, which
is detested by nearly two-thirds Of the