Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-09-18
ADDRESS OF
State Central Committee.
To the People Of Pennsylvania:

State Central CommItee.
To the People Of Pennsylpania'
The Radicals attempt to evade the
practical issues of the canvass and to de-
Jude you into the support of their candi-
dates.
They alone are accountable for the
prostration of your business interests
They have deliberately sacrificed them in
order to place in the bands of Southern
Negroes, the balance of power in the Re
public'and thus preserve their own rule
More than two years have passed since
peace was restored, and we still look in
vain for increased products from the South
to aid US in paying the interest on our
debt, and for her prosperous customers to
buy our wooden, iroa and other manufac-
lures,
Instead of receiving aid to pay our
debt, VIC are taxed to maintain a freed
mans bureau and standing army in the
South. Instead of prosperous customers
to increase our trade, every business in
terest languishes.
Radical mismanagement, a negro policy,
and Radical extravaganza, weigh down
our energies and fetter our resources.
The whole expense of the War Depart
ment IN 1860 was sixteen and half mil
lions, whilst in 1867, it is estimated BY
the Treasury at forty.seven millions, both
being periods of peace. To give the Negro
the power to rule US, therefore, costs the
nation annually thirty millions. Of this
amount, Pennsylvania share is at least
one-tenth, and your industry must annual
ly pay three millions OF dollars to support
policy that closes your woolen mills and
stops your factories.
In your State affairs, mismanagement.
corruption and extravaganza are the rule.
In 1860, under Democratic power the
whole amount of money appropriated, and
expended, independent of funded debt and
military erpense, as shown by the Treasu-
ry was nine huvdred and ntnety-eight thou.
sand dollars. In 1864, ercludiRg the
same items, the RADICALS appropriated and
expended one million three hundred and
seventv-nine thousand dollars. In 1865,
excluding the same items, the Radicals ap-
propriated and expended one million five
hundred and nineteen thousand dollars,
and in 1869, excluding tie same items,
they appropriated and expended TWO
MILLIONS AND ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The reports of the Auditor General show
these facts, and prove that IN SIX YEARS
OF RADICAL RULE, YOUR CASH EXPENSES
HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED.
The men who have thus wasted your
substance, pirate OF their loyalty and their
sacrifices, and would maintain their hold
upon the public treasury by fixing your
attention upon other issues. You are op-
pres sed by taxation through internal reve-
nue. and other machinery, as no other peo-
pie ever were. 1t takes from you, your
legitimate profits and gives you no Gus
TONERS. 1t compels you to stop manufac-
turing and to discharge your workmen.-
Your goods remain unsoId and your oper-
atives suffer. Can you expect relief from
this grinding taxation, so long as these
enormous expenditures continue. Relief
can only come through economy in pub
lie affairs, a reduction in your expenses,
and the discharge of corrupt and extrava-
giant officials.
1t is their purpose to violate the great
principle, ''that each State has the right
to determine the qualifications of its own
electors" and give the negroes of Penn
sylvania the balance of power between the
two great political parties. Negro suffrage
is to be forced upon you by Congressional
enactment, and your "Supreme Court is to
be placed in harmony" with that law, by
electing Judge Williams, who is relied up
on to decide that the negro is entitled to
right which you and your organic laws
deny him. In the Senate of the United
States, in July last, the recognized leader
of the Radicals of this State, voted to pro-
ceed to consider bill that was introduced
by Wilson of Massachusetts, to effect this
Infamous purpose.
DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA
Let the result in California arouse you
to to renewed exertion. Work is to be
done, and you must do it. Committees
may plan and order, but the result depends
upon yourselves Individual effort is the
road to victory. See your neighbor, en-
courage him, bring him to the polls. Per-
feet your organizations. Block your
wards and townships. Subdlvide the Ia
Dor and perform it with energy.
Press home upon your adversaries the
reahissues of the canvass. Demand of
them that they shall answer:
Are you for or against the Radical pol
icy that destroys our business and closes
our work shops, mills and factories, to give
the negro the balance Of power!
Are you for or against continued cor
ruption, mismanagement and extrava-
gance?
Are you for or against conceding to
Congress, the right to allow the negro the
power to rule Pennsylvania.
BY order ofthe Democratic State Com
mittee. WM. A. WALLACE,
Chairman