The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-09-26
POLITICAL ITEMS.

IN HeEnSylVanla at the coming election.
Our immense standing army costs
two hundred and fifty millions of dollars
year. Think of that, Taxpayers, and
if yon like it, vote the Radical ticket.
Your loyalty is estimated 10y the amount
of tax you can pay without complaining
or voting for retrenchment.
The Radical press have been driven
TO a very queer shift to make capital for
their candidate for the Supreme Court.
They are publishing such of his decisions
as were approved by the Supreme Court
-neglecting, however, to allude to those
which were reversed and set aside.
The party which rcpudiated a portion
of the interest of the State debt, will not
hesitate to rcpudiate the principal. In
1864, the Radical Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania passed law changing the payment
OF the State interest from specie to ''depre-
ciated greenbacks.'' Holders of all kinds
of securities will remember this on their
way to the polls.
Let the laboring men of Pennsylvania
remember that they and their fellow citi-
zens of the North are being taxed at the
rate of more tian .6fty nlilltons Of dollars q
gear, fer the purpose of establishing the
supremacy of the negro in the Southern
States Let them say whether they desire
continuance of that system when they
go TO the polls on the 9Th of October.
! White workingmen who wish ne
| groes to labor beside them in manufac-
tories and workshops, who desire negroes
! TO sit by their wives in the cars, and their
/ oh in fIa
/ to vote the Radical ticket and they will
be accommodated. The party in power
are pledged to all these negro movements
White men must protect their own inter
ests from negro antagonism.
-Remember that it only requires a
change OF $500 votes on last years cleo
! tion to elect Judge Sharswood A change
OF only two or three votes In every cleo
/ ton district will affect that result Go
10 work vigorously, then, Democrats, for
a victory this fall will insure Democrat
| ic President, re- union Of the States, a
| simmering down of all agitation and the
return of peace, good will and prosperity.
Two Germans Matthias PhoIes for
/ the Legislature and Gustave Scheitger for
/ Shcrih-nOminated by the Radicals of
/ Davenport, Iowa, have left that party and
| taken their places as Democrats upon the
Democratic ticket: The intolerant and
proscriptive spirit of Radicalism drove
| them to this step and thousands of Ger
mans, there and elsewhere in the West.
have followed them out Of the Radical
party.
Among the other items to be charc-
cd to Radical management, says the Chi
cago Times, are The deaths of military
men, f. ON yellow fever, in the Southern
! States. All these men were sent there
solely aud purely to register negroes for
the coming Presidential election. Over
the graves of such men as Griffin, should
! be Inscribed: '.FcI victim to the
| Radical desire to elect a President in
| 1868"
The Radical Republicans, in their
purpose to subyert the Constitution OF the
nation and usurp unlimited power, hope
to divert the attention of the people from
their contemplated and partially enacted
treason, by charging The President with
exercising unconstitutional power 1t is
the old game of the professional rogue,
who, in order to escape detection and ar
rest, when the ''hue and cry is raised.
JOINS IN the pursuit and is ioudest Of all in
bawling ''stop thief after an imaginary
criminal.
i he last Radical Legislature, to make
a ''sott place" for one Of their dead head''
partizans, established ''branch court"
called the Criminal Court of Dauphin
Lebanon and Schuylkill." The act was
n
by the Supreme Court still this sinecure
Judge ''goes through the notions of
holding court. SO far he has held three
courts, but not q single case has net come
before han, and, what is probable, never
will. This Radical luxury only costs the
State three thousand five hundred dollars
per year.
Ben Wade, in his speech at Cleve-
land, Ohio, the other day, said ''the coun-
try is now in perilous crisis" comment
ing upon which, the Springfield (Ill Reg
'Ster remarks: ''Whose fault is it The
Radical Congress and Radical Governors
in the north have been controlling the
country since the close of the war. All
the laws made for the government of the
people, both North and South, have been
made by Radical Congress and Radical
State Legislatures. If the country is in
'perilous crisis the Radicals alone are re-
sponsible. They had full sway
In New York, the Democrats are
keenly alive to the Importance of the ap-
preaching election in that State. The
2 World of Saturday says: ''Never before
in the history of State politics, SO soon
alter the call for the State Convention
was issued, have the Democrats of the
interior gone to work with that singleness
Of purpose and determined assidulty that
they have this fall. Our advices from
nearly every 1narfer of the Ctn4n nrn ~