Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-10-06
A BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM A
BEAUTIFUL BIRD.


and his name was William Penn. In
heart he was an honest man by occu-
patton a Quaker When came the
proper time be married woman, and
she became his wife They were good.
ly people, well in repute, and to this
day are borne in more than grateful
memory, not only by the people OF
the State which honored him by Civ.
ing his name to one Of our sisterhood
of States, but by all other States, and
all other countries where honesty is
esteemed virtue.
Pennsylvania, named as i. was in
honor of a good man and good
woman, in all probabilities never would
have been heard from or amounted to
so much as it has in the sisterhood OF
States but for the efforts Of one John
W. Forney, person not altogether
unknown TO fame, or unblessed by
fortune
Forney helped elect Buchanan Pre-
sident. Aud after his tricks had help
ed give the old Democratic party that
name for corruption which bore it to
the earth, Ike the rat which deserted
the sinking ship did John W. leap the
fence and cast in his lot with the new
party made up Of honest, moral, and
intelligent men ~!
He has something TO do with the
printing business-publishes two pa
pers, both daily. Therefore his words
must have great weight, and he must
be man of influence. Such being
the case, and as we have two papers,
both daily, and two other papers, both
weekly, il may not be out of place for
us to speak few words to the afore-
said Forney. He writes 20 his papers
over the signature of Occasional, %
and here is something from bis pen
we wish our readers to peruse. The
letter, which was published in one
Of his papers dated June 23d, is as
follows
LETTER PROM OCCASIONAL"
WASHINGTON, June p, 1909.
There is one fact that teaches a suhlmer lesson
than any theory, no matter how logically drawn,
viz; That wherever Republican principles have
been boldly applied there The people are happiost
do not remember even the exception that is said
to prove the rule.
Last week saw New England for the third time
Il is seventeen years since my first visit to Boston
Then Maine. New Hampshire, and Connecticut
were Democratic stronghold, aad Massachusetts
was divided between eontending factions But
now New England is as solidly Republican as
Lancaster county, Pennylvania.
Their change in politics has been as marked rs
the improvement in the intelligence and comfort
Of their population.
New England is the sohoolmaster, and she begins
at home. She does her work well first at her own
hcarthsone, and then she sends her pupils abroad.
They couvince and conquer always
And thus Il is that every community where they
live aud labor becomes at last land not iardily) a
copy and an echo Of the mother that sends them
forth
As you ponder the picture, my Democratic
friend, you may feel dsposed to insist that al
these benefits have come ia spfe Of Rl,lical Re-
puhlicauism. aud not iH consequence oft
Ncry we'll, just try the same remedies on your
self; and II You do not insist that they ought to
be At once applied 20 the South aud that the sooner
the Democracy cease rejecting them the better for
themselves, you will be ineorrigihie.
To the above sup in balloon style
of writing, permit these few words;
Wherever Republican principles
have been boldly applied, there the
people are happiest"
How is this in New England; in the
crowded factories where men are over
worked and underpaid, where women
are obliged to resort TO prostitution or
beggary, aud where they arc so plenty
Us prostitutes that they must go South
and engage as negro schoolmarms, or
take positions in the houses of illlame
in the Southern country the women
there arc above filing. How II il in
Tennessee--that State which has been
damned aud ruined by Republicans
under the blighting shade and shadow
of Republican principlesl Here these
principles have had full sway, have
been boldly applied by thieves, carpet.
baggeis. maraudcrs, fanatics, purilani.
cal psalm singers, receivers Of stolen
property, burglars, disturbers of the
peace, pious ranters, and Bible. banging
Pharisees who sprout their religious
whiskcrs in New England aud trim
them in the once peaceful, prosperous,
happy Tennessee, which, under the
rule and through the instrumen,ality
OF Republicans, has become little less
than u hell upon earth.
There was time when Maine, New
Hampshire. Connecticut, and other
portions Of New England were Demo
cratic. Are the people happier there
now than theng Every year adds TO
the misery of the people Of that sec
ton. The crimes they have committed
against God and against nations are
being visited upon them. Their poor
houses are full to Overlooking, their
iails are crowded with criminals, their
workmen are engaged at short time
aud short pay. The streets of many
OF the manufacturing towns there are
swarming with young prostitutes.
Saloons, church easements, offices in
mills, shady pluces in grave-yards,
sleeping cars and Steamboats, in that
section are but little better than assig-
nation houses, working to an increas.
ing business Take the State Of Mas.
sachusetts alone. In proportion to
her population she has more paupers
than any State 10 the Union. In pro
portion 20 population there is more
crime committed in that State than
any other, and no one will pretend
to say that she is other than thor
oughly ana disgustingly Republican.
Delegates from the States of New Eng
land, armed with Bibles. hymn books,
cheap pictures of the late lumented,
boxes of blue mass and obsietrioai
instruments, wander like grasshoppers
over the once happy and sunny South
biighting, cgising, dHm''.g, and rot
ting everything they touch-sprcad
ing with a broad hand that happiness
peculiar to New England SO dis
eusting do those delegates become in
the south that even the negroes, I'M
educated but honest hearted. shun