Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-09-22
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instantly put IN force there. In what
, interest thy are framed, we do not
yet know bat il is a notorious fact,
that John Covodc, Chairman of tho
Radical State Central Committee,
went down 70 Washington, two weeks
ago, and demanded of the Com
missioner that the Department should
DO 80 manipulated as 70 influence the
Pennsylvania elections. II Is true,
that the Radical papers all rcprescn-
ted that Commissioner Delano, had
sent Covodo of "with q flea in his
ear" But flea, more or less, makes
little difference To Covode. Only tho
other day, be had the assurance to
send written notice TO the Attorney
General Of Pennsylvania, to vacate
his Office; that, too, Covodo designed
to use in way that Mr.. Brewster,
though Radical, could not counte-
nance
1t will DO remembered that the
Radical press, generally, gave this
termination TO Covode's interview
with the Commissioner:
commissioner Delano informed
Mr.. Covode that the law was i'm
perative, and he had no discretion in
the matter, and was compelled to
execute it. Mr.. Covode left in the
noon train.-Enquirer, Aug. 20, 49,"
But we presume Covode, though he
cannot spell, is quite cunning enough
"to know the ropes, at Washington.
Covode has not forgotten the public
discussion by the President of the
United States whether his brother.in-
law, Judge Dent, or a certain Hon.
Jonah Tarball, should have control Of
tho internal revenue and the army
and all other departments of the gov
ernment of the United States, to carry
the next State election in Mississippi.
IL is still said that if the Conservatives
nominate his brother-in-law, General
Grant will, at least, stand neutral,
and not cast the civil and military
power Of the Federal government into
the electoral scale on the side of the
Radicals. Notpublic duty, but family
interest may prevail on the Presidents
of the United States to abstain from
lawless intermeddling with the ballot
box The spectacle of this open
solicitation of Federal interference in
State elections would strike all
thoughtful men with horror, if tho
experience of the last few years had
not dulled public sonsibility on the
subject. But what high and sacred
function of human government has
not been scandalously prostituted by
corrupt Radicals to the purposes Of
election frauds 7 Here, in October
last, three Judges of the Supreme
Court accredited spurious decision
TO serve as a prctext on election day,
for tho rejection OF votes by their
accomplicos-the Radical election
officers! Unhallowcd hands are now
laid on the great charities and public
trusts Of our city. The chairman of
a political committee asks the high
law officer of the Commonwealth to
resign; and now, as a last resource,
calls on the Federal Government to
prostitute and prevent its functions
in lawless schemes against the freedoms
of our State election This, it is said
was refused; but the announcement
that Covode had failed with Mr..
Delano, may bc but a blind and if
true, Covode would only appeal TO
higher authority. We have not nom
mated brother-in-law, and we must
owe IL to an aroused public sentiment
If new outrages are not perpetratcd
here on the freedom OF elections.
Last week the London Times, CON-
menting on tho part played by New
York Judges in the Erie Railroad
conflict, said: ave are not without
hopes that the consciousness of exis-
ting evils will lead to the only way
of correcting them" 1t is to bring
the facts home to the consciousness Of
all honest men and lovers of free gov.
ernment, that We have dwelt with
earnestness upon acts which the
Radical press tries to bury in silence.
Last week we asked for an explana-
tion of the case in which the bail ofa
thief was exonorsted by Geary, and
the injured party was twice robbed,
once by the thief, and once by the
Governors pardon, or remission,
which released the penalty of the bail
bond out of which the Court was
about TO restore the stolen sum OF
$500 TO the injured party. The full
details of this case are given in
legal publication, the Philadelphia
Legal Intelligencer of the 18th of
August
Assuredly, this case demands expla.
nation, when Governor Geary is a
candidate for reelection.
We shall not suffer the acts of
Judges Williams, Read and Agnew in
the last October election TO sleep in
the silence to which the Radical press
would consign them. Did a Judy
ment of the Supreme Court disfran-
chise thousands of citizens last Octo-
Der without a hearingY If it did,
produce now the record of that
strange and unprecedented Judgment.
But if there was no such judgment,
then let us know why, on every wall
VI Ahis SiAli hnu w cNeTy NAUTICAL
paper, such a spurious judgment was
ascribcd to Judges Read, Agncw and
Williams, with their assent, and on
the authority of letter written by
one, in the names of all themg
Surely this requires explanation,
full, precise, and satisfactory, when
one Of those Judges is asking the
people to elevate him for fifteen years
to the sacred Bench of Justice.
We have long since anticipated the
London Times in its hope that "the
consciousness of existing evils will
lead TO the way of correcting thom.n
To rouse that consciousness is the
most sacred Office of the public press,
and its power TO do il is so vital TO
the interests of society, that Jefferson
said:
"Woro it lcn to me TO decide
whether wo should have a govern
ment without newspapers, or news
papers without a government, /
" shonld not hesitate a moment 10
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