Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-02-04
Tho Registry Bin.


Tho new registry bill introduced IN
the Senate BY Mr Taylor, u a rare
curiosity The more IL Is examined,
tho ingenuity and beauty Of its contri.
vance become the more manifest IL
is as foil Of shelves and traps 70 do.
ceivc the honest citizon as a coniuror's
box. On It's face IL Il general act,
but il is 80 framed that IL may be made
20 apply 10 any county, or to any dis.
tricl In a county. II il general and
absolute for Philadelphia, and special
and conditional for the rest of the
State. II shows what Radicals can
do TO ovado the Constitution and OPP
press the citizen. Tho first section
provides that it shall be applied to any
county on the recommendation Of one
hundred citizens, and 10 any election
district on petition Of tho grand jury,
or the petition Of twenty-five citzons,
Those counties and districts which do
not apply through tho grand jury, or
through a handful of citizens, are TO
be deprived of the benefits and hles-
sings Of the registry law which tho
Radicals propose TO bestow on Phil
adelphia.
The object of this cunning contri-
vance, 80 worthy Of the Radical mind,
is very plain. They have made the
bill as irksome, as odious and oppres-
sive as their tyrannical natures could
devise. Tney intend TO apply it in
exorably 10 Philadelphia, and in some
Of the larger Democratic counties.
But in other counties where they fear
its effect would be damaging TO the
party, they propose that it shall not
be applied, imagining that it will be
so utterly defeated by every Demo.
crat, and every liberal man who is not
a Democrat, that no one will petition
for u. They propose to get up Radi-
cal petitions for the introduction of
their law when they wish TO annoy or
oppress, and take it for granted that
no Democrats will ask for its applica-
tion. In this they will find them
selves grievously mistaken. II is not
difficult to find one hundred men in
every county of the Commonwealth
to petition for the application of the
very worst law that was ever put on
the statute book. If it shall pass, the
Democrats, who arc friends of general
legislation, and are opposed to special
privileges, will labor TO make it uni
versal throughout the State. If the
Radicals apply it in Luzerne or North
ampton, it shall be inexorably applied
| Of indeed it be capable of appIieation)
to Bradford and Lebanon. This act
will compel the attendance Of the citi-
zen at the place OF election two days
in each year. 1t is contriyed by aris-
tocrats TO make the exercise Of the
suffrage expensive and irksome to the
poor, who belong in the main (or
should if they don'D to the Democratic
party. They expect that it can be
made TO work in heavy Democratic
counties without exciting the hostility
Of their own partisans. 1t shall be
be made equally irksome in Radical
counties. lfthe Radicals seek through
this bill to annoy the plain farmers Of
Pennsylvania in the bright days Of
the Fall, by compelling thcm to leave
their plow or their buckwheat, and
look up a registration officer, they
shall feel the effects of it, Let them
try on this experiment, and it will be
their last The Democrats will all
register. Indignation at this outrage
will bring out the lest man. The Rad
ical masses will register and then.
vote the Democratic ticket. If we
sought partisan triumph, we should
urge them forward TO this gross viola
tion of the Constitution and the rights
of the citizen.-Harrisburg Patriot.