The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-19

be1s OF Congress are left to follow the die
tates of their best judgment in regard to this
question What we require is q settled
policy. and policy to be enduring mast be a
moderate ore. An extremely low range of
duties, or an extremely high range, cannot
long prevail. tariff made in the interest
of any particular branch of industry at the
expense of others equally important being
unjust, cannot endure. 1t may bring great
wealth to the principals who may be fortu-
nate enough to engage in it during the few
years in which the bubble is expanding, but
the operatives, as we'll as ma jority of the
principals, will ultimately be involved in
utter ruin.
Legislation should be mainly directed in
tie interests of the poor, who constitute
nine-tt ntbs of our population, and not in that
of the rich, who are able to take care of
themselves. What the poor man aud his
family require is daily bread, and not a feast
to followed by a famine. Daily bread can
only be obtained by daily employment at
fair wages. and constant employment can
only result from a settled policy. The issues
which have divided the two great political
parties for the last ten years having cul-
minated, politicians have been casting
out for a new bone of contention, and find
ing it difficult to find one, part of tho Re-
publican leaders have concluded to call up
the ghost of former years and fight the tariff
battles over again. This is necessary. also,
to divert the attention of the people from
the corruption of our leaders at Washington,
Harrisburg, and throughout the country
which, having been exposed by all the
honest journals of the party, is resulting in
independent political action, threatening the
defeat of the various combinations and rings
in the interest of the plunderers of the public
treasury.
AS an independent candidate, pledged to
reform these abuses, l am made the target
against which the heaviest volleys of these
corruptions are directed. 1 am denounced
by the ring journals of the Republican party
as Democrat, free trader, bolter, dis
organizer, and, as such, am made responsible
for all the doctrines these slaves to party
think proper to attribute to opposing organi-
cations, and whilst they make the most false
and ferocious attacks upon me, they have
not one word to say against the regular
nominees of the Democratic party.
Now, my fellow citizens, does this not show
clearly that their objection is not to what
they think proper to denomnate my Demo-
cratic views, but to my independent position
as a reiormer, pledging to do all in my power
to expose their villainy and reform their
wicked and corrupt legislation. Forney's
I7cSS, of July l, the day upon which it for
naly entered the service of the Judge, disre-
galdipg all sense of truthfulness, charged me
with being the most pronounced free trader
in Pennsylvania, and this he processes to infer,
not alone from the cautious words he says 1
dropped on accepting the peoples nomina-
tion but from my known utterances on other
OCCASIONS and especially by my unrestrained
conversation in private life.
AS 1 am very plain man and use plain
language, l now pronounce this statement
of Colonel Forney deliberate falsehood
He refers to my private conversations as evil
| dence of my free trade views. VIII he state
when he or any of his family, either political
or social heard me express such views?
| challenge him to name the occasion and ad-
! duce the proof, or stand before the world q
| convicted calumniator. But Colonel Forney
| judges also from the cautious words which he
says l dropped on accepting my nomination
| These expressions of opinion are now on
record, and by them l stand. dare Colonel
| Forney to open his columns to free discus
sion of them. In order that you may know
my views on the tariff as then expressed,
read from my speech delivered on the occa-
sion of my nomination.
81 would adopt as tariff such a scale of
duties as would produce the largest possible
| sum that could be obtained without doing
injustice to any department of industry or
any considerable division of the people. In
the imposition of these duties 1 would dis.
criminate SO as to give protection to such in
terests as could be aided without injury to
|
nue. from articles of luxury, which are mainly
consumed by the rich. At the same time
would admit the absolute necessaries of life
| free"
This is my platform on the question of the
tariff, and by it l expect to stand during anG
subsequent to the canvass.
Is this free trade? If it is, then believe
that seventy-five per cent. of the voters OF
the Fourth Congressional district is in favor
of this doctrine. But what must we think o.
a cause which requires the expenditure o.
such vast sums of money and resorts to sucl
lying misrepresentation to sustain it 4?
Colonel Forney considers Judge Kelley the
only suitable man in all the Fourth district t.
represent it in Congress. In order to shov
how shrewd Judge of human nature is tn,
Colonel, and how accurate a critic of states
manship is he and also to enable you to de
termine how far you can rely upon his judg
ment as to men and things, beg leave t,
read from the PennSyl0anidR of Septembe
10, 1851, to show his opinion at that time o
our distinguished Judge
''Kelley now stands before the publ
blackened with the guilt of shameless incon
sistency, personal treachery, and the meanes
hypocrisy. We may as well expect the ex
ample of Benedict Arnold to produce con
verts to treason as the nomination of William
d. Kelley, under the circumstances, and i
violation of pledge that brave and homes
man would have died rather than have fol-
feited even by implication, to induce Demo
Gratis to abandon their party"
And again, on the 20th of the same month
he writes:-
''It was predicted of William D. Kelley b
, more than one of his intimate friends, tn
moment he was appointed Judge by th
, lamented Francis II. Skunk, that he wOul