The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-07
First Meeting Of the Campaign.
The Democracy Fully Ar0usea.
Large and Enthusiastic Outpouring |!
Able and Elouuens SDeeches
Able and Eloquent Speeches.
SENATOR wALLACE-s REA1ARKs Evr,p

SENATOR WALLACES REMARKS ENTIRE
large and enthusiastic meeting of the
/ Democracy of Cambria county was held in
/ the Court House on last Monday evening
Ihe entire success of the meeting is concln-
slVS proof that the frosty sons of thunder"
oil Democratic Cambria are fully alive TO the
vast Importance of the approaching State
and county election, and that they will per.
form their full and entire duty. The meet
! ing was organized by calling JOHN Il. DoUG>
Lass, Esq, of Cleaifeld township. to the
Char, eiecting Vice President from each
election district in the county. and choosing
I. LlTTLE. Esq. of Allegheny township.
ana lour other gentlemen as Secretaries.
The meeting was then addressed iu q very
aoie ana eloquent manner by Hon. WM. A .
| WALLACE, our candidate for State Senator
lull report of whose remarks we append
below, and earnestly commend to the care
! fui perusal of our readers. The former s.war
horse" OF the Democracy of Cambria, DIR.
/ NJ. A SMITH now of Philadelphia. was
the next speaker. His remarks showed that
his political faith is as FIRM and unwaveripg
/ as when he was an hOnored and p:omineut
citizen OF our county. Brief but telling
speeches were also made by Hon. WM. Fl
/ ROSE and CYRUS l.. PERsHING. Esds.. ir
/ their usual happy and vigorous style; after
/ which the meeting adjourned Vilh unmis-
/ taxable manifestations If good feeling and
very evident determination % bring out
I the entire Democratic vote az the coming
election aud thus insure a mrre than usually
I complete and overwhelmius Democratic VIC
. tory IN little Cambria. a. We trust and have
every reasoL to hofe will be The result IN tie
State.
sPEECH CF SENATOR wAJLArE
or ~ n o.. .-...
night with my heartie-t thsuk-. 70, only for
I your present ratification Of NV caudidEcy and
hence implied endorsement ~ nv public career.
but also for the unity aud vis1r of your sup.
/ port a. my entrance into political life. nine
/ wears ago and / shall be fsithieSs % rnvself
and 70 all that men hold dear aud sacred, if |
shall ever betray the trust ard confidence these
/ things evince. You and the peOpe of Clear
! field have many interests in common; msuy Of
the streams that find their source here traverse
! in greater strength the county of my home
( and in their annual freshets bear to market
/ the products of your forests and of ours. Side
| by side the sturdy lumbermen of both navgaie
! their crafts with skill among the natural i'm
/ pediments and the artificial distractions that a
! mistaken State policy has allowed to remain
] and has pei tTIitied TO accumulate and render
/ hazardous the condUct of business. the annu
! al value whereof far exceeds the much boasted
| iron wealth of the State: the slopes of the ALE
! ghenies and their foothills both in your county
and in ours, TEEN with buried wealth, and
| hundreds OF busy miners grupple with rugged
nature in the recesses OF the mine, exposed to
dagger and tIleath. In the pursuit of their labo-
rious calling, this class of yoLr people and OF
/ ours suffer common depriFat ations. endure COM
mon dangers and exc out like precarous ex-
/ istence. The raw material bedded beneath the
| surface is valueless without their aid and an
enlightened public policy, well the inter
| ests Of the employer, demand that the business
/ shall be fostered and those who conduct it be
| protected from danger and from death. In ad
vaucing and maintaining the good of these two
/ great interests, common to the whole OF
! people. / have been and shall be earnest and
/ watchfdi, and in the effort to advance every
| material interest in the district, l trust ever
] 10 be found vigiont and faithful The first
! duty OF representative is to his own constit
ueuts, to advance their good, to protect them
| from i'll. | turn to the business of the
! hour.
! rAITtiLEss ADMINISTRATION.
! We charge upon the Republican organization
| repeated violations oi its plighted faith, wan
ton disregard of the official oaths of its rulers,
! abuse of power in defiance of the Constitution,
destruction of the elementary principles of lie
! publican government in the enactment OF op
! pressive laws Ghd in practical administration;
invasion of the rights of the States and the
| people; unnecessary oppression in the imp0si
! tiOn OF the public burdens; reck less extrava=
/ gance in governmental expenditure and nepo-
! ilSrN, negrUloIn, lmmOrAllty ana COrrup Ion III
/ the daily routine of civil administration. Ali
of the surplus earnings of the people are wrung
! from them by the annual expenditure of over
I four hundred millions of dollars, when the
! sum of two hundred and fifty millions is suffi-
! cent to conduct the government, pay all its
/ pensions aEC interests AMI reduce the debt an
| nuallv by at least thirty millions In this enor-
! nous expenditure and in the hi gh rate of inter
| est paid upon the public debt is found "the
fruitful source of hard times, individual in
| debtedness and personal bankruptcy" Hordes
| of unnecessary officials and rings of corrupt
and reckless men infest every department of
! the Federal Government and swarm at ali it's
1 seats of power. and these gangs of piunderers
! are made rich by the enormous sums of money
| taken annually from the hand OF labor.
| SHALL FREE INSTITUTIONS BE oyEnTnRowN7
! At the entrance into this campaign these
1 great questions of governmental policy might
| well receive calm consideration and close scru-
tiny, but far overshadowiag these, and above
and beyond every question OF mere admins
| tration, is THE VITAL ISSUE or THE LIPE OR DEATH
| or RFfU BLICAS INSTITUTIONS. This Important
and essential proposition Is now formally pre-
| scented to the American people i'll the deli5sr
ate enactment of the Ku Kiux and bayonet
| bills. By them a government of law is de-
stroyed and a tyranny is enthroned govern
| nent of force is substituted for the reign of
| the people dctatorial power is vested in one
man and the civil power is subOfdinated to that
| of the bavOnet. These Infamous laws are
practically the destruction of local self govern
ment, and their mischievous tendencies and
! dangerous powers are themes that should
arouse the ardor and inspire the eloquence of
every lover of free institutions. If the peoue
endorse them, they sound the death khell of
! their own liberties.
The ultimate design and present purpose of
these outrageous laws is the election of Grant
in 1872. Force and fraud under the forms of
unconstitutional euactments, and the unscru-
pulous use of the bayonet, if need be, are the
means to be employ ed in the coming contest
and if the people of the n orthi in these elec-
tions. shall Lot emphatically repudate the ini-
quitous statutes, the Presidential contest of
1879 will be settled by bloodshed and carnage
"Forewarned Is forearmed''
A clique of corrupt men control your State
government, manage and control the finances