Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-09-18
Hartranft's Crilninality.
Extract from The Speech OF John w. Frazier, Deli
cred IL Phiisdslphia September 4, i071.

cred IN Philadelphia September q, i052.
Fellow citizens: AM Liberal Re.
publican, advocating the election OF
Charles r. Buckalew to the governor
ship Of Pennsylvania because his op-
ponent, John +. Hartranft is criminal
ly corrupt; because he has been the
associate of criminals and thieves
because he shared the i'll gotten gains
of those who are either expiating
their crimes in the penitentiary or are
fugitives from Justice; because he has
violated alike his oath of office and
the laws of tho Commonwealth in
using S68l,O0 of the public funds of
the State in the purchase of stocks for
personal profit, when both the law and
his'oath required that those same funds
should be "for tho use of the Com
monwealth."
In diverting these public funds for
private purposes he has made himself
liable to imprisonment upon similar
bill of indictment to that which sent
City Treasury Marcer to Cherry Hill
am opposed 10 the election OF Mr..
Hartrant because he has either igno-
rantly or corruptly permitted millions
Of dollars, Justly due, TO escape from
the treasury. If corruptly, that de-
bars him il ignorantly, then he in
suits the intelligence of the communi-
ty by asking them TO place him in a
position where much greater degree
of intelligence is requisite than IN the
office be now holds.
Gentlemen, bo not deceived the
question at the October election isnot
whether Greeley OF Grant shall be
President; it is whether the corrupt
cabal, Cameron, Hartranft and Mack
ey, shall continue TO exercise imperial
power in Pennsylvania The question
to be settled in October is, whether
the people of this Commonwealth pre-
fer that purity and integrity and ca
pability shall exist among those hold
ing high public office, or vice and dis
honesty and criminal incapacity shall
continue until we become by-word
Of reproach with tho people Of the
nation. .ta
FELLOW CITIZENS IfJohn +. Hart
tranft is elected Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, then the day is at hand when
it will be no longer considered crimi-
nal to be the receiver of stolen goods,
but something deserving OF political
preferment. The election of Hart
ranft will be succeeded by that of
Simon Cameron TO the Senate of the
United States-a man who has done
more to debauch the public morals OF
the people of this State and Nation
than perhaps any other living person
man who, as nn official, aye as
cabinet officer, had the brand of"thief"
recorded against him; a man driven
in disgrace from tho cabinet Of Abra-
ham Lincoln; who openly polutes
every principle of common morality
by defantly buying his way into the
Senate of the United States, will
again, by the Legislature be has de-
bauched, bo made Senator.
The reelection OF Robert w. Mack
oy as Treasurer, will also follow that
OF Hartranft, and the question simply
is whether thcse-our Tweed, Con
molly and Ingersol-shall continue
in high public places or be ignomin-
iously driven from power like their
New York prototypes were q year
ago. cannot doubt the result. There
is not a mercantile house in this city
but is unto against the Hartranit
dynasty. Business houses containing
twenty Republicans, whose votes will
be cast for Grant in November, will
vote solidly against Hartranft in Oc-
tober and from every county and
township and school district in the
Commonwealth comes to us at our
headquarters the cheering news that
political virtue and integrity are TO
be rewarded and venality punished
] ask you, my fellow citizens Of the
Twenty-ninth ward, to join in swell
ing the rising tide that will elect
Buckalew by twenty thousand ma
jority. ia
Fellow citizens, il secms superhu-
GUS to repeat the list of criminal accu-
sations with which General Hartranft,
as Auditor General, stands charged
his due bill to George o. Evans for
$4,000, given just three years after
the State agent had pocketed 100000
of the peoples money convicts him of
completely with that distinguished
collector of war claims The specu-
lating with State funds, TO the extcnt
of $500, 900, and sharing the profits
with the same broker that Marcer
unfortunately dealt with, makes him
self as guilty as our late Treasurer
and in addition to these he has per
mitted tho Northern Central railroad
company, owned mostly by Simon
Cameron, to escape the payment of
quarter of million Of dollars of taxa
ton; as he has admitted all the other
charges against him, he will not deny
this, but with all these charges OF
malfeasance against him, still hopes
TO be made Governor of Pennsylvania,
not by tho honest votes Of the people,
but by the forco Of fraud In this city.
His lioutenants in charge of his
campaign here in Philadelphia openly
admit they intend TO give him 10 900
majority. Gentlemen, if you permit
this fraud to be pcrpetrated, then you
may expect Mr.. Mackey, or Mr.. Bum,
or Mr. Tttermary, to be your next
candidate for Governor, either of
whom can be as easily elected as Mr..
Hartranit, and bringing il nearer
home, its logical result will be TO
make The mayors clerk, Mr.. McCul-
Iough, The immediate successor of Mr..
Stokley The election of Mr.. Bucka-
few defeats all these disreputaole
measures, and am here TO earnestly
plead with every reputable citizen in
this ward to once forgo partisan
prcjudicos, and for tho lasting good of
our grand old Commonwealth MD in
the election OF Mr.. Buckalew, the |