The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-30

duced by DIR. Carpenter, Chairman of the
Democratic County Committee. In his
usual calm and clear method he spoke as
Follows
SPEECH OF MIR. BUCKALEw.
FSlL01o-cttisens of Lancaster County,: 1
appear before Lancaster county audience
for the first time. Although | have known
many of your people many years, it has
never happened that | was with you in
your popular assemblages in any of the
great election contests through which we
have passed in the last twenty-five years.
But | am here tonight to salute you all l
hope, as friends, and Ihope, also, as fellow
co-workers with me in an enterprise in
which we are jointly interested. 1t is not
one peculiar to the speaker who now adj
dresses you. 1t is one that goes home to
each and all of you. The question is,
''Can we in peaceful times, undistured by
the clangor of war or any disturbing force
from abroad, can we secure to ourselves in
this country just, honest and successful
governments in our States and in the gov
eTDments of the Federal Union ?''
Gentlemen : | might say many pleasant
things concerning your county as introduc-
tory to my remarks tonight. Knight speak
of its early as well as of its recent history.
| might go back to the time when Benja-
min Franklin appeatcd to the farmers of
supplies for the Inflated expedition of Brad
dock into the wilderness, and when his ap-
peal was promptly met. Imight go on and
point to successive periods of your history,
when your county exhibited her patriotism,
her energy and her devotion to the coun-
try in times of emergency and peril. l
might dilate also upon the peculiarities of
character in your population, as settle
ments were originally made and as society
nm in ma omit tI1Ha yuif
a corresponding swollen volume of various
interests, and an accompanying prosperity
such as is vOuchsafed of few sections of our
own Commonwealth or of other States
But, gentleman, | shall not dwell upon
these points, however, pleasant it might be
for us to pass some time speaking of them
and listening to them. Although my moth
er was of Irish descent, | never had my
tongue upon the blarney stone and there
fore you will excuse me. Laughter.
AN ELECTION CRY.
l pass on to matters that may be if not
more interesting and pleasant at least more
suitable to the occasion. In a work writ
ten by D'Israei the younger, work of
imagination, he depicts the trouble and
dmculty of pair of English politicians
about q generation ago and early in the,
reign Of her present Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain. They were named Taper
and Tadpole, and their difficulty was to
obtain an election cry. Now, it would
seem as important that an election should
have cry as That a sermon, should have a
text, or a newspaper motto. Well, Mr..
D'IsraePs politicians after racking their
ingenuity finally settled upon their election
cry, which was this: ''Our young Queen
and our old Institutions There was a
pleasant collocation of language, vague and
general in Specification suited to the neces-
sites of the political situation. In this
election campaign there wasno difficulty in
settling upon cry for Democrats and Re
formers i'll this State. 1t was a plain mat
ter. The language lay before them They
could not miss it. Therefore, the cry was
raised early; it continues to this evening,
and it will be reiterated hereafter. Their
election cry is ''dOwn with the rings %
Applause l-'Down with the Ring !'-
[Great applause.
THE REFORMER'S CRY.
But what does this mean? Why, it car
ries upon its face words significant to every
Intelligent citizen of the Commonwealth.
1t means that government has gone wrong
1t means that men in public station have
consulted their own interests instead of
the public. 1t means that there is odium,
suspicion, and some measure of disgrace in
public affairs in this State, and connected
with those who have been entrusted by the
people with the exercise of their SOVEREIGN
powers. Our cry was really made for us
by our opponents. They brought into ex-
iStence the wrongs out of which this COM
mon watchword arose, and trust that SO
effectual and complete viii be the decision
of our people this year, that repetition of
this cry, at least in our State, will never
hereafter be required. CApplause.] That
the lesson now To be administered by the
people will not only be wholesome in char
acter, but also SO enduring in its conse-