The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-09-25

two millions of dollars per annum BY
the taxes collected from the corpora
tions.
4 IA v0ice-"Just what Grant ha
made England pay."]
Now, my fellow-citizens, look q
that. At the same rate Of payment il
nine more years Pennsylvania vii
have clear and clean books. Sh'
won't owe a dollar in the world. NJ
other State of the American natioT
tonight can show such a financial re
cord as that. Go look ut New York
which has been under Democratic
rule. Laughter Contrast our
condition with theirs. Ah, my fellow
citizens-and yet they talk about
speculating with the public money
Well | hope Mackey and Hartranfj
will go on until they get the whole
debt paid. Applause and laughter
1t is the kind of speculation that
like-just like the whisky that Gen
Grant drank during the war
Now, my fellow-ci, liens, it is not
necessary that should revert to the
brilliant military record of Gen John
+. Hartranft. There is one thing be
has not got to do-to go travelling all
over the State of Pennsylvania ped
ding books and documents to prove
that he is loyal man. Laughter
and applause Yes, they are paying
the State debt and Grant is paying
the National debt, and paving it rap
idly, too | used to think that th5
National debt was terrible thing ; in
fact, if / had owed all that money
would have gone into bankruptcy.
used TO think that it was a terrible
thing, but some time ago | read an ac-
count of store-keeper in some little
town in Ohio, who paid $4,000 a
year for eggs. Just think Of it and
I began to calculate, if all the store
keepers in Ohio paid so much for eggs,
considering how many stores there
are in OHIO, how MANY old hens there
must be cackling in all the States,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Laughter And concluded that
our national debt would be paid if we
would only turn it over to the chick
ems Tlaughter and that it would be
paid the easier now, because the Dem
ocrats have no more victories to crow
over. and can furnish the roosters
gratis. Now let us see about Bucka-
lew. r.Tell us about FCrnev."7 But
You know all about him already
There is no use wasting ammunition
over one of Andrew JohnsOn's dead
ducks.
BUCKALEW.
Let US see a little about Buckalew
He is Reform candidate. He is a
man all virtue If he is selected, there
will be no specializing with the public
money. There will be no money de-
posted in the banks. Well, / don't
believe there will be much. Laugh
ter. Everything will be lovely
Let us look at his record. He has
been in Office about twenty years, and
likes it. In point of fact, a fellow
does get to like it. | like it a little
myself He gets a hankering after it.
Well, Buckalew likes it; for twenty
wears be has been in Office. He is one
of the reformers. Well, he is a Re
former, something Ike Lowry, is a
Reformer. He is a very honest man,
and went into the Legislature ten
years ago. He owned a large amount
of real estate, the purchase money
and the taxes ON which were not paid,
and he hadn't the money to pay them
with. He stayed nine years in the
Legislature, under a salary of $500 a
year, and paid for that real estate and
had 100000 to spare. Laughter.
Buckalew is a Reformer like this
man. But Lowery is honest. /
not would intimate that he is not
honest.
Indeed, l hold him up as an exam
pie of great honesty. He is Me
Clure's right bower. Laughter. /
Well, Buckalew, when the war broke
out in 1861, was in South America,
in some sort of Il diplomatic Office.
He came home in a few months after
the war broke out, and, the first thing,
he made a speech on a Democratic oc-
casion, and / am going to read the
beginning of it rerbatim ct hterGtim.
Said he: When | landed in New
York | heard that Abe Lincoln was
elected President of the United States,
and | felt Inundated" Humiliated. !.
think of it think of it Buckalew was
humiliated because Abe Lincoln. the
rail-splitter of Illinois, was elected
President of the United States; vet
he is o Democrat of the Democrats
and Reformer of the Reformers.-
And vet he is going about the State
asking workingmen to vote for him.
Humiliated because Abe Lincoln, the
rail-splitter of Illinois, had been elect
ed President / thank God, my fel-
low-citizens, that we live in a country
where it is possible for the humblest
and the lowest in the land to rise to
all the higher and nobler positions
But now, Charles II. Buckalew, Dem
ocrat though he may be, has yet to
learn the first grand fundamental
principles Of Democracy, and that is
that the drops of sweat that gather
on the bow of honest toll are jewels
fairer far than the brightest gems in
abe crowns of princes. Applause.
All! it was no disgrace to Abraham
Lincoln that he split rails in Illinois.
Applause. 1t was no disgrace to
Andrew johnson that he was a tail
or Laughter The Lord knows
that if there had been nothing else
but that to disgrace him he would
have been great man to this day,
laughter And it is no disgrace to
Ulysses Grant to have been a tanner
applause, and it is no disgrace to
Henry Wilson to have been a Natick
cobbler The good Lord knows that
if Buekalew was humiliated in 1861
by the election of one rail-splitter,
how much he will be humiliated in
1879 by the election of atanner and a
shoemaker. Well, Buckalew came
home and get humiliated. They do
say he often got Inundated. | think
there were two occasions, last winter,
in the Senate, when a certain distln-
guished Senator and great Refor-