The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-10-10

reproduced from the columns of The
Guide, published at Germantown, Pa.
We commended it to the attention of
both political factions
$50 notable have been the changes
within the past few years inside the two
great parties of the country that it is al
most impossible when comparing their
State and National platforms, to dis
tinguish the difference between RepuO-
lican and Democratic. OF course the
one will ever be characterized as "ne-
gro worshippers" and the others as
"copperheads;" the one will never cease
prating about its victories of the war,
nor the other of its adherence to the
constitution of the country. To the
though full looker.on, however, all this
making of faces and calling of hard
names will prove about as interes ting
and convincing as wordy squahble of
school boys over game of marbles. If
! the Republicans did all the fighting,
and the Democrats remained at home to
feed the soldiers who were in the field,
why who cares? Somebody must fight
while others fill their haversacks and
prepare their ammunition! If all the
Republicans went forth to war, who
could have been left at home to preserve
an orderly condition of dome site affairs,
except the Democrats and old woman?
1t was perfectly natural and ecOnom-
ical arrangement; and now all this cri-
mination and recrimination because the
Democrats "didn't fight their share"
How could they? The fields had to be
titled and the harvests gathered, the
anvils kept ringing and the looms
whizzing. But as we have said the
changes have been 50 marked, in both
sentiment and policy, that the one can
with difficulty be distinguished from the
other. To day the 'cOpperhead" of
Pennsylvania is better protectiOnist
than the "lOyalist" of The West; and as
this, the tariff question, is destined to
be the great bone of contention, the
great issue of the day, after the green
back and gold difficulty shall have been
settled, it is plain to be seen that the
difference between these political anita
gOnists will soon dwindle down TO about
the same as that "betwixt two eggs"
"In our own State nothing is left foI
faotonists to crow over, save the "glo-
, ries of the past" and the predictions OF
the "futnre;" both OF which the eau.
tiOus and upright citizen cares nothing
for, for it is Of the present with which
lie has to content. He has rd
and felt enough of war, Tor II Is written
on his tax,bills and in the rent of hi:
house. lie needs no more light on the
constitution, for it is but a ground OF
which demagogues are trained for thC
ring. What the hard working anC
honest tax payers want is honest anC
I, capable men to vote for. Platforms ar,
of no account; no matter how many
planks they contain, it is well know
they are all of rotten wood. Resolu
tiOns, no matter who or what they
prai.e or condemn, are valuless, for a
= best they are but string of decep
4, tive buncombe. Give us COOL men
p this is what we demand. and we car
not a fig foryOur party principles. CeaS
n your prating about the war and tn
a const tuition, for these are mtre blinds
We want good men! true menl homes
4 men Men wi o will neither cheat II
d of our vote nor sell themselves for
3. glass of rum, This is what we want
D Away with your platiornsl Something
|. better than these patched-up concerns
ir made to order by a set of bloated poll
!, ticins is what we want, aud will hav
- before long upon which to -tand VIVA
IL does your cry 0t"lOyalty "pigger
le amount to without good men for pllice?
m -------------------
=, Abraham Ilardenburgh, busines
p" manager and cashier of tine Jersey CIT,