The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-10-21
ADD r E S S
OF TIE
Republican State Committee,

{ MAKE Slauu IN uctSHSS Va out pm
ciples. The party which. by its po-
litical heresies, plunged this country
1 into a bloody war, stands arrayed
against you on precisely the grounds
which it occupied in 1860, and pro-
poses to reopen all the old contro-
versies which it was thought had
been settled by the war, and it there
fore becomes necessary to sustain at
the. polls the governmental policy
which has prevailed under republi-
can administration.
"An dndeliled and restored Con-
stitution," which is equivalent to the
Southern demand for ''the Constitu-
ton as it was.' is what the DemOc-
racy Of Pennsylvania asks for in the
recently issued address of its State
Committee. 1t wants to ignore or
rule out the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the Gen.
stitution, and restore the Constitu-
ton as it was before the war. 1t sets
up pietence that these amendments
are null and void, and if it should re-
turn to power we may naturally look
for an attempt to enforce relapse to
the condition of things that existed
prior to the Rebellion.
The recent armed uprisings in the
South, accompanied by numerous
murders, outragcs innumerable, open
rebellion, and the establishment of
reign of terror to intimidate the un-
armed and peaceful citizens, had the
full sanction and sympathy of the
Northern Democracy, and were plain
/ ly but part of general plan to re-
establish the old order-of things.
The part of the Northern Democra-
cy is to lulI the people into a false
security, and steal back into place
upon false pretences, if possible. The
part of the Southern Democracy is to
set up a reign of violence, and by
su.h an intimidation of the weak as
will keep them from the polls, to in
stal themselves into Offices to which
they could never otherwise attain.
The two work together in perfect
harmony, and their joint triumph
would utterly annihilate all the bene-
fetal results of the war.
1t is the part of the Republicans of
Pennsylvania to crush this conspira-
cy by thoroughly defeating those en-
gagged in it, and they can do this only
by rallying heartily to the support of
their State ticket, and by cordially
supporting their local nominations.
so as to secure the election CT a
large majority Of the Congressman
and a decisive majority in the Legis-
lature.
The people of Pennsylvania do not
want to return 10 "a restored Consti-
tuition" or the Constitution as it
was" They do not want to come
back again under the insolent rple Of
the Southern oligarchy, or to put
their varied and grand industrial in
terests at the mercy of the free trade
demagogues who control the Demo
cratic party.
But, strong as are their convic-
tions upon this subject, they can en-
force them only in one way, and that
is at the polls. They must elect men
in harmony with their well-known
views ana interests and this can be
done only be securing thorough de-
feat of the Democratic party.
The last Democratic State Couven-
ton did not dare to open its mouth
in favor of protection to American
industry, or against the ratification
of the Reciprocity Treaty, which is
/. free trade in disguise 1t had not
the courage to take sides with the
party in other States on those ques-
tions, and was equally cowardly in
declining to take the other side. On
| the two greatquestions which involve
the material interests of the State, the
prosperity of its people, and the de-
velopment of its wealth, it was as
silent as the grave. No one doubts
that its sympathies are with the ene-
mics of our material progress, and the
Irule is as good in this case as in
every other-"He that is not for US
is against u.s."
| II, therefore, the people of Penn
sylvania want to defend and promote
the growth and the prosperity oftheir
4 State, they will not entrust its desti-
nies to the hands of a party that dare
not open its lips in their favor. The
t Democratic party of the nation is
for free trade, and the out spoken
part of it is in favor Of repudiation;
and it is for the people Of Pennsylva-
MIA TO decide whether they will
again permit such party to control,
and by controlling to ruin, their fu-
ture prospects
The Republican party of the State
has had possession of the Govern
ment since 1861, and has proved in
that time its claim to continued pub
lie con6dence. 1t has administered
the Government honestly, faithfully,
economically, and justly. The State
has grown with rapid strides under
its fostering care; the laws are every
where judiciously enforced; and it
needs bot the maintenance Of the
protective policy on the part of the
National Government, to secure our
advance, at an carly day, into the
; front rank of all the States.
When the ReDnblicans assumed
the reins of the State Government ID
1861 they found State debt of over
$40, 600, 600, and the breaking out o.
, the Rebellion entailed an immediate
addition to that debt Of $500, ,0et
for arming the people and defending
he State, so that they began thei
administration with the burden 0
over S43, ,OOG,0 900 OF debt. Tha
debt has now been reduced to s24,
000,000, reduction in round nun
bers of SIS, 200, 900 in thirteen years
or 81 ,50O,0 600 yearly. This reductio