Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-17
Address of the Republican State
Central Committee.
HEADQUARTERS
RErrBLIcAH SrArE COnNnrEs,
PHLApKLFHIA, Nov. 8, 1870

RErrBucAx SrArE ConxfrEE,
PHILApkLFHIA, Nov.6 6, 1876
Republicans Of Pennsypania:
1t grand response you made 10
November to the greetings Of our
brethren in Ohio, Nebraska and Iowa,
sent in October. 1t gives You occasion
for sincere self congratulation it JUS
ti6es your shouts of triumph echoing.
cheeringly. from the Delaware to Lake
Erie.
Splendid as have been your record
and achievements in the past, you may
we'll point with pride to your victory on
Tuesday last-a pride renewed, empha-
sized aud re enforced by the verdict OF
a great people. You have easily placed
ourselves at the head Of the Republi-
can column of eighteen hundred and
seventy-sx. In all respects, this VIC
tory is significant and complete. Your
principles were righteous. The verdict
concludes that discussion. General
Hartranft, illustrious with his military
service, had won added fame by pure
and slgnally successful civic career.
Your gratitude, your patriotism, and
your solicitude for the welfare Of the
State compelled bis continuance in the
position of highest responsibility.
With knowledge, begotten of proof.
of the integrity of the State Treasury
management. and with the actual DEM
onsiration that there was not now and
never, under Republican officers. had
been a defalcatiou to the amount Of one
dollar of the public moneys, you had
the manhood and the courage to vlndi-
cate, boldly, your Treasury officers
from the unfounded, false, and indecent
charge of the political tranps who pur-
sued them with malignant falsehood-
With the calmness aud patience of a
patriotic and intelligent people, yeu
discussed the existing financial ques-
ton, stripped of DISCUSSES, and deter
mined 10 sustain the national faith and
common honesty in public affairs, and
set the seal of your condemnation upon
Reputation and all the insiduous at
tempts to compass reputation.
/ Against You was arrayed motley
but numerous host, discordant in prin-
ciples, united only in the pursuit of
power and plunder. They ciamored
for a change, but only offered delusive
promise. and fraudulent pretenses of
reform; they exaggerated the public
distress (neither the existence nor REM
edy for which is to be found in govern
mental, but in social causes); they
stimulated uneasiness in the public
mind they filled the land with inHAm-
matory addresses and inflated procla-
nations they vexed your ears With
screaming oratory and with turgid
blatant de ,lams ton they charged that
+" there was something wrong," but
proved nothing. Madness and senility
seemed to rule the hour. In all this
chaos you stood firm, nor we're you
tripped in your judgment, nor swayed
from your integrity. From the brawl-
ers and the demagogues you extorted
sour triumph, and have exalted the
strength of the people in Republican
government.
The waves of political sophistry and
financial heresy, bearing menace and
danger to national honor, and to your
most sacred educational and religious
institutions, we're stayed and broken by
the firm walls of your own Alleghenies j;
democratic wrecks and stranded drift
wood, now and then, alone, marking the
subsidence of this tide of folly and
claptrap.
Rejoicing as you do, remember that
your victory is the fruit of organiza-
ton, laborious and minute, and that
without organization, your power is gone
and your energies are useless. Stand
by your guns, maintain your ranks,
take the touch Of elbows, and hold
yourselves IN readiness for the final
charge along the entire line. which shall
result in the GROWING triumph of your
Centennial year, and which shall start
you in the second century of national
existence, under the auspicious rule OF
the great historical Republican party.
HENRY NJ. HoYT,
Chairman.
A. WILSON NORRIS, Secretary.