The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-01

are impertant issues, and they claim your
serious consideration in the approaching
| canvass.
The pressure is npon us. If we cannot
avoid its evil consequences absolutely, we
must mitigate them as far as is in our
! power. 1t has not been the work OF the
| Democratic party. Thou canst not say
we did it,"
Therefore in declaring, at Erie, that we
would not permit contraction of the cur
/ rency we deserted no Democratic land
mark Our policy, as a party, has ever
! been to protect and guard the industries OF
/ the country We demand that the legal
! tender issues be made receivable for all
dues TO the governments policy that will
speedily bring them to par with gold and
| interchangeable Herewith.
! We denounced the system OF National
! Banking. We did so for the reason that
/ the National Government pays the banks,
4 acting merely as her fiscal agent, over twen-
! ty millions year IN com. AS .ne govern.
/ r.ent is responsible for the redemption OF
! the notes they issue to those corporations,
| why pay them a premium for circulation?
! Why not let the government issue legal
tenders in their place, and appropriate the
twenty millions of coin annually paid as in
terest upon banking bonds, towards the re-
| lief of the people in taxation. And we are
!
startled to be told, for they are in reality
the tax payers of the nation that this bank
note circulation has in ten years, since the
close of the war; cost them over one hun
dred and fifty million dollars, which has
been constantly sold by the banks for pur-
poses of speculation, affected by its artifi-
cia land gambling quotations of the prices, if
not the values, of everything consumed in
the country.
We condemned, too, the policy Of the
national government in the increase of Of
fcers and the profligate system of salaries.
We resolved ''that the undue multipica-
ton of the public offices and the inordinate
increase of salaries aud emoluments of Of
ficers are among the many evils which
! Radical rule has forced upon the country
| and in forming an economical administra-
| ton of the Federal and State governments,
so that the people may as speedily as possi-
ole be relieved from the burthen of taxation,
/ with which they are now seriously Oppress-
! ed, We call upon our Federal and State
representatives to strive by all proper means
! to reduce them both to their very lowest
! practicable number and amount.
This abuse of the Federal power cannot
/ be denied. 1t is known TO the country aud
/ the people untrue to themselves if they
/ do not correct the evil.
And not more elarng and offensive is
! the conduct of some of our local officials.
/ 1t is alleged that the large sums of money
! set apart in the State Treasury, as a sink
! ing fund for the payment of the public debt,
! have not been appropriated as the laws re-
! quire, and that no interest on these millions
! has been accounted forto the State. If this
/ he true il is a crime of great enormity.-
! The resolve of the Erie Convention charges
! openly: That the conduct of the present
! State Treasurer, in the management of the
Commonwealth S finances, in his neglccting g
/ to appropriate the sinking fund in payment
of the public debt as rapidly as required by
! law not accounting for the interest
! ceived by him on the peoples money de-
/ posited with the several banks and banking
| institutions throughout the State, and his
insolent refusal to submit the archives of
/ the Treasury Department to legally con-
stituted committee of the House of Repre-
! sentatives, appointed to investigate the
| same, is cause for grave suspicion, aud is
| deserving of the severest condemnation at
| the hands of an outraged aud already over
| taxed people"
These are astounding charges, and the
parties accused should put themselves on
! the defensive. Their silence is ominous.
/ AS the resolves Of the convention have
gone forth to the people of the State. it may
not be proper in this address to go further
! into detail.
! And now as to the candidates we have
placed upon this platform, and pledged to
a reform of the abuses set forth.
| Judge PershiDg, the nominee for Gov
ernor has proved himself to be, in his leg
islative capacity, statesman he is an up
right and fearless judge, moral and con-
scientious man. He is eminently fit for
the high place he is put in nomination to
fill, and the taX-ridden people of this State
cannot afford his defeat.
The candidate we present to you for
State Treasurer, in the person of Colonel
Piolett IS worthy of your support. He Is
a plain, intelligent farmer. He has no
purpose to accomplish inconsistent with
The honor and credit of the State. His
ricid honesty is proverbial with the people
of Northern Pennsylvania, and if elected,
the public monies, principal and interest,
are safe in his hands. He would scorn to
appropriate Illegally for private gain a sol
ilary farthing Of the people taxes. Heav-
EN- knows, wrung as they are from the
hard blows and persevering industry of
oui people, they ought 10 De honestly ap-
proprlated. s -..- --....-
With candidates who are beyond all ques-
ton properly selected nominated outside
Of all political rings and combinations Sc
lected because of their peculiar fitness, they
should be triumphantly elected. Our po-
litical opponents cencede that they are up
u right and honest men. and we know them
to be such. Let us elect them.
The time has come for change in the
management of the National and State af-
fairs And in that change is there any
conceivable possibility that our affairs can
be placed thereby in a more deplorable
condition than they are now? Our credit,
our industries, and moral reputation a
. people are demoralized. 1t is to be hoped
that profligacy and mismanagement, and
embezzlements aud official peculation, have
reached a point beyond which they may
not further advance. The tax paying and
tax-ridden people of this State have it in
their power at the approaching election 30
reliepe themselves from the sad condition
in which they now are. Will they do it?
The campaign we are entering upon
|, | must be aggressive. We have no apologies
: to make and no bribes to offer. Reason
mnst be our argument, and the people OF
f this Commonwealth, who are deeply inter
! octnd in a nure and economical admins.