Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-10-25

every friend, close up the ranks and
press on, shoulder TO shoulder under
the same banner and with the one
watchword.
REFORM.
Fellow citizens Peace between all
sections prosperity in all our homes
OF these you have been for years de-
prived by the mistaken solictudes Of
patriotic Republicans, played upon by
selfish and corrupt leaders, who have
kept tanning the dying cmbcrs OF civil
strife in order TO escape inspection Of
the trusts which they have betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. At no time have you
had the substance Of peace. In lieu
thereof you have had the grinding tax.
alton and wasteful expenditure OF war.
Just before every election every year,
you have had the preaching Of new
crusade against section utterly de-
feated in war, and anxious only to be
completely reconciled in peace.
For eleven years the power of the
men who have seized away the con.
trol of their party from the hands OF
its statesmen and founders has been
supreme in almost every department
of the federal government.
Discarding the hope OF prolonging
their domination by benefcent public
measures they have created and traf.
ticked upon public calamities. The
policy they have adopted has been
worked out. Its failure has beer alb
solute.
In place OF past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
profler promises already broken as
their titles to further trust.
Having prostrated our manifold in
dustres by the vast aggregates and
the worst methods Of federal taxation,
they now again solicit your confidence
as the instruments of retrenchment
and reform.
Having defrauded the public service
and having just now, in the face Of
open day, assessed their army OF an
hundred thousand oflice-holders-th
peoples servants-paid by the peoples
taxes-in order to create immense cor
ruption funds to frustratc the peoples
will, they now profess to be the cham
pions Of civil service reform. Having
imposed upon the Southern States the
rapacity, fraud and plunder OF the car
pet-bag governments, having almost
ruined the prosperity OF the North by |
destroying the prosperity of the South,
having created terror, uncertainty and |
confusion in all the productive indus
tries of the South, which furnish most
of the exports of our whole country,
keep in motion the commerce and man
ufactories of the North and East, and |
furnish market for the agricultural |
products of the West, they now pur. |
pose, by renewal of the same fatal pol. |
icy, to prolong their own power in the |
hope Of concealing their misdeeds, and |
for this purpose they do not hesitate |
to renew the cry OF intolerance to re-
vive the dying memories of fraternal |
strife, and to appeal to the fears and
prejudices OF tho timid and ignorant
Fellow citizens: These men and their
measures have been completely tried |
and have completely failed, An op- |
pressive taxation, an exhausted South, |
an impoverished North, a fluctuating
currency, the enterprise of an indus
trious people locked fast in the par
alysis of hard times-such is the out
come Of their political policy, such IRE I
the achievements of their long suprem-
acy. Your ballots in November can
alone dictate change of measures and
q change of men. Shall not the upris-
ing Of patriotism along the valley of
the Ohio go on TO a complete and ben
cfcial revolution in the administration
of the government ofthe UnitedStates?
Will you not, by the voice of over
majorities at the polls, pro
claim your invincible faith, after all
these years of corruption and passion,
in the high immortal principles of gov
,rnment by the people for the people,
in simple honesty and strict economy,
rs the supreme wisdom of public poll
~, IN justice as the mother of power,
md in civil freedom as the be.all and
he cnd-all of true Republican ma
.ionality.
VIII you not build up new pros
,erity for all the people on the old
oundations OF American self govern