Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-09-13
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OF Free Trade to the Congressional
districts) who now expects moro Of {
party controlled by protectionists who
cverthcir ttular head, than of a trained
and instructed economist like Gov. Til
den, leading n party which in its 81
Louis platform dared mem. con. to dc
nounce in sum and in detail, in cause
and in consequence, the monstrositiet
OF the present tariff, and upon that
issue goes to the whole country2
But as TO the immediate problem oI
specie payments and the party Of power
in the chiefs of tho two partics--nay
let me rather say, as TO the capacity
of any Republican President to carry
out that reform, the evidence to satisfy
or even to encourage you is far to seek
Gov. Hayes, as an exhorter to specie
payments, would never surpass Gen.
Grant. lie would never approach his
personal supremacy. What has Gen.
Grant done for eciepayments? That
he did prevent one worse imitation let
us gratefully remember. But with all
his cxhortations and all his personal
supremacy, what has he been able
afiirmatively to effect. Like Gov.
Hayes, he quito lacks that high per-
sonal competency to deal with the diff
ficulty which would have assured to
the Executive initiative the outcome
Of a legislative ratification. He could
not bulge his party one inch. Could
Gen. Hayes do morc2
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE CUR
REHCY.
Gov. Hayes, like President Grant,
would be obliged to work through q
party interested in every abuse, and
the heir of its own history He would
have to deal with the party which
created loyal tenders which cancelled
the early provision for their exchange
into interest bearing bonds; which
made the law that enabled President
Grant to pack the bench Of the Su-
preme Court with judges willing to re-
verse its previous decision against the
Constitutionahty of the legal-tender
act; which, in every year of war and
during ten following years Of peace, by
successive mutations, put fresh him
drances in the way Of resumption I;
which violated unblushingly every par
tisan and every official pledge Of pur-
pose to resume; which reissued, by cx-
ecutive usurpation, notes issued with
out Constitutional authority; which
has transcribed the war limit imposed
upon such issues, even by the packed
courts last legal tender decision; which
refused to destroy the notes withdrawn
by Secretary Bristow (replaceable 100
to so by the national bank notes) and
openly declined to give security that
they should not be reissued as were
those withdrawn by Secretary McCul-
loch; which, in March, 1869, solemnly
pledged the faith Of the United States
to make provisions at the earliest prac-
ticablc period, for the redemption Of
the United States notes in coin, and
which in 1875 again, for the.hundredth
time, dishonored that public faith by
passing John Sherman's sham, naming
Jan. |, 1879, as the day of resumption,
and providing and preparing for that
resumption with surplus which has
never been accumulated, with q safe
of bonds which have never been sold,
and with an expansion of paper issues
which has only not been realized be-
cause, in the disastrous extremity TO
which Republican charlatans and plan
dcrers had reduced the business Of the
country, initiation itself, except by a
greater increase OF governmental ex-
penditure, had at last become impossi-
bic.
NO HOPE FROM TUE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Is it from such party that you hope
for better things2
Is it from the party which in Ma
tional Convention on second ballot
nominated Samuel ]. Tildcn, that you
dread a darker day
Doyou hope for reform nom the
party that, as represented in National
Convention at Cincinnati, voted down
the resolution in which il was pro
posed by Gov. Davis OF Texas that the
convention should declare it "the duty
of Congress to provide measures for
carrying out the provisions of what is
termed the Resumption act Of Congress,
to the end that resumption of specie
payments at the time fixed by said act
cannot be further postponed?"
Do you hope for specie payments
from the party which, after having
repudiated the pledge of 1869, and af
ter having by the act of 1875 repudi.
ated until 1879 the notes OF the United
States which are payable on demand,
finishes by rcpudiating all that kept
the promise TO the hope, in the act that
made q promise to the ear, of resump-
tion Of specie payments two and a third
years hence2
DO you dread and distrust the party
that may have erred as to one item in
the long catalogue OF hindrances to re-
sumption which, as such, it denounces
and that item, one which never by
its authors was intended to be, and
never has been, made help to resump-
ton?
A party retained in power retains its
character and its control of its highest
officials; whercasa party newly charged
with power which IL has obtained by
the pledges of its platform, and the
character OF its nominee, must accept
his leadership and be faithful to its
pledges in his Interpretation Of the
same. In the former case you have n
popular condonation if not popular
endorsement of the past you have no
inducement to reform since its necessity
has not been affirmed, and since all
official rewards have been conferred
without that price. Where, then, goes
the influence of every officeholder, high
and low2
In the other case the selfish interest
of every aspirant and every appointee
concurs with the highest aspirations
and the best purposes Of the leader by
and under whom they have achieved
victory.
The steady progress of the Demo.
cratic party which you have witnessed
during the last decade you may look
to see continued in the direction OF a
success that has been so signal. The
leaders in that progress are the cap
tains IT. this fight
THE DEMOCRATIC Parry TO SUCCEED.
Wcshall succeed. Ohioand Indiana,
hitherto repeatedly lost upon false
issues, will probably both be carried in
October by the Democracy. Ohio will
certainly be lost TO the Republicans,
tbougb IL IL the homo State of their