The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

The New York Herald, an independent
paper which as it says bears allegiance to
neither party. in its issue OF Saturday last
concludes an able and exhaustive review OF
.he political situation in the following teIse,
truthful and temperate teIms:
Under these circumstances we repeat
that the Republican leaders cannot afford
to count in Governor Hayes without such
precautions about the count as shall abSo-
lutely set at rest all doubts upon the sub
iect. They cannot afford it, because u 90
So would outrage the sense of far play and
honest dealing which lies at the bottom of
the Americas character because the un-
certainty and doubt resulting from well
founded suspicion of wrong would make
themselves felt i'll the most deplorabie de-
preston of business in a shock to national
and private credit; in the depreciation OF
our bonds i'll the sending home OF Ameri-
can securities III general feeling ot IN
security, which would send gold into The
fifties or higher; would paraIyZe industry
and trade; would cause thousands Of busi-
ness failures, and would, i'll fact, bankrupt
the country.
We will grant everything o the Republi-
can leaders grant that they observe every
particle of The bad laws they have enacted
down there grant that they not only count
in Mr.. Hayes, but carry the count through
Congress grant that they actually install
Mr.. Hayes in the White House on The 4tii
of March and, after all, il they have not
completely satisfied the intelligent public
opinion of the country that the count is
just and honest, nothing they can do VIII
give either content or security or perma-
nence to the general interests of the coun-
try. All industries and commerce Will he
struck with paralysis. No capitalist will
venture on enterprises /; no merchant viii
dare to lay in stock of goods, because no
prudent consumer will buy more than he
needs from week to week no sensible man
W II buy our bonds or hold them no manu-
factErer will venture to produce beyond his
actual cash orders; credit between man
and nlan ,.iu be gone the number OF the
unemployed viii increase tenfold poverty
and want will oyerwhelm the country.
Now, an administration producing such
effects upon the country, and producing
them by the mere fact of It's holding power,
could not hope to exist beyond the next
election. All the causes WHICH affect public
opinion and turn votes would cooperate 10
sweep the Republican leaders into disgrace
full retirement. Their President would tiad
himself, from the day he entered the
White House, an object of suspicion and
dislike to the great majority of his fellow
citizens and an object o! contemptuCns
pity to his personal friends and political
allies. IA the close of two years he would
be faced by a Congress in which both houses
would be his political opponents, sent there
by an indignant and suffering people.
What is the use of victory? To such
Adventures as Spencer, Chamberlain, Pack
ard, Kellogg, Elliott, Moses, WhipPer and
their allies in the South anything which
will keep them i'll power and plunder for
even another yearwiil be satisfactory. But
there Rre honorable men among the Re-
publican leaders of the North. Can they
afford 10 sacrifice the ideas for which they
have acted--can they afford 10 sacrifice
themselves in such Il way? We belieye
not.