Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-02
WAR IN THE CAMP.
HARD WORDS, MY MASTER.

HARD WohDN, MI hAhIEh.
Tho Unlontown Standard, the organ
of the Republicans of Fayctte county,
publishes tho following editorial OK.
posing the trickery and fraud by which
The nomination OF Hayes was procured
ut Cincinnati'
NOMINATION OF HAYES AND WHEELER
AT CINCINNATI.
When the delegates from this State to
the late Cincinnati Convention were
selected, il was reported thata an arrange
mont was made with the administration
that the delegates chosen should be
transferred to Conkling,i in return for the
appointment Of Don Cameron to be Sec
retaryoi War. There was such an odor
OF improbability and rascality, OF course,
In the thing, that We could not credit
II. And so we said Mt the time. We
did not believe that Simon Cameron
was 30 utterly prohigate, and capable
Of such crime against the Republican
party Of the State. But what was
then stated as n fact turns out to be
truc-or something like u prophecy.
Time has confirmed its truth, and what
was agreed on at Harrisburg, has been
carried ont at Cincinneti. First, Don
Cameron almost instantly was appoint
ed Secretary of War, and the rest fol-
lowed In order.
OF course, an act so dishonest hav.
ing in il all the elements Of national
conspiracy--to sell the Republicans Of
the State for cabinet oiiice--required
cunning device and hidden machinery.
The trick could be played in only one
way; that is, by putting the delegates
to the Cincinnati Convention in q posi-.
ton to be handed over in u body. To
TO this endsa rule was adopted by
which the votes OF all the delegates
were to be voted by the chairman, TO
which Office Don Cameron, now Secre.
tary of War, was appointed The
Representative districts were annihi-
lated, and Don Cameron, at his own
will, empowered to cast the solid
vote of all. Thus he was author
lied TO cast the fifty-eight votes
of Pennsylvania for whom he pleased,
and in defiance of the fifty-eight indi.
vidual delegates, restricting him to
casting them for Hartranft, except
upon twenty OF the ffty-eight delegates
demanding conference in which
majority could instruct him TO vote the
fifty-eight votes for such candidate as
such majority should direct. A ma
ority OF the delegates were for Blaine,
and conference was demanded, after
the second ballot at Cincinnati. But
Cameron refused TO grant it, when our
delegate, Mr.. Andrew Stewart, John
ii. Hampton and two other delegates
defed Don Cameron and voted for
Blaine. The Blaine men, il permitted
to vote, could and would at any time
before the seventh ballot have nomi.
mated him. They were held in com.
plete retraint and durcss, taking in
fact no part in the contest, until Nor
tons, Conkling's, Hayes and Bristows
friends had fully tested their ability to
unite on any one Of themselves, and
finally came TO AN agreement TO vote
as they pleased, when the slaves were
let loose from their slave baracoon, and
where their votes were rendered worth.
less during their confinement. Never
were drunken or renegade voters more
firmly cooped and held from the polls.
In no other way could the State be
deprived of its vote in the Cincinnati
Convention, and that way alone could
Blaine be defeated and the Conklings
and the New York monoy-brokers,
free-traders, and gold gamblers, nomi-
nate their man. A large majority Of
delegates were for Blaine, and had they
been unlashed from their chains, would
at any time have nominated Blaine.
New York could have carried their
man and measures only by trampling
the vote Of Pennsylvania out of exist
ence. No man denied that vast ma.
jority OF the Republicans OF Pennsyl.
vania were for Blaine. No man dare
deny that he was the choice Of a vast
majority Of the Republicans of the
United States, On the first ballot be
had the majority Of the AZ States and
Territories. Bristow had IL States,
or a majority Of their delegates. Hayes
had one State (0hio). Morton, six
States and Territories; Conkling, two
States; Hartranft, one State, (Penn'a.)
nominally, but not in fact.