The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-17
NO. IL.

to nominate for the Presidency-General
Hayes Loud and prolonged applause
Rut let gentlemen heed the lesson of his
tory.
TILDEN DESERVES DEFEAT.
This man, who has commended himself
to the highest official position in the world,
in this most ilustrious of all the years of
our national existence, by the arts of a COM
mon advertiser of his own qualifications,
who has been pulled into notoriety, through
the use of his money, and who touched the
telegraphic keys at Albany, that prompted
the insolent and overbearing conduct of his
supporters at st. Louis, as he directed from
New York the operations in Ohio that re-
suited in our defeat here last Fall, has yet
to submit his qualifications, his conduct,
and his principles to the scrutiny and judg
ment of the American people. The cry of
Reform-a cheap device of those who are
always ready 'to keep the word of promise
to the ear, to break it to the hope" will not
prevent the discussion of the principles of
that platform and the purposes of the man
who drafted it.
We can afford to be defeated "Truth
crushed to earth will rise again, but we
can not afford to have the vital principles
of the party betrayed, and its organization
delivered into the hands of moneyed OIL
garchy.
If it shall be my good fortune to live to
witness the restoration of the Democratic
party to power in the Councils Of this coun-
| try, | wish to see it assume that response
| bility with clean hands, and an open, hon
est front, under the lead of men who scoru
the petty arts by which selfseeking aspir-
ants advance themselves men who are
worthy of It's glorious past, who have been
| the fearless defenders of its organization,
or the faithful expounders of its principles,
and who are imbued thoroughly by nature,
| education and association with a sincere de-
votion to the rights of the laboring, wealth.
producing and taxburdened people of this
country. No, gentlemen, the ascendancy
of such men, with such principles and pur-
poses, will not give suffering people the
relief they expect ; and to which they are
entitled.
Let us, therefore, bide our time. Let
us keep the faith The children Of Israel
were forty years in the wilderness before
the day of their final deliverance came.
But in all the vicissitudes of their fortunes,
amidst the reverses to which they were SUBJ
jected, they preserved the Ark of the Cove
nant, containing the ten commandments,
which was the rule of their faith, with
sleepless vigilance and unconquerable de-
votion, and although at the end Of their
long wandcrings there were but two survi-
vors of that mighty host which the hand
Of Almighty God had delivered out of
Egyptian bondage, the decalogue was pre-
served unimpaired, to come down to us with
the antiquity of the Pyramids, as the i'm
perishable foundation for the hest moral
and religious system of mankind.
Let us initiate such fidelity to our
political principles.
When the Emperor Constantine assemb-
led the hosts of the Roman Empire for the
overthrow of Paganism, it is said there
was displayed to his astonished and deligh-
ted vision blazing cross in the clear Wes-
tern sky, with this legend about it:
an this sign shalt thou conquer"
Let US wait until we can march under
banner inscribed with no such indefinite,
hollow word of promise as Reform" but
with the time-honored principles of the
Democratic party;
Constitutional liberty.
Equal rights.
Equal taxation.
Equal laws.
Justice to the poor as well as to the rich :;
to the humble as well as to the mighty.
Under such sign, and under such only,
| oh hn \ m IL
sire, or will it ever deserve, to conquer.
(Long continued applause).
! New York pays her Mayor $4,000 a
year.
Sportsmen say that rabbits will be plenty
this fall.
A Tennessee fair offers S25 premium for
the fastest team of pigs.
The Turkish army now equipped and i'll
the field numbers 100000.
Throw charcoal into the hog pen it
will act as good disintectant.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has work
ing force of six thousand men on their main
line.
A train of 110 ears, in eleven sections,
containing 5000 people, lately arrived in
} Philadelphia.
The Tribune thinks that the Democratic
tendency to reputation will defeat Tilden
and Hendricks.
Last month there arrived at the port Of
New York 1913 immigrants, of whom
5,736 were females.
Asia, the country OF the Orient, can af
ford to lose few people by war. She has
population of 799, 100000.
, 1t is estimated that it viii cost Schuyl
Kill county nearly fifty thousand dollars tt
convict the Mollies OF that section.
( The next general meeting of the Ameri