The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-09-27
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Is going TO vote the republican ticket
is guarantee that the national debt
will be paid [Long aud prolonged
cheers. Now the question is, Who is
most apt to pay that debt? Those who
swore it was constitutional, or those
who swore 1t was unconstitutional {?
Every time Democrat sees a green
back, it says to him, "I vanq1ished
you" Every time Republican, sees
a greenback, it says, "You and put
the rebellion down." [Cheers.)
This great debt of ours was con.
tracted by the war brought on BIZ the
Democrats, and now with consummate
etrontry they throw that debt up to
us and try to make capital out Of it.
They talk about the depressed condi-
ton OF the country. Who made it so
Let every one of you workingmen,
when you have blistered your hands
to pay the debt, take off the blister
and under it you will find a Demo.
cratic lie. There never has been a
more prosperous city in the country
than Pittsburgh; but if Pittsburgh
and Pennsylvania vote to put the
Democratic party in power, her thous.
ands of towering chimneys will stand
smokeless monuments to her folly,
TILDEN's FOLLY.
Now gentleman, to pass from the
financial part of this; and I say one
word before do it. I will say that
1t any man came to you and wanted
the date taken from a note, you would
say he was dishonest and any man
who wants the date stricken from this
| pledge of the Government is dishonest.
(Applause.) Mr.. Tilden wanted the
date left out so that Hendricks could
crawl in. (Applause.) No; the Re-
publican party intends to pay its
debts in coin on the 1st of January,
1879. Paper money means probably
the payment of the Confederate debt;
a metallic currency the discharge of
honest obligations. We have touched
hard pan prices in this country, and
we want to do a hard-pan business
with hard money. You cannot jump
when you are in the air. You need
solid footing before you can stand
firm, and that is what we have reach
ed financially. If the Republican
party fails to resume on the date fixed
it will fail nobly, fighting like the sol.
dler on the ramparts with the banner
in his hands. Why my friends, ifyou
can think of any mean thing that
could be done, l will find you a Dem.
ocrat to do it. l do dot say that all
Democrats are dishonest, hut do say
that their principles are dishonest, and
that majority Of the party are dis
honest.
THE PARTIES CONF RAsTED.
Not long ago | was passing along a
road, where there was Sign post
which had stood there for years until
it had become weather. beaten and de.
cayed. 1t pointed to nowhere, and
was useless, worn out relic of by.go
days. | thought to myself when /
saw it, that is like the Democratic
party. Again, in another place 1 saw
the ruins of an old inn; the building
was burned down, and only the two
tall old fashioned chimneys at either
end of the building still stood erect. |
Up in front of the tavern the old sign |
still swung and creaked, and spoke to |
the public Of Entertainment for Man |
and Beast" And again, l thought
this is like the Democratic party, SO |
prolific of promises and so unable to
fulfill them. And the two chimneys
me ofTilden and Hendricks, |
trying by their prominence and soph-
istry to blind the eyes of the people to
the ruin about them.
Not long ago was in Paris and |
there l saw on monument where all |
the people could see it, a statue of the
Goddess of Liberty, and enduring fig
ure Of bronze that will last while the |
ages endure. In one hand was the
star Of progress, and the other pointed
upward, to the pure blue and free
zeDithi and this l thought, is like the
Republican party, in its enduring
being and elevated principles. Zap
plause.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
is made up of the worst elements of
society. There is not a penitentiary
in the United States that Tilden and
Hendricks cannot carry five to one.
In the Democratic Party can be found
the vicious and foul. The man who
wishes to answer an argument with
blows, he is the Democratic party.
Ali men who sympathized with the
South in its efforts to destroy this Gov
ernment are now in the Democratic
party; all the men who shot our sol
diers at the dead-mark are now for
honesty and reform, and if Tilden
should bo elected President of the
United States all these men would be