Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-07-12
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1875.

one indivisible Republic. Brethren o.
one political family, with the same
, heritage Of liberty, under equal law
and heirs Of one destiny, shall we pre-
serve and transmit that great heritage
t Shall we mako that destiny the most
glorious in the history Of free peoples
Ifyourdeliberations, fellow Democrats
today shall bc wise; If your percep
tions of tho necessities Of our time, oll
country, our politics shall be just and
sagacious; If your sympathy shall be
quick with the hearts Of great people
then beyond all peradventure we shall
transmit to our children and to our
children's children, unimpa!red, this
priceless heritage. Yours will be q
better renown than the rcnown most
prized by ADMINISTRATIONS Imperi.
orum-far greater than the founders OF
empires are the prcservcrs OF republics.
There are no enemies Of the Union to.
day on this continent except that ad-
ministrative centralism which is con-
gesting at the capital the vital currents
which ought to flow out through every
part, giving lifo to the farthest ex-
tremes OF the body polite and energy
to oil its members except that corrnp-
ton which is the curse-that central
ism has never failed in any age or land
to entail upon any government. Cen
tralism and corruption have imposed
upon States and rapacious tyrannics
Of carpetbag rule since the peace and
have added s2OO,OO0,00O to their debt.
They have infected the governments of
our Northern States and Northern
cities with the same disease of extrava-
gance and fraud. They have debauch-
ed the Federal government itself and
made the names of scores of its high
officers and public men our public
scandal, our open shame. A record of
horrible incapacity, venality, waste,
fraud, and the party which had been
powerless to break down and trample
under foot its corruptionists with stu
pendous affrontery pledged itself TO a
reform Of which It has become incapa-
bic. So that party pledged itself to
restore specie payments, every year
taking us further from specie payment.
So it pledged itself to civil service re-
form and then dropped and mocked its
reformcrs. So it pledged itself to pro-
tect American labor and with its mon
strous custom.house taxation on over
three thousand articles it has impover-
ished American labor. A few score Of
monopolists, a few thousand corrup-
tionists have been enriched, but capital
in the hands Of those that earned Il by
industry and saved II by frugality is
everywhere dlstrustful and rusts un-
used, while honest labor goes about
the streets begging bread. Is this then
the final outcome Of century of Re
publican seli-government? God forbid
Il, gracious God. But we have wan
dered far from the right path; we
must return to the Constitutional prin-
ciples, the frugal expenditures and the
administrative purity Of the founders
Of the Republic. This is the first, the
most imperous necessity of our day
and nation. This is the appeal we have
TO make TO our fellow citizens of
every former political affilation. This
is the one supreme commanding issue
to which all others are inferior all
others trivial. Reform Reform Re-
form If you shall recognize the i'm
porous necessity, If you shall guarantee
in your platform the successful achieve
ment Of this arduous work of national
regeneration, II you shall select stand
ard-bearors true TO your own high pur.
pose and faithful to your pledge, vic
tory in November, victory in the
October contests are already yours.
Incarnate the vital issue OF reform In
candidate and platform, and the States
that have honored Douglass and Lin
coin, the States that to-day honor Hen
bricks and Thurman, Hancock and
Parker, Bayard and Tilden, these
States, with all oftheir vast population,
will rise like the woods and the winds
that followed the futing Orpheus and
follow you to victory.
Mr.. Belmont, of New York, read q
series of resolutions, arraigning the
Republican party and appealing to the
American people to forget the civil war
after eleven years OF peace and put an
end to sectional strife. He accompan-
led them with some earnest remarks
The resolutions were referred. Ad.
journed until III tomorrow.
After the adjournment Dan Voorhees,,
Of Indiana, was vociferously called up
on, and uttered an eloquent speech on
the issues OF the campaign. After
Voorhees, concluded s. s. Cox was
called out. He said the House of Rep
resentatives had passed twelve appro-
priation bills and sent them to the SEN
ate, having. cut down the Republican
estimate s64 100000. IA voice; "stick
to It'll" Cox replied; ave Wilt
Let the thunders of this Convention
follow the electric flash of the telegraph,
and exhort the Democratic House to
stand by their action, and they will.
Proceeding TO consider the asserted
dangers OF such action, he said he
thought VIC could do without the army
until after the November election. The
navy could be spared from protecting
commerce which bad legislation and
ipjudicious taxation had destroyed. As
to the Indian bureau, If the border men
are only turned loose they will soon
crush out these contractors. Indian
warfare he touched upon, and favored
the repeal Of the resumption act. The
bcst business men East and West con-
cur that resumption in 1879 is utterly
impossible. Commenting upon the
issues fthe campaign, he asked :"Who
shall bc your standard-bearerT He
was overwhelmed by cries Of "Tilden,
Tildenr ~ long continued.
Mr.. Cox said that when he asked
that question, he intended 10 answer II
himself Laughtor.] Referring in
terms OF respect TO Tilden, ho said he
(Cox) also knew the strength OF the
objections TO him. He alaO referred
snccersively and complementary TO
Hancock, Hendricks and tho great un-
known. Every time his phrase gave
opportunity the audience renewed its
cries of "Iildcnl Tildenp In con-
clusion, he said the Democratic party
had no common contest In meeting tho
ticket of Hayes and Wheeler, and he
appealed to good, hard, common sense,
TO name the Democratic leaders in no
haste, but carefully and discreetly
after full consideration Of all the ncces-
stiles Of the hour.
After the adjournment the Pennsyl-
vania delegation had resolved TO vote