The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-11-01

HpoRs. REPUBLICAN, STATE COMMITTEE,
P~HmApELAHIA, October IA, 1916.
To the Psople Of Ptnnsyiroaid. !,
Eleven years after the overthrow OF the re-
beIlion We find the men who forced 1t upon the
country again preparing to seize the Govern
ment. 1t is the old Confederate army united
upon the old Confederate heresy. They have
never abandoned their cherished idea-thcy still
think with Mr.. Tilden that ours is q confederacy,
and not a nation. They have made him their
candidate because he never abandoned the de-
clared conviction that "the Constitution OF the
United States is only organized revolution"
and that any State has the right to snap the
tie at its pleasure =
This was the hereey that fred the rebel gun
from Charleston against Sumter in 1851 and
this is the heresy they are remarshalIed in ls1t
TO re-estsblish.
To this end, they have crushed out Republican
opinion in every Southern State. To this end,
they have made the white Republican an out
cast, and the black Republican a yassal. To
this end, coercion of Republicans is their stern
discipline. By force, their Confederate heresy is
again the cement to make a Solid South.
The Confederate army is far more united to-
day in the new effort to seize the Government
than IL was fifteen years ago in the mad effort TO
dcstroT IL. They are still aided by their sympa-
thizers in the North. They have concentrated
the struggle upon q single issue-the i~eeoisfioa
Of the GogerEme,t. They sink every other cues
Ib1 Out OF sight,, duu tluc Mey ttICN no ~
duty.
Shall they recover by the ballot, conferred
upon them by Republican magnanimity, what
they lost on the battlefield In conflict with the
people they betrayed
We have met and vanquisbed their essaulting
columns five times since the first Tuesday of
September, 1S76-in Vermont, Maine, Colorado,
Ohio, aud Misunderstanding ten members of
Congress, electing five Legislatures, including
that of Indiana, which even the rebel raiders
from Kentucky were not able to capture.
Democratic victories in the South are only
evidences of Democratic terrorism over Repub-
lieans. Sixty-ive thousand Democratic ma
jority in Georgia means g., 900 rebel shotguns at
the polls.
Three weeks only are left to US to meet the
new crisis forced upon us by these men. What
usU Pennsylvania dor Our enemies, confident
Of successful coercion all over the South, have
resolved to make another attack upon this great
State. They leave the South in the safe custody
of the reorganized Confederate army, and the
are now, as in 1868, marching upon Pennsyl-
vania in determined array, and their rebel yell
already Is heard within our limits.
D.. Let us be prepared for them. Our great
Commonwealth has always been the stronghold
Of nationality. During the war she gave her
treasures of men and money TO the cause of her
country. Standing between the two sections,
she has always been the foe of sectionalism.
She stood by Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and
Meade during all the struggles of the war. The
people believed that when Vickshurg and Get
tysburg fell on the 4th of July, 1858. the great
work of restoration was accomplished and the
rebellion was dead, but they are now brought
face to face with a revolution as dangerous as
the rebellion itself.
When fifteen States can be more unified by
the shotgun and the bludgeon than they were
by armed secession itself, and when this combi-
is enforced by the suppression of free
speech, a free ballot, and free schools, its sue
cess must end our republican experiment.
These men tried 10 fight their way out Of the
Union at an incalculable sacrifice of human
life, and now they are trying within the Union,
by new forms OF violence anG fraud, to re-estab-
the dogmas supposed to be destroyed on the
All they ask is a sufficient contin-
gent from the free States to complete their pro-
gramme.
Ii is in this Centennial year, when Pennsyl-
vania is inviting all the nations TO her hospitali-
and profiering encouragement and kindness
10 her Southern sisters. that the Confederstes
advance upon her borders to make another
Effort for the heresy which originated and pro-
the rebellion.
PENNSYLVANIA demands "peace and unity"
but she demands them as the result of cheerful
to just law, and not as the sullen
compelled by the officers of the Gov
eminent.
Pennsylvania demands industrial and COM
nercisl prosperity but she knows that these
ire the fruits of peaceful and orderly society,
based upon honesty and right, and cannot grow
)ut of the anarchy and chaos threatened by q
'old South. Pennsylvania will first have JUS
ice, then prosperity. Has the country no road
o prosperity but that which disgraces the scars
# the living soldiers and dishonors the graves
" the dead
Pennsylvania will have purity IN public adj
but she wants none of the Elusive
nF - reform - ,pada he TsIlan a-l a
ustra,ed by Tweed and the disciples of Tam
many Hall.
Men Of Pennsylvania, upon you rests the re-
ponsibility-yours is the absorbing obligation.
Viii YOU " Hold the FORTH
By order Of the Committee.
HENRY VI. Horn, Chairman.
A. WILSON NORRIS, Secretary.