The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-10-27

For eleven years the power of the men
who have seized away the control of their
party from the hands of its statesmen and
founders has been supreme in almost every
department of the Federal government,
Discarding the hope of proonging their
domination by benefcent public measures,
they have created and traflicked upon public
calamities. The policy they adopted has
been worked out. Its failure has been abso-
Lutte.
In place Of past performances these same
corrupt and selfish leaders now proiler prom
ises already broken as their titles to further
trust.
Having prostrated our manifold industries
| by the vast aggregates and the worst meth
ods of federal taxation, they now again soli-
cit your confidence as the instruments Of re-
trenchment and reform.
Having debauchcd the public service and
having Just now, in the face of open day,
assessed their army of hundred thousand
oliiceholders- peoples servants-paid by
the peoples taxes-in order to create i'm
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ple's will, they now profess to be the cham
pions of civil service reform Having i'm
posed upon the Southern States the rapacty,
| fraud and plumber of the carpet bag govern
ments, having almost ruined the prosperity
of the North by destroying the prosperity of
South, having created terror, uncertainty
and confusion in all the productive indus.
tries of the South, which furnishes most of
the exports of our whole country, keeps in
motion the commerce and manufactures OF
the North and East, and furnishes market
for the agricultural products of the West
they now purpose, by renewal of the same
fatal policy, to prolong their own power ia
the hope of concealing their misdeeds, and
for this purpose they do not hesitate to re-
new the cry Of intolerance, to revive the dy'
ing memories of traternal strif, aud to APP
peal to the fears and prejudices of the tinio
and the ignorant
Fellow Citizens; These men and thei'
measures have been completely tried and
have completely failed An oppressive tax
alton. an exhausted South, an impoverishe
North, a tluctuating currency, the enterprs,
of an industrious people locked fast in th'
paralysis of hard times-such is the outcome
of their political policy, such are achieve
ments of their long supremacy. Your bal
lots in November can alone dictate chang
of measures and change Of men. Shal
not the uprising of patriotism along the val
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efcial revolution in the administration o
the government of the United States?
Will you not by the voice of overwhelm
ing majorities at the polls proclaim your in
vincible faith, after all these years of corrup
ton and passion, in the high, immorta
principles of government by the people 70
the people, in simple honesty land stric
economy, as the supreme wisdom OF publ
; policy, in justice as the mother of powel
and in civil free ON "a the be-ail Of tru
Republ can ma o aiy?
Will you not build up new prospert
for all the people on the old foundations
American self government, on peace, recor
Gil All, n al d fraternity between all sections
e all classes and all races embraced With
G our system Of American commonwealths
on frugality and economy in all government
: on honesty and purity of administration ,an
having lost your prosperity through govern
Q mental misrule, regain that prosperii
= through governmental reforms? We con
nit this great issue to the intelligence an
If conscience of the American people, with q
o unfaltering trust in the wisdom and justi'
If of their decision.
= BY order of the National Democrat
IL Committee.
II ABRAM S. HEWITT,
J. Chairman.
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