Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27


Col. Forney had the impudence to cal
Mr.. Tilden to an account for alluding
in his recent speech, before the Man
haitian Club, to the Presidential clcc
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er on bis bare back, in this handsome
style
Governor Tildon has at last broker
the silence that he has hitherto uni
iormly maintained relative to the final
issue of the Presidency, and he has
spoken with his characteristic direct
ness. He does violence to no prevail
ing sentiment Of the country or OF the
world when he says that the Presi-
dent chosen by the people Of the United
States was denied his place and the
highest honor of the Republic awarded
to defeated candidate; but it does
offend the organs which have estudious-
ly invited public contempt upon them.
selves by their feeble efforts to justify
what the intelligent judgment Of civil
ization has pointedly condemned. No
candidate for tho Presidency, even
when overwhelmingly defeated, has
been pursued by the opposition organs
with tithe Of the malice that has
been lavished upon Governor Tilden,
whose sole oflense was quiet submission
to his own displacement under color OF
law; and now that he has spoken
with that terrible incisivenoss that the
truth Of history demands, the organs
break out afresh and repeat their
threadbare assaults upon the man they
most fear because he has been most
wronged.
alt was in bad taste for Col. Forney
TO declare that the plain utter9nce OF
Governor Tilden will increase the sat
isiaction Of the American people that
he "was neither elected nor declared
President OF the United States" 70
say at this late day, with the multi.
piled proofs and bitter confessions
which have come from the chief actors
in fraud themselves, that Governor
Tilden was not honestly elected Presi-
dent, is TO insult the intelligence Of all
parties and President Hayes himself
makes no such claim. He was law
fully declared President by lawful
tribunal, and his acceptance Of his
commission from the arbitration crea.
ted by the nation to battle with fraud,
may be treated as public duty under
the circumstances but the fact is
none the less grounded in the convic-
tions of the country and the world,
that the result was revolutionized by
fraud, and that there can be no repe-
tition OF it that would not be death
blow to free government.
"And should Governor Tilden be ST.
lent when he is called upon to speak
by those who battled with him and
won brilliant victory under his ban
ner2 What considerations must close
his lips ? And if he shall speak at all,
can he do less than speak the truth if
he would command the respect of
those who trusted and honored HIM =?
Certainly not He does as did Col.
Forney when, in like manner, he was
denied seat in the first legislative
tribunal Of the Nation by palpable and
perfdious defiance of the popular will.
When his party had fairly won the
Legislature at the polls, and had made
him the candidate for United
States Senator, the Wells and Ander.
sons and Pitkins OF that day were well
personated in Lebo, Maneer and Wag-
onscller, who defrauded the Democra.
cy of Pennsylvania of their greenest
chaplets of victory as they defeated
Colonel Forney. 1t was done with all
the ceremony of law it made one
whose leadership and principles the
people had rejected, Senator not
only de facto but de jure, and he serv.
ed and was unquestioned in his place.
But was Col. Forney silent Did be
deem it evidence of his unfitness for
the place TO declare the truth that.
under color of law, another had stolen
his crown and parted his raiment Not
so, for Col. Forney made the State
echo and re-echo his burning words as
he portrayed the perfidy that had
made the highest gift of a great Com.
monwealth thing Of barter in the
legislative marketplace. The discus.
sion of the fraud by which Col. Forney
aud the Democracy lost Senatorship
was not declared an attempt to re-
open a fruitless but exciting contro.
versy," but the wrong was discussed
in every public journal, and Col. For.
ney and his friends thundered their
anathemas against the authors of the
wrong until they were made strangers
among men ard wanderers from the
place which had honored them. And
they did more they made it impossi-
BILE for other Lebos and Manners and
Wagonsellers to repeat the wrong.
Six years later, when there was but
one Democratic majority in the Legis-
ture and the same appliances were
summoned and the same result antici.
pated, the party that fell with Col.
Forney pronounced the doom OF death
against any and all who should betray
their trusts, and State looked on
complacently whilo the avenging out
laws stood in the legislative halls as
public executioners. Colonel Forney
taught Pennsylvania that the triumph
of minority over o majority by per.
fidy involved measure of infamy
that a Commonwealth could not re.
peat, and he made it a law that none
dare disregard. The Nation has bowed
to the same perfidious defeat of its
own will, but its trusted oracles now
teach the lesson that the way to the
overthrow of the verdict of
the people is the highway to National
cath"
A Scion OF RoYALrY.-lt is stated
that Gen. Ord, now in command of the
United States troops on the Rio Grande,
is grandson of George ~ and the
actress Mrs. Fitzgerbert, to whom he
was married by Catholic priest while
Prince Regent Tho Consent of Par
Lament had not been given, and the
marriage was illegal in English law.
A son was born by this union and con
signed TO a tutor named Ord, who EN-.