The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-10-24

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lsENNsYLvANIA.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN STATE !
COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA,
Octnhar 10 1877

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local and temporary significance. The
Republicans of Pennsylvania will be
neither disarmed nor dismayed. The
great and patriotic record of the party
in the past is not to be obscured, noi
will it be arrested in it's progress until
it shall have finished its mission.
Our November contest involves
State questions Of great Importance.
A Judge of the Supreme Court is to be
elected. For this position you have
presented the faithful incumbent of
that high office, Hon. James 2. Ster-
rett, candidate of undoubted learn
ing, ability and integrity, who has
already fully illustrated these qualities
by long service on the bench.
The financial agents of the State are
to be elected, and in~presenting Hon.
John A. NJ. Passmore for Auditor
General and Captain William B. Hart
for State Treasurer, you have chosen
gentlemen who combine every qualif-
cation necessary for the competent
discharge of their duties, and the rec
ord of whose private and public lives
is unsullied.
In this branch of your interests your
party has given the highest evidences
of skill and honesty. Since your adj
vent to power you have reduced the
State debt from $41 100000 in 1861,
to s22,000,000 at the present time,
with assets maturing and pledged for
the payment of the State debt amount
ing to $S,0O0,000, leaving net debt
of only 100000 to be provided for,
showing an actual reduction under Re-
publican administration of $27 100000.
We have given the most unquestioned
assurances that our nominees will go
on with the policy of retrenchment
and financial honesty. At this day
not dollar of State taxes is levied
upon the real estate in the Common
wealth.
In national matters it remains to be
demonstrated that the equal rights of
NIL have been completely vindicated.
1t is not yet true that Republican in
the south enjoys all the political priv
ileges of Democrat in the north. The
great Republican party, either in this
State or in the nation, will not have
closed its labors or accomplished its
purposes until all the rights guaranteed
by the Constitution of the United
States arc practical facts, fully incor-
perated into the daily life of north and
south alike.
The coming struggle in Pennsylva-
nia is of supreme Importance with the
welfare of the people, who through the
busy efforts of demagogues, have been
kept uneasy and restless. Much as we
deplore the prostration of industrial
Interests in the land, we remind you
that this condition of things is not The
result Of governmental policy, and that
England and the other nations of Eu-
rope are all suffering in like manner
and from like cause. The constantly
Increasing signs of freshly awakened
prosperity show that the Republican
administration of affairs during an i'm.
portant crisis has been prudent and
a acious. Should The continuance of
Bis wise Republican control be assur-
I'd by your votes the fact cannot be
doubted that the time has nearly ar
ived when, by the laws of trade, the
feenback dollar will be the equiva-
Rt Of gold dollar, and the laborer
iil receive for his days labor the dol
which promises its full exchange
he value. And thus labor and cap.
4 will find full employment.
o those of our fellow citizens who
e wavered in their allegiance to the
arty which has been the constant
.sAmpion Of American labor, we APP
eai for critical judgment of the in
ncerity of the professions of those
tatOrs in the Democratic party who,
lining to represent labor, have uni
finly betrayed it at the polls. In
10, as on former occasions, the only
nest adherents of the so-called "side
acs' were drawn from the Republi-
ranks. Deceived by false protes-
pns and betrayed by an insincere