Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-04-18

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"if half be true l6at he alleges as TO
the condition OF South Carolina, Gov.
Chamberlain must be the most COW.
ardly Of knaves and the most subser.
Went of creatures to the domination Of
crime. lf"not less than one hundred
Republicans "wcre murdered because
they were faithful to their principles
and exercised rights solemnly guaran.
teed tothem by the nation" in seeking
the election OF Hayes and Chamber
lam, then has Chamberlain been either
the accomplicc or the obedicnt slave of
murdcrcrs. lie had Republican courts
in every district of the State he had
Republican Sherins, Republican prose-
cutting officers and Republican jurors
in two-thirds if not iour-ffths OF the
counties he had the army to sustain
his officers in the execution of the laws
and tho courts in the enforcement OF
eirproccsses and judgments he had
tho State militia, organized, armed and
commanded by his friends and subject
to his call he had eonstabulary OF
his own creation thatswarmcd in every
county ostensibly to sustain his au-
thority; he had trial justices in every
locality, Of his own faith in nearly all
instances, TO sit as committing magis-
tratcs he had nearly thousand dep
uty U. s. Marshals appointed by At
tornoy General Taft to strengthen his
hands; he had the State, district and
county officers with rare exceptions
obcdient to his will; he had q popula.
ton composed of two.thirds blacks and
one-third whites, with all the blacks
and fraction of the whites in sympa-
thy with the Republican party, while
against his party convictions were but
one-third of the people, and they with.
out officers, under the ban Of the army,
and of the national, State, district and
county officials, with their old military
organizations-ol which Chamberlain
was q member in several instances
disbanded by the arbitrary decree Of
Chamberlain; with all these agencies
in his favor and with helpless oppo-
sition, he has not punished murder, nor
theft, nor lawlessness, and has not dar.
ed TO arraign before his own courts
and jurors the men he so recklessly ac-
cuses OF crime. Either he must accuse
falsely, or he most of all accuses Gov
ernor Chamberlain.
Equally false or scll,accusing in his
violent and indecent arraignmont OF
President Hayes. What Chamberlain
claims as to Republican success in the
State should be the truth, it is not the
truth, and he well known that his pub
lie ussoi tim 10 uuwa,autvd by tho
facts. South Carolina is Republican
in faith by quite two to one of her vo-
ters, and would so vote today, it, as
ex-senator Rcvels said of Mississippi,
Repnblicanism had not dcgenerated
into theft, lawlessness and confscation
ofpropcrty. 1t was under Governor
Chambcrlain's administration, either
as Attorney General or as Governor,
that Republican rule became the pro-
life parent of waste, OF oppression, Of
hunger, of poverty and of public dis
credit and dishonor, and the discord Of
thieves, the jarring greed of jobbcrs,
and the necessity OF the plundercd,
wasted his majority into o minority,
until he finally attempted to protract
by violence his prostitutcd power
against which every class, condition
and race revoltcd. lie was beaten,
and knows that he was beaten, while
Hayes narrowly escaped defeat be-
cause of the crushing milestone of the
of which Chamberlain was
tho accepted representative and leader.
And he was beaten with every possible
agency and element of power on his
side. He had the election officers in
every district Of the State to receive
and reject such votes as they saw fit
he had the county boards to compute
and certify the vote he had the army,
the militia, the constabulary, the
United States Marshals and all the
moral and political power of the State
and county governments to aid his
cause, and, with every appliance in his
hands that could control votes and n.
turns in his favor, he was beaten by |
his own return, and the recognition of
this fact, now patent to all the world,
is the oflensc OF President Hayes for
which he is accused of perfdy to his
cause aud his friends.