Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-06

votes of the manned and crippled pen
sioners of the nation BY an unadulter-
ed ialsebood is tie most base and con-
lePpiibie
In answer 10 your circular Oi sep
TENDER TO- wherein youa-k me To vote
the Republican ticket because the
candidates were soldiers etc, etc, !
will say our experience Of Republican
soldiers who have held Office has hot
been of the most pleasing nature.
President Grant wasa soldier and un.
der his administration We have seen
the Legislature OF sovereign Stale
dispersed by the bayonets Of Federal
soldiers and again We have witnessed
an unarmed sentinel, with the rank OF
corporal, passing upon the qualltca
lions Of members OF State Legisla-
ture We have seen this distinguished
soldier using the armyto bold the peo-
pie of the Southern States in subjec
tion while the vast horde Of carpet
baggers robbed them, taking from them
everything they had-except the yellow
fever and finally closing his admins
tration By sustaining, with bis ihiln
encc and the army, the Returning
Boards OF Louisiana and Florida n
their infamous work of counting oui
the legally.elected President and plac
ing an usurper in the chair of Wash
ington.
II was n Republican scldler-Gen
cral Adelbert Ames- who was forcec
to resign the Governorship OF Missis
sippi to avoid being impcachcd orhigl
cnmes. 1t was Republican soldier
General Delknap-who prosiiiuted th,
high office Of Secretary OF War by tht
most disgraccful crimes ever perpetra
ted by public officer. 1t was Re
publican soldier-Genelal Rniheriort
B. Hayes who accepted the Office O
President of the United States. know.
ingit to bestolcna and who re warded th,
men who assisted in the great crime b,
promptly appointing them to Office
1t was a Republican soldier-Gencra
/ llartranrt-wbo signed the Recorders
bill san act TO rob the people Of Phil
adelphia that funds might be obtainec
/ wherewith TO conduc, this politica
campaign and another Republican
.ollier-Colonel A. k. Dunkel-vote,
for this infamous measure. Bat wb,
continue the listl Itwould take a life
time to rocapitulate all the dark deed
of the Republican soldiers who hay,
held office.
Now. | will call your attention TO on,
or two facts showing the love the Re
publican marty bears the soldier. Ii
/ 1865 Congress pn,sed an act O. that al
soldiers disabled in the service shoul,
be preEerred for appolntment To publi
Offices The Democratic Honse pass
ed an act, June 10. 1873 TO enforce tbi
law and provldinr punishment for al
persons violating IT, How has thi.
act of Congress been observed? ? o
the eighty-fivc thousand Federal office
holders. how many are ex.soldiers
In this CITY of Brotherly Love wher,
are they :? Is the Collector Of this Por
soldier! the Postmaster. Director o
the Mint. or Naval Officer? But a
this act did not specify Union soI
dicrs, perhaps General Grant though
he was observing il when he appointc,
IN the departments nineteen of Mosby'
guerillas and the daughter of the maj
Jackson, who shot the lamcntcd Ellis
worth; aud, for the same reason, Pres
ident Hayes NAV have thought he wa
obeying the law when he recently ap
pointed the Rebel General Longstrce
TO lucrative position and when h,
appointed Mosby. the guerilla chief {,
a 81 900 Consulship | might tell vol
of the EQUALIZATION of the bounty bill
which passed the Forty.third Conpres.
and was promptly vetoed by the sol
dier General Grant and oftbe twenty
6ve Renublican u.mh.rs of tho uons,
ot Renrc.entatives who voted agains
nensionng the old soldiers of 1919
land of MANY o,her beor,loss acts n
1.-The Republiean marty towards the sol
ldiers but refrain In conclusion | en-
close an invitation signod he ,bre
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asN'"s 10" w aoanuo" 'ne parry y
and Babcock of Ames and Jackson
ithe slaver ot Ellsworth, NJ I,or,r.,f