The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-18
On to PictOFy.
CHAIRMAN sPEER STRIKES THE KEYNOTE
OF DEMOCRATIC DUTY-sTAND
BY YOUR COLORS.

J The command of the hour is ForisGrd J
7 The duty of the hour is prompt, earnest,
thorough organization. With the result
of the late State elections before US, the
highway to victory is plain that even the
blind can walk in it. Let Democrats wor
/ ship at their own altari Let the men who
have stood by our standard through storm
and haii-through defeat and disaster
strike their locks again and present an un-
broken font to the common foe. Read
with open eye, and consider with honest
heart, the result in Ohio and Indiana
They bring you fruitful lessons.
In Indiana the Democrats followed the
old flag, aud stood shoulder to shoulder III
the shock of battle. Victory now gilds
their ensign a majority approaching
twenty thousand for their State ticket, and
the election of nine out Of thirteen mem
bers of Congress-a gain of five and a
majority in the Legislature, are the sub
stantial fruits Of their devotion.
In Ohio We have elected eleven members
of Congress, "A gain Of three but, while in
a pitiable minority of the whole popular
vote, the Republicans have elected their
State ticket by a small plurality, through h
the folly Of our own people. A sufficient
number of Democrats wandered into the
Greenback organization to secure the de-
feat of their old faith and the temporary
publicans who pretend to be Green hackers
betrayed their professions, and at the polls
deserted their new party. And now the
Democrats who were misled and deceived
in the consuming shame and sorrow Of
their betrayal awake to the truth that they
have been made the instruments to perpet-
uate Republican misrule and to defeat their
old friends and cause.
Democrats of Pennsylvania, I call upon
70 nit ftoI ha baf
tactics and treachery, led by corrupt men
and means, shall not succeed here in No
vember To pause in your duty now is a
crime. United, the State is ours, and the
feast OF Indiana will be spread upon our
table. If you waste your ballot upon n
third candidate the spoiler will reap the
harvest and rob you of your own Loaded
with the plunder Of many years, the Re
publican managers are debauching the
people, and are maintaining Greenback
organizations in Democratic counties for
the cunning purpose of dividing our forces
and thus securing our defeat. Hopelessly
demOraliZed themselves, in their utter de
spair they seek to divide rs. Shall the
lesson of Ohio and Indiana pass unheeded?
If faithful 20 our flag no human power can
arrest our march or delay our triumph.
And Why should Democrats desert their
party now? The evils aud burdens under
which the people groan are the bitter fruits
Of Republican rule. Shall our folly perpet-
uato in power the authors of our woe? Or
shall we not, burying minor differences,
unite our forces and go forward to their
overthrow The path of duty and of safe
ty is before us, aud | summon every Dem
Ocrat in the state to walk in it. If any of
our people have been hesitating they must
how SEQ that the only hope Of success is
with us. With history dating from the
ii Of Ho =
Gus names and deeds, the Democratic party
calls its wayward children back to its fold,
that they may share in the joy aud rejOic-
ing Of its coming vic oTy.
4. VI. SPEER,
Chairman State Democratic Committee