The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-04

elm the present state of the country"
saws the Erie ObsorUer, "a third party Is n
delusion-a snare set 10 catch unsuspecting
voters for the benefit of the Republican or
ganizai ion." ANY laboTing man," said
Hon. John F. Follett, at Hamilton, Ohio,
on Tuesday, ''who at this election bends
his neck to the Republican yoke should
never again complain Of burden and dis
tress' The same can be said of the men
who are 6eluded into a third party organ
ization. There is not an act upon the STA
tute books he third party leaders complain
of that, at the time it was passed by the
Republicans, was not opposed by the Dem
ocrsts of the Senase and House. There IS
not an essential measure advocated in their
! pla' forms that the Democrats IN the last
I aud present Congress did not attempt 10
engraft upon the policy Of the country.
! Democratic voters passed the silver bill
| Democratic voters made the present green
i back issue permanent part Of the curIen-
/ Cy Of the country, and gave TO u its only
I and first recognition as money IN time OF
! peace. Democratic voters wrested from
Jay Gould and the Pacific RailuOad ring
| their power over Congress, and secured the
ultimate payment 10 the Government ot
more than two hundred and seventeen mil
lions of dollars shat would otherwise have
been retained by thar giant monopoly
/ Democratic voters lifted carpet bag rule
from the Heoks C the Southern people, and
i
use, the protection Of the frontier. gt-.sf-
ocratic voters have compelled the Interior
Department 70 take measures to recover
from railroad corporations more than a
million acres of the public domain given 10
them during the past fifteen years in the
| shape OF land grants. II fact there is net
an evil brought upon the country during
the Grant Iute, susceptible Of being reule-
, died by Congressional action. that the
1 Democrats since they obtained coutnOl Of
the HJuze have not tried TO remove That
they have not succeeded in every measure
OF reform introduced. is because the Sen
ate and the Executive have been against
, them. One of these impediments win be
! removed on the 4th of March next. and the
other two years thereafter, If the voters
D who won the victory in 1876 stand flm,
With these facts so plain that he who
Z ruus NAV read. the organization Of .hild
! party, with objects os.eusibly the same as
those already begun and half accomplished
by the Democratic party ic Congress- can
, have but one object-the perpetuatiOn Of
/ Republican rule Ia the state aud nation by
! | dividing tue Democratic vote. Out Of 2S3
, | members of the 10th Congress to be elected
e this fall third party-no matter how dis
= guised cannot secure a solitary member
| without uniting with one Of the other old
. parties. BY dividing the Democratic vote
: afew Republicans may be elected il close
: districts that would otherwise not be. and
Il thus the House thrown into the bands Of
e the third term Grant party. Ifthat is what
e the managers of the National Greenback
e party want, proclamation 10 that effect
e would be both manly and honest. Voters
Q would know just what they vated for
They would not be fooled with soft phrases
, about REFORM" aud promises that car
: never be kept WITHOUT the aid of the very
4 party they are seeking TO defeat, for what
e ever .he fate Of the next House. the Senat,
f at the close Of the4jti Congress viii conf aiI
l- a Democratic majority Of at least ten. aut
n with that majority the party " ia ''hOld ID,
g fort for ten yeais at least against al as
ol saults, whether led by Grant, OF Butler, q
both combined