Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09
H0YT.
A CANDIDATE wrrH PRINCIPLES.
Labor, Honesty and Coin-His Speech at
Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia.

j represent the organized agencies which the
great Republican party have set up and propose
TO sustain In this State IN the interest of good
government ---e
Eighteen years ago million and a half of men
armed and went down to battle that the nation
might live. The enemy in front resisted 10 the
death. aud thousands In our midst declared and
resolved In convention that war for that pur-
pose must fail You vindicated yourselves as
men who possessed the brain and purpose of the
inheritors of an interest in a great ancestral
right and an inherited intelligence, and pluck TO
maintain that right. That fight, fellow-eitizens,
you won- Your flag still bears all It's blazing
stars. and floats over every parapet and fort OF
the Republic. The applause which greeted
Colonel Hoyt here warmed him up and he went
OH with vigor.
THE NATION MUST LIVE HONESTLY.
To-day you are marshalIed that the nation
may live, honestly. As you once held the peo-
pie 10 the great lessons OF fortitude, sefdenial,
and suffering, so now you, and you alone, are
TO organize that heroism which shall compel
honesty In public matters, honesty in private
affairs. You are to maintain the public In
tegrity. that governmental dishonesty may not
debauch the sentiment of individual integrity.
\ great debate is now going forward between
the American people. The only organized body
of men who embody and proclaim the truths IN
government and finance is the Republican
party. For twenty-five years the Democratic
party has had no vital and efficient contact
with the actual ideas organized in our insti-
tutlons. Democratic men went shoulder TO
shoulder with Republicans TO the trenches 10 be
torn and mangled, and 10 the battle front todie.
The Democratic party, as a party, never put
itself honestly and sincerely in actual sympathy
with the people. II did not keep abreast of the
ripe sentiment of nationality. In 1868 IL lost
the election because 1t did not intend honestly
to pay the war debt In 1872 It lost the election
because, while IL took as its candidate great
champion of human rights, II took him because
he had abandoned patriotism for sentimental
ism. In 1876 It undertook campaign for ere
form,' but its record was too unsavory and
its disguises were too thin to deceive the aver
age American voter. To-day that party has
positively no attitude on any public question
going to the real living interests OF the people.
/ It's leaders are distracted and inconsistent, its
declarations weak and worthless, 1t presents
no dennite schems for the conduct OF affairs.
As IL has produced no results In the past, SO II
offers no hope for the future. To-day It's leader
ship IS In the hands of few able and ingenious
gentlemen, Republican at heart, but inspired
by a sense of mischief toward the Republican
party and hearty enjoyment of their mischiev-
! Gus intervention. IApplause.
REPUBLICANIsM MUST RE BOLD AND IN
TREPID.
Feilow-citiZens, as in the years gone by the
Republican party fostered and developed the
| endurance and persistence OF our people, so now
you are 20 organize, uphold and support the na-
tionaI faith I'm ITSELF We are confronted with
I the problem of how to pay immense private
and public Indebtedness. The jobber ard the
charlatan are filling our ears with deiusive and
dishonest proposals. The sense OF public inieg-
| rity never needed concerted and organized sup
port more than now. The mission of the Re
publican party IS not done. Your utterauces
( should never be bolder and more intrepid than
now. The people are willing to be recalled 10
sense OF the sanetity OF public promise. They
must be implored 10 shut their ears TO cheap de-
vices In government and finance. We must re-
eognize that divine law which oriains that
homes and happiness and wealth are the awards
Of industry, skill, and economy. No human
scheme can reverse the rules OF the divine econ
1 omy and confer upon Itleness and prOalgacy the
rewards OF life.
The laws which compel an Individual able TO
pay his debts TO be willing to pay his debts must
/ be me, by some corresponding sentiment-sOme
| principle OF pride and honor which shall demand
/ that government able TO pay its debts shall
rise TO that high duty. For this there is no Ie-
lance but the high spirit aud proud determina-
I tion which should pervade people with the
| traditions and destiny of our own.
| THE NATIONALS as CREDIT wRECKERs.
! When the National party propose TO pay the
( bonds of this government with the greenback,
and talk about the greenback in illimitable vol
uIne being made good and fOated upon the
credit of the nation, they wreck that credit of
/ the nation at the outset. The Constitution and
! the law aside their first act Is a cneat and
\ fraud, and no plain, practical business man
/ will trust the individual, firm or nation which
pays a solemn promise with a cheap. promise,
/ aud which never purposes day or actual per-
( formance of either.
| LABOR. MUSCLE AND COIN.
| FelIow-citizeus, some maXims OF political
economy and finance may be considered as set
I lied. Nothing which men deal in as articles OF
| commerce and exchange has anyivalue except
! the value which human labor and muscle and
energy have put inio IL. The value Of that labor
Z and muscle is for the people TO measure and not
the government Tne measure of value mnst
| have value and it must be the value conferred
I 10y labor and muscle. This, coin has. The Re
publican party has given its pledge that the
representative OF cola, paper money-whether
I The money issued by a State bank, national
/ hank or the government itself-shall be re-
deemable in the actual currency OF the civilized
/ world-s currency which has intrinsic value,
which has cost labor and muscle and food to
produce. \ paper dollar, as money, has no
value, except as it represents an actual thing
J and is capable of redemption and conversion.
rat the reference to the ''currency of the world
the applause was OF the warmest kind.
LET CURRENCY AGITATION STOP.
The Republican party invented the greenbaek,
and II has redeemed II from legal and financial
Z infamy. 1t intends that the laborer who re-
I ceives IT on Saturday night for hundred cents
! shall be able on Monday morning TO buy nun
dred cents worth OF flour. The greenback, re-
7 vIlei and slandeTed and rejected by those who
hated the rebellion it suppressed, is 10 be re-
deemed and made good by the Republican party.
/ The long and weary struggle is over-we have
! paid the price of resumption, and now demand
the fruits of the sacrifice. Let there be no
more agitation of the currency question among
the people-no more tinkering st the currency
in Congress. Its gradual appreciation in value
has led US naturally, In the reasonable course
of events, 10 a return to a settled and stable
condition, and has saved the jar and destruc-
tIon of a sudden collapse. The credit OF the gov
eminent is restored and the credit of business
men, dealing one with another, is not measured
by the credit or discreiit In which the govern
ment itself stands. We resume our production,
our trade and our traffic according 10 usage and
the maxims 10 which we are accustomed.
WHAT REPUBLIcASIsN HAS ACHIEVED.
1 will not argue, felIow-citizens, how the
sentiment of the Republican party has COM
PEELED accountability in public officers-that
not a dollar of public money has been lost in
nation or state by defslcaiion of those charged
with the collection and disbursement of public
money; how in Pennsylvania your State debt
has been reduced from sI2 600, coo 10 SIS. CO., 00
how real estate pays no State tax, and how all
the burdens OF State taxation have been re-
moved from the shoulders OF the people and put
upon the corporations who hold your valuable
franchises; how you have made the most vigor-
Gus preparations to pay the national debt; that
you have already In eight years paid its one
third, and reduced your interest account from
sI4j, 600, coo annually 10 $4,000, 600 Having
faced the solution Of this problem, you will go
on with the honest effort 10 pay our debts in
honest money.
The close OF the war found the government In
receipt OF more than i've hundred millions
IN taxes in a single year. The reduction of the
debt began. and at the same time began the cut