The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-04

Mr.. TON MAGINNIs, who is o DEM
ocratic candidate for Congress, is the
most whole souled friend Of the work
ingman that has, up to date, put in q
bid for the votes Of On intelligent
constituency. Mr.. Maginnis is one
of the gentlemen so common now-a-
~days-who profess TO believe that all
the troubles OF the country can be
cured by the manufacture of green.
backs and their general distribution
by the government, and he also de-
veloped his theory Of fnance-nearly
all of those lunatics have Q theory Of
their own-in q speech at Newark,
Ohio, q few days since. Said this
eminent financier
sFellow laborers-Elect me to Congress. III do
this for you when 1 get there. You are entitled 10
100 acres OF land anyhow. How are you going 70
get it, III tell you how. We viii make green
backs enough to pay the bonded debt Of the
Nation. This paid, will save 70 tho people $780,
NJN.NiN AIANANEA dAAAtAA.s a - NHhN NAAN AANhN. rHAA
give to every poor man who desires to 20 West
with his family $1,000 TO each Of these sons OF toll
Thus 1 provide for $4,000 families yearly. lhon't
propose 10 give this as a present. I propose TO loan
Il without interest. lfthese men can't pay II in
five or ten years let them pay it when they are
able. Some people say how are you 70 get these
settlers theref You have no assurance that they
viii 70 when this money is given them. I'll tell
you how. Appoint agents all over the country.
one in every county. Make IL the duty Of these
men 10 purchase railroad tickets for those desiring
/ 10 start. not transferable. When they reach their
destination L would have other agents there 10
provide for them-build them houses and barns,
buy them horses and mules, cows and sheep and
hogs-not less than four brood sows tor each fami-
ly. This is what 1 would Do. ia bring sunlight
10 millions OF my fellow laboreTs BY making
them happy and prosperous would, at the same
time. be adding untold wealth to the Nation.
God bless ne, my dear friends, 1t is no trouble 10 do
this
We thought this s%ublimely impu-
dent attempt of Msginnis 10 bribe
his way into Congress could % be
excelled, but a chivalrOus son Of
South Carolina, lays all OVER the
Ohio demagognei in the originality Of
his proposition to purchase the negro
vote for the Democracy and a solid
South. The speech was made recent
", to the colored voters at Camden,
in that.State, the orator being a high
toned lawyer of Charleston whose keen
sense Of honor was deeply shocked
because of fraud prac:iced on the
ignorant negroes by Republicans and
carpet-baggers. He informed his
audience that each man represented
the sum of niue hundred dollars
that having been the average price
of a negro in 1860.
.Now." said he. s1f YOU will vote the Demo
cratic ticket, we will.make the Yankee pay for
you. and then we viii give you half oithc money
He then illustrated the beauty Of this plan by
Singing out a man with a wife and eight children. /
for whom the Yankees were 20 be made 10 pay
nine thousand dollars. "The north" continued
this orator, s'will have 10 pay me this nine
thousand dollars, when viii give one-half Of
this sum 10 Uncle Jim, and keep the other half
myseif.- This he argued. would make Uncle Him
Independent. aud Re n much better thing than
forty acres OF land and a mule"
Ridiculous as this argument sounds,
it is not q whit more absurd than
the Ohio Democrats appeal to his
audience. Both have the elements
of sh~rewdness, as both address them
to the poor, the indolent, and
covetous. Money, money, We viii
give you money, is the bait, with
the demagogue is busily
engaged in angling; and laugh
as we may, at the gudgeons who are :.
SO easily caught, it is on undeniable
fact that thousands will be safely /,
and slowed away ia the
fsh basket.
Ex Governor PALMER, OF Illinois,