The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-12-04
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| her 81 will be conducted as Il newspa-
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lance on the part of every citizen who
= desires to preserve the Government
S that the founders gave lis. The de.
: bates and acts of Congress, the utter.
> ances ofthe press, the exciting contest
y Of the Republican and Democratic
/, parties, now nearly equal in strength
e throughout the country, the varying
Il drifts of public sentiment, will all beai
2 directly effectively upon the twenty
- fourth Presidential election, to be helC
in November. Four years ago mex,
November the will of the nation, as
expressed at the polls, was thwarteC
by an abominable conspiracy, the pro
moters and beneiiciaries of which still
hold the offices they stole. Will the
crime of 1876 he repeated in 1880? The
past decade of years opened with a cor.
|, rupt, eNtravagant and insOlent Ad
ministratiOn intrenched at Washing.
+, ton. Tue sun did som thing toward
C. dislOdging the gang, and breaking it!
= power. The same men are now intri
guing to restore their leader and them.
u selves to place from which they wer,
driven by the indignation of the peo
1t pie. VIII they succeed? The conlini
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affairs of life, and in CRATE things
steadtast purpose to maintain tn
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OF the Constitution against all aggres
sors, THE sun is prepared to write
m truthful, instructive, and at the sam
time entertaining history of 1850
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