The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-23

the euon q tbe party tnat pre-
served il.
That Rutherford b. Hayes is in
power against the weIl-known and
legally-expressed will of the people is
an orstorical and historical falsehood,
proven to be such by the ann ais of
the Electoral Commission.
That "the Democratic party, as of
old. favors q constitutional currency
of gold and silver. and paper converti-
BILE into coin" is q lie of purest ray
serene. That party never did favor
a currency of paper convertible into
coin. "Of oldn it held that a Nation
oil Bank was unconstitutional. Hos
tility to all sorts of paper money was
its boast, and "mlnt drops" as the
gold coin Of the government were
then popularity styled, were shaken in
the faces of the people as Democratic
money. At a later date, when the
rebellion began, it was particularly
hostile to ~greenbscks, and beloved
6ercely for gold with which to pay
our soldiers, and only last year, pro-
Tossing to be fond of greenbacks, it
opposed their convertibility into gold,
denounced the National banking sys-
TEN, made common cause with the
"6st money! Nationals, and during
the recent session of Congress labor
ed and voted persistently for every
extreme soft-money scheme. There
never was the day, during its long
vascilIating, trucking, dishonorable
and mendacious career, when the
Democratic party was in favor of a
paper currency convertible into coin.
As to its claim to economical admin
istration when in power, let the forty
millions of debt which it left as a
legacy when it was retired from rule
in this State the fact that in a time
of perfect peace, the Lot Democratic
administration the country had was
compelled to make a loan to meet it's
extravsgant expenditures, at an ex-
orbitant rate of interest, and the ap-
propriations made by the last Con-
gress, wherein parings from ordinary
appropriations had to be made good
by deficiency bills, answer the trans
parent untruth.
But richness in invention was re-
served for the declaration that the
Democratic party is the natural friend
of the working man, and throughout
its history has stood between him
and oppression. In the light of its
history 50 placidly adverted to, this
ia the sublimest lie of record since
Judas denied his master. Its course
of legislation for the protection OF
home labor against foreign compe-
tition, its old time conviction that
slavery was constitutional and ought
to be nationalized, that capital should
own its labor and sell it just as horses
and mules are sold, and its rebellion
against the Government in behalf of
these doctrines, attest its careless hos
tility to every interest of free and
well paid labor.
That it should look with %apprehen-
sion upon the professions of the great
transportation companies of the State,
to be above the fundamental laws Of
the Commonwealth, and it's savage
announcement of the attempt to sad
die the State with the Pittsburgh riot
losses, are both revelations that may
be styled surprising if true" when
it is remembered that at the heads Of
these arrogant corporations are such
Democratic magnates as Thomas A.
Scott, Franklin B. Gowan, and until
lately Asa Pasker, their late million
aire candidate for Governor, whose
slightest behests have invariably been
complied with by Democratic legis-
~lators, aud also the fact that the can.
didate for Treasurer, whose friends
controlled the Convention and framed
the resolutions, is q citizen of Pitts
burgb, in whose interest it was pro-
posed "to take from the Common
wealth $4,000 600 for which its liza
bilities had not been ascertained", and
that be dare not to-day relax one jot
or title in his demand on the State
for the payment Of these losses.