The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-10-29
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,s RECORD.
TIE HON. RICHARD O'GORMAS EXPOSING
ITS SCANDALS AND DISHONEST DEEDS.


At n recent Democratic meeting in Brook
| lyn, Y. Y, Hon Richard O'Gorman address
ed an immense audience as follows:
1T is many years since my home was in
Brooklyn, but it seems TO me, when l see and
feel your welcome, that | am back in my old
| home and among my old friends, | have
/ heard it suggested by some gentlemen OF dis
! tinctiOn that the strain and jar of these Pres
! idential elections are dangerous to the repub-
! lie. / do not think 50. These occasions
( serve TO remind the people that TREY are
masters and that parties are their servants
For the most part the people have little in
/ fuence upon the government of this country
/ except every four years, when i becomes
{ their dnty to choose the party and the rep
/ reSentativeS to control their affairs. No
king in the world has so much patronage to
dispose of as the President Of the United
I States. He has, directly or indirectly the
| choice of about 10000 office holders, and
/ their influence IS immense. Hence the
choice Of the President is the choice of a
/ party that must have nearlE supreme control
/ Of the country for at least four years. Hence
| the Presidential election is most important
/ We want now peace, r5pose and reconcilia-
! ton, and we want President who represents
all interests all races and all sections of this
country. The very fact that a party has had
{ control Uf this country for twenty years is of
! itself dangerous, and sufficient to warrant
+ the people in desiring a change. party
! long in power soon becomes selfish intent
/ rather on securing rs own continuance than
! in serving the natten. The members of that
party soon begin to look upon power as a
/ sort of franchise Fheir's by right divine or
! as the monarchs of Europe saw .by the
/ grace of God When we consider the claim
/ of any party that has so long ruled in the
{ United States to continue in power, we
should see what it has done to deserve it
Every action Of the Republican party since
/ the close of the war seems to have had but
one object-that is, to continue its own exist
E A 41,a 49,
{ the South as the best means of preserving
/ their power and sought by every device to
make it solid for themselves. A cloud OF ad-
yenturers, under the protection Of the Re
publican party, descended on the South,
grasped the government of several of TIN.
( States, and soon succeeded in increasing the
/ Indebtedness of thesr States by about si07,-
! 100000. For a while the South was solid,
but soon the carpet-baggers went Nurth with
their pockets filed and the South fell from
/ grace. The deluded negroes never got the
promised forty acres of land and never saw
the much-promised mule. So the South
/ ceased to be so solid. Then another expedi
ent was adopted. Soldiers were sent down
to break up Legislatures"
! Mr. O'GoTman then read the public pro-
test against this invasion of the rights of lib
erty, made by prominent citizens Of New
York, upon the dispensing by military force
of the Legislature of New Orleans. The
protest was signed by William Cullen Bry-
ant, William Z. Dodge, W. VI. EvartS and
Whitelaw Reid.
''It is strange that these distinguished gen
tlemen, who iD 1874, thus denounced the
Republican party having invaded the
tights of men are now asking the continuing
OF the same party in power. Then came the
panic Of 1873. The Republican party. BY
reckless bluHdering in finance, flooded the
country with almost unlimited paper money,
stimulating with speculation, followed hy
hn NJ flaf.G Won all sgrr, ,f,.-
those hard times, when there was no employ
ment for tabor and no field for capital.
The Presidential election Of 1876 came
on. The Democratic candidate was elected
by large majority, Samuel j. Giideu, and =
man who was never elected to the place was
put there. James Garfield the chief trans
gressor in this transaction, is now the candi-
date for that same place of the Republican
party, and you are asked to forgive this Of
feuce and TO reward the offender with the
highest position in the gift of the people.
confess that it once seemed to me that the
popular feeling was languId and inert in face
of this insult to the sovereignty of the people,
but / was mistaken. The instructive states
manship of ths people was wise. They con-
Guided to wait for four years to redress this
wrong. Now the hour has struck. the time
has come, and on November next the SOW
ereignty of the people will be asserted. -
tApplause.
The Democrats in Congress, Mr. O'Gor-
man said, reduced the Federal expenses
$40, 900, 900 year. Contrast this with Re
publican extravaganza. Gov. Cornell has
increased III one year the expense of New
York State 81 500. 900, the expenses of New
York City 5000. 600 and of Brooklyn Sl47, ,000
He also referred to the charge made by Sen
ator Davis of West Virginia that there was
a discrepancy of $500, 900, 900 in the books OF
the Treasury Department which could not
be explained. He also referred to the charge
that the effects of dead soldiers in the WaI
Department have been actually stolan from
the Second Auditor department, and no ex-
planation has been made.
In response to loud calls for speech, Gen.
Roger n. Pryor said that he would not dare
to alter the impression necessarily made by
Mr.. O'Gorman's eloquence. but promised 4
speech the following week.
7 CoSFEDER ATEs APPOINTED 10 OFFICE
Those Republicans who are fearful of the
influence of Confederate Brigadiers with the
Democratic party would do well to ponder
over the following list of prominent Coi,fed-
crates who have been appointed to lucrative
offices by Republicans
confederate Brigadier General A. T. Aker
man, of Georgia, appointed Attorney Gener-
al OF the United States by President L. :.
Grant.
Confederate Brigadier General David NJ
Key, appointed POstmas er General by Mr.
Hayes.
Confederate General James Longstreet
appointed Surveyor of the Port of New Or
leans by Grant and Minister to Turkey by
Hayes
Confederate General James l.. Orr, ap
pointed Minister to Russia.
Confederate guerrilla aud murderer OF
Union soliiers John ). Mosby, appointed
Consul to Hong Kong by Hayes.
Confederate Robert w. Hughes, appointed
Judge of the Eastern District United state,
Court of Virginia.
Confederate Colonel Northup, of South
Carolina, appointed United States District
Attorney
Confederate Colonel q. W. Henderson,
appointed United States Revenue Collector
of Mississippi
Confederate Colonel Wharton, appointed
United States Marshal in Louisiana.
Confederate Colonel Thomas j. Ochitree,
appointed United States Marshal of Texas by
Grant.
Confederate Colonel William II. Hough
appointed District Judge in Louisiana.
Confederate General =. .. Herbert, ap'
pointed Levee Commissioner by Grant.
Confederate Colonel Humphreys, OF Ala
bama, appointed District Judge.
Confederate Major MorphiS, of Confeder-
ate General Stephen ID. Lees staff, appoint
ed United States Marshal for the Northern
{ District of Mississippi.
Confederate Captain e. w Hunt, former
pointed United States Marshal for the South
i lTrfv 1T.