Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-11-24

may be dead, but not from the blows
of its hereditary enemy. The trouble
is, Colonel Ingersoll, the Democratic
party lacks both agility and the cour
age OF the Republican organization. 1t
does not oven now dare to discuss the
probability of decisive frauds in New
York, Tor fear it may be charged with
merely contemplating what the Re.
publican party actually committed four
years ago-has defended ever since
and now glories in--the theft of the
Presidency.
You do not believe that one mans
labor shall be taken by legislation and
given to another, and yet you were
swept along with your party in itsI
monstrous position upon the tariff dur
ing the last month of the campaign
even without aprotest, although popu-
larly supposed to be the most cour.
ageous man living, You know very
well that the Democratic party is not
a free trade party, and that in the six
years Of its supremacy in tho Lower
House it hasn't touched so much rs II
hem of the tariff garment You know
that it is perfectly TO be depended on
to meet the Federal debt and its inter.
est and to pay the last dollar, and lib
orally, the Federal pension roll. You
know all OF these things for you are q
student aud an observer, and yet you
saw the Democratic party battered
almost beyond recognition in such tar.
i'll States as Pennsylvania, Connecticut
and New Hampshire on false cry of
stop thief You know that a prohibit.
ory tariff can be made to be as cruel
an inquistlon as any Of those of the
dark ages which you describe with
such wealth of language and dc.
nounce with so much iervor You
know that every workingman, who
has ten mouths to feed, suffers under
an unjust tariff as much more than
Vanderbilt or Gould, as ten mouths
and ten stomachs are more than one
You know that a tariff which will per.
nit Philadelphia firm to amass O
fortune of ten millions Of dollars on the
manufacture Of quinne- at the expense
of suffering humanity--is too infamous
TO be enacted by Patagonians. And
yet, because the Democratic party
bunglingly announced that it was com
mitted TO modification of the exccsse,
of this legislative hydra, you permitted
il to be slandered without stint. dc
not say that you contributed to thC
deluge, but ] have no doubt you ar,
candid enough to admit that You con
scnted TO it,
So far as your anathcma upon th'
doctrine Of State rights-your boas
that this is a Nation and must romail
ono-is concerned, am sure, evel
with all tho respect | have for you
intellectual vigor that | can safell
trust TO time and events to cure yol
Of that great delusion. You, il seem
to me, ofall men, who demand so mucl
individual liberty, should be the stoutes
to defend the liberties and rights Of tn
States. When You once concede tha
every citizen is entitled to the Fedora
protection, that Mr. Garfcld--or th
mass of bonny clabber you now rocog
nizc as the Chief Executlvo-cal
stretch his arm across States to redres
an assumed wrong to the citizens of
distinct political autonomy, you hav
made the door wide enough and hig
enough for despot to walk through
1t will not do TO say that the peopl
Of this Nation will never tolerate
despot--that they will throttle him i
his cradle, and all such patriotic gus
as that The men who begged Nj
Tildon not to take his scat because
would disturb business and might dc
preciate the value Of their bonds, th
; men who, while believing in the prime
pies of the Dcmocatic party, ser
money out to Indiana in October, wit
which to corrupt Democratic votes, !
order that stocks might not "drop tw
or three points, the men, who to da
would sign q petition to Congress I
count the vote OF New York for Ga
! field, even though the proof of twent
! thousand illegal or bought votes lacke
no jot or title of confirmation, are Ii
men who contribute to fund TO e,
terminate the rash zealots who wei
so unmindnl of"the demands of trade
us to want to tumble an usurper OF
! of tho White House.
J There have been men--l do NJ
! know but that they have all bee
. gathered to their athors-in this Ian
. Of ours who would rather be right tha
+. President, There have been parti,
! whose leaders would rather see thel
0 right than successful. do not thin
0 so mcanly of old Robert Morris {
:. Gallatin as TO believe that they woul
= have hesitated to demand that Ii
!. alleged fraudulent casting of twent
thousand votes in the city of Ne
J. York be honestly inquired into, al
Q honestly determined, even though the
8 bank stocks were deprecated as q r
d suit. For my part, if Mr. Garfield
n to bo my President, want to rcspe
Q him as such. should dislike TO |
r obliged to nurse tho contempt for hl
!. four years that have found so mut
J. pleasure in maintaining for the prcser
!. occupant Of tho White House
r II, Colonel Ingersoll, you are
D thoroughly the friend to liberty,
}, pcrsistently the foe to oppression al
f injustice, why do you not occasional
Q sweep with your glass the entire ho
r zon' You certainly would not care