The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-09-16

intend they shall never fall. The,
8 declared that you can never pay The
! the nation debt, but we have al
tho money we want, aud at lower
rate of interest than ever this coun-
try has known. We have paid more
} than four thousand millions of our
war debt, aud have less than two
thousand millions to pay. They
said your bonds would not be worth
The paper they are printed on, aud
the country can never redeem them,
aud to-day every Democrat who has
a hundred dollars extra money IL
anxious to buy q United States four
per cent. interest bearing bond. and
begs to pay a premium Of seven o.
ten per ceut, 10 gee it. They said
your paper curreuay will be worth
less. IL will only he 80 many rags.
But these rags have grown better
aud brighter until every rag is now
more priced than the shining gold
and silver it promises TO pny.
La 1872 thoy were 80 poor. and had
so often miserably failed, that, hop
ing to become respectable, they vot.
ed for tho great and good Horace
Greeley, their life. e.long enemy, thus
seeking to gain power and place.
But in this they sadly failed, In
1876 they put up Samuel j. Tilden.
With n great cry of reform" aud
they promised to sweep the ground
from under our feet. But failure
followed them again. Oh yes but
they say. We did elect Tlden, and
you Republicans stole the Pres silon.
cy through au Electoral Commission
(which, by the way, they helped 20
set up). II was fraud such as the
world had never before known. In
the language Of the Sage of Gramer-
cy Park, IL crime that the polpel of
this country never will aud never
can coudone,'
And now, in this year 1880, we
SEQ them let the poor old fellow go.
They let the fraud go, aud are ready
to concede anything, aye everything,
1t only they can get Republicans to
sit quitely at home and giye them
the next President of the Uuited
| States.
Oh my countrymeu NY Dem
ocratic countrymen What rec
ord ls all this What is there in il
to entltle the Democratic party oven
to deceut consideration in the
minds Of tho American people :
Have | overdrawn til, picture :
Have | sail one word which history
Toes not justify me- in aud sustain
Ii have | will gladly make the cor
rectiou. l don't want to do the
Democratic party injustice. Their
record is fearful one when only the
truth is told How awful woull
it look did | paint it to you in c1lors
only the most slightly overlrawn
While | stand here Tonight and
assert that the Republican party ha.
kept all its plol5es, ro lea,nei all its
promises, aud that its Cause AMI its
course have been aud arc right, ]
waut TO make QUO other doOl iratiln
In twenty-five long yenrs Of oul
past history the Democratic part,
has not pro!lercl one single prluci
plo that the people Of this countr,
have accepted or adopted. The
have not, as a party, declared 10 fav
or of a single measure that has nc
been failure not one that mas no
been repu lated. Almost every
thing they have advocated the
themselves to-day have openly
abandoned or are ashamed of.
Again say, | do not want to be
anjnst to The Democratic party. If
any Democrat within tho sound of
my voice can name one principle,
one measure or one idea they have
originated aud advocated, which the
people have accepted, | pause now
to hear him name it out,
Aud with this record OF wrong
this barrenness of ideas of right
this failure in all their plans, their
impudence has no parallel, except
that Of the great arch iend, the
Devil, when, standing on mountain
overlooking all the kingdoms of the
earth, he said to the Saviour OF
mankind, "All these will 1 give to
thee if only thou wilt fall down and
worship me, when he had not one
single thing in the whole wide world
under his controllt) give. Parties
must stand or fall by their records,
Just as individuals stand or fall by
theirs. This is what the people
look to. This is Whist will guide
and direct them, and with the re-
cords Of the two parties before
great, intelligent aud liberty-loving
people, they will not fail in Novem,
ber next to select the representa-.
tive of the party whose record
stands as does that Of the Republi-
can party to-day.
TIE CANDIDATES.
am not here to make attacks on
the Democratic candidates. l am
quite sure am glad that the head
Of the ticket was gallant Union
soldier. 1 will not be the man to
rob him of single one of the lau-
rels he SO nobly gained, aud 30 gall
lantly won in battle aud in beating
the life out Of the Democratic rebell-
ion. only ask that the Democrats
who are now 30 ready to vote for