The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-09-15

j eminent do not expresslystate upon
, their face. or the law under which
they were issued does not provide
that they shall be paid in CON, they
ought in right miG astiee to be
paid in the lawful money of the
United States, meaning greenbacks,
, which were themselves only one
form of these obligations. Horatio
Seymour. as the Democratic candi-
date, was placed upon this platform
of infamv and dishonor, and the
people by large majority, decided
that the day had not come to trust
the Government in Democratic
hands.
In 1872 Democracy was so demor-
allied that it dare not take Presi-
Dental candidate from its own
ranks. or frame n platform for itself
In its Convention at Baltimore it
adopted the ticket and the platform
of the Liberal Republican Conven-
tion, previously held at Cincinnati
Horace Greeley, the lifelong hater
of Democracy-the man who had
said more hard things about the
Democratic party than any other
man in this country-had the weak
ness to seek its nomination; and
the party, as an organization, well
coined him to its bosom and tried
to elect him. The great body of the
/ people were filed with incXpressi-
bic disguest as such an unnatural
and false coalition. They both pit
led and condemned poor Greeley"
and thoroughly despised the Demo
cratic party. The signal defeat
which followed was simply the fore
gone conclusion of popular con
tempt. The American people were
not made up OF such stuff as this
/ |senseless coalition assumed.
/ The Democratic party, having in
] Congress opposed the Resumption
Act of 1873, and thereafter denounc-
cd it as the sherman sham, in
1876 demanded in its National Con-
vention the repeal Of this Act, and
after this passed in the House of
Representatives Il bill repeating the
Act, and would long since have re-
pealed IT, il all branches of the Gov
ernment had been in its hands.
The Act still lives, and has done its
great work OF beneficence in main
tanning the public credit and reviv-
ing the prosperity of the country
not by the favor or even the toicr-
ance OF the Democratic party, but in
spite of its persistent opposition
thereto. The party has been q con-
tinuous grumbler. against this Act.
Had it been in power, the great
financial blessings of resumption
would have been postponed to re-
mote day.
This same party comes before the
country in 1880 with General Han I
cock for its Presidential candidate
and with the Solid South for its
right wing and center. 1t asks the /.
great North West to give ut least .
iorty-scvcn electoral votes for It's
candidate, calculating that the one
hundred and thirty-eight electoral .
votes of the Solid South, made sure /
by bulldozing, false counting. and /
ballot-boX stutfing, viii then do the /
business and place theparty in pow
er. All the experienced statesmen
Of the party are passed by, and a
Democratic Union general is select
ed as stardard-bearer, in the hope
that the military fame will some
how drag the pro-slavery, peace-at-
any-price, repudiating, anti-rccon-
struction, and anti-specie-resump-
ton party safely through the nlire
and dirt of its own history. Gener-
al Hancock has been nominated for
this reason and no other. He has
no civic experience worth mention
ing; and the little he has is not to
his credit We have nothing to saw
adverse 10 his personal character
yet, like poor Tray, he is found in
bad company. He heads the tick
ct of party whose record his mill
tary fame cannot disguise or CON
done. That record for the last twen-
ty years is a matter Of history, and
by it the party must and viii bc
Judged.
Who got up the Rebellion? The
Democratic party of the South. !
Who during the war sympathized (
with this Rebellion ? The Democrat I
ic party of the North. Who advo- !
Gated repudiation in 1868? The :
Democratic party. Who opposed I
he constitutional amendments and :
.or long time after their adoption :
declared them to be unconstitution- .
lily ratified? The Democratic par I
y. Who are opposed to legislation y
or carrying these amendments into
fleet? The Democratic party. Who q
ire opposed to Federal election laws I
o protect the ballot-box when men, ?
)ers of the House of Representa- +
ives are elected? The Democratic .
,arty. Who has suppressed the !;
Negro vote at the South ? The Dem /
Dcratic party at the South Who
has failed protest to against this out
age? The Democratic party of the
North. Who has sought alliance
With the Greenbaekers? The Demo-
ratio party. Who attempted to CO. =
rec President Hayes to sign appro- Il
'riation bills which he did not ap- II
rove? The Democratic party in t'
'ongresS. Who tried by fraud to o
teal u state government? The n
party in Maine. Who o.
RED, after the election, to buy the II
lectoral colleges Of Oregon, Florida, te
nd South Carolina? The presi- u
ential candidate of the Democratic IL
arty. II
These questions and answers, and Sc
lany similar ones, have their basis te
1 the solid facts of history. There N
no doubt about them. The Dem el
cratic party has made the record. III
has preserved its own organic n.
lentity while making it, and is to III
e Judged of by the whole of it. 1t TO
the same party that was false tc
uring the war, and has ever since Sc
cen false to the proper results g
hereof. Good and honest men "a