Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-19


paid tribute TO Alexander Hamilton
as The leader OF American thought.
The conflict is here again shaped be.
tween the rights of man as such and of
power and paternal government. That
was the issue the people of Eastern
Pennsylvania met in 1860 here in this
locality, and they turned from power
those who followed and believed in the
teachings of Mr.. Hamilton and Mr..
Adams, and placed in power those who
followed and believed in the doctrines
of Mr.. jefferson. Applause. With
us the individual is the unit we govern
by individuality. All rights belong TO
the individual, save those which are
vital TO the conduct Of the government,
and when those pass from the individual
the extent of the grant is TO be meas.
ured with Jealousy, and its abuse curbed
whenever 1t occurs. We want no strong
government we want government of
the people, by the people and for the
people. Applause. Our candidate
voices this when he says: "This Union,
comprising a general government with
general powers, and State governments
with State powers for purposes local to
the States, is a poiity the foundations
of which were laid in tho profoundest
wisdom. This is the Union which our
fathers made, and which has been 80
respected abroad and so beneficent at
home" Applause.
TENDENCY OF THEIR SYSTEM.
Gen. Garfield and his party would
centralize the government. The ten.
dency Of their system is to ignore the
individual as a unit and to govern the
people from the top. Federal election
laws are but one Of the evidences of this
tendency. They apply now to cities
alone but concede the power and it
grows upon what IL grasps and ulti.
mately finds full play in the control of
elections in the rural districts. sin q
republic all men are equal-in a cen.
tralzed despotism they are also all
equal-in the former because they are
everything; in the latter because they
are nothing" We want neither sec.
tional hate, disunion nor paternal gov
ernment. Applause and cheering.
Let US trace the record OF the candi
date OF the Republican party. lie il is
who has solemnly asserted that the man
who attempts 10 get up political ex.
citement in this country on the old
sectional issues will find himself without
party and without support :" yet he
is the man who Is now presenting him
self to the people as the champion OF
sectionalism, of hate and disunion.
LApplsuse. In this he is about TO
verify his own prediction, and find
himself without party and without sup
port. Hehas enlogized British iree.trade
policy, and voted for high duties in one
session and he has advocated protec.
ton and voted for free-trade in another
In 1866 he spoke against reducing the
duty on tea and coffee and in 1879 he
voted against placing them on the free
list. In 1866 he replied 10 Mr.. Stevens
by saying: Against the abstract doc
trine of the free trade as such very
little can be said, but il never can be
applied TO values except in time Of
peace" Yet to-day he is paraded as
the advocate OF protection, while in
1870 he voted 10 reduce the duty on pig
iron from 50 TO s. per ton and in 1872
he voted for the bill to reduce the du
ties on woods, iron and steel ten per
centum.
MORE or GARFIELD's RECORD.
In 1850, as a member of the commit.
tee OF ways and means, he voted against
the bill reducing the duties on salt,
printing paper and wood pulp. He has
acknowledged in emphatic terms in his
place in the Federal House the gross
partiality and injustice Of the Federal
election laws, and amid the derisive
laughter of his associates has voted
against his own proposition TO amend
them in the interest OF justice and fair
play. He has vigorously and uniformly
declared against extravaganza and waste
in the bills for internal improvements
for river and harbors, and has uniform
ly voted for the laws 10 increase and
create them. lie has spoken for gen.
ersl amnesty, but when the party lash
was applied he has voted against it,
Applause. With the broadest theo
retical views of union, peace and har.
mony in his public utterances, his prac.
tical application Of his own doctrines
has been to perpetuate sectionalism
and disunion. He voted in Congress
against the bill for the Electoral Com.
mission, because il authorized that COM
mission TO go behind the returns Of q
State, and rs one of the commission he
voted and decided that the law gave no
such power in the cases of Louisiana
and Florida, while il did in the case of
Oregon. He earnestly denounced the
abuses OF the civil service, declaring
that Congressmen had become the die
tributors and brokers of public patron.
age, while in his letter of acceptance he
gives his unqualified assent 20 the con-
tinuation of the abuses he before assail.
ed. lie has assumed TO be the friend
of legislation for preventing discrimina
ton in freight charges and has given
like assurances TO its enemies. His
personal record in matters that are now
80 public l shall not attempt to deal
with, They are before the public, and
they must judge him by the record in
regard thereto. We present . candi.
date born on your soil Applause and
cheersl--a candidate to whose support