Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-05-20

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First, we will consider the Demo
cratic members who voted against
Curtin, representing districts in which
there is large and proponderating
Greenback vote. Bouck, of the 9th
Wisconsin district, who received 14,349
votes against 1l,74S for his Republi-
can competitor and j,144 for the
GreenbacleNational ticket
Deuster, of the 4th district in the
same State, who polled 11,1j7 votes,
while Frisby, Republican, had IL ,022,
and Judd, Greenbacker, had 1905
votes.
New, of the 18th Indiana district
was fortunate enough to receive -, lag
votes, while his Republican opponent
had $50 and the Greenback cham
pion had to content himself with 1919.
Hostetter of the 8th district in the
same State, received 1864 votes
against Hunter, Republican, who had
12,1 and the Greenback- National
candidate 1929.
Rothwell, of the 10th Missouri
district, had 1873 votes, Pollard,
Republican, 10,s75, Broaddus, Green
back-National, 1858.
Caldwell, of the 81 Kentucky dis
trict received 9,3i4 votes, Hunter,
Republican, $500, Wright, Green
back-National 1883.
1t is apparent from the foregoing
statement Of the vote in the respective
districts of the above Democrats who
voted against ex-Gov. Curtin, what
selfish and personal interests actuated
them to insult the Democracy of the
10th Congressional district of Penn
sylvania. These returns speak for
themselves, and require no comment.
The second element in the combina-
tion against Curtin was the magnifi-
cent scheme TO defraud the National
Treasury of million and a half or
two millions of dollars, under the guise
of paying claims TO a few States, alleg.
ed to be due them for supplies and
expenses incurred during the war OF
1912. About one million of this sum is
destined to reach the State of Virginia.
\ considerable portion of it is to en-
rich somebody in Maryland, with small
sops thrown to the whales of the
States of Pennsylvania and New York
The immaculate gentlemen who are
endeavoring to pilot this job through
Congress, secured a pledge from the
Greenback members to support their
gigantic steal, in consideration of their
votes for Yocum. The bargain wa:
sealed and Messrs. Harris and Rich.
mond of Virginia, Hcnkle of Mary
land, and possibly O'Reilly of New
York-have executed their part of tn,
contract. When mercenary consider
ations enter into the action of sucl
men, their support of Yocum was no
only natural but a necessity.
Thirdly, we come to consider tn,
petty spite of such excuses for men a
Aiken, Richardson and Tillman o
South Carolina against Speaker Ran
, dali, on account of the manly actor
of the Speaker in refusing, in the 45tl
: Congress, to allow injustice to be don
: the two colored members who theI
| represented in Congress the two Soutl
) Carolina districts now misrepresente,
: by Richardson and Tillman, who wer
: then contestants without n shadow o
/ right.
/ And now we come TO the only maj
3 in the whole category of traitors 70
: whom we can offer no excuse-littl
: alec stephens. This relic of by-gon
{ day has cheated the undertakers G
, Washington out of a pleasant job 70
: the last fifty years. He is a Gran
: man, but he couldn't forget the Al
r toona Conference of War Governor
: during the late unpleasantness, an
e therefore he could not vote for Curt,
8 He, almost in his dotage, assumes I
e be political Warwick, and wishes [
!. keep the Democratic majority in tn