The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-17
AN ABANDONED PARTY.
SOME HISTORY FOR YOUNG MEN TO con
SIDER.

SIDER.
4 man by the name Of Hay, in a bloviat-
ing, bloody shirt harangue at Cleveland
Ohio, recently, appealed to young men to
investigate the history of the Republican
party. The Cleveland Plain Deolerthus COM
ments upon his advice
"The first thing that the young man will
stumble upon will be the fact that many of
the worthiest - of whom Colonel HAY saws
their deeds stand out in the record '' like
burning stars - were Democrats when the
war broke out. General Hancock was
Democrat, SO was Grant so was Edwin NJ.
Stanton so was Mcclellan. Meade Hooker
Butler, Sheridan, and in fact more than half
the officers of the Union army and OF the
advisers and COunSelOTS of the President.
The Young man in pursuit of information
viii also, if he puTsues his Investigation
fairly, come upon the fact that the Demo
cratic party furnished as many of the rank
and file of the Union army as the RcpubIi-
can party did, and that it furnished as much
money We have further to call the Young
mans attention to the fact that the record of
the Republican party as distinct political
organization begins at the close of the war
and rot at its beginning The young pOliti-
cal student will ascertain that when the war
was ended the Republican party entered
upon a career of infamy that speedily he
came so bad that theiiluStriouS men of whom
Colonel Hay Tightfully observes their record
them were obliged To leave the party because
of its Yiiene~S. OF the cabinet Of Abraham
Lincoln. including such men as Seward and
Chase, every one OF them except Stanton
left the Republican party and became Demo
Gratis. Charles Sumner, too was one of these
illuStrious men, and he, too, was forced to
abandon the Republican party on account
of its iniquty. SO, too was Horace Greely,
and in fact almost all the men whose names
shine Ike burning stars" But when our
young man continues his investigation n into
the record of the Republican party in the
last ten years of its history, he viii be ap-
palled. Its pages are blottcd all over with
the black story OF fraud. corruption, bribery,
rings, and general iniquity. lie viii read of
the Credit MObiiieT and how corruption en-
tered into the Legislature how Republican
Vice President sold himself to n villainOus
corporation and was SWindliug the Govern
ment: how Republican Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes in like manner sold themselves
for price how corruption ran riot and scau-
daiS dragged down the reputation of the
nations law makers into the mud and made
our politics q hiss and by-word among all
honest men. The administration Of Grant,
with its offensive record of rings and favor
itism and nepOtSm, its IeetS its BabcOck,
its Whisky Ring scandals in which the Re
publican party were mixed mp, will give the
young student food for good deal of refiec
Uion. Let him go over il carefully. Let him
contemplate the operations of the District
ring. which pluudereG by tine million, and
then let him reflect that he is called upon to
vote for a man who left the army in the midst
of raging war to come home, 90 into poll
ties, GO to Washington, get mixed up in the
Credit MObilier affair, become pUFticeps cTiHt-
iHiS in the District Rings plundeTing and
finally aid in stealing the Presidency by
wholesale course of bribery and perjury.
We hope the young man will take Colonel
Hays advice and look up the record Of the
Republican party. 1t IS rather an interest
ing study and will do the young man good.
After he has investigated. we have no fears
that he viii vote for Mr.. Garfield.