Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-10-13
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REASONS
WHY PENNSYLVANIA REPUB-
LICANS SHOULD VOTE FOR
GENERAL HANCOCK.

and convincing THIRTESEVEN
REASONS is well known 10 us. A
Democrat up to the time OF the Kan.
sas Nebraska troubles, he then took
the Douglas view Il things, and dur
ing the war became actively identified
with the Republican party. He has
voted with the Republican party ever
since, though often restive under the
aisgraccs bIoeshts~ij5is 10 by selfish
and corrupt leadership. The nomlna.
ton Of General Hancock brings him
fully to the light of day, and he gives
undeniable reasons ior the faith by
which he is now guided:
BECAUSE
The Republican nominee, General Gar.
field, has been declared a corrupt and
unworthy man by many of the high.
est authorities of his own party.
BECAUSE
Many of the Independent Republi.
cans OF his own district adopted and
widely circulated resolution which
arraigned and donouhced him "ior his
corrupt connection with the Credit
Mobilier; for his false denials thereof
before his constituents; fol his perjur-
ed denial thereof before Committee
Of his peers in Congress for fraud
among his constituents, in circulating
among them pamphlet purporting to
set forth the finding Of said Committee
and the evidence against him, when in
fact material portions thereof were
omitted and garbled.
BECAUSE
These same Independent Republican
constituents also arriigned and charg-
cd him "with corrupt bribery in sell,
ing his official influence, as Chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations,
for five thousand dollars TO the De
Golycr pavement ring, to aid them in
securing contract from the Board OF
Public Works of the District of Colum-
bia, selling his influence to aid SAID
ring in imposing upon the people of
said District q pavement, which is al
most worthless, at three times its cost
selling his influence TO aid such ring
in procuring a contract, TO procure
which it corruptly paid ninety.seven
thousand dollars for influence selling
his influence in matters that involved
no question of law, upon the shallow
pretext that he was acting as n law.
yer; selling his influence in a manner
so palpable ard clear as to be found
and declared by an impartial and COM
potent Court, upon an issue soemnly
tried.'
BECAUSE
That same body of the Independent
Republicans of General Garfeld's own
irrespective Of former or party attach.
district called upon their fellow citizens,
ments, who desired honest government
to unlte with them in an effort to de.
feat General Garfield, and elect in his
stead an honest and reliable man and
because such efforts have elected so
much sympathy at various times in
the district where General Garfield is
best known, that if it had not contain
cd one of the very largest Republican
district majorities in the entire United
States, he would long since have been
remauded TO deserved obscurity and
disgrace, for the reason and on the |
ground that he is dishonest and cor.
rupt man.
BECAUSE
General GGrfeld's connection with the
De Golyers pavement transaction, was
not only an unworthy and dishonest
act, which no man deserving the sup.
port Of the honest members of any
party could commit, but a direct vio-
lation OF one Of the best and most use.
iul laws ever passed by the Republican
party, which declares that for precise.
ly such acts as General Garfield com.
mitted in connection with this trans.
action, he and all other criminals guilty |
of the same ofiense should be punished
by fine, by Imprisonment, and by be.
ing declared forever incapable of hold
ing any Office of honor, trust or profit
under the government of the United
States.
BECAUSE
1t is the duty of every honest citizen,
without distinction of party, who
wishes to secure for himself and his
posterity the blessings of honest gov.
ernment, and aid in the enforcement
of such law, and to put an ineflaceable
brand of disgrace upon the corrupton-
lists who violate them.
BECAUSE
On account of General Garfeld's guilty !
completely with some of tho most cor.
rupt schemes by which the National
Treasury has ever been despoiled, he
would not have the power to resist the
clamors and demands of other spoils-
men il he should bc elected President
OF the United States. The most cor. |
rupt elements of tho Republican party |
would find in him n congenial conied-
crate, as his own record establishes his
his completely with their crimes, and |
proves his readiness to violate his pri- |
vate and his official oath, to sacrifice
his honor, to degrade his manhood
and to betray his trust as holder Of the
purse-strings of the Nation.
BECAUSE
The agencies now actively employed |
to secure the election OF General Gar |
field, in spite of the horror his crimes
have inspired in the breasts of many |
honest Republicans, are of n corrupt |
and corrupting nature inasmuch as
the main reliance of the present party
managers is upon the lavish use of i'm.
mense sums of money, wrung from
employees Of the government, in def.
ance of tho Civil Service Rules laid
down at the commencement OF the ad
minstration of President Hayes, and
from local party leaders who have been
enriched by municipal abuses
BECAUSE
Men whose sole interest in elections
hinges upon regard for the welfare Of
their country, and who are not the
partners nor the dupes, nor the dc. |
pendants of the leaders who WELD gov
crnmental powers for the purpose Of
enriching themselves, cannot maintain
their sclircspect by acting as the ac-
completes of notorious corruptionists.
BECAUSE
Every intelligent citizen knows that
under the dominion of the Republican
party the noble State of Pennsylvania
has held a subordinate and disgraoeful
position at the National Capitol, not.