Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-10-13
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the brood of smirohers who compose
tho Republican rabblo of this county
Notwithstanding they could not call
truth To their and in making one dis
reputable charge against him in bis
entire political career, covering u con.
tinuous service OF nearly twenty \ CARS,
a lair, honest examination Of his otii
cal acts could not produce single act
that is not justified by the highest rule
OF political morals, and his enemies arc
driven to the miserable expedicnt Of
slandering him by the design Of what
purports TO be a cotIee-pot, which may
serve the purpose Of annoying Mr.
Wallace aud his family, and exciting
contempt for the designers, but moth
ing more.
This coiTee-pot story, as every intel
ligent person well knows, has its ori
gin IN the suborned testimony of q
prostitute, procured by man now no
moro, and as 1t has been said that the
name of the devil ought to be mentioned
with reverence, so this principle com
pels me to some restraint in speaking
OF one that, whilo living, showed very
little respect for himself. The char.
acter of the witness, aud the dirty
depths to which they had to descend
to procure it, is Of itself enough TO de-
ter any decent person from ever refer
ring to it, Respectable Republicans
everywhere blush at the mere recollec-
tion of the depravity that demanded
the peuured testimony Of prostitute
to sustain it There is not, and never
was, one syllable of respectable testi.
mony of any sort that could, even by
implication, connect Senator Wallace
with the colored naturalization papers.
A cause must be desperate indeed,
when the private character Of q citizen
must be assailed to manufacture cam.
paign lies to bolster up rotten cause
and beiouled and disgraced eand.
date Tor President, like James A. Gar.
field. 1t seems that the devilish inge-
nuity OF the whole brood of slanderers
in the Republican party fails to find
even one thing to say of the Demo
cratic candidate for President-Gen.
Hancock. Not even the hired and
trained besmirchers ofreputations who
infest the Republican organization
have ever been able TO put a good
campaign lie into circulation about our
candidate, excepting few attempts
by Brainerd, Baxter and Grant,, but
men who are not candidates are as
sailed for the purpose Of drawing at
tention away from the corrupted rec.
ords of Garfield and Arthur
Whenaparty so proud as the Republi-
can party once protessed to be, descends
to such a depth of degradation as this
party has, and is compelled to nomi
nate men who have no character, like
Hayes and Garfield, for the purpose of
putting them into the Presidency, that
honest men, fit to be President, would
spurn if not elected, we should not
wonder that our distinguished fellow
citizen, who has been a thorn IN the
side Of these political vagabonds, is
made target for their mud and lies.
1t is related by natural historians
that certain animal, a sort of proto.
type Of these Republican wallowers in
the mire OF political corruption have
been known to become so insensible in
their iatne5s that the mice have been
allowed to burrow and nestle in their
backs, Let Mr.. Wallace interpret the
clamor with which he is assailed as
the gruntings of the herd in the feel.
ings and anticipations of their well.
filled troughs being emptied and them
selves sent as commoners at large
through the streets, instead OF preserv-
ing their present accommodations in
the wellfiIled pens of the pubic's pro.
viding. Neither the Democratic party,
its candidates, nor any private citizen
has anything to fear from the hoofs of
this swineish multitude. The Demo.
cratic party stands today high above
all the crimes of the opposition 1t
stands a defence against all the evils
OF the times it is independent in its
position ofall corrupt bodies, and seeks
combinations with no factions or fan.
atics or malcontents. II is national
and universal in its hold upon all parts
Of our common country, addressing its
conservatism to all its interests known
to the laws, State and Federal In its
Conventions, assemblages, aims, ends,
tendencies, and principles, it is repre-.
sented by men from every section and
district bound by the brotherhood of
the Union, the faith of the Common.
wealth and the patriotism of the whole
country. 1t bows to the reign of the
Constitution, and the law yields equal.
ity to the States, demands govern.
ment by the will of the majority ofl
the people, wherever the popular
voice may be heard, and defers to the
decisions of the appointed tribunals.
When the laws fix who shall be Judges,
1t seeks power to protect all sections,
all persons and all possessions and to
promote the progress and prosperity
OF all, touching all subjects of interest.
With its triumphs it tenders peace, so.
cial safety, and the preservation and
perpetuation of the Union.
The enemies Of this great Demo.
cratic party, the only one OF all in our
past history lett to struggle for the
systems and the examples of the past,
has but one idea and no principle in
the permanent union Of the
States. 1t raises the standard of sec.
tional hate, anl strikes blindly at
everything, however sacred, in the
way openly proclaims the "bloody
shirt in a bittor, malevolcnt spirit, in |
Terms the most incendiary, irritating
and wonnding to sectional pride, and
nssailing social and personal honor
and daringly risks all consequences OF
destruction to all amity between the
States and their people rapidly tend.
ing TO disunion. SO sectional, so hos
Tile, so threatening, and so unlawful
are It's movements, armed as they are
with large treasure OF funds filched
from the people, and poured in by the
Of rich fanatics, and by
powerful and well organized press,
and by the hired pulpits OF body OF
lnu.Christ preachers--so dangerous,
IN word, are they to fifteen States of
his Union that they have entirely ig.
lored them in this struggle for the
Presidency, and do not even name an
electoral ticket in many of them. They
appeal to every prejudice, every pas.
non in the North alone, because that
lection has a numerical majority, and
night be induced to declare the higher
aw that might makes right" No de.
non of destructiveness was ever so ram.
lant, so formidable before in this conn.