The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

will rally % his support almost to man,
and IL is generally believed that he VIII
90 into the convention with the greatest
number of votes. He viii have almost
a unanimous South, and will have great
OF weight in the North than any other
named in connection with the
He should be made the
Democratic leader in the battle denomi-
mated by the Narraganset Pier hero II as
the .'AusterlitZ of American politics. "
HuZZa for the real statesman, Thomas
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THE COINAGE OF THE UNITED STATES
MINT.
Recently two millions of dollars were
sent from the mint in this city to New
York on an order from Washington, and
there are now slowed away in its vaults
about thirty-two tons of silver dollars
representing one million four hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. The Phil
adelphia mint commenced IN January
last to coin thirty millions of dollars IN
So and 81 90 gold pieces, and at present
contains largely over twenty-lour MIL
lions of dollars in gold and silver coin.
1t will also coin one million of silver del
lars during the present month.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The pedestal rests upon a broad base,
to be 80 or 40 feet square and or lO feet
high. and will be reached by flights of
steps on each of the four sides and Will
have a fountain at each of the four cor
ners. Presiding over each of these fOun-
tains is recumbent figure, a trapper, an
Indian chief, an Indian squaw, young
person who may be frontiersman, prob
ably the trapper's wife, while IN attend
ance on these distinctively American
men and women are distinctly American
beasts, such as bisons, grizzly bears,
mustangs. and so on. The whole affair
will stand about fifty feet high. If the
design is not ideally perfect, it is com
forting to think chat it might have been
a great deal worse. This design for the
Washington monument in this city,
which has been selected from the five
designs placed in competition before the
committee of the Society of the Cincln-
natl, is the work OF the German sculptor,
i Sermerling, of Berlin.
GIVE Us BANARD.
/ Tie candidate put forward by the Re-
! publican party. with all his political
sins. has one virtue, which is a fair re-
! cord on questions of finance. With al
+ the other ScandalOus transactions which
are matters of record against him al
| Washington. he starts out on his pOlitl-
cal VOYAGE with faYOTing wind and
J
I is the great question of the day, and tC
meet a candidate so well equipped in this
respect the Democratic party must put
forth their best man. The Democrats
! have one man who meets, at every point,
! the need of the hour, and that man Is
Thomas f. Bayard. His record, not
only on the finance question, but upon
all the uppermoSt questions of the day
is clear and statesmanlike. No other
man will be presented at Cincinnati who
( so fully meets the eXigencieS of the time
In States with clear Democratic maJOri
ties his canvass Will take care OF itself
. while in all doubtful States with bin
as candidate all the YigOr and push oi
the campaign could be brought TO bear
Mr.. Dilden has a grievance, 1t IS true
but he has made himself record will
his grievance which has sunk him II
public esteem, and campaign III hi:
favor would be q defensive one, and {
( defensive campaign Is the last thing the
Democrats should think of in the pres
ent state of affairs. The Chicago nOmi
nations have done much to clear the way
( for Democrats at Cincinnati. The. .situ
alton demands that the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency should come
from the East. and that he should be
/ man whose record is so made up as tt
win the confidence of Eastern voters
Mr Bayard is as popular in Massachu
sets as he is in Maryland, and would re
ceive the votes of al conservatives
I With such a man in the Presidential
chair the nation would breathe FREE
again, because all parties would feel sur
of Il clean and reputable administration
G.. y. :.