Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-11-24

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No considered tho mere advocate Of and
lpologist Tor the Republican party ?
I was not because you thought 1t was
advantageous to the Republican party,
hat you denounced slavery
Do you not know or do you care
% know, that If Mr.. Garfield enters the
office on the llh OF next
March, he does so as the representative,
ihc perfect flower and creation, OF n
system Of slavery much more odions
than that destroyed by the war-oi
white slavery-thc slavery whose
chains are forged out of fcary
| can say TO you in perfect sincerity,
and what il better, can provo it-that
however rapid has been the growth OF
intellectual liberty in this country
there never has boen an election within
my knowledge in which the votes Of
so many men were cast by their mas
tiers as at the one just past. There is
not Now England or manulactur-
ing village in the North, where o
majority OF the workingmen were not
forced TO vote as their employers die
taled. There was not village or Il
city in the North where money was
not used to purchase the votes of men
whose necessities were pressing, or
whose estimate Of the value Of their
franchise was low. So tar as the cleo
toral votes of Connecticut or New
Hampshire are conccrncd-both OF
which will be given to Mr., Garfield
they simply represent white instead of
African slavc-pens, SO far as the vote
OF Now York is concerned, If given to
Mr.. Garfield, it represents merely Il
morality as low as any as ever attached
to the auction block.
Oar party made no mistake in the
nomination of General Hancock, While
suggesting the ticket Of Seymour and
Mcdonald | am frank enough to admit
that that of Hancock and English was
stronger in all respects. Gen'l Han
cock : record was impeccable. lie had
been q brave and successful soldier, a
wise and tolerant civil administrator
and a gentleman, always. Nothing
that he had ever done called forapology
or defense. Whoever voted against
him would have voted against
Elijah or either of the prophets, il
nominated at Cincinnati. The voter
who was bought for Garfield did not
ask whom he was bought TO vote
against.
lfall the glorious results you describe
spring from General Garfelds admin
istration do not confound the impulse
or the cause with them. Your beauti
! fnl flower will have been raised on o
dung heap. Bribery, bull-dozing, re
pcaung-the conjunction of such ap
parently diverse forces as Beecherisn
and "The. Alenism" have vemadeitpossi
BILE for the 3j votes of New York t
be added to the votes of Connection
and New Hampshire and place Genera
Garfield in the Presidential office.
Practically, Col. Ingersol, nine mill
ions OF people, equally divided, stool
still, in order TO see whether the vas
sums of money contributed by stool
brokers, National bankers, monopolis
corporations and tariff benefciare
could be successfully used in New
York city to hire ten thousand Demo
Gratis to vote for Garfield, or, possibly
to hire twenty thousand men, who ha,
no right to vote, to kill the fairly ex
pressed voice of the honest Electors c
New York.
1t having been decided that it could
} you straigntway conclude that To
J, Democratic party is dead and tha
Gen. Garfield, unpurgcd of singl
accusation made against him by hi
own associates, unccansed of o singl
staln-which in earlier days woal
have driven man to suicide-will b
the apostle Of new political righ
eousness and the founder of a ne'
/, Government.
This is zone of the mistakes of Rol
ert," and much more unpardonabl
than any mistake of Moses yet disco'
cred. This, at least, is the opinion I
SrILsoN HUcHISs.