Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-06


tration as they used it in Kansas to re.
cover the three-fourths Of the Legislatures
Of the States and repeal the amendments to
the Constitution.
Such, Sir, are the dangers that beset the
country. The arguments that are used to
Influence people to vote for them and to
secure them in their purposes are that Gar
field is not the right kind of man, and
why 2 Well, Mr.. McAIister, who sits here,
tells us that few nights ago in a meeting
at McAhsterville Democratic speakers said
that he is not the right kind of man be-
cause of his connection with Credit Mo-
bilier, Back Pay, De-Golyer. The Golden
Club, The Electoral Commission. They also
ssked people to vote for Hancock because
OF the Corruption in the Land, because Of
Solid South, becsuse of Sectionalism
| should touch all these objections, but
the hour is late and you are wearied. Allow
me to say, briefly, of Back Pay, that there is
nothing in that. General Garfield voted on
the various forms in which il came before
Congress l6 times against it. He was
Chairman Of the Committee on Appropria-
tion, and the men who were pushing back pay
went to him and said, SHOW, Sir, when the
bill comes before the Committee of Confer
ence, if you do not allow it to pass, we will
set up on the appropriation bills which you
have charge OF, and we will defeat them"
The defeat Of the Appropriation bills would
have brought the machinery Of government
to stand still, and Garfield said, swell, if
must, must" and that Is the way he
was bull-doIed into voting for back pay. 1t
Is as clear case of ull-dozing without the
use of the bludgeon as can be found In the
history of legislation.
In the cry of De-Golyer there is as little
as in Back Pay, leaving out the bull DOING
process. De-Golyer is the name Of kind
of pavement, just as Nicholson is the
name of . kind of pavement. The city
authority was asking for bids from the va
rious pavement companies. Among the
several companies that put in bids was
company that was paving with De-Golyerin in
many Of the cities of the country. They
looked around for man who might go be-
fore the city authority and present the
merits Of their pavement. Garfield was
chosen, and he was offered a fee of s., 600
to present the merits of their proposals.
There is not lawyer in the Commonwealth
that would not have taken that fee, and
done il honestly, for there was nothing dis
honest in advocating their proposal. The
point that the Democrats endesyor to make
before the people is that because Garfield
was a member Of the Congressional Appro-
priation Committee he should not advocate
would have ground for their objection if
any of the money that Garfield helped 10
appropriate was used for the payment of the
paw ement, but the money raised for the pay
ment of the pavement cams out of tax on
the real estate of the city of Washington
ard not out of the United States fund. The
pavement was paid for by tax on property
in the city, just IS the money for road tax
is raised IN Delaware township, by taxation.
The road tax in Delaware township is not
paid out of the Legislative appropriations
for. this State, and the De-Golyer pavement
was not paid out of the Congressional ap-
propriations for the United States, but out
of the tax fund Of real estate of Washing
ton city.
As to the Solid South, the illiberality of
that section has made it so. They buli-doze
all earnes, opposition in the South, and then
here in the North are allowed to advocate
" hatsoever they please and divide the peo-
pie. If they were as liberal as the people
of the North, and would allow a free dis
cussion of questions at issue, the South
would not be solid; the people would be
divided into two parties as here. Previous
To 1860 there were l6 States into which a
Northern man did not dare go and advocate
freedom before the law, and it is not much |
better now in q number of the Southern !
States, and yet they dare to talk TO US about !
They have been the sectional
men, and they have had the impudence to
turn the case around and to charge section |
alism on the people OF the North, when the |
truth is that they have been ever free TO
come among US and discuss whatsoever they |
pleased. The charge of sectionalism on the |
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dacious charges ever made against any one,
and for downright impudence 10 hardly ever /
egnaled. Satan once eqnaled it. Milton,
in his Paradise Lost, tells how Satan was
winging his way through space searching |
for the earth, the place that Deity had put |
Adam and Eve. Satan desired to find them !
and corrupt them, but he had so far failed
to reach them. By and by he espied one of
Gods great angels, and be conceived the |
audacious plan of going to the angel and
finding out all about the place or locality in |
space of the Earth. But it would not do |
for him to appear in his true character, so
he instantly transformed himself into an
anger VI "ihkth W thN 7
mighty one, and, conversiDg with him,
learned the way to the earth, and found /
Adam and Eve in the garden, and hence the
fall. The audacity of Satan is equaled by .
the charge OF Sectionali.m.
But, Sir, LET us be careful that We are not 1
led to turn and send the Government on a 4
course. History repeats itself, /
and we may become the victim of its uure- !
llenting repetition. There is a chapter Of
English history that applies 70 our own
coun;ry. In iG42 a war broke out in Great !
Britain. Ireland ard Scotland, with the /
Puriians and other people |
on one side, and the Throne on me other
side. Ii was but q siGe-wave o. the war !
that had been surging for 26 years in CGn-
tin entail Europe. In England the popular
party, the party of the people, prevailed.
They dethroned the King, and set up Re-
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