Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-08-18

people | met and the greeting | re-
ceived, saw that the feelings of the
past were gone. Nothing will ad.
vance your prospects so much as an
entire absence OF sectionalism. | have
noticed in my travels that sectionalism
is passing away" Applause and cheer.
ing.1 In his speech at Cairo on the
10th he said: ITO stand divided we
are too nearly equal, man to man, TO
be great and prosperous people. Let
us hope that there may be genuine
union of sentiment, generous rivalry
in the building up of our several States"
[ Applause We must live together,
and this great people, in their march
of progress, cannot stop for chickering's
and quarrels. The genius of our peo-
pie is progress, business and energetic
life; and the party that stands in
their road will go down before the
march OF events. General Hancock is
q representative of this unionism the
Republican party and its policy are
the exponents of the reverse. Their
policy destroys our control of the man
ufacturing interests Of the Republic;
takes from the North that peculiar
control which has heretofore belonged
to us, and places factories, furnaces,
rolling-mills and workshops by every
river in the South. The South has
been agricultural. That is its natural
sphere, Its enormous products from
the soil have been, and ought to con
tinue to be, the most important ele-
ment in her progress and prosperity.
Disunion, hate and persecution torco
them to depend upon themselves and
thus deprive US Of what Is and ought
to continue to be our natural market.
[Applausel
GARFIELD THEN AND NOW,
Another thought-the plain issue is
between q strong government and
government of the people-between
the teachings of Jefferson and those Of
Hamilton-is involved in this cam
paign. General Garfield in his place
In the House on the 26th of January,
1865, said 81 believe that the fame
of Jefferson is waning and the fame of
Hamilton waxing in the estimation OF
the American people, and that we are
gravitating toward stronger govern
ment. | am glad that we are" At
the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Friday last
he paid o tribute to Alexander Hamil.
ton as the leader of American thought.
The conflict is here again shaped be-
tween the rights of man as such and
OF power and paternal government.
That was the issue the people of East.
ern Pennsylvania met in 1880 here in
this locality, and they turned from
power those who followed and believ-
ed in the teachings of Mr., Hamilton
and Mr.. Adams, and placed in power
those who followed and believed in the
doctrines of Mr.. Jefferson. [Applause
With us the individual is the unit we
govern by individuality, All rights
belong to tho individual, save those
which are vital to the conduct of the
government, and when those pass from
the individual the extent of the grant
is to be measured with jealousy, and its
abuse curbed whenever it occurs. We
want no strong Government we want
a government of the people, by the
people and for the people. [Applause, ]
Our candidate voices this when he
says "This Union, comprising Gen
eral Government with general powers,
and State governments with State
powers for purposes local to the States,
is a polity the foundations Of which
were laid in the proioundest wisdom.
This is the Union which our fathers
made, and which has been so respect
ed abroad and so bcnefcent at home"
Applause
TENDENCY OF THEIR SYSTEM.
General Garfield and his party would
centralize the Government. The ten
doncy OF their system is to ignore the
individual as a unit and to govern the
people from the top. Federal election
laws are but one of the evidences OF
this tendency, They apply now to
cities alone but concede the power
and it grows and upon what it grasps
and ultimately finds full play in the
control of elections in the rural dis.
tricts. "ln a Republic all men are
equal in a centralized despotism they
are also all equal-in the former be.
cause they are everything in the lat
ter because they are nothing" We
want neither sectional hate, disunion
nor paternal government. Applause
and ohoering,]
Let us trace the record of the can.
didate of the Republican party. He
it is who has solemnly asserted that
the man who "attempts to get up a
political excitement in this country on
the old sectional issues will find him,
self without party and without sup
port yet he is the man who is now
presenting himself to the people as the
champion of sectionalism, of hate and
disunion. Applausel In this he is
about to verify his own prediction, and
find himself without party and without
support He has eulogized British
tree trade policy, and voted for high
duties in one session and he has advo.
Gated protection and voted for free
trade in another. In 1866 he spoke
against reducing the duty on tea and
coffee and in 1872 he voted against
placing them on the free list. In 1866
he replied to Mr.. Stevens by saying
against the abstract doctrine of the
free trade as such very little can be
said, but it never can be applied ia
values except in time Of peace Yet
to-day he is paraded as the advocate
of protection, while IN 1870 he voted
TO reduce tho duty on pig iron from
so to 81 per ton and in 1872 he voted
for the bill to reduce the duties Oh
wools iron and steel ten per centum.
MORE OF GARFIELD's RECORD.
In 1880, as a member of the Com.
mittee OF Ways and Means, he voted
against the bill reducing the duties on
salt printing paper and wood pulp
lie has acknowledged in emphatic
terms in his place in the Federal
House the gross partiality and injus
tice of the Federal election laws, and
amid the dorisive laughter of his asso
ciatos has voted against his own prop
osition to amend them in the interest
of justice and fair play. He has vigor
ously and uniformly declared against
extravaganza and waste in the bills for
eternal improvements for rivers and
harbors, and has uniformly voted fol
the laws to increase and create them
He has spoken for general amnesty