The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-11-24
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 18th. 1880.

here on Thursday evening. lie was
met at the railroad depot by the
Indiana Republican soclation and
several political clubs, notable
amongst them being the famous
tow-pathers of Washington ana
Georgetown. A procession WAS
formed and marched up Pennsylva-
MIA avenue with Gov. Porter and in
vited guests in carriages 10 the Rigg )
where serenade was given him.
| Speeches were made and a good
and happy time had generally by
the large assemblage present.
! Speaking of General Garfield.
/ Gov. Porter said: I'VE can congrat-
ulate ourselves upon having secured
a Republican administration for the
next four years, but much more
may We congratulate ourselves on
the dangers we have escaped. We
are now on the eve of a most sue
cessful administration. General
Garfield is a statesman of enlarged
views, of broad comprehension, pro-
gressiye, fully up to the most adj
vanced demands of the age, with 4
ripened intellect sustaining the tru-
est integrity. lie viii do right HIM
self and see that right is done to all
We'shal have a reconciliation be-
tween the north and south, but
reconciliation that is based on JUS
! tice without which no reconciliation
is worth anything, There viii be
obedience TO law everywhere, re-
lnewed prosperity will attest the Wis
dom Of recognizing justice in all
our relations, and a reciprocity Of
love between the sections Will grow
up as the natural results of right in
those relations. And at the close OF
/ General Gartield's term each section
will applaud the wisdom and re-
we're the justice that have animated
its counsels and guided its actions,
According to the health report,
the annual death rate III per thOus-
/ and for the whites, and 3l.2 for the
colored population; and births are
at the rate Of 2S17 per thousand
for the white, and 1898 for the col
ored population.
congressman and Senators are al
ready arriving in the city. A live
/ ly session is predicted rs the Repub-
| licans will insist on appropriating
money to pay the deputy marshals,
which it is said the Democrats will
resist.
Big preparations are being made
for the inauguration General Sher-
man will be the grand marshal for
the occasion.
The committee in charge viii ask .
Congress Tor the loan of l,OUO hospit- /
al tents to be placed in the white
lot for the use of the military who /
desire to participate in the festivi-
ties. They will accommodate TO-
UO0 men.
The President is giving the move I
ment a hearty support.
The twelfth regiment of New
York State National Guards, Will
visit Washington on March 4th I
next to assist at the Inauguration of
President Garfield. 1t will then be /
not quite twenty years since the !
regiment ended the column that |
marched across Long Bridge into |
Virginia, for the occupation of |
Georgetown heights. There are
still many of the old war veterans,
some of whom reside in Booklyn,
remaining in the regiment, and
among them its commandant Colon
ell Cruger.
The Democrats here are perfectly
disgusted at the late development in
the Chinese forgery investigation.
The action of Hewitt, Barnum d
Co., of endorsing the forgery and
then through a proclamation of the
National Democratic Committee try
ing to crawl out of itshOws the brazen
cheek of the very old fellow him
self, and puts even the rebels briga-
dierS to shame. 1 asked q good ma
tured Southerner to-day what he
thought of the Democratic party
now, and he frankly said; Il think
it is gone to HI
To my Republican friends in Old
Stoystown, l say, God bless you for
the victory you have won at the
election, who would have believed
it. Il shows that ''old bourbon
can't carry the day as OF yore, in
that intelligent little village.
II would seem at a distance that
the Irish railroad bulldozers didn't
get their work in we'll.
Permit me TO remind some Of my
Democratic friends that their time is
up, and now | expect to see them
carry out their determination of
leaving the town when the BLACK
republicans" get in the majority.
Come now Captain" a." you are first
on the list. Next IS ''Archey," and |
then the young Doctor " Two
ranks into Gno. git !" Goad.byo
tears
Let me tell you one of the prin-
pie reasons for the defeat Of the
Democracy over there. 1t is Fred 4
Grofs school, Democracy and edu- /
cation won't mix. An analysis
shows that they are incompatible. |
The Democratic party can never win
4 National victory as long as the
shools of the country are tolerated
by them. Fred Grofs school must
be stopped or you will be routed
bag and baggage, The youth of
Stoystown IS not going 10 be Demo /
cratic. Every able bodied man in
the village was in the war except !
one. The old men are dying away.
The boys who catch the ballots that
fall from their stiffened hands are
as soon as they learn to
read and think for themselves. The
first reader contains the portrait of :
Abraham Lincoln. On its simple :
pages, in words of one or two sylla-
bles Is told the story of his birth :
and death. That story never made :
l democrat. In the pranks of the !
playground the name silences the
rollcsome and makes the jOlliest {
gfaya. That name never made q :
democrat. In the pictures that
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