Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-07-21
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Inc invader by HANCOCK ana his com
rades in arms, and it is right that the
altar of eternal honor TO the surviving
leader Of the victorious host should be
set up in her midst. Such an altar in
such q temple becomes at the same time
the symbol Unpopular gratitude, and OF
the eternal peace and forgiveness Of a
restored people.
| am only one of the army of Repub.
licans who will vote for Gen. Hancock
for these reasons Only one Of many
Of the Oldest Republicans in this city,
who call upon me to say that they
would be ashamed of themselves if,
after all their words of praise and
thanksgiving for the salvation Of Phil.
adelphia from fire and rebel contribu.
tions IN 1868, they should now vote
against tho man who did the most Of
the work. General Garfield is a good
man, but we owe him nothing com.
pared 10 the debt TO Hancock When
told to vote for Hancock is to vote for
a Democrat, 1 reply that the partition
between the two parties is very thin.
The only point on which we may be
SAID to differ is protection, and that
cannot be very strong one when
Hancock comes from the great tariff
county of Montgomery, Pennsylvania,
and all his friends are open advocates
Of protection, while Garfield was elec.
ted a member Of the Golden club in
London, the great free trade head
quarters in England, because of his
rather bold sympathies with the Yves.
tern enemies Of Pennsylvania interests.
If the iron men of Pennsylvania want
to know any more about Garfeld's free
trade ideas, they ought to read over
Judge kelly's exposure of the Repub.
lican candidate for President few
years ago. The Republican and Dem.
ocratic parties in this country are too
close to each other on all questions, and
too much interested in National peace
and prosperity, to make the election
Of Hancock or Garfield a matter of the
gravest consequence in point of fact.
Only for myself and for many others
prefer Hancock, because of his great
work at Gettysburg and because, ifhe
is successful, there will be an end Of
that rule in Pennsylvania which has
subordinated all our Republican ideas
and duties to the interests of n few ty.
rannical politicians.
But there is one view of General
Hancocks future that have left to the
last. lie will restore peace and pros.
perity TO the South. | think Grant
would have done it better, but the
friends Of General Garfield would not
allow him TO try 1t. You answer that
this is to remit the colored people. TO
their cruel masters. | rejoin that these
masters could not treat the colored man
much worse'than the Northern Repub
lioans do in the distribution OF party
favors. Here.away they use the col.
ored voters to elect the worst white
material to our state legislatures but
they never think of sending a cultiva.
ted negro, and ] could name fifty fit to
sit IN Congress even, TO that choice
menagerie Of wild beasts and birds Of
evil omen. The bloody shirt, by Han.
cocks election, will be washed out,
dried, ironed, and put away as a relic
ofa bad era. Wenow set ] ohm Brown,
Dixie, My Maryland, and the Bonnie
Blue Flag, in one great union overture
TO the opera ofnternational harmony.
Northern success in business is the
great example. 1t is o better school.
master than the crafty carpet.bagger
The Tennessee Jubilee Singers have
been better missionaries all over Eu.
rope and America than all the Rcpub-
lican campaign clubs between the
White mountains and the Pedee
There is immense medicine to party
disease in human charity. When the
South takes Hancock after he'chastised
them, they give themselves as hostages
of fidelity. They will not find him a
soft and easy Damocles to preach plati-
tude and obey arrogance He is one
of your men sharpened into shrewd.
ness by the common sense of a great
experience, As he will give them
much leeway, he will insist on much
loyalty. | know these Southerners
well. Cruel in anger, brave in battle,
relentless in revenge they are also as
full of honor as they are Of life, if they
are not kicked when they are down.
Observe, we made them our equal
partners after we forgave them and
we can no more try to clip their wings
to make them less free than we can
restore the broken fetters OF the slave
laid deep under the ocean of emanei,
patton. Soon the South will be on a
new trial, and as Hancock will be
elected by the votes OF many thousand
Republicans like myself, the South
will have no more interest in bad faith
than he will have inclination TO per-
nit il. ..
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