Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-30
WHOLE NO. 2,344.
SHALL the Majority rsuieg
Harrisburg lPa.l Patriot

Harrisburg Pal Patrlot
In this electoral campaipn the
majority of the American peoplo
are engaged IN y struggle with u
desperate nMnOifty entIenched In
power behind an army Of.0ne hum
dred thousand officers, and relying
upan fraud, violence and systematic
/ deception OF the masses to perpetu-
ate their insolent rule. Four years
ago u majority cf quarter million
OF American citizens, as the official
returns prove, voted TO remove this
party from power, but through an
unparalleled crime upon the suf.
frage the defeated candidate of the
minority was installed in the Office
Of president, and the majorstv We're
defrauded of their rights. The ques-
ton whether the minority shall
continue to rule through violence
and corruption Is to be determined
in this election. This unnatural
condition must be determined by
the lawful and peaceful operation
Qf.the ballot, or the minority must
be depOsed sooner or later by the
strong arm of the majority, or there
must be an end of the democratic
system of government in this cOun-
try. ~ 7
The majority that voted against
continuing this political domination
four years ago mas increased in every
state in the Union. That change
which the people sought then, and
believed they had accomplished In
the election Of Tilden and Hen
bricks, is more imperiOusly de-
manded now. Moderate and reflect
ing citizens who bave hitherto acted
with the republican party recognize
the necessity of extinguishing the
baleful spirit of sectionalism, in DR.
der that the united country may
take a new political departure,
leaving behind the jealousies, ami
mosities, and bitter memories OF the
civil conflict with its dead issues.
Young men who have come upon
the stage of political life since the
last presidential contest have no
sympathy with the passions and
prejudices of period of war upon
which the minority have been play
ing at every presidential election,
and thousands of them are swelling
the democratic majority in this
campaign for the election of Han
cock and the restoration of harmony
and fraternity throughout the land.
The army of a hundred thousand
otfice-holders drawing their susten-
ance from the treasury of the people
are deeply alarmed at the evidences
of the coming political change, aud
foOlishly predict dire ruin to the
country as the. result. They have
been 50 long accustomed to pOwer
that they make the absurd but, un-
der the circumstances, natural mis-
take of substituting themselves for
the country. They cannot under
stand why a political change TINT
will affect their interests as an office
holding class of government de-
pendents, will not be disastrous to
the entire country. H l
To prevent this change the whole
official host, from cabinet ministers
to tide walters and whisky gaugers,
has become an army of political
agents. The departments and bu-
reaus fgOvernment have been con-
verted into centers of political activ-
ity. At this hour not a cabinet
minister and scarcely head of
bureau is at his official post, but
they are plying the country IN ev-
cry direction waving the bloody
shirt and appealing to sectional
hate, while the clerks in the depart
ments are busily falsifying the pub
lie records and forging campaign
documents to impose upon ignOr-
ance and credulity. Hundreds Of
thousands of dollars are gathered
from the officials, and favorite gov
ernment contractors who dread a
change that will deprive them OF
the spoils on which they have 30
long fattened, and party agents are
it wherever il can be
applied in corrupting
the ballOt-box. Thus the money
wrung in taxes from the people is
undermining their political institu-
tions. In contemptuotis defiance of
the civil service reform policy OF
Hayes the servants of the people
boldly proclaim the right and the
purpose to use the surplus OF their
for their own political and
personal advantage. MCPHERSON,
in his circular demand upon them
for campaign funds, openly appeals
to their ''dread of the restoration Of
the democratic party TO power in
the governmental The issue be-
tween the people on the one side
and the arrogant horde of ofilce-
holders on the other never was SO
clearly presented. AS there never
was so great a necessity for teaching
a salutary lesson to the ipsolenee Of
servants who have set themselves
up for masters of the people, the end
Of this struggle in the election Of
Hancock and the rescue of the gov
ernment from the spoilers cannot be
doubted.