Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-19
Conkling and Platt Resign.

VI lIuTTlsOH, OI lnuld0a, SHeTinan, Oh
Ohio, and the Subsidiary" Senator
from Pennsylvania. Each of these
men hold their high places of honor
through fraud and corruption success
fully accomplished at the last election.
The truth is, the whole Republican
party should abdicate at once, for the
same means that made the men ma.
med Senators, gave the party success
in the last general election. When
the telegraph brought word that Indi-
ana was lost to HANCOCK We believed
that great State had been taken from
us by the vote of colonizcd negroes.
That may have helped but each turn
of the investigation wheel, set in mo-
ton by Postmaster General James
demonstrates beyond all dispute the
means by which Republican success
was achieved. The peoples money
appropriated to carry on the mail ser
vice of the United States, was turned
by the debauched Dorsey, aided by the
unscrupulous Brady, endorsed and en-
couraged by false, canting, hypocri-
teal candidate, to their destruction.
Gariield's letter to Hubbell, pleading
for Brady's aid, is the best evidence in
the world of this fact. Star routes for
mails, supposed to be for the use of the
people in the far west, were used to
wrench from a mighty people an ex-
preston Of their will by the ballot,
which, had they been left untrameled
aud free, would have been entirely diff
ferent. Can it be that honest men in
the Republican party, men who care
not for office, who deal honestly be-
tween man and man, who even strive
to be christians and have only the
good of their government at heart,
endorse all this high handed corrup-
ton and villiany, because it has been
used as n means to keep their party
in power. If they do not, who will
be the first to break loose and turn
his back upon such great crimes? ? \
great party pretending to the world
that it won a great victory because it.
sought the preservation of the Union.
and the good Of the people, demon
strating by its own officers, before the
administration is three months old.
the immense frauds committed. and
the amount of corruption used TO win.
is spectacle too loath.ome to behold.
Then, behold also this same party of
great moral ideas" join hands with
Malone and Riddleberger, the Vir-
ginia repudiators, led by Gorham an
arch schemer and corruptionist, and
you have another spectacle that sick
ems the heart of any patriot and that
ought TO cause the blush of shame
to come TO any honest Republicans
face. IL would seem from the events
of the past week that the triune of
bosses Conkling, Cameron and Lo-
gan, disappointed and disgusted at
Garfield for his frequent and unblush-
ing violations of the promises he made
to them before and since the election.
have determined to break the admin
istration or rend the Republican party
in twain. These violations Of promises
and the disruption of secret treaties
bring TO light the means by which
they were successful and we were de.
feated. A party may win once, and even
twice by fraud or by intimidating a
great people, but surely not often. The
multitudes of laboring men who were
compelled last fall to vote the Repub.
lican ticket against their will, rejoice
with exceeding great JOY" at the dis
ruption of the party whose leaders OPP
pressed and cOerced them.
Through all this dense cloud of
blackness and wickedness, with what
splendor and glory the pure life and
illustrious character of General Han.
cock shines. No stain upon his grand
careerl Nominated as he was by the
enthusiastic out-burst of DemOcracy's
representatives, the effort of slanderers
~ e. sfuof, him 90 ans, 80 IL. a....