The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-02-02

From a communication in the
Chambersburg Repository ON the
Senatorship we take the following
"reminiscences Of former attempts
made by minoritics to cocrcc ma
jorities
In 1861 the Southern people noti-
fed the North that if Abraham
Lincoln was elected President we
would have war. He was elected
and we did have a war, and the
rebels were defeated. The majority
ruled, and they have threatened war
ever since their defeat, but the peo-
pie 60 on in their usual way, and a
second war has not yet arrived. In
1872 Mr.. Grow and his followers
notified the party that if Hartranit
was not withdrawn, that they would
support Buckalew and Greeley. The
able leaders of our party told the
true Republicans to stand firm and
let them vote for Buckalew and
Greeley. They did vote for them
but the majority of the people stood
by the first principles of the Repub-
lican party, and the majority must
rule, and the Greeley crowd were
overwhelmed.
In 1876 the rebels informed the
Republican party that if they under
took to put into the Presidency Mr.
HAYES, who had been decided to be
the duly elected President by ma
jority count of eight to seven, that
one hundred thousand men would
march to Washington to prevent
him from taking his seat. Neverthe-
less he took it, and the people and
country supported the majority.
The first principles of Republican,
ism. And it will be the case in every
ward meeting, convention, caucus,
business, corporation, &c.
The old doctrines of cession from
party and country has so often been
settled that | am surprised to hear
and see that men who seem to be so
successful as to be elected to repre-
sent Republicans should so far for
get themselves. Destroy the party
or yield to the minority is their bat
tie flag.
am little acquainted with Mr..
Oliver but he is well recommended
bv the business men and the delega-
ton from his own home and by the
bolters proclamation, who say that
"his private character and individ-
ual worth of the gentlemen are un-
assailable and yield to him our un-
qualified respect"
How the minority of the RepuD-
licans can sustain and support them
selves by such meaningless words
in their stubbornness, the tax payers
would like to know whose money
they are squandering and whose
time they are wasting in their fruit
less attempt TO coerce the majority.
Do they wish TO disrupt the Repub-
lican party by their course, and set
aside the first principles of the party
to carry out their views, if so they
cannot do it, as the principle of the
party has withstood their selfish
ness before and compelled the mi
nority to respect the wishes of the
majority. 1t is not the man that
we vote for, but principles should
govern, and not seliishness and VIM
dictiveness. When principles are
gone organization is gone, then the
country and the party are demoral-
lied. If they had set forth in their
proclamation that Mr.. Oliver had
gained his votes by unfair or corrupt
means, then they might have some
ground TO stand on, but the boilers
have given him a good character,
beyond reproach. An honest man
with an excellent character is one
that Diogenes could not find in all
Athens.
REPTBIICAN.