Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-12
NINE YEARS AGO.
NINE YEARS AGO
ANOTHER LIBERAL RECRUIT.
EX CONGRESSMAN GROW, on PENNsYLvA.
MIA, GIVES his ALLEGIANCE TO GREE.
LEY-AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO THE
LIBERAL CANDIDATE.


Such was the caption Of an artiol,
that appeared in the New York TriB
UHc on the 18th of August, 1872, when
Grow joined the Democratic party
The editor Of that Radical organ con
tinued in this way
"The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, fol
twelve years Republican Congressman
from the Wilmott district of Pennsyl
vania, formerly Speaker Of the House
during his last term Of service, has for
mally repudiated Grant and declared
for Greeley. Mr.. Grows record a,
one Of the earliest and most consistai
OF Republicans has given him an un
questioned right so rank with the
ablest and purest of bis party, lie wa,
an early advocate of the Homestead
act, and one Of its most tireless cham
pions. In letter recently addressed
TO Col. A II. Mcclure, Chairman oi
the Liberal Republican State Commit
tee, after stating his inability TO take
tho stump because OF throat disease
and generally impaired health, Mr.
Grow says
am Tor Greeley for President. lie
has devoted a busy life to earnest
thought and study on oil the grave
questions Of Government policies, and
the many equally grave questions af
fecting the welfare Of labor and the
development of the industrial classes
of the country. Penniess, friendless
and alone in great city, struggling
for years against adverse fortune. he
has achieved Unprecedented success.
Editing the recognized organ of the
old Wing party lin which he bad been
schooled from boyhood) be was among
the first in advocating its abandon.
ment and the formation of the Repub.
lican party when he had to choose be
tween duty to his convictions or iealty
to party organization. For thirty
years, with each setting sun he has
boldly uttered bis convictions on the
worlds public doings of the preceding
twenty.tour hours-wbether political
social, moral or religious-yet never
pandering to the vices Of his time.
During that whole period, Crusader
like, be has championed the universal
manhood OF the race and the equal
rights of all mankind
No one living has devoted more
branwork to the cause Of universal
liberty or the elevation of fallen and
crushed humanity, and few, if any,
have endured more OF the eors of gid.
ed public prejudice, or the scoff of big.
oted error; yet to-day the leading
ideas for which he has struggled so
long with unyielding teoacily are
stamped indelibly on the pillars OF the
Republic. And now, when the great
political party, through its regular or.
ganization, selects such man for its
standard bearer, | hail il as the politi.
cal dawn Of a brighter and better day.
The Democrat who can lay aside bis
party prejudices of life time and ac-
cept the foremost and ablest represent.
atve OF the ideas Of his political oppo
nents, gives the best evidence he can
furnish that he is willing to let the
dead past bury its dead and to act 10
the living present
When the people of one section OF
the Onion, despite the education of
their section, rally around the Stand.
ard of a man whom for quarter of
century they have been taught by all
their teachings to hate as their dead
liest foe, they give the best evidence
that with them the animosities of the
past are buried forever II not in this
way, how then is the Union ever to be
restored to peace and lasting tranquil
ity2 A victorious party in carnival
OF blood cannot, in this age, convert
itself into party Of perpetual bates.
When the vanquishcd are ready to
close the bloody chasm and bury for
ever the animosities engendered in the
deadly strife returning over the graves
Of their dead ones, and through the
better memories of the past to grasp
in fraternal concord the hand of the
victor, where is the patriotism that
would refuse the profiered offer?
In what other way can we expect
to have our people homogeneous in
IDEAS and institutions from the Gulf to
the Lakes, and from Ocean to Ocean,
with one Union and one destiny now
and forever2"
Are these grand results of less con
sequence to the Republic than the am
bilious wishes of one man struggling
10 prolong his term of Officer
Yours truly,
GALUsHA A. GRow.
We think this somersault will cook
Grows goose, and if he wants to strike
blow at the Camerons, he had better
rain his followers on Wallace, who,
ike Grow, voted for Greeley, and the
of the Legislature who want
o do the square thing should vote for
he sitting Senator who is not the pro.
,rietor of any Of the vagaries of Mr.
irow.
THE BETHLEHE EN- L YNCHERS. !