Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-04-20
MASSACHUSETTS,.
THISIS THE YANKEE BLARNEY-
STONE STATE.
PLYMOUTH ROCK STILL SOLID For CRIME
AND FRAUD.

their grandiathers, when they hun,
women for being witches, cut tn,
tongues out OF the mouths of Quakers
, and banished Roger Williams and hi
followers into wilderness governed
by the Indians. Tho Bedford Gdsett
tells the balance:
OF all the States in the Union Mas
sachusetts claims to have been fore
most in maintaining public credit al
every sacrifice, aud in opposing repu
diation in every form and under dis.
guise,
The present Republican leaders in
Massachusetts affec! tho highest stand,
ard Of morals; yet the two Senators
from that State stand forth as the
special advocates Of the corrupt coali.
ton by which the Republicans have
procured the Senate committees. The
whole burden of the defense Of the
Malone bargain has fallen upon them.
Mr. Dawes, as the mouthpiece of the
caucus, reported the disgraceful nomi.
nations OF Gorham and Rddleberger,
both absolutely by Malone. Mr.. Hoar
is Chairman of privileges and Elections
and member of three other committees.
Mr.. Dawes is Chairman of Indian af-
fairs and member of three other com.
mittees, including the Appropriations,
place in which he ranks with an or
dinary craftsmanship. How did they
reach these posts Of distinction BY
making contract with the Virginia
repudiator in payment for bis vote, to
nominate Gorham, boiling machine
Republican, and Riddlebcrger, an anti.
debt.paying Democrat, for the two
first. .honors OF the Senate.
Stripped Of all shams and false pre-.
tenccs, this was the substance of the
bargain, now plainly to be seen by all
mon. No wonder that day by day
Dawes and Hoar are heard defending
the venal alliance. If they had gone
into open market and bought their
seats, the transaction would have been
no more degrading than it appears.
They traded off the honor and the
good name of the Senate.
The debt Of Virginia was not crea.
ted by carpet-baggers, as in other
Southern States. 1t is an honest debt
incurred for local improvements. In a
speech at Richmond Mr.. Malone de.
clared the amount of that debt to be
S32 ,07I I090.02. II. IL. Riddleberger
the nominee Of the Republican caucus
for Sergeant.at-Arms, carried through
the Virginia Legislature bill, which
would now be a law but for the veto
of the Democratic Governor Holiday,
which scaled the debt down to s19,.
G95, 1876. That bill struck off more
than ono.third Of the debt 1t refused
to recognize interest due the bond. |
holders at home and abroad during the
civil war and the period Of reconstruc.
tion. 1t reduced the interest from G
to B per cent. And finally, il reserv.
cd the right to tax the bonds, and to
tax them in such way that the re.
duced interest might be stopped alto.
gether the holder getting nothing.
This is the platform OF the socalled
Readjusters in Virginia, and it was the
distinctive and the only issue upon
which Malone was elected to the Sen.
ate, by a combination between the re.
pudiators of both parties,
All tho pretended love for the negro
md for "lree and fair ballotu is on
Iiter.thought Of Malone and the Re.
invented in tho hope of GOV.
ring up the bargain. A single fact
will dispose of the attempted decep.
ion. In 1874, when this question of
he State debt was before the Legisla.
ure in another form, a colored mem.
'er named Moss is thus reported in
he Richmond Wig, Mr.. Mahonc's
PERSONAL organ:
Mr.. Moss (elored) had not learned from the :
peeches that had been made whether Virginia Z
wod the deb, at all. " shs did she could act as
n individual would act 10 her situation. He was I
'r paying every dollar the State owed, yet had
OF forgotten he was a slave whom the debt was ,
,ntraelei nor did he forget that the destipy of
irginia was his destiny. His property was as q
ood for taxes as any other mans property.
ONE said the State was bankrupt, others that the
sbt was contracted on the faith Of slave proper. -
;, and as that property had been swept awa.
le debt was no longer binding. lie thus summed L
p "If II is just debt we owe, we must nav
= Being asked by Mr.. Goodman (eoloredj U
neither he was for or against the resolution, he 1
piled be was against anything like repudia.
Dn.
This colored man may have been illit- "
rate, but he was honest. The senti. II
tents he uttered could not be improv. II
! even in Massachusetts. While Mr.. 81
loss was on the floor, Mr.. Riddebcr. k
er, Mahonc's chief Of staff, and now 81
is candidate for Sergeantat-Arms, re. il
iested him to give way for n rcsolu. n
on. He politely gave way, and his VI
'urtesy was answered, as reported by b.
10 Richmond Wig, in this way: Of
Mr.. Moss finally gave way for Mr.. Riddleber. Il
70 oner resolution, which turned out 10 be Al
exPel the member from buckingham (Mr. Mou) u
nuisance. or
For upholding the good faith Of the -
ate and for opposing reputation, IL
r. Riddleberger tried to expe this n,
orthy eolored man from his seat in w
9 Legislature "as q nuisance !" The n,
otion was rejected, but the stigma of
G attempt rests on Riddleberger, who fe
now put forward, endorsed and ap. w
auded by Mr. Dawes and Mr.. Hoar il,
prominently entitled to the favor di
d the confidence of the Republican in
rty in Massachusetts and elsewhere. yI
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hxPERIMENr.-An exchange says su
en- Bntler talks of starting q new ga
rty' Gen, Butler would make a 10
cd party by himselfif he could only th
reconstructed" to-
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