The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-05

LEAR TO MARSHAI,L.
Why Mr.. Lear Cannot Support the
Republican Ticket,

MUST BE BROKEN-AN ARGUMENT |
THAT THOSE WHO HELPED TO |
MAKE THE TICKET ARE JUSTIFIED |
IN BREAKING IT.
Pittsbul'g, Sep. 29.-The Hon.
Thomas M. Marshall having tele-
graphed George Lear, ESD, with re-
gard to their appointment to speak
in Chambersburg on October 4,
to-day received the following:
DoYLEsTowN, Pa, Sep. 25, 1882.
Hon. THOMAS NJ. MARSHALL
My DEAR Sir: Your telegram
is received. / will not be at Cham
bersburg on the 4th of October, and
SO wrote to Mr.. Mckee and tele-
graphed to Mr.. Stewart as soon as /
received their dispatches. 1t will
he impossible for me to leave home
at that time, and if l could / would
not spend three days in going and
returning to make one speech, and
besides, that it would be necessary
to explain why L made speech
against ticket which | assisted to
nominate, and, while | have sullici-
cient reasons for such a course, the
meeting only would hear the justifi-
cation, and all the Republicans in
the State would know l had made
the speech. The reasons are very
manifest, and little reflection will
satisfy any intelligent man that the
delegates in that convention above
all others should protest against the
use which is being made of their
work. That convention on the 10th
of May nominated ticket, and, in
accordance with party usages, adopt
ed a platform. The candidates were
unobicctionable, and the platform
not only cnunciatcd the established
doctrines of the party, but took ad-
vanced grounds on important ques-
tions of political and official con-
duct which the public sentiment of
the period impcrativcly demanded.
The candidates and the platform
were an entirety-the former to re-
ceive the suffrages of the people on
condition that they represented and
supported the latter.
AN OBLIGATION THAT NIGHT BIZ
DISSOLVED.
A breach of faith by the candid
atos, or by those who were delegated
to conduct their campaign, not only
absolved the Republican voters from
all obligations to support the ticke
of their party, but demanded thcil
emphatic rebuke for such an at
tempt to secure their suf1rages by ;
fraud, and yet since the day th'
nominees were placed upon tha
platform, containing promises
pledges and declarations of primer
pies, upon the faith of which tn
voters were asked for their support
: there has not been q promise per
) formed, a pledge redeemed, or
, principle maintained.
A party without principles has n,
claim upon the sutlerages of intclli
4 gent men, but party whose practi
5 ces arc utterly at variance with it
c profcssed principles is unworthy tn
e support of honest men.
!. If we do not repuIiate these act
e of bad faith, are we not iustl
Y chargeablc with an original dcsig
to deceive AMI cheat the people wit
empty promises which we never in
:, tend to perform in order to obtai
f their votes. These violations {
: faith have been so frequent an
s fragrant that common honestly an
y self respect demand protest trol
o the delegates, and they are certainl
C relieved from all obligations to su:
: tain any part of the work of thu
g convention in its present mutilate
e form. And the breaches in Il
Il platform are not in mere formal {
If immaterial matter, but of the mo
If important and substantial characte
among them is the levying Of con
pulsory assessments, and this, too,
raise fund which by its amou
II can be required only to corrupt Il
very source of political power.
le POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS DEdoU,
of CED.
GI i% A campaign run on such syste
n; is inconsistent with the high stan
n, ard of political morality which h
no been the pride and boast Of the r
xt publican party, and a victo
IN achieved by the means now in l
to to secure success-such as the lavi
W. expenditure of vast sums of mon
ey for the purposes forbidden by la
lis will be more demoralizing and d
of asterous to the party than defe
II; A party of principles, high ali
mt and noble purposes cannot afford
W, win by the arts which makes the
WIS cupation of a jockey disreputable.
ers 1t cannot be disguised, and is {
en- parent to every man of ordinary {
ns servation, that the issue in this ca
les paign which has been rendered a
,ns accepted, and which is now on tri
rte me- is whether the political practices a