The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-01-17

WHO does not remember how,
during the canvass of last fall. the
people were assured by the reform
ers and Independents. that the de-
feat of the Republican State ticket
was the one thing needed to purify
the party and rid it of the bosses,
and that this accomplished, We
would stand united and stronger for
the impending Presidential battle of
1884?
Well, the Republican State ticket
was defeated by those Reformers.
The chariot wheels OF time have
rolled on and brought Us to the in
auguration of a Democratic Gov
ernor as a result of hal defeat, and
the peace and harmony so often and
so loudly promised, are further from
us than ever. And yet the political
quacks keep talking of the purified
and strengthened party that will
again lead in the onward march to
victory" while with the next breath
they denounce the "Stalwirts," who
embrace more than four.ffths of The
party-as men who care only for the
"spoils and Office, whether obtained
by cajoling, fraud, perjury, brow
beating, b%ulldozing, lying, or direct
stealing"
These be lovely overtures for har-
mony, and betoken with a vengeance
a united and strengthened party
for the coming Presidential campaign.
Is it moi manifest that this class of
self styled Republicans are solely in
tent on keeping the breach in the
party open, and on playing into the
hands of the Democrats? Because
they succeeded in throwing the State
into the hands of the Democrats last
fall, they imagine that they WELD a
power potent for evil, if not for good,
and being of the class that would
rather rule in hell, than serve in
Heaven" they hope to terrorize the
party into subservience to their will.
Like the fly on the cart wheel, they
are continually calling on an admir-
ing world to observe how they re-
~volve, apparently thinking like that
silly insect, that theirs is tae power
that produces the revolution.
There is but one thing to be done,
in our judgment. to insure Repub-
lican success in 1884, and that is to
fix our eyes Oh the end TO be accom-
plished, and resoluteiy march for
ward, totally ignoring ali 9uack
panaeeas for union and harmony.
Republicans want a continuance of
their party in power, with all the
resulting blessings TO the country,
hat its administration Of National
affairs will bestow, and they viii not
risk the loss OF these, because a few
political mouDtebanks may howl
and ,abber and frantically try to d.
vert them from the straightforward
path. The men woo imagine they
hold the balance of power in the
State of Pennsylvania are woefuily
deceived. They were aided by innu.
merabie iortuitous circumstances in
the late canvass, and the very result
of their efforts, the placing OF the
Democrats in power. is researg on
then with fearful effect. Men who
unthinkilgly listened to the catch
cries of the campa;gn, are Inundated
by its ending. and vita The bitter
TASTE OF Democratic rule in thssr
mouths cannot again be easily led
astray.
Pennsylvania l. > Republican
State. without doubt, and its vote
will he cast for the next Republican,
candidate for Presdent. We require
no patent medicines to cure imagin-
airy distempers. With good and true
candidates, a platform embodying,
not platitudes, but the fixed and de-