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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-04-24

a UDITORTS SErrLEMANT
N Statement of settlement with the Super
visors OF BIacklick township for the year enfing
March g. 1896.
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Mfscelianeoas Notices.

OURS WANTED
i Highest prices paid for all kinds OF Furs.
Bring them to GEO. l.. FREDERICkS,
Nov /, 1895. Ebensburg. Pa
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renewed with increased bitterness. A
more bitter fight was never waged in a
convention, but Conkling and Cameron
nelo their forces SO well in hand that they
were able to make Hayes the nominee by
somewhat liberal promises to the friends
OF wheeler and Morton of the honor of Sec
ond place on the ticket.
Never were more brilliant speeches
maze tor the purpose of placing candi-
uates In domination. That of Ingersoll
nominating Blaine has been placed among
.ne political classics. Stewart L. Wood
1ord nominated Conkling. Noyes made
the speech for Hayes, and was seconded
py old Ben Wade. Upon the first ballot
Blame had 291 votes, Bristow 113, ConK-
ing 80, Morton rs, Hayes 65. There was
no material change until the fifth ballot.
1he antl-Blaine managers held their men
steady and Blaine stock went down. On
the sixth the break was made for Hayes,
Indiana Withdrawing Morton and leading
the stampede, and the nomination was a
fact.
In the Republican convention of 1880, at
Chicago, ''Cesarism" was the great cry OF
the opponents of the Grant Conkllng COM
bination. Grant had returned from cir
cling the world and was as much popu-
lar figure as ever. All the machinery of
expert management was brought into
play to insure the ex-President's nomina-
ton. Contests were acutely arranged.
The unit rule was enforced to the extent
possible. Garfield came to the front at
once as an open antagonist OF these crafty
methods, and was looked upon as likely
dark horse. His eloquent nomination OF
Sherman gave him much additional popu-
larity. Joy of Michigan nominated
Blaine, and created some amusement by
mistaking his candidates initials, calling
him James A. Blaine" when he rounded
his hnal period. Conkling nominated
Grant in an eloquent speech. The long
balloting and intense excitement have
been equaled in no other convention. The
famous 306 phalanx of Grant was never
seriously broken, and when the stampede
came for Garfield on the thirty-sixth bal
lot, giving the latter the nomination, the
Grant delegates never for a moment
swerved from their fealty.
The Republican Convention at Chicago
in 1884 was again the scene of the conten-
tion of the Blaine and anti-Blalne forces.
Arthur, made President by the assassina-
ton of Garfield. hoped for the nomination,
and TO some extent the ofice-holding ele-
ment was controlled for him. Robertson,
however, who was Collector of the Port OF
New York, was stanch friend of Blaine.
Arthur, Sherman, Logan, Edmunds, Haw-
ley and Blaine was the great array of names
presented to the convention. This time
popular sentiment was triumphant.
Blaine was nominated on the fourth bal
lot, amid the crazest enthusiasm, which
was almost equaled when Logan was
nominated for second place.
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THE LONGEST CAMPAIGN.
Log Cabins Dragged Through the
Streets, Songs Sung and Hard
Cider Drunk.
Standing Army
100000. .

The Presidential campaign of 1910 was
the longest in the history of the country,
and, excepting that of 1860, altogether the
most exciting. 1t began eleven months
before the election with the nomination of
General w. H. Harrison at Harrisburg in
Decem Der, 1889.
The campaign that succeeded was one of
extraordinary excitement and incident.
According to Mr. Benton it was conducted
on the Harrison side by the banks and
their agents, who fused money in fabu-
lous amounts, and in ways not dreamed OF.
The Harrison men-otherwise the Wings
were not in the least moved by the COM
plants and charges of the Democrats,
otherwise the ''Locofocos," but continued
to hold their big meetings, to exhibit their
pictures, to sing their doggerel rhymes, to
drink their hard cider, and to drag their
canoes and log cabins on wheels through
the streets and along the country roads.
They "got back" at the Locofocos with
charges quite as serious as those against
which they were called upon TO defend
themselves.
They declared that Mr.. Van Buren,
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turned out 10-cent pieces at cost OF 80
cents each! And great deal more OF the
same kind, ending with declaration that
one term was enough for any man.
In fact, however, the real issues OF the
campaign related to currency and banking
and the tariff General Harrison's position
on that subject was authoritatively stated
in these words: HE is in favor of such
judicious tariff regulations as shall pro-
vide for the actual wants of the Govern
ment and protect the National industry,
without affording the means of extrava-
gance. or surplus beyond what may be
necessary to discharge its current and ex-
isting obligations" holding it Ito be the
duty of the Government to keep its ex-
penses within its ordinary revenues" 1t
was, however, the opinion of General Har-
rison and his supporters that even upon
this moderate view of tariff legislation
sufficient protection might be had to
give to the farmers profitable prices for
their products, and to the artisans and
laborers of the country constant employ
ment, fair wages and prompt pay--in
short, ''$2 day and roast beef"
Out of a total OF 2411,7 votes, of
which 1859 were for an anti slavery candi-
date, Gen raj Harrison had a majority of
LAG, ,315, and in the electoral colleges 234
votes against so for Mr.. Van Buren,.
Among the Whie pictures we reproduce
two of the most characteristic, entitled re-
spectively Harrison and Prosperity"
Ivan Buren, and Ruin" The method of
these pictures is familiar enough now, but
they were great deal of novelty then,
and rendered powerful service for the
Whig cause, as, although much exagger-
ated, of course, they were descriptive of an
actually existing condition. These car
toons admirably illustrate not only the
political morals of the time but the crude
condition of wood engraving as we'll.
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SPEAKER REEDS AMBITION.
He Has a Bent for Literature aud
Could Write the Great Amer.
lean Novel.

1t may not be generally known but it is
true that Mr.. Reed d has literary ambitions.
1 have myself heard the Speaker say that
if he had not gone into politics when a
young man he would have tried to make a
competence in the law, and alter that
would have tried his hand at literature.
He believes, in modest way, he could
have made a name for himself with
his pen. Literature is his natural bent
1t is his PASSION. To this day he has
aspirations in that field. There are few
things worth reading that he has not read.
He has read the best in French and
Italian, and is now turning his attention
to Spanish. He does not like translations,
but loves the original tongue. French
and Italian he has mastered, Spanish he
will have in a few months and German
will come next. Reed talks more of books
than of politics. Among his friends his
literary attainments, his analyses and
critiques, his play of fancy and imagina-
ton, are greatly admired. One of these
friends, himself literary man of note,
said 10 me: IF Mr.. Reed would go into
literature he would make himself famous.
He could write the great American novel
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whose father had kept country tav-
ern-was an aristocrat, monarchist in
fact, who lived in royal style in the
White House, who ate his soup out of
spoons of gold and his pie with knives of
silver; who honored the rich and despised
the poor; who demanded standing army
OF 200,0 900 men under his own control, for
what sinister purpose of enslavement Of
the people is easily inferred. He had
wasted the public revenues. had increased
the public expenditure. and had added
$50 O00, 900 to the public debt. He was
hostile to tine churches in all their sects,
and sought the destruction of the minis
ters of religion. He was the enemy of free
labor, who aimed TO bring the wages of
American workingmen to the European
level, and to destroy the profits OF Ameri-
can farmers. Among the minor charges
were two: That he had established new
mints in which it cost 40 per cent of the
value OF gold eagles to coin them, and that
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Brilliant ani Ben ficent.

Ex-Governor John D. Long of Massa-
chusetts makes claim for Republicanism
in his History of the Republican Party
which will be accepted as true by all Re-
publicans. He says: parties, like indi-
viduals, sometimes suffer from the un-
broken sequence of their own good record.
No political party in any age or quarter OF
the civilized world ever had so brilliant
and benetcent a career or lived up to its
own standards so faithfully as the Repub-
lican party of Lincoln and Harrison. There
has been at times tendency rather to
fling at its grand old record than to count
tne value Of its work"
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which we have all been looking for so
many years"
Speaker Reed is fluent French scholar
and his library contains the works Of all
the best writer's in the original, partlcu-
larly those of Bourget, Maupassant, Dau-
det, Coppee, and George Sand. He is an
omnivorous reader and seldom laws book
down until he has finished it He is an
intense admirer of Charles Reade. lie re-
Gently said, in speaking OF this author,
that he took up Never Too Late to Mend"
one evening after dinner, and read
il all night. OF late he has been en-
gagged in writing an introduction to a
new edition of Professor Colton's Life of
Henry Clay" The work was published
in six volumes many years ago. It con-
tains an exhaustive biography of the great
Kentucky commoner and is supplemented
by a number of his more important
speeches in Congress.
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SPECIE PAYMENT RESUMED.
Eiwari Mcpherson Relates How II
Was Brought About by Republi-
cans Alone.

Edward Mcpherson of Pennsylvania says,
in his review of "The Rise and Progress of
the Republican Party" that sit is a sug-
gestive and notifying yet actual fact that
the Democratic Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress were arrayed in almost
solid opposition to all the tariff and in
ternal revenue legislation of 186l-62 and
1864.
Likewise, they were unwilling to assist
in establishing the National banking sys-
tenn in 1868. The act was proposed and
passed, not at all as favor to the banks,
but as an aid to the United States. 1t goes
without saying that the Democracy, in
Congress and out of it, were in no mood to
oppose such a measure. They violently
disapproved it. Opposing it made com
plete their opposition to all the great tax
and money measures of that period"
In another passage the resum ption of
specie payments is thus described: "When
Mr.. Tilden wrote of what would be the in
evitable failure of resumption under the
act Of 1875. the greenback dollar was worth
9O.2 cents in gold. Tilden's defeat and
HAYES election gave the country an as
surance of stable purpose. On the 1st of
January, 1879. the value of the greenback
dollar became par, not only without in
jury TO the party but with sense of in
finite relief"
''Thus the paper money of the Union,
issued in its hour of weakness, was re-
stunned in its day of strength. The prom
ise OF 1852, made in gloom, but in strong
faith, became glorious in 1879 In both
the promise and the fruition the Demo-
cratic party had no part. The Republican
party alone had the courage to issue it.
The Republican party alone had the
courage to redeem it"
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Mr.. Chairman, It Is slolv time to inquire as
to the fitness of this Democratic party to take
control Of our great Notion and its east and
imp ortahs Interests for the ssext four years.
put the question to the gentleman from Miss
issipps, What has the Democratic party done
to merit this great trssst' ask him to show
IN sosat II sUos.ld be safe. I dbfrns and be-
kepe do not isreprcsent the great Demo-
cratic party, thot m the lost sirteess years
they have not advanccd one great National
idea that is not to-day as dead as julius
Cesar. Asd II any Democrat here uiH rise
and name a great National doctrine has
party has advanc ed within that time, that Is
nosv aIivs and believed IN, mil yield to hear
ham. Ia posssel. In default Of on orsaeer I
sviN attempt to prove my sseget5ec, JAMES
A. GARFIELD.
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AH that we haze eUer asked IN our National
platforms and IN the debates of this chamber
as that the people aOho dwe@ an the United
States shall hare fair opportunity
scale of wages being the rule-to compete
with all nations and all people dCetIing an
other countries eS.-WILLLAM B. ALLISON.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19
REPUBLICAN,.

We are uncompromisingly in favor of the
American system of protection. We protest
against its destruction as proposed by the
President and his party. They serve the in
terests of Europe. We will support the inter-
esls of America. We accept the issue. and con-
fdentiy appeal to the people for their judg-
ment. The protective system must be main
tanned. Its abandonment hes always been
followed by general disaster to all interests
except those of the usurer and the Sheriff. We
denounce the Mills bill as destructive to the
general business, the labor ard the farming
interests Of the country, and we heartily in
dorse the consistent and patriotic action of
the Republican representatives In Congress in
opposing its passage.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19
REPUBLICAN,.


We reaffirm the American doctrine of pro-
lection. We cali attention to its growth
abroad. We maintain that the prosperous con-
dition Of our country is largely due to the wise
revenue legislation of the Republican Con-
gress We believe that all articles which can
not be produced in the United States, except
that on all imports coming into competition
with American labor there should be levied
duties equal to the differences between wages
abroad and st home. We assert that the prices
Of manufactured articles of general conaump-
ton have been reduced under the operations
Of the tariff act of 1890. We denounce the eff
forts OF the Democratic majority Of the House
OF Representatives to destroy our tariff laws by
piecemeal. as manifested by their attacks upon
wool, lead and lead ores. the chief products OF
d number OF states and we ask the people for
their Judgment thereon.
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REPUBLICAN,.

1t is the first duty of good government to
protect the rights and promote the interests of
its own people. The largest diversity of in
dustry is the most productive of general pros
perity and of the comfort and independence
OF the people. We therefore demand that the
imposition OF duties on foreign imports shall
be made, not for revenue only, but that in
raising the requisite revenues for the Govern
ment. such duty shall be so levied as to afford
security to our diversified industries and pro-
lection to the rights and wages of the laborer,
to the end that active and intelligent labor, as
well as capital, may have its just reward and
the laboring man his full share in the National
prosperity.
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LOOK ON THIS SIDE,
THEN ON THAT-THE PLATFORMS
OF THE TWO PARTIES.


The parallel column herewith employed had reference and
Republican
and Democratic assembled National 1892 inclusive
rapidly The
Republican
the Federal Government
considered both
Republicans platforms 1856 touched the
spirit OF the
the
parties Then 1868 the
An Republican
Constitution
the
poi
platform adopted
their candidate
could
with code Of principles
Republican
resum of
reiterated
The Democratic
Republican protection The
com tell their adequately
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The Democratic party will resist all attempts
at renewing in Congress, or out of 1t, the agi-
tation of the slavery question. under whatever
shape or color the attempt may be made.
The Federal Government is one of limited
power derived solely from the constitution,
and the grants OF power made therein ought
to be strictly construed by all the department
and agents of the Government and that it is
inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubt
full constitutional powers.
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From the foundation of this Government
taxes collected at the custom house have been
the chief source of Federal revenue. Such
they must continue to be. Moreover, many
industries have come to rely upon legislation
for successful countenance, so that any change
OF law must be, at every step, subject in the
execution to this plain dictate of justice-au
taxation shall be limited 10 the requirements
of economical government We, there.
fore, denounce the abuses of the existing tar.
if; and, subject to the preceding limitations,
we demand that Federal taxation shall be ex-
clusively for public purposes, and shall not ex-
ceed the needs OF the Government economic
ally administered.
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Observation-Disclosures.

As our Republican fathers, when they had
abolished slavery in all our National territory,
ordained that no person should be deprived of
life liberty or property without due process of
law, it becomes our duty to maintain this pro-
vision of the constitution against all attempts
to violate it for the purpose of establishing
slavery in any territory of the United States
by positive legislation prohibiting its exist
ence or extension therein.
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We denoufice Republican protection as 4
fraud, robbery Of the American people for
the benefit Of q few We declare It 60 be 4
fundamental principle of the Democratic
party thatthe Federal Government has no con-
statutional power to impose and collect tariff
duties except for the purpose Of revenue only.
and we demand that the collection Of such
taxes shall be limited to the necessities Of the
Government when honestly and economically
administered. We denounce the Mckinley
tariff law enacted by the Fifty.iirst Congress
as the eliminating atrooity Of class Iegisla-
tion. We indorse the efforts made By the
Democrats OF the present Congress to modify
its most oppressive features in the direction Of
free raw materials and cheaper manufactured
goods that enter into general consumption;
ana We promise its appeal as one OF the
beneHcent resnlts that VIII follow the action
OF the people in entrusting power to the Demo.
cratic DAILY.
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DEMOCRATIC

Ou- established domestic industries and en-
terprises should not and need not be endan-
gered by reduction and correction of the
burdens of taxation. On the contrary, fair
and careful revision of our tax laws, with due
allowance for the difference between the wages
of American and foreign labor must promote
and encourage every branch of such enter
prises by giving them assurances OF an ex-
tended market and steady and continuous
operation.
Rssosued, That this convention hereby in
dorses and recommends the early passage Of
the bill for the reduction of the revenue now
pending in the House OF Representatives.
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DEMOCRATIC
[Breckinridge Platform

[Breckinridge Platform.
All citizens have an equal right to settle.
with their property, in the any territory,
without their rights, either of person or prop
erty, being destroyed or impaired by Con-
gressioual or Territorial legislation.
The State thus organized ought to be admitted
into the Federal Union, whether its oonstltu-
tion prohibits or recognizes slavery.
The Democratic party is III favor OF the
acquisition of Cuba.
The Democratic party pledges itself to
y secure the passage of bill for
the construction of Pacific railroad.
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REPUBLICAN.............1' Il

We congratulate the country on the assured
success of the reconstruction policy of Con-
gress, as evinced by the adoption. in ma
jority of the States lately in rebellion, of con-
stitutions securing equal civil rights to all.
No citizen of the United States, native or
naturalized must be liable to arrest and i'm
prisonment, by any foreign power, for acts
done or words spoken in this country.
The bounties and pensions provided by the
laws for those brave defenders of the Nation,
are obligations never TO be forgotten.
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.DEMOCRATIC

This convention does explicitly declare, as
the sense of the American people, that after
four years of failure to restore the Union, by
the experiment of war, justice, hui
manity, liberty and the public welfare demand
that Immediate efforts be made tor a cessation
OF hostilities, with view to an ultimate con-
vention of all the States, or other peaceable
means, to the end that, at the earliest practi-
cable moment, peace may be restored on the
basis of the federal union OF all the States.
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We pledge ourselves, as Union men, ami
mated by common sentiment and aiming at
common object, to do everything in our
power to aid the Government, in quelling, by
force of arms, the rebellion now raging
against it's authority.
AS slavery was the cause and now consti-
tutes the strength of this rebellion, and as it
must be always and everywhere hostile to the
principles Of Republican government, justice
and the N ational safety demand its utter and
complete extirpation from the soil of the Re-
public.