Year: 1875

PHILADELPHIA, NOV. y, 1919. J
Republicans Of Pennsylvania


1t was a grand response you made in
November to the greetings OF our brethren
in Ohio, Nebraska, and Iowa, sent in Oc-
tober. It gives you occasion for sincere
self-gratulation it justiies your shouts of
triumph cchoing, cheeringly from the
Delaware to Lake Erie


Splendid as have been your record and
achievements in the past, you may well
point with pride to your victory on Tues
day last-a pride renewed, emp phasized, and
re-enforced by the verdict of a great people.
You have easily placed yourselves at the
head of the Republican column of eighteen
hundred and seventy-six.


In all respects, this victory is significant
and complete.


Your candidates were honest. your princi-
pies were righteous The verdict concludes
that discussion.


General Hartranft, illustrious with his
military service, had won added fame by a
pure and signally successful civic career.
Your gratitude, your patriotism, and your
solicitude for the welfare of the State COM
PEELED his continuance in the position of
highest responsibility


With a knowledge, begotten of proof, of
the integrity of the State Treasury manage
ment, and with the actual demonstration
that there was not now and never, under
Republican officers, had been defalcation
to the amount of one dollar of the public
moneys, you had the manhood and the
courage to vindicate, boldly, your Treasury
officers from the unfounded, false, and
indecent charges of the political tramps
who pursued them with malignant f,lsehood


With the calmness and patience Of
patriotic and intelligent people, you dis
cussed the existing financial question. strip
ped Of disguises, and determined to sustain
the national faith and common honesty in
public affairs, and set the seal of your
condemnation upon repudiation and all the
lnsldlous attempts to compass reputation.


Against you was arrayed motley but
numerous host, discordant in principles,
united only in the pursuit of power and
plumber. They clamored for change,
but only offered delusive promises and
fraudulent pretences Of reform they exag-
gerated the public distress (neither the
existence nor remedy for which is to be
found in governmental, but in social
causes); they stimulated uneasiness in the
public mind they filled the land with
inaammatory addresses and inflated pro-
clamations; they vexed your ears with
screaming Oratory with and turbid blatant
defamation they charged that ''there was
something wrong" but proved nothing.
Madness and senility seemed to rule the
hour


In all this chaos you stood firm, nor
were you tripped in your judgment, or
swayed from your integrity.


From the brawlers and demogogues You
extorted your triumph, and have exalted
the strength Of the people in a Republican
Government.


The waves of political sophistry and
financial heresy, bearing menace and danger
to national honor, and to your most sacred
educational and religious institutions, were
stayed and broken by the firm walls of your
own Alleghenies democratic wrecks and
stranded dift-wood now and then, alone,
marking the subsidence of this tide of folly
and claptray


Rejoicing as you do, remember that your
victory is the fruit of organization, laborious
and minute, and that without organization,
your power is gone and your energies are
useless.


Stand by your guns, maintain your ranks,
take the touch Of elbows, and hold your
selves in readiness for the final charge along
the entire line, which shall result in the
corwning triumph of your Centennial year,
and which shall start you in the second
century of national existence, under the
auspicious rule Of the great historical Re
publican party.


HENRY NJ. HOYT,


Chairman.