New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-20
CREsUs FOR GOVKRNOR.

There may be those who fancy that in nom
mating one of the "bloatcd' Gas onr ardent
friend Pomeroy would call him) for Governor,
the Democracy of Pennsylvania may be accused
of infdclity to Democratic principles" We
should feel more competent TO discuss this
matter if we did but know what the Democratic
"princplesn aforesaid really are but this is n
point upon which, for some years, we have
been completely in the dark. One Democratic
"prnciple," however, we believe that we tOlcr
ably comprehend and that is the passion for
place and provender which now, for quite an
era has remained unqualified, to the infinite
hunger of vast number of patriots with
empty stomachs and purses i'll a flaccid state.
Now, 80 far from censuring those sharp-set
Democrats who have put forward Judge Packer
because he is worth 00O0, 900, we are inclined
to laud them for their prudence, and to con-
graduate them upon their good luck in having
such an opulent gentleman, such well -fcath-
cred pigeon in the party to be plucked by its
eager rocks. The Honorable Mr.. Wallace, who
has brilliantly bOssed so many campaigns,
knows better than We do what a beautiful
boon money is when the contest is close one !;
how it will buy coffee pots; how, in the twink
ling of an eye, it will transmOgrify foreigners
into full blown natives; how it will cause dead
men to rise from the grave expressly to vote the
democratic" ticket how it will inspire en-
teIpIisng souls to vote ten times at ten differ
ent precincts on the self-same day; how it will
transport superluOus voters from counties in
which they are not needed into counties in
which they may be needed very much indeed,
paying nobly both for their carriage and their
L., L., 10 al,
of the pOll-lists to see names there which are
not there, and not to see names which are
legibly enough written upon those mysterious
rolls. A campaign during which deficient num-
bers must be supplied by cunning and cash,
cannot possibly be carried on without the
sinews of war. We suppose that it has been
already ascertaiDed that Packer will submit
like lamb to his predestinate bleeding. In q
word, everybody seems to take it for granted
that if the Office of Governor of Pennsylvania
is to be had for the purchasing, Judge
Packer is just the man to bid for it. Only it
seems to be a pity that the bargain and sale
should be so clumsiy conducted. Why not
put up the place at auction at once making n
subsequent distribution of the proceeds of the
vcndue among the whole peOplc7 Somebody
might be found who would make lofter bid
than even the pecunious Packer! Alas! in
such case the big Democrats would not get
from ten to twenty times their just share of
the plumber, and that would not answer at all.
There may be those who think that Packer,
for Democrat" occupies rather an undigni-
fed position but to the Democratic eye no
man is undignilied who has a full pocket and
an open palm. There was time in Rome
when all the offices were put up, for sale to the
highest bidder and when patricians purchased
their way to the tallest places by unrestricted
largess-the era of Senatorial degradation and
Of Imperial audacity Judge Packer would
nave found his fifteen millions of greater use
there and then than here and now. But let him
not despair! He may not be able to purchase
the empire of the world, but the possession Of